Physicians at Akron's Summa Health Move Forward Boldly on an ACO

The first thing, more important than IT, is physician buy-in. The second-most-important thing you need is IT. And I have to tell you, every day, I see we need more. And we’re working on quality measurements. But the important thing is to be able to pull up data in real time, for example, if I find a patient needs to have their hemoglobin a1c taken care of. And IT is the reason we can do this. Fortunately, Greg Kall, our CIO, has a passion for us and for this initiative.