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Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, a 254-bed hospital serving the North San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys in California, is revamping its healthcare IT with a $500,000 grant from Verizon.
His team makes him look good, William A. Spooner said last month in acknowledging he had been named CIO of the Year.
Providers are airing their concerns about the newly proposed "meaningful use" requirements as they begin to wade through the 700 pages of documents that will help them gain bonuses under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
A recent merger of two workforce management vendors is designed to help hospitals and other healthcare providers improve staffing efficiency and the bottom line.
Purchase strengthens IBM's ability to provide information sharing services to organizations, tap stimulus windfall.
Jan Mathews, director of clinical performance at Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C., a suburb of Charlotte, says information technology has been essential to the hospital’s efforts to decrease overall morality rate from 2.75 percent in 2005 to 1.47 percent in 2009.
Best-of-breed software systems may no longer be the way to go for emergency departments, KLAS reports.
Three hospitals will implement new technology to help stave off healthcare-affiliated infections and improve patient safety.
Banner Health is using new technology to combat sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by a bloodstream infection.
Patients being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit at MassGeneral Hospital for Children now have doctors virtually at their bedside 24/7 via a new home-to-hospital program.