Doctors’ handwriting is notoriously challenging, but it turns out electronic health records (EHR) are no panacea either, especially when trying to interoperate between two different medical providers, according to IT experts. Many medical providers have moved to EHR, but each ...

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This is the second story in a three-part series on virtual reality.  We’re a ways from using it in areas such as surgery and other medical procedures, but virtual reality (VR) is playing an increasingly larger role in health care. ...

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The Idaho Elks Children’s Pavilion at St. Luke’s structure is in place now, having arisen from a 36-foot deep hole since July-August 2017. The final steel beam at the highest point was installed the week of Oct. 22, a week ...

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Backed by $1 million in donations, St. Luke’s Health System will build a 5,235-square-foot respite house in Fruitland for cancer patients traveling from hundreds of miles away for radiation treatment. The $1.6 million respite house will have four guest rooms ...

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A healthcare apprenticeship program is helping Idaho hospitals obtain some of the skilled workers they need. Similar to the software engineering apprenticeship program, the Idaho Hospital Association, in cooperation with the Department of Labor, provides Idaho employers with tools for ...

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A year after the completion of antitrust lawsuit that forced it to unwind its planned merger with St. Luke’s Health System, Saltzer Medical Group is planning for its future as an independent organization. The Nampa-based company says it is now ...

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The YMCA, St. Luke’s Health System, Meridian Parks & Recreation, West Ada School District and Meridian Library will unveil a grand collaboration May 25 at what is being called The Hill on Meridian’s south side. On that day, the South ...

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A joint venture including St. Luke’s Health System and a number of investors closed March 8 on the $86.5 million purchase of the four-building Washington Group Plaza complex originally built by Morrison Knudsen Corp,  a corporate giant that was acquired ...

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St. Luke’s Elmore Medical Center in Mountain Home opened a new emergency department Jan. 16 that is more than four times larger than the existing department. The new 7,610-square-foot emergency department (9,725 square feet including the lobby) had been under ...

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St. Luke’s Health System for the first time Oct. 20 acknowledged plans to build a 230,520-square-foot orthopedic facility at 27th Street and Fairview Avenue . St. Luke’s plans to consolidate three orthopedic surgery centers in Boise and Meridian and other ...

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