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UW Health names new research-information officer

Jan 10, 2011 | |

UW Health hired Dr. Umberto Tachinardi, an internationally known expert in health-care information, in the newly created position of Chief Research Information officer. Dr. Umberto Tachinardi will provide direction for the creation of a single UW Health “data warehouse” of health information. The UW project will build on UW Health’s conversion in 2009 to a complete electronic health record system. Tachinardi comes to UW-Madison from the University of Chicago, where he was Director of informatics in the Office of Clinical Research and for the UC Comprehensive Cancer Center. (UW Health, 1/10)

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Walker, 32 other governors ask for Medicaid flexibility

Walker, 32 other governors ask for Medicaid flexibility

Jan 10, 2011 | , |

Governor Scott Walker and 32 other governors and governors-elect signed a letter Friday asking the Obama administration and congressional leaders to relax federal mandates affecting their Medicaid programs. Under the health care reform law, states that drop enrollees from the program endanger losing federal money that accounts for the bulk of Medicaid funding. (WHN, 1/10)

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Radvin steps down at Medical College

Jan 10, 2011 | |

Jonathan Ravdin has stepped down as dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin and the school will begin a national search to replace him. (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 1/10)

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Wood County to open mental health centers

Jan 10, 2011 | |

Wood County Comprehensive Community Services, or CCS, is opening community centers for people with a history of mental illness in both Marshfield and Wisconsin Rapids this year. (MARSHFIELD NEWS-HERALD, 1/10)

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Mercy moves closer to expansion in Edgerton

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The Edgerton Zoning Board of Appeals last week approved a slew of variance requests by Mercy Health System for an expansion plan that would double the size of the Mercy Edgerton Medical Center. (JANESVILLE GAZETTE 1/6)

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Mercy resets sights on Illinois

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Mercy Health System is trying again to build a hospital and medical clinic in Crystal Lake, Ill. Mercy recently filed plans with Illinois officials for a $200 million, 128-bed hospital and clinic. (JANESVILLE GAZETTE, 1/6)

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CEO says partisan politics won’t do in community health centers

Jan 10, 2011 | |

Dr. Ken Loving, the newly appointed CEO of Access Community Health Centers, sits down with the Capital Times' Shawn Doherty to talk about the role of community health centers in health reform, the fate of BadgerCare, and why he thinks its important to keep up his medical practice. (CAPITAL TIMES, 1/9)

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Study nixes link between vaccines and autism

Jan 10, 2011 | |

Wausau health care providers are optimistic that a report published last week will further their efforts to convince skeptical parents that autism is not linked to vaccines. (WAUSAU DAILY HERALD, 1/9)

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