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Tunstall Americas, a division of U.K.-based Tunstall Healthcare Group, and a provider of health care communications services, has announced the opening of its new data and operations center in Pawtucket as April 16.
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Merrill W. Sherman, principal at Sherman Consulting LLC and former president and CEO of Bank Rhode Island, has been named as the newest member of the Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island board of directors.
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Although fewer than 2 percent of available health plans satisfy all required health benefits under the federal Affordable Care Act, Massachusetts and Rhode Island plans covered the highest percentage of essential benefits in the country, according to an analysis from HealthPocket Inc.
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(Updated, 4 p.m.) A tentative five-year collective bargaining agreement has been reached between United Nurses & Allied Professionals, Local 5067, the union that represents nearly 600 employees at Landmark Medical Center and the Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island, and a potential new bidder for Landmark, according to union general counsel Christopher Callaci.
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State regulators reviewing the expedited application by Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island to join the Care New England hospital network have requested additional information, according to Amy Kempe, a spokeswoman with the R.I. Attorney General’s office.
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Salve Regina University will launch a new Bachelor of Science degree program in health care administration and management beginning in the upcoming fall 2013 semester, the school announced Monday.
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United HealthCare and Lifespan, Rhode Island’s largest hospital network, have announced the creation of an accountable coordinated care organization, or ACCO, the first of its kind in New England.
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Care New England announced today that is partnering with Epic as its new ambulatory clinical information technology partner, moving all of the hospital network’s employed physicians and practices to a single electronic medical record platform.
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The corporation of Brown University voted on Feb. 13 to approve the creation of a School of Public Health at Brown University beginning July 1, according to Brown spokesman David Orenstein.
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Hospitals in Rhode Island are major engine of the state’s economy, with $6.7 billion in economic contributions in 2011, according to the annual economic impact report released today by the Hospital Association of Rhode Island.
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