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The Nebraska Medical Center Expands Use of Streamline Health Content ... - Sacramento Bee
Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

The Nebraska Medical Center Expands Use of Streamline Health Content ...
Sacramento Bee
2, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NasdaqCM: STRM), a leading provider of enterprise content management and business analytics solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced that The Nebraska Medical Center will ...

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Capitol: Assaults on healthcare workers; wrangling over pipeline - KVNO News
Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

KVNO News
Capitol: Assaults on healthcare workers; wrangling over pipeline
KVNO News
Steve Lathrop wants to impose a minimum sentence of six months in jail for people who assault healthcare workers. (Photo courtesy Nebraska Legislature) In 2009, he said, there were more than 2000 assaults on nurses, who lost an average of four days of ...

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Gov. Heineman says state will wait on health insurance exchange (AUDIO) - Nebraska Radio Network
Posted on Feb 1, 2012 (3 days ago)

Gov. Heineman says state will wait on health insurance exchange (AUDIO)
Nebraska Radio Network
Dave Heineman insists Nebraska won't default to the federal government in creating a state health insurance exchange, but the governor tells Nebraska Radio Network he wants to wait until the legal status of the federal health care law is determined.

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Local commercial real estate continuing to rebound - Lincoln Journal Star
Posted today (6 hours ago)

Local commercial real estate continuing to rebound
Lincoln Journal Star
Assurity Life Insurance Co. moved into its new headquarters at 20th and Q streets in December. (TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star) Commercial real estate continues to rebound in Lincoln, thanks in large part to the improving economy and the number of large ...


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University of Nebraska president says state aid for medical facilities would ... - The Republic
Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

University of Nebraska president says state aid for medical facilities would ...
The Republic
University of Nebraska President JB Milliken told lawmakers Thursday that a proposal to expand the university's medical facilities will deliver long-term economic benefits in a state that lacks rural doctors and nurses. Milliken told the Legislature's ...

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New Legislation Would Pad Health Insurance Coffers While Screwing Over Consumers - The Consumerist
Posted yesterday.

The Consumerist
New Legislation Would Pad Health Insurance Coffers While Screwing Over Consumers
The Consumerist
The bill, introduced by Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and co-sponsored by John Isakson of Georgia, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Nebraska's Ben Nelson, is intended "to preserve consumer and employer access to licensed independent insurance ...

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Health department gears up for insurance billing - McCook Daily Gazette
Posted on Feb 1, 2012 (3 days ago)

Health department gears up for insurance billing
McCook Daily Gazette
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The director of the Red Willow County, Nebraska, Health Department told county commissioners Monday morning that the department's ability to bill Blue Cross/Blue Shield allows its vaccination program to reach a larger segment of ...


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Neb. bills offer health insurance exchange plan - CBS News
Posted on Jan 25, 2012 (10 days ago)

Neb. bills offer health insurance exchange plan
CBS News
Work on Nebraska's own version of health care insurance reform will begin in earnest next month when bills to create the Nebraska Health Benefit Exchange Act come up for debate, two state lawmakers said Tuesday. Sen. Rich Pahls of Boys Town and Sen.

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Act on health care reform - Kearney Hub
Posted on Feb 1, 2012 (3 days ago)

Act on health care reform
Kearney Hub
A bill under consideration in Lincoln will help make health insurance more affordable for Nebraska's middle class and self employed families. The legislation will create an online marketplace with quality coverage, where consumers can compare options ...

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Bills extend training to low-income Nebraskans - Washington Examiner
Posted today (11 hours ago)

Bills extend training to low-income Nebraskans
Washington Examiner
Nebraska policymakers have boasted about the state's 4.1 percent unemployment rate — the nation's second lowest — and a strong farm economy. But more than 41000 Nebraskans remain out of work, according to the state Department of Labor, and others who ...

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University of Nebraska proposes new healthcare initiative - KHAS-TV
Posted on Jan 19, 2012 (16 days ago)

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University of Nebraska proposes new healthcare initiative
KHAS-TV
Collaboration between UNK and UNMC would provide health care services to the growing Nebraska aging population. This is expected to increase 62 percent by 2030. "If we educate them together and have both working together, they'll be better able to form ...
UNK Wants to Expand Nursing CollegeWOWT
Proposed Bill Could Mean $19 Million for UNK's Health Care ProgramsNTV

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Mild Winter Leaves Some Cold - Wall Street Journal
Posted today (21 hours ago)

Wall Street Journal
Mild Winter Leaves Some Cold
Wall Street Journal
By JACK NICAS Even as a major storm barrels into Nebraska after dumping more than a foot of snow in Colorado, this is shaping up as a relatively mild winter, saving cities money on salt and snowplowing but hurting businesses that rely on cold to bring ...

