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Physician engagement is a critical success factor for hospitals and health networks navigating delivery system transformation. An engaged physician workforce is linked to enhanced patient care, lower costs, greater efficiency, [...]

Supply chain optimization is a business imperative for hospitals and health systems as they look to reduce costs and enhance the value of the services they provide. Organizations must look [...]

As the transformation of the nation's health system begins to take shape, hospitals and health systems will find themselves more accountable for patient outcomes, patient experience, the cost of care [...]

Examined individually, the changes to purchasing, utilization and management practice in the pharmacy at Indiana University Health's Bloomington Hospital wouldn't appear to have earth-shattering consequences to the hospital's bottom line: [...]

The national focus on patient safety and reduction of medical errors has spawned numerous initiatives and products designed to impede or eliminate infections acquired by patients during hospital stays. Healthcare [...]

With the pending merger of Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) and Neoforma Inc. due to be finalized in early 2006, effectively uniting two of the largest players in the healthcare-focused online [...]

Want to know one question about the GPOs--Group Purchasing Organizations---that no one can really answer? Try asking how many of them are actually out there! Even if you limit the [...]

The article discusses the patient-centered programs and strategies implemented by U.S. healthcare industry innovators. The University of California Los Angeles Hospital System and the Irving, Texas-based VHA Inc. employed tactics such as physician rounding and the RetuRN to Care initiative, respectively, to achieve patient-centered care. Saint Joseph's Healthcare System in Paterson, New Jersey, implemented programs that support a relationship-based care model. All the strategies resulted in improved healthcare quality, outcomes and patient safety.

An interview with Byron Jobe, chief financial officer (CFO) of VHA Inc., is presented. He mentions how many not-for-profit healthcare organizations are supported by VHA Inc. He states that the company has a team that helps coordinate capital purchases and finance organizations, they are also looking for ways to offer additional value to their business units by delivering services, making investments and assisting in executing business decisions.

Apparently, there's an app for just about everything. Send in the clouds. Whether you're trying to equip your smart phone or tablet PC, you'll find many options to fill your [...]

Whether it truly represents a new contracting category or simply remains a redressed term for outsourcing, purchased services currently enjoys some simmering popularity among healthcare providers and group purchasing organizations. [...]

Novation said its Period 3 National Group Buys -- effective from July 1 through Sept. 30 -- offer significant savings and value-added benefits to the more than 100,000 members and [...]

Focuses on how extranet can transform the way companies conduct business. Benefits that extranet offers to organizations; Impact of deploying extranet as experienced by VHA Inc. and Chrysler and General Motors; Requirements of capitalizing on an extranet.

The reports are eye-opening. A patient requiring a leg amputation wakes up from surgery to find that the wrong limb was severed, A hysterectomy patient discovers a blood-soaked sponge was [...]

Let's dispense with the obvious. Bare metal stents, those tiny scaffolds used to prop open previously clogged arteries, are very expensive. The next-generation drug-eluting stents, which are coated with medication [...]

The article reports on an announcement made by Avantas Network Corp. related to an official program partnership with West Coast Regional office of VHA Inc. It informs that the partnership is made for the consulting and Smart Square proprietary labor management software of Avantas Network. As per Richard Barnett, chief executive officer (CEO) of the VHA, this approach from Avantas Network is a tremendous asset to the members of the company.

The article reports on the efforts of St. Joseph Health System in California to justify its tax-exemption. It has worked with the communities served by its 14 hospitals in Texas and California to install a traffic signal in Fullerton and to fund a soccer field in a low-income area of San Juan Capistrano, California. St. Joseph gives a full accounting on its Web site of the broad community benefits and more narrow charitable care to the poor and uninsured that it provides. Organizations like the Catholic Health Association and the alliance of community hospitals VHA Inc. has been helping St. Joseph to account its funds properly.

This article profiles C. Thomas Smith, former president and chief executive officer of VHA. He has served more than 30 years in hospital administration, culminating in a 14-year stretch as president of Yale-New Haven Hospital. Cultural diversity was not the only factor in which Smith was ahead of his time. One of his passions was enhancing clinical performance, and he was able to do it on a national scale while at VHA. Integrity is the quality that his wife, Martha, admires about him.

Novation, a health care supply chain experience, analytics and contracting company, announced that it began shipping Novaplus Condiments, a new line of food items that taste the same or better [...]

Novation, a health care supply chain company, announced that it began shipping NOVAPLUS Condiments, a new line of food items that taste the same or better than national retail brands [...]

Talend, a global open source software company, announced it has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program as a Technology Partner. By leveraging Talend Open Studio for Big Data, an [...]

Byline: Allison Bell The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seems to be heaping even more new tax return paperwork on nonprofit hospitals than Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) nonprofit [...]

VHA Inc., a national healthcare network, said it will offer 3M ICD-10 transition services and 3M performance management software to its 1,400 hospital members, helping them plan for ICD-10 and [...]

US Foodservice has received top honors as an industry leader in foodservice distribution to healthcare providers from VHA Inc, a national network of not-for-profit healthcare organizations. During VHA's recent Supplier [...]

Byline: Joseph Goedert Provider alliance and group purchasing organization VHA Inc. and a dozen of its health delivery system members, are urging the Obama administration to mandate the GS1 standards [...]

VHA Inc., a national health care network, and AT&T announced an agreement in which VHA member hospitals and non-acute care organizations can purchase voice and data solutions tailored to meet [...]

The government's stimulus package includes about $19 billion for health information technology. But where will it do the most good? What is the biggest concern? And will every health care [...]

FEDS WILL FIGHT FRAUD WITH I.T. NETWORK Two reports released at the American Health Information Management Association Annual Convention and Exhibit in October provide an outline of how the federal [...]

Sysmex America, Inc., a provider of laboratory design, systemization and solutions, announced that the company has entered into its first urinalysis instrumentation agreement with Novation, the supply company of VHA [...]

Novation, the supply company of VHA Inc and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), has expanded its food portfolio and signed a new foodservice distribution agreement with US Foodservice, a subsidiary [...]

2005 JAN 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Draeger Medical, Inc., a subsidiary of German-based Draeger Medical, AG, & Co., KGaA, has signed an agreement with Novation, the supply company [...]

2004 DEC 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Galvanon, which dubs itself 'the patient experience company,' recently announced a partnership with VHA Southwest to provide patient self-service kiosks to VHA [...]

2004 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Galvanon, which dubs itself 'the patient experience company,' recently announced a partnership with VHA Southwest to provide patient self-service kiosks to VHA [...]

2004 DEC 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Six hospitals in the Midwest, ranging in size from 25 beds to 576 beds, have participated in a regional program to standardize [...]

2004 DEC 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Six hospitals in the Midwest, ranging in size from 25 beds to 576 beds, have participated in a regional program to standardize [...]

2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- American Scientific Resources, Inc., (ASRO) announced Novation, the supply company of VHA, Inc., and the University Health System Consortium (UHC), has initiated [...]

2004 NOV 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- American Scientific Resources, Inc., (ASRO) announced Novation, the supply company of VHA, Inc., and the University Health System Consortium (UHC), has initiated [...]

2004 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Novation, the supply company of VHA Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), and R2 Technology, Inc., announced that they have signed [...]