GE Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information technology (HIT), has announced a multi-million dollar agreement with Harrison Medical Center (Bremerton, WA) for a broad portfolio of healthcare IT solutions. The announcement marks a significant expansion of GE's footprint in the health information exchange (HIE) market with a comprehensive deal that also includes the company's full-featured electronic medical record (EMR), patient communication services, ePrescribing, quality outcomes measurement, and revenue cycle management tools. With Centricity HIE Services pulling the digital care community together, this implementation will serve to extend Harrison's EMR to community providers, bolster the patient care continuum and help Harrison's providers improve the quality of their care. 

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Bill Conroy, chief executive officer and president of Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in data management solutions that enable information sharing and improve data quality, was honored with the CEO of the Year Award by the Illinois Technology Association (ITA). The awards, which honor outstanding information technology companies, executives and advocates in Illinois, were presented to the winners at the association’s 10th annual CityLIGHTS Gala on April 23 at Union Station.
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CDW Corporation, a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government and education, has announced an assessment services offering that enables qualifying medium and large organizations to consider the potential benefits of server virtualization at no cost and with minimal effort required from the participant. The core of the offerings – developed and refined by CDW’s virtualization assessment team working with a number of customers during 2008 and early 2009 – include a Self-Guided Assessment (SGA) and a Server Virtualization Assessment (SVA).
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