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Nebraska withdraws from Nonadmitted Insurance Multi-State Agreement - Business Insurance
Posted on Jan 10, 2012 (25 days ago)

Nebraska withdraws from Nonadmitted Insurance Multi-State Agreement
Business Insurance
5, Nebraska Insurance Director Bruce R. Ramge said the state was withdrawing as a participant from the Nonadmitted Insurance Multi-State Agreement, effective March 5. “While the proposed plan of operation for the clearinghouse allowed for the ...
Nebraska to Opt Out of Nonadmitted Insurance Multistate AgreementInsurance Journal
Nebraska Regulator: State Is Withdrawing From NIMA Due to Filing Schedule ConflictInsurance News Net (press release)

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Valley Center death fuels questions about previous accidents - Kansas.com
Posted today (2 hours ago)

Kansas.com
Valley Center death fuels questions about previous accidents
Kansas.com
James Chace's six-seat, twin-engine Beech crashed in a remote area after leaving Rapid City, SD, en route to Nebraska. Jeff Chace thought his father had the skills to make a safe emergency landing. Part of the mystery involves $700000 in life insurance ...


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Some lawmakers say Heineman's comments were a threat - Lincoln Journal Star
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Some lawmakers say Heineman's comments were a threat
Lincoln Journal Star
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman speaks during a press conference after the State of the State address in the legislative chamber of the Capitol on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2011. (GWYNETH ROBERTS/Lincoln Journal Star) A comment by Gov.

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Local View: Legislature should act on health care - Lincoln Journal Star
Posted on Jan 29, 2012 (6 days ago)

Local View: Legislature should act on health care
Lincoln Journal Star
A bill under consideration in Lincoln, the Nebraska Health Benefit Exchange Act (LB 835), will help make health insurance more affordable for Nebraska's middle class and self-employed families. The legislation will create an online marketplace with ...

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Few arguments on need to cut deer population - McCook Daily Gazette
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Few arguments on need to cut deer population
McCook Daily Gazette
Deer are another matter, with the average Nebraska driver having a 1 in 109 chance of hitting a deer, according to American Family Insurance. That translates into thousands of deer collisions a year, millions of dollars in damage, and probably doesn't ...

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Report Shows Nebraska's Economy To Remain Steady - WOWT
Posted on Jan 30, 2012 (5 days ago)

Report Shows Nebraska's Economy To Remain Steady
WOWT
The University Of Nebraska at Lincoln's Bureau of Business Research reports that Nebraska's economy is expected to remain steady in the next two years. The Nebraska Business Forecast Council said it anticipates slower job growth in Nebraska in 2012, ...

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Humor is healthy - Grant Tribune Sentinel
Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

Humor is healthy
Grant Tribune Sentinel
The repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a goal of Nebraska's Republican Congressmen. Unfortunately, these GOP loyalists have been working so fervently on their own improved, cost efficient, and comprehensive, post repeal health ...

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Nebraska Health Officials Promote Oral Health Campaign - WOWT
Posted on Feb 1, 2012 (3 days ago)

Nebraska Health Officials Promote Oral Health Campaign
WOWT
If the people at HHS had to fully fund these campaigns out of their salary I wonder how many we would have. by Sally on Feb 1, 2012 at 10:53 AM Oral hygiene is important to overall health, so why do we need separate insurance coverage for dental care.


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Kids Count 2011 report released - Grant Tribune Sentinel
Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

Kids Count 2011 report released
Grant Tribune Sentinel
There were 47000 children without health insurance in 2010, according to the US Census Bureau. Census data also found that 30000 of uninsured Nebraska children were living in low-income families. • In 2010, 66.3 percent of Nebraska two-year-olds had ...

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Pedinol Pharmacal Inc. Announces Health Advisory for Gris-PEG (griseofulvin ... - Pharmaceutical Processing
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Pedinol Pharmacal Inc. Announces Health Advisory for Gris-PEG (griseofulvin ...
Pharmaceutical Processing
... it is advising healthcare professionals, pharmacists and patients of a potential problem with Gris-PEG® (griseofulvin ultramicrosize) 125mg and 250mg manufactured and packaged by Novartis Consumer Health at its Lincoln, Nebraska manufacturing site.

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How Success Cost a Small Business Owner His Health Insurance - Huffington Post (blog)
Posted on Jan 31, 2012 (4 days ago)

How Success Cost a Small Business Owner His Health Insurance
Huffington Post (blog)
The MSA organizers identified small business people who were angry at the health insurance industry for skyrocketing premiums and shrinking health benefits. As Rick Poore, the owner of a Nebraska business that designed custom T-shirts, told me, ...


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Money a concern for foster parents - Omaha World-Herald
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Money a concern for foster parents
Omaha World-Herald
By Martha Stoddard But the Unadilla, Neb., woman came to the State Capitol on Thursday to push for a measure setting minimum payment rates for Nebraska foster parents. She said she and her husband wind up buying diapers, clothes and other necessities ...

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Pacific Life Foundation Announces $242500 of Community Grants in Greater Omaha ... - MarketWatch (press release)
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 (11 days ago)

Pacific Life Foundation Announces $242500 of Community Grants in Greater Omaha ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Jan 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Pacific Life Foundation announced today that 22 nonprofit agencies and nine K-12 schools serving the Greater Omaha, Nebraska area will receive $242500 in grants. -- Omaha Community Playhouse: A ...

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