Nebraska Medical Center taps CapSite pricing service

The Nebraska Medical Center, a 624-bed academic medical center in Omaha, has subscribed to CapSite’s online service that provides details on healthcare technology pricing and packaging to improve the capital expenditure process.

The Burlington, Vt.-based CapSite is designed to assist providers with making capital expenditures in healthcare technology at the planning, budgeting and negotiating phases of the process. Health IT details include coverage of EHRs and health information exchange tools, the company added.

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