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Maimonides Medical Center Partners With the Health Technology Center for Access to Industry-Leading Healthcare Technology Forecasts and Business Solutions

Posted on: Monday, 11 December 2006, 09:01 CST

The Health Technology Center (healthtech.org), the nation's most innovative source for actionable health technology forecasts and practical decision-making tools, welcomes Maimonides Medical Center (maimonidesmed.org) to its network of 45 healthcare organizations representing approximately 25 percent of healthcare delivery systems in the United States.

Maimonides is a 705-bed facility serving the Greater New York metropolitan area and is the third largest independent teaching hospital in the U.S. In 2005 Hospitals & Health Networks selected Maimonides as one of the nation's 100 "Most Wired" hospitals and one of the nation's 25 "Most Wireless." Among other achievements, it was winner of the 2002 Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society Nicholas E. Davies Award for Improving Patient Care.

"It is an honor to partner with Maimonides, already one of the most technologically advanced hospitals in America, and to offer our expertise and resources to help them take advantage of emerging clinical and information technologies that enable even higher levels of quality and efficiency," said Molly J. Coye, MD, founder and CEO of the non-profit Health Technology Center (HealthTech).

As a result of providing partner health systems the opportunity to benefit from each other's experiences in applying new technologies through peer learning networks, HealthTech is unique among health technology consulting organizations.

"Partners use these research-oriented and collaborative networks to share ideas, concerns, and experiences as they plan for new technologies, design hospitals of the future, develop strategies for information technology and for health plan coverage policies, and anticipate rapidly developing changes in healthcare delivery," said Coye.

"Maimonides has always approached the implementation of information technology in a collegial fashion, opening our doors to other institutions," said Pamela S. Brier, president and CEO of Maimonides Medical Center. "Partnering with HealthTech will allow us to continue sharing best practices on a larger scale. Patients nationwide will reap the benefits of this collaboration."

HealthTech's innovative research and expert panel programs in "Healthcare Environments of the Future" will be of particular value to Maimonides as it continues a major modernization program to consolidate patient services and expand space for acute care services, employing state-of-the-art medical technologies.

Source: Business Wire

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