Tag Archives: hospital

Top HIS Vendors By 2011 Revenue: Cerner Corp. (CERN)

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Anne Zieger

Today it’s back to our countdown of the top five HIS vendors, with data courtesy of HealthDataManagement magazine. Today we’re focusing on Cerner, which according to the magazine’s calculations ranks second for HIS sales, edged out only by McKesson. Cerner claims to … Continue reading →

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Idea That Might Work: “Hospital at Home” Model Delivers Hospital-Level Care

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Katherine Rourke

Far too often, ideas developed by academics end up sitting in a dusty file or published by an insider journal that hospitals CEOs seldom see. In the following case, however, it seems academia and the hospital biz are seeing eye … Continue reading →

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Beware: EMR Installs Could Slow ED Throughput

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Katherine Rourke

It’s hard to argue that in the wake of an EMR install, some processes are likely to slow down or even break. What makes the following study interesting is that it attempts to do something intriguing —  sorting out how … Continue reading →

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Hospital merger mania on the rise across the U.S.

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Katherine Rourke

As I reported a few days ago, hospital mergers and acquisitions hit a historic high last year.  This is shaping up to be a pretty frenzied year for hospital M&A as well.  In fact, this may be the year that … Continue reading →

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Google takes over hospital industry, CMS in private leveraged buyout

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Katherine Rourke

Read the headline?  Those are things that just aren’t going to happen, right? Well, I’m pretty sure the things that we can expect for the next few years will end up looking just about that strange when we read about … Continue reading →

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The great sucking sound: For-profit buyouts a drain on communities

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Katherine Rourke

Few have spent more time than I calling out non-profit hospitals on their inadequate charity care levels.  But when it comes down to it, I’d prefer a non-profit whose chain can be yanked over a for-profit with no public service requirements … Continue reading →

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Bigger, better, faster hospitals are a great idea

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Katherine Rourke

The other day, I read a tweet from the estimable Matthew Holt in which he summarized what hospitals have been telling him.  In short, they seem to want bigger, badder, newer facilities.  In fact, if I recall correctly, they feel they’re … Continue reading →

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Would you feel safe in this ugly lobby?

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Katherine Rourke

Folks, I’ll never forget that night.  Led gently by my worried husband, who was a bit concerned about my ability to keep breathing, I walked into the lobby of a mid-sized, plain-vanilla 100-odd bed community hospital in my neighborhood. I … Continue reading →

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Meaningful Use: What is it good for? A lot of smoke and mirrors

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Katherine Rourke

Meaningful Use?  Whoa! Good God y’all! What is it good for?  Very, very little. Sing it again… OK, maybe it’s the greatest idea in the history of health IT, or maybe it’s a good idea gone terribly, terribly wrong (my theory), but it … Continue reading →

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Did hospital "kidnap" patient who wanted to leave?

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Katherine Rourke

    OK folks, I don’t know any more about the following story than you do, but if true, it’s an absolutely insane breakdown in hospital systems — one, I’d argue, that might not have happened in a hospital which had … Continue reading →

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