Study: Hospitals still cautious about EMR incentives
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Despite regulatory changes allowing hospitals to help doctors buy electronic medical record (EMR) systems, institutions have been slow to offer EMR...
Five Questions With: Dr. Sandra A. Carson
The Center for Reproduction and Infertility at Women & Infants Hospital treats a wide range of patients, from teenage girls to post-menopausal women, with...
FM Global publishes free loss-prevention data
JOHNSTON – For the first time in its 170-year history, business insurance giant FM Global is providing free access to thousands of pages of...
ProvEquity, Ayala to buy eTelecare for $290M
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., and PROVIDENCE – eTelecare Global Solutions (Nasdaq: ETEL) today announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Providence Equity Partners...
Financial institutions ill-prepared for new law
NEEDHAM, Mass. – A Boston research firm is forecasting that less than one-third of U.S. financial institutions will be fully compliant with a new...
Ch. 6 to extend early-morning news show
PROVIDENCE – WLNE-TV ABC Channel 6 today announced it will be launching the region’s only 7 a.m. live local newscast, beginning Monday, Sept....
this is a test for Ted
PROVIDENCE - Olga's Cup & Saucer has the most scrumptious turnovers, although they tasted better when they were baked out in Little Compton as...
Technology plays role in meetings planning
When the Lifespan hospital group’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer David Hemendinger is choosing where to host a major corporate meeting, the list...
Five Questions With: Donald Stanford
Donald Stanford joined GTECH Corp., the lottery giant headquartered in downtown Providence, as manager of software development in 1979. Over a 23-year career at...
Top tech trade groups in merger talks
PROVIDENCE – In the latest move to unite the technology industry’s formerly disparate trade groups, the AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association) and the...