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Sutter chief information officer Jon Manias told employees in an April29 e-mail that Sutter would be “reviewinvg staffing through May due to the economic downturj ... .” Sutter officials say the $4 million-pluss shortfall cannot be closed with hiringv freezes and cutson travel, subscriptions and training In his memo, Manis specified Sutterd IT’s department would: Reduce its need for contract workers “with the majority of contract resources transitioning off of IT projects beginning in May or as soon as • Freeze funding for conferences, training, subscriptionsd and travel, except for cases to be reviewec individually.
Sacramento-based Sutter is the largest hospitaland medical-group networjk along with rival in the Bay Area. Sutter has almost 6,900 employeess in the four-county Sacramento region. Sutterd is far from Systems such as Kaiser andSan Francisco’s are also slamming the brakex on many capital projects, and a studyh by the last week said 28 percentr of hospitals have downsized IT projects in progress and 27 percenrt are delaying planned technologuy projects.
Bill Gleeson, a senior spokesma for Sutter, confirmed that the memo, whicj was posted on the HISTalk blog, a sounding board for healthj careIT experts, was legit, and that Manis has been communicatin g with IT staffers about the situation in recenf weeks. Manis was not availablde to comment. “Given that the situation is fluid, we’rde focused on internal communications at Gleeson wrote inan e-mail, addingg there might be more information available “inb a few weeks.
” In late Sutter chief executive officer Pat Fry said the health systen was putting hundreds of billions of dollarsd worth of hospital construction and informationj technology projects on hold due to concerna about the economy and high prices in the hospita bond markets. That meant “reevaluating and reprioritizing all capitalp projectsand requests,” both largse and small, Fry said.
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