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Virtualization Enables CHRISTUS Health to Manage Workflow, Boost Workflow Efficiency
In 2006, the Information Management IM department's implementation team at Dallas-based CHRISTUS Health realized it needed a more flexible, scalable and interoperable scripting tool and switched to Boston Software Systems'TM Boston WorkStationTM, which helps automate time-consuming, repetitive and manual tasks.
CHRISTUS Health Renews with Broadlane, Expands Scope of Supply Chain Services
DALLAS -- Broadlane today announced that CHRISTUS Health has signed a renewal agreement for a variety of supply chain services to be provided by Broadlane. The exclusive five-year agreement became effective Sept. 1.
DoD-Sponsored Health Plan Offered Through CHRISTUS Health to Hold Briefings for Military Evacuee Families
HOUSTON -- Briefings about TRICARE healthcare options for Katrina evacuees that are retired from the military, families of active duty, Reserve and Guard
CHRISTUS Health: A Commitment to Community, Charity & Quality
As health care providers, CHRISTUS are committed to delivering high quality accessible care to all. The commitment to improving the health of the communities extends past requirements or obligations; it is the commitment to people that is the core of the mission. This paper describes the Community Benefit which includes...
CHRISTUS Health System Converts to SPO2.COM Pulse Oximetry Sensors & Realizes Significant Cost Savings
SPO2.COM, manufacturers of Nellcor-compatible pulse oximetry sensors, today announced that CHRISTUS Health, a 40-hospital system that also includes dozens of clinics, physician offices, inpatient, and long-term care facilities, has converted system-wide to SPO2.COM pulse oximetry sensors. SPO2.COM sensors represent a major financial savings opportunity for hospitals that are not...
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TowerBrook Capital Partners Announces Acquisition of Majority Interest in Broadlane
NEW YORK -- TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P., the New York and London-based private equity firm, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in Broadlane, Inc., a leading provider of supply chain management and clinical workforce management services to the U.S....
Mexico's First Internationally Accredited Hospital Partners with Sekure Healthcare and IntelHealthGroup
* Sekure Healthcare Members Can Utilize Their Insurance Benefits at CHRISTUS Muguerza Alta Especialidad Hospital in Monterrey - Mexico's First Hospital Accredited by Joint Commission International * Accords with IntelHealthGroup Facilitates Quality Medical Access into Mexico SAN DIEGO -- Responding to the growing...
'Destiny' Awaits One of America's Injured Heroes
Guide Dog Being Trained by Health Care Plan for Military Family Members HOUSTON -- Visitors to the headquarters of US Family Health Plan at CHRISTUS Health, 2600 North Loop West, might be surprised to share a conference room with a four-month-old yellow Labrador retriever. But...
The essence of community benefit: "I wish Senator Grassley was sitting here with us for that last discussion."
I spoke these words during the January meeting of the Board of CHRISTUS Health, headquartered in Dallas. The board had been discussing the organization's mission, values, and community service. The discussion was wide ranging, but every word spoken had a sharp focus: to make a difference in the lives of...
PatientKeeper Announces Physician Information System Availability on BlackBerry Smartphones
BOSTON -- PatientKeeper([R]), Inc., the leading provider of integrated physician information systems today announced that its PatientKeeper applications will be available on the BlackBerry([R]) platform from Research In Motion RIM (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM). The new offering gives physicians additional flexibility for accessing the PatientKeeper Physician Information System and satisfies...
Do I hear ... anyone here? Tax-exempt healthcare facilities have taken a hit on auction-rate securities as the mortgage meltdown has investors skittish.(Industry overview)
Byline: Melanie Evans Day after day, the tab continues to climb for tax-exempt hospitals, health systems and nursing homes caught in the nation's latest financing crisis. Interest rates on healthcare debt sold through frequent auctions have...
Familiar faculty; Many former HRDI members have found work at C-Suite Resources.(The Week in Healthcare)(C-Suite Resources appoints Richard Davidson and Thomas Priselac as faculty advisers)
***** Correction: Richard Davidson, the retired former president of the American Hospital Association, and Thomas Priselac, president and chief executive officer of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and chairman-elect of the AHA board of trustees, are not faculty advisers...
Familiar faculty; Many former HRDI members have found work at C-Suite Resources.(The Week in Healthcare)(Gary Mecklenburg of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare)(Richard Davidson of American Hospital Association)(Alan Abramson of Health Partners )
Alan Abramson, Senior vice president and chief information officer, HealthPartners, Bloomington, Minn. Richard Blair, Chairman, Essentia Health, Duluth, Minn., and former chief financial officer, Allina Health System, Minneapolis John Bluford III, President and chief executive officer, Truman...
Broadlane Launches Online Surgical Savings Calculator to Show Savings
DALLAS -- Today, Broadlane launched an online Surgical Savings Calculator. The first in a series of Client Analytics Tools, it provides the user a high level calculation showing potential savings through engaging Broadlane's Clinical Services to implement our Procedure Optimization Program. The calculator can be viewed at...
Stung for not reporting data.(The Week in Healthcare)
Byline: Cinda Becker If there were ever any illusions that pay-for-reporting was going to be the easy part of Medicare's monumental shift toward paying for results rather than volume, just check in with several prominent hospitals and health systems around...
Virtualization Enables CHRISTUS Health to Manage Workflow, Boost Workflow Efficiency
In 2006, the Information Management IMdepartment's implementation team at Dallas-based CHRISTUS Health realizedit needed a more flexible, scalable and interoperable scripting tool andswitched to Boston Software Systems'TM Boston WorkStationTM, whichhelps automate time-consuming, repetitive and manual tasks. CHRISTUS Health's IM staff handles myriad tasks, such as printing reports,downloading vendor products and...
How Hospitals Systems and Other Entities Can Establish and Maintain Brands That Differentiate Their Organizations and Resonate with Target Audiences
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c73956) has announced the addition of "Building Powerful Health Care Brands" to their offering. Written by a seasoned health care marketing practitioner, this exclusive new report goes well beyond a discussion of names and logos to give you a...
Experts: SCHIP will come in ... ... but no one's sure what it will look like when it docks.(The Week in Healthcare)(The State Children's Health Insurance Program)
Byline: Jennifer Lubell The State Children's Health Insurance Program will get reauthorized by the end of the year despite the seemingly wide gulf between President Bush and congressional leaders on the matter, healthcare experts said. But a compromise isn't likely...
Declining the invitation; Why some systems passed on venture capital offer.(The Week in Healthcare)(Ascension Health Ventures)(Catholic Health Association)
Byline: Jessica Zigmond Lack of capital, use of a conservative investment approach and a case of timing that's "not right'' all are possible reasons why several Catholic healthcare providers declined Ascension Health's invitation to join a new venture capital fund....
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Nursing Care Facilities: 623110
