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Spooner named CIO of the Year

 Bernie Monegain February 03, 2010
His team makes him look good, William A. Spooner said last month in acknowledging he had been named CIO of the Year.
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Complex, fast, disruptive, aggressive, strategic

 Molly Merrill February 03, 2010
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.
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Concerro bolsters workforce scheduling with RES-Q acquisition

 Eric Wicklund February 03, 2010
A recent merger of two workforce management vendors is designed to help hospitals and other healthcare providers improve staffing efficiency and the bottom line.
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QUEST hospitals move the dots toward saving lives

 Bernie Monegain February 03, 2010
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.
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ERs seek one-stop shopping

 Bernie Monegain February 03, 2010
Best-of-breed software systems may no longer be the way to go for emergency departments, KLAS reports.
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Hospitals use Premier-DICON tools to fight HAIs

 Kyle Hardy February 03, 2010
Three hospitals will implement new technology to help stave off healthcare-affiliated infections and improve patient safety.
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Technology helps combat sepsis at Banner Health

 Bernie Monegain February 03, 2010
Banner Health is using new technology to combat sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by a bloodstream infection.
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Video program puts docs at bedside 24/7 at MassGeneral

 Bernie Monegain February 03, 2010
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.
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Healing your Hospital from the inside

 Ron Short February 03, 2010
Poor inpatient utilization and in-house inefficiencies are the common culprits behind slow throughput, backed up EDs and lost revenue for hospitals, especially with 60 percent of inpatient admissions coming from the ED.
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Working Smarter: New frontier for hospitals

 Nancy Pearson February 03, 2010
In an era of healthcare policy reform, it isn’t surprising that 81 percent of the top global healthcare executives worldwide anticipate substantial change in their industry.
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Keep the vision sharp

 Bernie Monegain February 03, 2010
With healthcare reform teetering in Congress, patients, doctors, nurses, insurance companies and employers should be grateful that one critical piece of reform has already begun to work.
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Newsmaker Interview: Keith Figlioli, senior vice president of Premier Healthcare Informatics

 Bernie Monegain February 03, 2010
Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain interviews Keith Figlioli, senior vice president of Premier Healthcare Informatics. The self-proclaimed "data junkie" was a formerly with Eclipsys as vice president of enterprise solutions.
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AHIMA claims unique role in workforce arena

 Lynette Czarkowski February 03, 2010
The Office of the National Coordinator’s unprecedented commitment for the development of a skilled health IT workforce is essential to the success of the larger goal to improve the quality of care for each individual in our country by transforming the information infrastructure and using electronic health records to advance the delivery of healthcare.
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Banner Health to control labor costs with benchmarking

 Bernie Monegain February 03, 2010
Banner Health, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in the country, is putting technology to work on managing employee productivity.
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Critical access hospital puts meaningful use at center stage

 Molly Merrill February 03, 2010
Kanabec Hospital, a 25-bed hospital located in Mora, Minn., is making upgrades to its electronic health record, a move that its CEO says is part of its goal for demonstrating meaningful use and operating in a paperless environment.
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iSoft to distribute Picis CareSuite internationally

 Chip Means February 03, 2010
Australia-based iSoft has signed an agreement to distribute Picis CareSuite solutions in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand.
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NIH instructs that CT radiation levels be tracked via EMRs

 Mike Miliard February 02, 2010
Heralding another important use for electronic medical records, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to require that radiology information be logged on health record systems such as Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault.
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Obama eyes health IT to bolster federal bottom line

 Diana Manos February 02, 2010
President Barack Obama submitted on Monday a $3.8 trillion federal budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2011. The president said he plans to make healthcare reform – and healthcare IT in particular – a major part of his long-term plans to put America back on track financially.
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Stimulus could boost technology, care at safety net centers

 Bernie Monegain February 02, 2010
Investments in community health centers that provide care for about 15 million people who are poor, underserved and uninsured have helped expand the services, according to new research. The funds sometimes also give technology a boost.
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Docs face frustrations in search for IT, article shows

 Mike Miliard February 01, 2010
Doctors who have shopped for healthcare software have sometimes come to regret their purchases, according to a new story reported by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.
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