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John Rex, formerly executive vice president and chief financial officer of Optum, has been appointed CFO of UnitedHealth Group, effective immediately, the insurer has announced.

Doctors responding to the survey are worried they will not have the technology, capital or staffing to survive.

First major restructuring since 2003 changes dues and governance.

Mercyhealth broke ground earlier this week on a large, $485 million expansion project that will yield a new specialty women's and children's hospital and multispecialty clinic building in Rockford, Illinois. Both facilities are scheduled for completion in early 2019.

Medical University of South Carolina has chosen Avantas to deliver system-wide workforce planning services that include predictive analytics, scheduling software and centralized resource management. MUSC Health expects this will optimize the health system's core and contingent labor, the companies announced on Wednesday.

The Department of Veterans Affairs publicly announced on Wednesday that is formally removed three senior officials from the Phoenix VA Health Care System in the continuing wait-time scandal.

Gardens Regional Hospital and Medical Center, which operates in a depressed section of southern Los Angeles, has filed for bankruptcy.

A Connecticut podiatry office has notified 40,491 patients that cybercriminals may have compromised their protected health information by accessing its EHR database.

Children's Hospital Colorado has launched a new Center for Innovation, a new section of the campus devoted to promoting innovation within the hospital and with other external partners.

John Clark, population health program manager at UNC Health Care, said direct employer contracts that eliminate intermediaries and can really help a health system contain costs. But the approach comes with some risks.