Cutting care for illegal immigrants <br> won’t improve the nation’s health
The 2004 movie “A Day Without a Mexican” alarmed the nation’s non-Mexican employers. Many restaurants, landscape services, factories, hotels and retailers would close without...
CVS.com adds health-management tools
WOONSOCKET – CVS/pharmacy last week relaunched its Web site, CVS.com, adding new tools that allow consumers to not only manage their prescriptions online, but...
Judge: Hire consultants to help assess Landmark
An R.I. Superior Court judge today authorized a special master to hire health-care industry experts from the Albany office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to help...
Union fires back at Carcieri
NORTH PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Council 94, the union representing about one third of active state employees in Rhode Island, called on Gov. Donald...
Carcieri: No new talks with Council 94
PROVIDENCE – “There will be no resumption of negotiations with Council 94,” the union representing about one third of active state employees in...
One-time costs shrink UnitedHealth’s 2Q profit
MINNEAPOLIS – UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), the nation’s largest health insurer, today posted a second-quarter profit of $1.46 billion, a 29.5-percent decline from the year-ago...
R.I. panel defers decision on VMA, citing new info
PROVIDENCE – At the request of the petitioners, the R.I. State Properties Committee this morning delayed a decision on the transfer of Veterans Memorial...
Providence software developer to handle<br> e-records for Einstein College of Medicine
NEW YORK – SMART Management Inc., a Providence-based software developer, has been chosen by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to facilitate the school’s...
Local information sector gains jobs in June
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s information sector added 100 new jobs in June, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training announced in an otherwise gloomy...
UMass study: Small businesses <br> better at navigating Web 2.0
DARTMOUTH - Fast-growing small businesses are adopting Web 2.0 tools at a far faster pace than large established corporations, according to new research.
Among the...