Nebraska news and information

Avantas, which provides labor management technology, services and strategies for the healthcare industry, has hired Ron Rheinheimer as VP.
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Authorities arrested an Indiana doctor Monday on suspicion of carrying out two attacks in Omaha over the past five years in which four people were killed who had ties to a local university medical school that fired him in 2001.
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Midway through their pregnancies, expectant mothers who plan to deliver at Winter Park (Fla.) Memorial Hospital will meet with a “birth designer” to choreograph their ideal birth experience.
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Nebraska lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday that would create a pilot program to offer behavioral health services to children through computer technology.
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Supporters of a proposal to expand Medicaid in Nebraska said they're willing to include cost safeguards within the bill, including a mandatory review of the program if its expenses were to skyrocket and a possible requirement that the state withdraw if the federal government fails to fund it as...
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COLUMBIA, Mo.—Statewide health information exchanges in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois will be able to send and receive basic healthcare messages between each using the federally developed secure messaging protocol. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
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Statewide health information exchanges in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska will be able to send and receive basic healthcare messages between each other using the federally developed secure messaging protocol, the exchanges announced Tuesday.
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There is only a brief mention of Chuck Hagel in the unofficial history of the Veteran Affairs Department's venerable VistA electronic health-record system, but comrades in arms, even in a fight to develop a computer software system, have long memories.
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Bergan Mercy Medical Center, Omaha, Neb., has relied heavily on temporary emergency room physicians this year after breaking with its longtime ER group in February.
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Many patients at the Cancer Center at 208-bed Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Neb., either lack insurance and/or drive long distances to receive their care. In addition to the financial burdens of hospital bills, they struggle to cover their copayments on medications and the gas they need for...
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