The program allows nonclinical team members to take on everyday tasks so their frontline colleagues can focus on patient care. On any given day at one of Sentara Healthcare's hospitals, you might find ...

As health systems strive to adapt to ever-changing circumstances, they are turning to innovative staffing models and advanced analytics to optimize their operations. These strategies, coupled with ...

Pooling resources (also called object pooling) among multiple clients is a technique used to promote object reuse and to reduce the overhead of creating new resources, resulting in better performance ...

I was at VMWorld last week and was sitting in the HA/DRS Deep Dive that Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman hosted. There were probably close to 1000 people in the room, it was one of the bigger sessions ...

The Indiana Hospital Association has launched a statewide flexible staffing pool to aid its more than 170 member hospitals with staffing shortages, the system announced June 18. The new platform, ...

Legislators in New York state are hoping to get the Governor’s stamp of approval on a bill to facilitate better funding for skilled nursing care provided ...

I have been testing SQL Server 2008 and I must admit, I’ve been impressed with the new features. I’ve written about some of the new functionality in past blog entries. One feature that I had not ...

It used to be swimming pools were just that -- swimming pools. But today's indoor aquatic centers overflow with recreational activities ranging from aqua arthritis stretches and deep-water running to ...