Cedars-Sinai Health System news and information

Unauthorized peeking at patient medical records remains an unsolved problem among healthcare providers, and privacy experts contend it's just in our nature to snoop.
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Administrators at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center were well aware of the flaws in their inpatient admissions process before an audit from HHS' inspector general's office publicly pointed them out.
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Zhenqiu Liu joined Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles as director of bioinformatics in the department of medicine's hematology/oncology division on Feb. 18.
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists appointed Paul Pomerantz, currently the worldwide executive director of the Drug Information Association, as CEO, effective March 4. Pomerantz, 60, succeeds Barbara Fossum, who has served as the Park Ridge, Ill.-based ASA's interim CEO since...
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Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System named Dr. Jeffrey Arnold, currently chair and medical director of the emergency medicine department at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, as CMO, effective Dec. 24.
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Anthem Blue Cross, Woodland Hills, Calif., will expand its accountable care network with a care-coordination program for fully insured preferred provider organizations.
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Seven institutions participating in a Joint Commission and American College of Surgeons quality-improvement project to reduce colorectal surgical-site infection rates saved more than $3.7 million by avoiding 135 infections over a 2½-year period.
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Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, has named Dr. Richard Lewis co-director of the neuromuscular clinic. He will also serve as director of the electromyography lab in the department of neurology.
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A heart disease treatment that many doctors consider to be fringe medicine unexpectedly showed some promise in a federal study clouded by ethical and scientific controversy.
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Ten years ago, arguably the most famous fizzle in healthcare IT history happened when Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles scrapped it's “big bang” implementation of a CPOE system.
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