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February 12, 2008
Leading Health Information Data Firm Ranks SwedishAmerican as Nation’s 35th Most Integrated System
SwedishAmerican Health System has been rated 35th in the 2008 top 100 list of the nation’s best performing networks. The results were compiled by Verispan, and recently released through Modern Healthcare magazine.
The annual assessment of the most highly integrated healthcare networks (IHNs) is regarded as the nation’s premier rating system, evaluating IHNs on their performance and degree of integration.
The ranking comprises the 100 most integrated networks out of more than 580 health systems that are graded on operations, quality, scope of services and efficiency.
According to Dr. Bill Gorski, President and CEO for SwedishAmerican, “we value the importance of being recognized as a top integrated system. There is a direct correlation between this and the high quality of service that we provide to our patients. SwedishAmerican is committed to better integrating all services within the Health System.”
Verispan is a healthcare informatics joint venture of Quintiles Transnational Corporation, and McKesson Corporation, that provides a broad array of information products and services to the healthcare industry.For the complete list of Top 100 and other information, visit www.verispan.com.