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President Barack Obama has announced regional forums, patterned after the healthcare reform summit held last week at the White House, to be hosted by the governors of California, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Vermont in March or early April.
GE Healthcare of Barrington, Ill., has announced that Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth has implemented the company’s Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC) quality data system to align its Centricity EMR and practice management solutions with Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI).
A healthcare network in upstate New York has settled a class-action lawsuit that alleged hospitals conspired to depress wages of registered nurses.
Through the first three quarters of 2008, a majority of Florida's largest health insurers saw a 25 percent increase in per-member, per-month costs for emergency room and out-of-area services.
Low-income Pennsylvanians living in personal care homes have received an increase in personal needs allowance from the state for the first time since 1993.
Employment at U.S. hospitals climbed 0.14 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted 4,719,300 people, according to a federal Bureau of Labor Statistics issued last week.
New Hampshire's nonprofit community hospitals provided more than $360 million in direct patient care services and outreach in 2007, according to a report by the New Hampshire Hospital Association.
Nonfarm payroll employment in the United States continued to fall sharply in February 2009, and the national unemployment rate rose from 7.6 percent to 8.1 percent, according to a report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Health Systems Solutions, Inc., reeling from the collapse of a planned merger and an international fraud investigation of its principal investor, has announced it will deregister its common stock and stop filing reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Surgical Care Affiliates, one of the country's largest providers of specialty surgical services, is teaming with Hawaii Pacific Health to build and operate a new outpatient surgery center in Honolulu.