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• A Matter of Scale

  - 2007-03-15

  You are a successful mid-market CIO who is ready to apply your IT leadership talents on a larger stage. But before you start sending your résumé to the Fortune 10, you may want to ask yourself a critical question: How scalable are my skills? As anyone...

  Tags: CIO, HEALTHCARE, hospital, JetBlue Airways Corp., Strategy, Sutter Health

• Sutter Health Selects NetQoS to Optimize Wide Area Network Delivery of Critical Applications; Hospital Group Using NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer for Troubleshooting, Capacity Planning for Business, Healthcare Applications

  - 2005-08-08

  AUSTIN, Texas -- NetQoSR Inc. announced that Sutter Health Sutter has deployed ReporterAnalyzerTM to ensure smooth delivery of its applications - including some of its most critical patient safety initiatives - over its wide area network WAN for more than 30,000 workstations in 180 sites, including 28 hospitals. Sutter is...

  Tags: health care, hospital, network, Sutter Health, WAN

• California Public Pension System Gave Boot to Top-Rated Hospitals, Study Shows.

  - 2004-06-15

  The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--Confidential records used by CalPERS in its controversial decision last month to drop 38 hospitals from its health plan show that many of the facilities targeted for high cost were also rated among the...

  Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, hospital, quality, Sacramento, Sutter Health

• Tiered health plan hits a wall; CalPERS' move raises questions on consumer approach.(News)(California Public Employees' Retirement System)

  - 2004-05-31

  Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK While many in the health care purchasing community praise the bold move earlier this month by the California Public Employees' Retirement System to significantly reduce the number of hospitals in its HMO network, perhaps as m Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK ...

  Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, CalPERS, health care, hospital, Sutter Health, wall

• Citing high costs, CalPERS removes 38 hospitals from Blue Shield network.(News)(California Public Employees' Retirement System)

  - 2004-05-24

  Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK SACRAMENTO, Calif.-The California Public Employees' Retirement System voted 10-1 Wednesday to exclude 38 high-cost hospitals from its largest health maintenance organization network-Blue Shield of California-to help the state Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK SACRAMENTO, Calif.-The California Public Employees' Retirement...

  Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, CalPERS, hospital, network, Sutter Health

• CalPERS drops Eden Medical Center

  - 2004-05-21

  The state's largest purchaser of health care Wednesday approved a plan to exclude 38 hospitals -- including 10 in the Bay Area -- from its provider network, citing soaring costs. The board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, in a 10-1 vote, adopted recommendations from its...

  Tags: CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, hospital, Sutter Health

• California Public Employees' Retirement System Drops 38 Hospitals from Network.

  - 2004-05-20

  The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 20--CalPERS' decision to drop 38 high-cost hospitals from its statewide network left many wondering Wednesday how the health care system will respond to the unprecedented change. At least 53,000 patients statewide --...

  Tags: CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, hospital, network, patient, physician, Sacramento, Sutter Health

• California Public Employees' Retirement System to Drop 38 Hospitals from HMO.

  - 2004-05-20

  By Joe Goldeen, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 20--The California Public Employees' Retirement System board voted 10-1 Wednesday to exclude 38 hospitals and some medical groups statewide from its Blue Shield HMO network, citing their higher costs...

  Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, HMO, hospital, physician, Sutter Health

• CalPERS likely to drop Sutter

  - 2004-05-19

  The state's largest pension plan moved one step forward toward dropping most Sutter Health hospitals from its network Tuesday -- a move that would affect about 53,000 patients in Northern California. The Health Benefits Committee of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, or CalPERS, voted 7 to...

  Tags: CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, hospital, Sutter Health

• California Public Employees' Pension System Drops 36 Hospitals from HMO Plan.

  - 2004-05-19

  By Gilbert Chan, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 19--The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the state's largest buyer of health care, took a dramatic stand Tuesday against rising hospital costs as it moved to drop 36 hospitals ...

  Tags: Benefits, CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, hospital, pension, SOFTWARE, Sutter Health