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Harold Simmons Foundation Gives $5 Million To Children's Medical Center Dallas
The Harold Simmons Foundation has made a $5 million gift to Children’s Medical Center Dallas to help fund the establishment of the Annette Simmons Heart Hospital at Children’s. The gift will go towards the $150 million wePromise Campaign for Children’s, the largest campaign in the hospital’s 92-year history.
Established in 1939, Children’s cardiac care program is one of the oldest and most respected in the nation. Last year, Children’s performed more than 700 cardiac surgeries, 400 open heart surgeries and 600 heart catheterization procedures.
“A philanthropic gift of this magnitude will allow us to offer care at an internationally premier level,” said Dr. Joseph Forbess, Chairman of the Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at UT Southwestern and Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Children’s. “The fact that the Annette Simmons Heart Hospital will be a physically distinct ‘hospital within a hospital’ dedicated solely to the needs of pediatric cardiac patients will contribute significantly to our ability to provide the highest level of care possible.”
This unique heart hospital will benefit the more than 6,000 children who visit Children’s each year because of heart defects and heart disease.
The Annette Simmons Heart Hospital at Children’s will be just one of the components of the new Comprehensive Center for Heart Care at Children’s. This multi-disciplinary center will offer a space where physicians and medical staff can integrate the best pediatric medical care for cardiac patients, at all stages of treatment. The new heart hospital will be placed on the third floor of Children’s, in the newly built towers, creating a contiguous space that will promote better care, improve the continuity of care patients receive and will foster a collaborative environment needed for major medical advancements.
The expanded space will benefit both the medical staff, who will continue to be able to office on the third floor, as well as patients, who will have access more quickly to the most sophisticated medical equipment available. This equipment includes a fetal echocardiography facility for pregnant women that will allow medical staff to diagnose potential heart defects, prior to birth. A state-of the art hybrid laboratory that can also be configured into an MRI suite, operating room or heart catheterization lab, on demand, is also included in the plans for the heart hospital.
The additional space created by the expansion will also allow for expanded echocardiography rooms and a new specialized recovery area for patients who have to undergo catheterization procedures or cardiac MRI. More patient exam rooms will be added and a technologically sophisticated auditorium to accommodate up to 80 physicians and cardiology staff member for training and seminars will be included.
Housing the Annette Simmons Heart Hospital on the third floor of the hospital is going to allow the integration of the various subspecialty physicians and cardiology staff into a single collaborative entity where the strength of the team can be focused on Children’s most important resource, the patients.
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EDS-Led Consortium Named Preferred Bidder For U.K. Ministry Of Defence Infrastructure Project
Representatives of EDS confirmed its ‘ATLAS Consortium’ has been selected as the preferred bidder for the first “increment” of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD) Defence Information Infrastructure Future (DII [F]) project. Increment one is estimated at £2.3 billion or approximately $4 billion (U.S.) over 10 years. This represents EDS' single largest contract win since 2002.
The DII (F), which will consolidate numerous existing information networks into a single next-generation infrastructure, is an integral component of the U.K.'s future military strategy. The network will provide seamless interaction between headquarters, battlefield support and the front line, linking about 150,000 desktop terminals and 300,000 users in approximately 2,000 locations.
EDS and its subcontractors, Fujitsu Services, EADS Defence and Security Systems, General Dynamics and LogicaCMG, expect to finalize the contract within the next 30 days and begin work in April.
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i2 Board of Directors Names Michael E. McGrath Chief Executive Officer and President
Representatives of i2 Technologies, Inc. (OTC: ITWH), a provider of demand-driven supply chain solutions designed to enable business agility, announced that its Board of Directors has named Michael E. McGrath chief executive officer and president. McGrath replaces Sanjiv Sidhu, who remains chairman of the Board.
In July 2004 the company announced that Sidhu had intended to step down and that it would begin to search for a successor CEO.
