SignScape Interior Signage, a division of InPro Corporation, has a solution for maintenance teams that must keep interior signage up-to-date in ever-changing hospital facilities: the Contego Modular Sign System. Patent-pending Quick Pins make Contego quick and easy to change, but are designed inconspicuously, making the system vandal-resistant as well. Quick Pins can be unlocked with a flathead screwdriver to allow for easy reconfiguration of the sign within minutes.
The Board of Directors for Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA) named Alan Levine president and CEO, effective Jan. 6, 2014. Levine has more than 20 years of experience in hospital operations and in public service. He has led large, complex, multi-hospital organizations as well as leading two state health systems as the senior regulator and health policy advisor to two governors.
More and more nurses today are bringing their own smart phones and tablets to work and using them in their day-to-day work routine, according to a recent survey by Fierce Mobile Healthcare.
The study found that 61 percent of hospitals and health systems respondents said that half their employees use personal mobile devices for work. Fifty percent said the devices are used for just email and calendar applications, while 36 percent said the devices are used to retrieve patient data.
In the modern health care setting, network closets house increasingly more powerful and life-critical equipment — not respirators or gamma knives, but rather servers and network routers.
Doctors, nurses, medicine, technology, patients, family, specialists, the list of factors that contribute to the swift and successful recovery of someone admitted to a hospital is seemingly endless.
STANFORD, Calif.