Bothwell Regional Health Center has been recognized for the third time as one of the nation’s Most Wired hospitals, according to the results of the 2012 Most Wired Survey released last week in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
Bothwell IT Director Tom Fairfax said in a news release that hospitals are leveraging health information technology to improve performance.
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