Landacorp is a SHPS company. Its patient-focused solutions for health
plans and health care delivery organizations include comprehensive
Internet- and Windows(R)-based medical management software that improves
health outcomes while helping manage and prevent costs. SHPS provides a
broad range of innovative health management tools, resources, and
services that empower consumers to make wise health care decisions. Read the rest of this entry »

TRM will be used by trained healthcare professionals responsible for
transfusion services and will function primarily at the patient bedside
through the use of a hand-held computing device or portable PC, with or
without wireless communication. Sunquest recommends that healthcare
organizations develop safe transfusion processes by implementing a
“closed loop” blood administration system and process which encompasses Read the rest of this entry »

Hospital operator
Health Management Associates Inc.
on Tuesday forecast fourth-quarter and full-year profit below Wall Street expectations, as the industry continues to face bad debt and weak growth amid the economic recession.
For the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, HMA expects to post adjusted profit from continuing operations of 6 cents per share on revenue of about $1.1 billion. That compares with analysts’ average forecast for earnings of Read the rest of this entry »

Certain statements contained in this release, including, without
limitation, statements containing the words “believes,”
“anticipates,” “intends,”
“expects,” and words
of similar import, constitute “forward-looking
statements” within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may include
projections of revenue, income or loss, capital expenditures, capital Read the rest of this entry »

“A seeming explosion of HIT and informatics programs recently is both good news and bad news,” says Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, AMIA President and CEO. “The good news is that a major workforce need in an area of great importance to healthcare has been ‘discovered’. The bad news is that there are too few well-educated faculty to assure that students will get genuine value if they are not selective in assessing their educational opportunities. While progress Read the rest of this entry »

DST Health Solutions delivers solutions and business process outsourcing
services that improve efficiency, reduce operational costs, increase speed to
market and improve customer service for health plans, consumer-directed plans,
government plans (Medicare Advantage/Part D and Medicaid) and physician
practices. DST Health Solutions’ enterprise applications, and ASP and BPO
services support 390 healthcare clients, representing more than 38 million
covered Read the rest of this entry »

HEALTH MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(unaudited, in thousands, except per share amounts)
Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
September 30, September 30,
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NEW YORK (Associated Press) – Hospital operator Health Management Associates Inc. said Monday it named Gary Newsome as president and chief executive to replace Burke W. Whitman, who has departed to pursue military service opportunities.
The appointment is effective immediately.
Newsome spent the last 10 years with Community Health Systems Inc., and was in charge of hospital operations for a division that included Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Read the rest of this entry »

Taiwan’s “God of Management, ” whose enterprises stretched from plastics, petrochemicals and high technology to automobiles, gas stations and biomedical technology, was also instrumental in reshaping the country’s medical map.
Wang Yung-ching, founder of the Formosa Plastics Group — the most financially successful business group in Taiwan — and a rags-to-riches model, died in New York Thursday at the age of 92. Wang Read the rest of this entry »

DocuSys is the market-leading anesthesia information management system
(AIMS), medication management system and presurgical care management
system provider, maximizing both the quality of care and return on
investment in surgery. The company provides solutions that address all
stages of the anesthesia care delivery process, including the
presurgical evaluation process. Additional benefits of the system
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