InterMountain to Open CIS Research Center, Hire Staff

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is opening the “Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research” to support its clinical information systems. Intermountain’s new center — set to open on Feb. 16 — will centralize 60 fulltime healthcare IT positions, many of which are new positions.  Within the next 10 years, the organization expects to need an additional 100 informatics specialists. Beginning in 2005, Intermountain partnered with GE Healthcare “to develop and implement the next generation clinical information system.”