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Eric Veronikis, Central Penn Business Journal, 8/30/2006

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council and the Highmark Foundation selected the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to receive funding for new technology. The medical center will receive a $54,000 grant to implement MedMined’s Data Mining Surveillance service, which tracks and prevents infections acquired in hospitals. Hershey is one of 11 hospitals in Pennsylvania receiving funding. MedMined is a subsidiary of Cardinal Health and provides data-mining analysis and technical, clinical and financial-consulting services to health-care organizations. MedMined’s Data Mining Surveillance service is used by 195 hospitals in 26 states.

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