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		<title><![CDATA[By the numbers: Isaac E. Dixon mixes people skills and metrics in a recruiting role at Oregon's Providence health system]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon after his father retired from the Army and settled the family in Los Angeles, Isaac E. Dixon received a lesson in the importance of numbers. Ten-year-old Dixon and his younger brother started a lawn-mowing business, signing a contract to make monthly payments on a mower they bought from an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New hospital system in Washington taps VHA to provide supply-contracting services.(GROUP PURCHASING)(Brief article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Providence Health & Services in Seattle, a newly formed  integrated delivery network IDN, has agreed to join VHA of Irving, TX,  and will use VHA's supply contracting arm, Novation, also in  Irving, as its group purchasing organization GPO.    Providence Health System, which operates 19...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Picis Inc]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtua Health of New Jersey and Providence Health System of Oregon, will deploy the Ibex PulseCheck emergency department information system EDIS from Picis across each IDN. Providence will automate seven additional hospitals with the EDIS, following installations in Alaska and Washington in 2004. Virtua Health will install the system in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Ore. hospital powered by wind.(Providence Health System)(Brief article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Bruce Geiselman       Providence Health System is opening the first hospital in the  country powered entirely by renewable wind energy.       Providence Newberg Medical Center, in Newberg, Ore., opens June 16,  and is built according to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Two Large IDN's Standardize with Picis Emergency Department Information System; Virtua Health of New Jersey and Providence Health System choose Ibex PulseCheck]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Virtua Health of N.J. and Providence Health System of Oregon, two large multifacility healthcare systems, will deploy Picis Ibex PulseCheckR emergency department information system EDIS as a standard across each IDN. Providence Health System of Ore. will automate seven additional hospitals with Ibex PulseCheck, following the success...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fitch: Providence Health System  Ratings Unaffected by Class-Action Lawsuit Settlement]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO -- Providence Health System Providence recently settled a class-action lawsuit alleging that Providence participated in unfair billing practices by charging uninsured patients higher rates than those charged to patients with private insurance. Fitch recently spoke with Providence's management team to discuss the settlement. Providence estimates the worst-case impact...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Radiology devices, software featured in Providence Health deal with Eleckta.(HOSPITAL PURCHASING)(Brief Article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Providence Health System in Seattle, with 18 acute-care hospitals,  has a new contract for oncology and neurosurgical products and software.    The vendor is Elekta in Atlanta. The deal took effect in September  and runs for five years. It covers the company's image guidance and ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Two Providences seek merger; Deal would create Pacific Northwest powerhouse.(The Week In Healthcare)(Column)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6375/is_200510/ai_n25526360]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Laura B. Benko    Seattle-based Providence Health System is considering a merger with  Providence Services, Spokane, Wash., in a nonmonetary deal that would  create the largest not-for-profit hospital system based in the Pacific  Northwest and the sixth-largest Roman Catholic system nationwide.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Elekta AB secures five-year contract from Providence Health System in the US]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-26 September 2005-Elekta AB secures five-year contract from Providence Health System in the USC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com  The Swedish clinical solutions and information systems developer and manufacturer Elekta AB said on Monday (26 September) that it had signed an exclusive five-year contract with the US acute...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ethos Development Opens Medford Office.(Brief Article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staff       Medford, Ore.- Ethos Development Inc., a Portland-based program,  project and construction management firm, has opened an office in  Medford as it partners with Providence Health System to expand the  Providence Medford Medical Center.       Located...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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