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.
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CHICAGO — Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago unveiled its new Residential Treatment Unit (RTU) in June. The RTU is part of the Cook County Jail’s 276,450-square-foot addition project built to accommodate a growing jail population. The five-story facility is seeking LEED Silver certification.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A major expansion at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) in New Brunswick is underway after the announcement of Houston-based WHR Architects as the project architect.
STANFORD, Calif.