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• Company Profile for Picis

  - 2005-01-21

  Picis delivers proven information systems for high-acuity care - the emergency department, the operating room and intensive care. Picis systems are installed in more than 900 medical centers and IDNs worldwide, automating more surgical procedures, emergency visits and intensive care stays than any other system in the world. Clients include...

  Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, HCA Inc., HEALTHCARE, IDX Systems Corp., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., SOFTWARE, Strategy, 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

• California Pension System Pushes Reforms to Cut Hospital Costs.

  - 2004-04-20

  By Lisa Rapaport, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 20--CalPERS charged ahead Monday with its crusade to curb health spending by cutting hospital costs, unveiling a bill that could address many of its financial disputes with Sutter Health while...

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

• California Public Retirees' Health Plan Drops 45 Most Expensive Hospitals.

  - 2004-02-19

  By Lisa Rapaport, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 19--The California Public Employees Retirement System jolted the health care industry Wednesday with a plan to save about $72 million in medical premiums by dropping coverage for government workers ...

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

• End of Contract Between Health Insurers Means Confusion for Consumers.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2001-01-14

  Jan. 12--Ever since the contract between Blue Cross of California and Sutter Health ended Dec. 31, purchasers and consumers of health insurance have been getting a crash course in the true meaning of network disruption. And they don't like what they see. ...

  Tags: Benefits, Blue Cross Blue Shield, CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, Sutter Health

• Sutter Health Improves Patient Care & Physician Connectivity With Single Patient View

  BNET

  Sutter Health is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit networks of hospitals, doctors, nurses and other community-based health care providers, delivering high-quality care in more than 100 Northern California communities. In 1998, Sutter launched an initiative to implement best-of-breed applications needed to support leading edge clinical and business operations. To...

  Tags: Patient, Physician, Sutter Health, Web Services, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software

• Sutter Health: Sutter Health Gains HIPAA-Compliant E-Mail Without Adding to IT Support Costs

  BNET

  Sutter Health is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit networks of community healthcare services, serving more than 100 communities in Northern California. It needed to ensure the HIPAA-compliance of its e-mail system, but wanted its solution to be simple and inexpensive to deploy and maintain. The CertifiedMail solution, running on...

  Tags: Information Technology, Sutter Health, E-mail, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Online Communications, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Enterprise Software, Software