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• API Software

  - 2009-02-01

  Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Sharp Healthcare, and University of Iowa Health Care contracted with API Software Inc. to deploy API's Payrollmation and ActiveStaffer applications to automate manual payroll and scheduling processes and enhance time and attendance scheduling.

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• Better protection

  - 2008-07-01

  Sharp Healthcare, a San Diego-based not-for-profit integrated regional health care delivery system, has slashed backup time in half, increased disaster-recovery capabilities and reduced the risk associated with non-compliance with HIPAA regulations since deploying CommVault Data Protection, one of the five core modules in the Simpana 7.0 software suite. According to...

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• The fire next time: Sharp HealthCare's effective use of an ambulatory EHR during the California wildfires meant uninterrupted healthcare for displaced patients and clinicians

  - 2008-05-01

  Catastrophic events affecting thousands, such as last fall's California wildfires, may be the truest indicator of how electronic health records EHR are helping to transform patient care. That was the experience of San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare an integrated regional healthcare organization that includes four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals,...

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• Court Issues an Injunction in San Diego Clinical Laboratory Bidding Case

  - 2008-04-09

  SAN DIEGO -- On April 8, 2008, federal court Judge Thomas Whelan approved Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc.'s request for a preliminary injunction on behalf of plaintiffs Sharp HealthCare, Scripps Health and Internist Laboratory of Oceanside, in their complaint against the federal Health and Human Services Agency HHS for the...

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• Sharp exec to Breakaway.(The Week in Healthcare)(Breakaway Group appoints William Spooner, R. Greg Brophy and John Markus)(Brief article)

  - 2008-03-10

  Byline: Gregg Blesch The Breakaway Group, Denver, a consulting firm that helps healthcare providers adopt new technology and equipment, has landed the chief information officer of San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare as one of five new members for its unpaid advisory board. ...

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• Healthy system

  - 2008-03-01

  Sharp HealthCare, a San Diego regional integrated healthcare delivery system, has selected Foundry Network's edge-to-core networking solution, which includes Netlron core routers, Fastlron Power over Ethernet POE ready-edge and aggregation switches and Serverlron application delivery switches. Sharp required a networking solution that provided redundancy, resilience and increased performance. "Sharp is...

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• Court Denies Temporary Restraining Order in San Diego Clinical Laboratory Bidding Case

  - 2008-02-15

  SAN DIEGO -- On February 14, 2008, federal court Judge Thomas Whelan issued an order denying a temporary restraining order TRO filed by Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., on behalf of plaintiffs Sharp HealthCare, Scripps Health and Internist Laboratory of Oceanside, in their complaint against the federal Health and Human...

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• Sequenom to Begin Clinical Assessment of Noninvasive Screening Technology for Down Syndrome

  - 2008-01-23

  Sharp HealthCare IRB Approves Study SAN DIEGO -- Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SQNM) today announced the approval of a protocol by the Institutional Review Board IRB at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare, clearing the way to commence patient enrollment in a screening study to clinically assess the Company's noninvasive cell free fetal...

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• Award Recipients Announced

  - 2007-12-01

  MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARDFive organizations have been named recipients of the 2007 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.The recipients and their categories are:* Mercy Alliance Inc., Janesville, Wl, in the healthcare category. Mercy Alliance operates healthcare facilities in Wisconsin.* Sharp HealthCare, San Diego, in the healthcare category. Sharp HealthCare operates...

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• Pointed commitment; Sharp HealthCare's Murphy has made IT advancement a 'personal obligation'.(Michael Murphy of Sharp Community Medical Group)

  - 2007-06-25

  Byline: Linda Wilson While the 700-plus members of Sharp Community Medical Group, an independent practice association, spent nine months evaluating electronic medical record products, Michael Murphy, president and chief executive officer of Sharp HealthCare, didn't try to control the process. ...

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