NEW YORK — Construction management company Skanska USA formed a partnership earlier this year with Prime Logic Partners to help health care organizations improve their information technology infrastructures.
Skanska, based in New York City, provides construction management, preconstruction and design-build services to acute care hospitals, specialty outpatient centers and academic medical centers throughout the U.S.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A new $21 million fiber-optic medical network is under way for the Illinois Rural HealthNet, designed to increase access to advanced medical care for residents of rural and underserved areas across Illinois.
The Illinois Rural HealthNet (IRHN) — a nonprofit network of health care providers — signed a contract with Omaha, Neb.-based communications and security services provider G4S Technology to implement a system linking 85 rural health care entities to urban medical centers.
Ergotron’s redesigned StyleView EMR cart portfolio is made to balance caregiver requirements for ease of use and increased productivity for hospital administrations’ IT investment security concerns. The cart comes with a new slide-to-open feature which provides caregivers easier access to CPU or laptop power buttons during shut-down situations. It also includes a three-piece interlocking work surface, offering protection against accidental spills according to the company.
The new Multi-Room Monitoring Station by Setra Systems offers remote viewing and alarm capabilities with reduced labor costs and improved productivity within critical care applications, according to the company. Featuring a flush mount design with easy installation, the MRMS requires only one BACnet signal cable for monitoring of up to eight rooms or critical spaces equipped with other Setra Systems.
PerfectServe named Todd Cozzens to the firm’s board of directors. Bringing more than 25 years of healthcare technology and services expertise to the company, Cozzens previously co-founded and led Picis, a high-acuity information system company. It was his strategic vision of information systems for the high-acuity care areas of hospitals that drove the company to a 50 percent annual growth rate over a 10-year span and to more than 2,100 hospital clients.
John Michael Currie, vice president of the Baskervill healthcare group, was elected by the American Institute of Architects to its College of Fellows. With more than 35 years of experience dedicated exclusively to healthcare facility planning, Currie has been recognized as one of the leading healthcare industry experts in the nation.
ST. LOUIS — McCarthy Building Co. broke ground on a new $335 million, 825,000-square-foot hospital in Joplin, Mo., to replace the former tornado-stricken facility.
Dustin O’Brien, AIA has been appointed a shareholder and principal of Wilson Architectural Group. O’Brien joined Wilson Architectural Group in 2003 and was named an associate in 2009. He has managed numerous leading projects for prominent healthcare and higher education clients in the Houston area.
Cannon Design promoted Richard J. Kahn, AIA, LEED AP, to principal of the firm. With more than 20 years of experience, Kahn will continue his responsibilities of expanding Cannon’s science and technology, healthcare, and general practice markets.