According to Sidhu, the Board of Directors has given McGrath a clear mandate. “We expect Michael to refocus and resize i2, while at the same time establishing a strong foundation for future growth. It is then expected that we will recruit a new CEO, and that Michael will continue his leadership by assuming my role as Chairman of the Board.”
A renowned expert on supply chain management, product development, and product strategy, McGrath joined the i2 Board of Directors in August 2004. He is co-founder of Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM), a leading management consulting firm to technology-based companies. He retired as chairman and CEO of PRTM’s Atlantic Region in July 2004 after spending 28 years building the company into a highly successful management consulting firm.
While at PRTM, he initiated the company’s product development consulting practice, establishing it as one of the most successful and effective models of the product development process for technology-based industries. In 1993, McGrath created the Supply-Chain Operations Reference-model® (SCOR ®) to define a standard for the supply chain management process, which is now managed as an industry standard by the Supply-Chain Council.
McGrath also founded IDe, a leading provider of integrated solutions for Development Chain Management in June 1998, and has served as IDe chairman since October of that year. He is also the author or co-author of five books and numerous articles. Over the last decade, his book, “Product Strategy for High-Technology Companies: How to Achieve Growth, Competitive Advantage and Increased Profits,” has been used by many companies to guide strategic growth.
Prior to co-founding PRTM in 1976, McGrath worked for Price Waterhouse & Co., Texas Instruments and McCormack & Dodge, where he contributed to the pioneering efforts to create the packaged applications software industry in 1971. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Management Science from Boston College and a master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School. He is also a certified public accountant.
Emergisoft Adds St. John's Riverside Hospital To Client Base
St. John's Riverside Hospital of Yonkers, New York has chosen Emergisoft Corporation’s Emergency Department Information System, EmergisoftED™, to enhance the efficiency and safety of its emergency department. The implementation and use of Emergisoft’s patient tracking and comprehensive clinical documentation technologies will create an electronic medical record environment in St. John's Riverside Hospital emergency room which sees about 40,000 patients a year.
The addition of St. John's Riverside Hospital further strengthens Emergisoft's client presence in the New York City area which also includes hospitals such as the Saint Vincent 's Giuliani Trauma Center in lower Manhattan, Winthrop University Hospital in Long Island, and Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The hospital chose EmergisoftED, the healthcare industry's leading Emergency Department Information System (EDIS), because of its ease of use, proven ability to integrate with MEDITECH, and because EmergisoftED is a truly comprehensive solution encompassing all workflow needs of the emergency department.
During its review of potential EDIS system vendors, St. John's Riverside Hospital selected Emergisoft because of the company's proven ability to interface with the MEDITECH HIS (Hospital Information System), a widely utilized HIS in the healthcare industry.
St. John's Riverside Hospital began its EDIS search in September 2004 at the Emergency Nurses Association's Annual Meeting.
St. John's Riverside Hospital is a 407-bed community hospital about 12 miles north of New York City. The hospital has provided quality healthcare for the communities of Yonkers and southern Westchester since 1869. The hospital annually treats about 40,000 patients in its emergency department, which has 26 patient-care areas and a three-room fast-track.
Since January 2003, EmergisoftED has been selected by hospitals across the country with the most recent additions in California, New York, Michigan, New Jersey, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Rhode Island, Arizona and Ohio.
4Production and i2 Announce Reseller Partnership in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
4Production AG, a provider of solutions for the planning and control of manufacturing processes based in Germany, together with i2 Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of demand-driven supply chain solutions designed to enable business agility, announced a reseller agreement to offer i2 solutions to small and medium-sized companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
This agreement builds on the alliance relationship already established between 4 Production and i2 in 1999 which focused on joint selling. Under the new agreement, 4 Production will be able to offer i2 Factory Planner, Demand Planner and Supply Chain Planner solutions. These solutions are designed to enable companies to understand, anticipate and manage customer demand across the value chain as well as create production plans by taking into account specific restrictions. Using these solutions, customers can achieve a higher degree of customer satisfaction by gaining visibility to the supply chain for better plan execution.
