MedeAnalytics, which provides healthcare performance management solutions to ensure accountability and improve outcomes, has named Andrew Hurd CEO.
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Cigna Corp. has named its current VP of finance, Thomas McCarthy, to the role of executive VP and CFO. Effective July 12, McCarthy, 56, will replace Ralph Nicoletti, who recently announced his resignation.
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Paul King has been chosen as executive director of C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital, part of the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor.
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The MetroHealth System's second go-around at finding a new boss ended Wednesday afternoon when the hard-pressed Cleveland health system introduced Dr. Akram Boutros, founder and president of a New York-based healthcare consulting firm, as president and CEO.
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Otis Bowen, who overhauled Indiana's tax system as governor before helping oversee the federal response to the burgeoning AIDS epidemic during President Ronald Reagan's second term, has died. He was 95.
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Veteran physician informaticist Dr. Robert Kolodner, the former head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS, has been named VP and chief medical officer at ViTel Net, McLean, Va., a provider of telehealth software and services, the company has announced.
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Robert Ritz was named president of Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines (Iowa). Ritz, 51, is president and CEO of St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Ill., which is operated by Springfield-based Hospital Sisters Health System.
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Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System named Daniel Hoodin VP of managed-care strategy and development, effective April 15.
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Bryan Luce has been named the first chief science officer of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a Washington-based independent not-for-profit established by the healthcare reform law to fund and promote comparative-effectiveness research.
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Ascension Health, St. Louis, has promoted Patricia Maryland to president of healthcare operations and COO.
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