| Valley needs to have two hospital systems
The Mahoning Valley needs two hospital systems. Recent developments will help ensure that our local health care will remain, well, healthy.
Financially struggling Forum Health reached a one-year contract settlement with the Ohio Nurses Association/Youngstown General Duty Nurses Association. The union represents approximately 600 registered nurses at Northside and Beeghly medical centers.
The union previously had issued, then rescinded, a strike notice. A strike, or a contract unfavorable to management, could have spelled doom for Forum. The system teeters on bankruptcy while it seeks a buyer. The contract, which the union termed concessionary, keeps Forum marketable. That is also, strange as it sounds, good news for Forums chief competitor, Humility of Mary Health Partners.
Setpoint Systems team buys a controlling interest
OGDEN Manufacturing automation firm Setpoint Systems Inc. said Monday that its current management team has completed a partial buyout of the controlling interest of the company from Joe Cornwell and Joe VanDenBerghe. Financial terms were not disclosed. "This move allows the current management team the time to focus on Setpoint Systems without having to spend it spread out between the other companies within the Setpoint families," the company said. Cornwell and VanDenBerghe will focus on Setpoint Inc., building amusement rides and providing mud skids to the oil rigging industry as well as some robotic contract welding. Cornwell and VanDenBerghe will remain on the Setpoint Systems board but will no longer be involved in the day-to-day business operations. .
Latest Version of Livelink ECM ? Contract Lifecycle Management
Open Text Corporation has announced the latest version of Livelink ECM-Contract Lifecycle Management. The solution is designed to help businesses reduce operating costs and enable compliance with internal and external policies and regulations. Livelink ECM - Contract Lifecycle Management is designed for organizations to have a solution to automate and manage contract processes from creation of individual clauses to secure collaboration during the negotiation process; proactive alerts for contracts that require review and tracking of clauses, renewal dates and terms; and retention, archival and disposition of contracts to satisfy compliance, legal and business policy requirements. The solution also integrates with a variety of enterprises systems so that contract content can be made available in other environments.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to Implement Autodesk Solution for Shared Facilities Management
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autodesk, (Nachrichten) Inc. today announced that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, will implement Autodesk FMDesktop software, a leading facilities management solution that allows for more effective and efficient management of the physical assets and infrastructure in base facilities. The contract for Autodesk FMDesktop was awarded to IMAGINiT, an Autodesk Government Value-Added-Reseller that will implement the software at Wright-Patterson Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC).
Autodesk FMDesktop addresses the ASC's need for an integrated, easy-to-use Computer Aided Facility Management (CAFM) system to track workspace for approximately 3,000 occupants and assets in more than one million square feet of building space. FMDesktop will enable facility managers at ASC to leverage existing data, such as computer-aided design data residing in spreadsheets and personal databases, by easily importing it into the facilities management software.
Adesta Awarded Contract to Expand River Operations Security for the Jefferson County, Texas Sheriff's Department
Adesta, LLC, a systems integrator and project management company for communication networks and electronic security systems, has been awarded a $958,000 contract to install a waterside video surveillance system for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department along the Sabine/Neches Rivers. The system will effectively manage and monitor surveillance video at strategic locations along the waterway between Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas. Adesta will engineer, install, test and turn up a fully integrated wireless video surveillance network. The project includes a network of cameras from remote locations along the Rivers, with video management from the United States Coast Guard Vessel Tracking Station and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. Construction began in June 2007 and is projected to be completed in early 2008.
BIO-key(R) Announces Contracts for New Criminal Justice Data Sharing Solution
WALL, N.J., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International Inc. (Nachrichten) (BULLETIN BOARD: BKYI), a leader in wireless public safety solutions and finger based biometric identification, today announced the release of its InfoExchange Software Module and its acceptance by several agencies including the Kingston (NY) Police Department. This contract represents BIO-key's first with the municipality of Kingston.
BIO-key's InfoExchange software component delivers information from records management systems (RMS) and other local data sources directly to officers and investigators on the street. The InfoExchange software is fully integrated with MobileCop(R) and PocketCop(R), BIO-key's mobile data solutions for laptops and handhelds. Consequently, with a single request, officers can now access local law enforcement information, as well as the national and state data they rely on to identify dangerous or wanted individuals.
US awards $50bn in IT contracts
BOSTON - The US government has chosen 29 companies to provide information technology products to federal agencies in a contract worth up to $50 billion. Winners included Electronic Data Systems, International Business Machines, Communications Holdings and Unisys. The contract will run for at least five years and can be extended for up to five more, with a maximum value of $50 billion ($NZ65bn) according to the US General Services Administration, the agency that administers the contract. Government agencies will be able to hire those 29 companies that were selected or pre-qualified to provide them with computers, software and IT services products covered under the contract. That covers a broad range of management and technical support services. Other companies that were qualified include AT&T, BearingPoint, CACI, Computer Sciences, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Harris and Lockheed Martin.
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