Hospital Corporation Boosts Employee Productivity by Installing Two Local Communication Networks.
Communications News › Vol. 22 Nbr. 2, February 1985
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The Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) uses the Xerox Ethernet local communications network for two of its departments in its Nashville, Tennessee headquarters. HCA is a $3.5 billion worldwide health care firm that provides computer and management services to hospitals. The network connects optical character reader scanners, laser printers, personal computers, and professional workstations. Six Xerox 8010 Star information systems, a Xerox 860 information processing system, and a Xerox 820-II are linked in the network. A modular approach is used in the distributed network because of revision requirements.
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Hospital Corporation Boosts Employee Productivity by Installing Two Local Communication Networks.
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), a $3.5-billion international health-care organization providing data processing and management services to hospitals around the world, is boosting productivity, improving the quality of its documentation, and reducing costs with the help of two baseband local communications networks.
HCA, which began in 1968 with one hospital, today owns 197 hospitals in the United States and 24 more abroad. It provides contract management services to an almost equal number of independently owned US and foreign hospitals, as well as to scores of professional buildings and clinics. HCA's approach combines new technology and sound business practices to help health-care institutions simultaneously enhance patient care quality, curb...See the full content of this document
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