Dignity Health hires exec with focus on patient safety
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Technology awards unveiled: Honors go to Appfolio, Cottage Health, Houweling’s
Two awards dinners tare set to honor the region’s top technologists and businesspeople in coming months.
Santa Barbara investors ride health care, the next big real estate wave
Montecito Medical has since been steadily snapping up medical office and other health care-related properties across the country.
CHW changes name to Dignity Health
Catholic Healthcare West announced today that it is changing its name and governance structure. The San Francisco-based health care system, which owns three Central Coast hospitals — Arroyo Grande Community Hospital, French Hospital Medical Center in San Luis Obispo and Marian Medical Center in Santa Maria — is now called Dignity Health. Under the new Read More →
The future of health care: Digital records and remote robots
People don’t have to die because of where they live or because the can’t access their own medical records. That was the theme of the Jan. 18 program of the MIT Central Coast Enterprise Forum. Three area technology companies, InTouch Health, BioIQ and Active Life Scientific presented at the Santa Barbara event. Michael Chan of Read More →
Yardi buys health record firm
Yardi Systems, a Goleta-based property management software firm, has acquired a company that makes electronic health record software for nursing homes and other facilities. Yardi said it bought Eagle, Idaho-based ALMSA Corp., which makes software for both electronic health records and electronic prescriptions. The companies did not disclose terms of the deal, but said ALMSA Read More →
