| Adam Gale Takes Helm at KLAS |
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Adam Gale has been named President of KLAS Enterprises,
LLC, succeeding Kent Gale. As one of the four founders of
KLAS, Adam has twelve years of healthcare experience and is a
graduate of Brigham Young University in Business Information
Systems. Adam has served...
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Cardiovascular disease is the
cause of almost 36 percent of all deaths in recent
years, according to the American Heart Association
(AHA). This makes cardiovascular disease the leading
cause of death in America today. These figures show the
compelling reasons why many healthcare provider
organizations have... Read
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 In the realm of intravenously
administered medications, a decimal-point error can
represent an enormous, and potentially fatal, departure
from the correct dosage. The magnitude of this patient
safety hazard is even more daunting when one considers
that... Read
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According to KLAS estimates, 12 percent of
U.S. hospitals with at least 100 beds are now
outsourcing a majority or all of their IT department.
With improving customer satisfaction and a number of
providers implementing increasingly complex technology
with limited resources, extensive Information Technology
Outsourcing (ITO) is a market
that... Read More
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Unit Dose Packaging: What Successes
and Challenges do Vendor Solutions
Present?
 On
February 25, 2004, the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) issued a landmark release that outlined the rules
governing barcode requirements for human drugs and
blood. The new rule requires certain human drug and
biological product labels to have barcodes. This rule
applies to manufacturers, repackers, relabelers, and
private label distributers of prescription drug products
and over-the-counter drugs. However, while the barcode
requirement is... Read
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