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Perot Systems Appoints Singh to Board of Directors and Ravichander as Managing Director
Representatives of Perot Systems Corporation announced the appointments of Anuroop (Tony) Singh to its Board of Directors, and Padma Ravichander as managing director of the company’s Technology Services division and senior executive for India and the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Singh was elected to the board March 3, and Mrs. Ravichander’s appointment is effective March 15.
Singh is currently Vice Chairman of Max New York Life Insurance Company, a partnership between New York Life and Max India. Singh was until recently CEO and managing director of the company, which he led from its inception in 2000. Under his leadership, the company established a pan-India presence and a reputation for trust, quality and customer focus.
Singh is also the former India country head and Middle East and South Asia regional head for ANZ Grindlays Bank, previously the largest foreign bank in India. His past experience also includes launching and heading Bank of America’s retail banking business in India and various leadership positions with American Express.
Ravichander brings more than 20 years of industry experience to Perot Systems. Formerly Vice President of North American Operations for Oracle Corporation India, she has deep expertise in IT services in applications development and maintenance, offshore engineering, and process and systems integration. Prior to her service at Oracle, Ravichander developed and grew the global delivery capabilities for Hewlett Packard as head of that company's ISO India Software Operations in Bangalore. She also held leadership positions in North America with Transport, Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and SHL Systems House.
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Permeo Appoints Roy Shamir Vice President of Development
Representatives of Permeo Technologies, Inc., a provider of enterprise remote access VPN solutions, announced the appointment of Roy Shamir as vice president of development. Shamir brings extensive management, technology and security experience to his role on Permeo’s executive management team.
Prior to joining Permeo, Shamir worked at Check Point Software Technologies for nearly a decade. Most recently, Shamir served as the Director of Managed Security Products where he oversaw the development of multiple new products including Check Point’s VPN-1 SecureClient and SecurePlatform. During his tenure at Check Point, Shamir developed the main components of the initial VPN product line, managed the firewall, VPN, and QoS enforcement technologies teams, and successfully led a major re-architecture effort of the Check Point gateway.
As vice president of product development, Shamir provides strategic and tactical leadership for the company in designing and developing Permeo’s unique secure remote access products.
Lowndes County, Georgia Chooses EDEN Software From Tyler Technologies
Representatives of Tyler Technologies, Inc. announced that the company has signed a contract to provide Lowndes County, Georgia with integrated financial, payroll and citizen services software from its EDEN division. In addition, the County will implement EDEN Web applications to enhance business relationships with the public. Tyler will also provide implementation services, training and support for Lowndes County.
Faced with the need to provide more current information to managers and elected officials and to streamline agency business processes, Lowndes County started searching for new software in 2002. The extensive evaluation process culminated in the selection of software from Tyler's EDEN division, with the selection committee unanimously deciding that EDEN's products best met the County's requirements.
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Lockheed Martin Names New Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
Lockheed Martin has named Martin T. Stanislav Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (CAO). Stanislav has been serving as Vice President and Controller of the company’s Aeronautics business area in Ft. Worth, TX. Stanislav assumes his new position effective today.
Stanislav will replace Rajeev Bhalla who is resigning as Controller and CAO, also effective today, to take a senior finance position with a division of United Technologies Corp. (UTC). Bhalla has been with Lockheed Martin since 2001.
Stanislav joined Lockheed Martin in 1998 as the Director of Accounting where he was responsible for the corporation’s consolidated financial statements and related analyses and disclosures. In 1999 he was promoted to Vice President of Shared Services, responsible for all business activities including financial controls and core financial transaction processing. He has been in his current position in Ft. Worth since 2002.
Stanislav is a 1986 graduate of the University of Maryland and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He began his career with Ernst & Young, LLP.
