Tenet Healthcare Corp., a large operators of hospitals and outpatient facilities, has signed a sweeping, 10-year IT services deal with Perot Systems

Under the contract, Perot will manage information systems at all of Tenet's 66 hospitals throughout the country. Perot already manages IT systems at 25 Tenet hospitals under an existing contract that is extended and broadened under the new deal. About 400 Tenet IT staffers will transfer to Perot with comparable benefits and salaries, Tenet said in a statement. A company spokesperson declined to provide the deal's value.

"End-to-end management of our IT resources by Perot Systems will enable us to support and maintain the advanced clinical information technology of the future more efficiently and more effectively at our facilities than is possible with individually managed departments at our hospitals," said Stephen Brown, executive VP and CIO for Tenet, in a statement.

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