Tenet Healthcare announced this week that Eric Evans has been appointed president of hospital operations. The news is effective immediately. 

FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE (NYSE:GE) announced today the appointment of four new Company officers. Effective April 4, 2016, GE will have 190 officers globally who lead large revenue-generating businesses or are in critical technology or functional roles, helping to drive growth.

Although 10 of 17 hospital systems in Connecticut had positive operating margins in 2015, hospital executives are still concerned with the state’s controversial hospital tax, The (Danbury, Conn.) News-Times reports. The newspaper said hospitals are expected to pay $556 million in taxes this year and receive $164 million in state aid and federal matching funds.

UPMC Enterprises will fund the first six projects created under the umbrella of the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance.

New Jersey Governor and recent presidential candidate Chris Christie has called for legislation that would put a two-year ban on lawsuits by towns challenging a hospital’s tax-free status.

According to a recent Stanford survey of more than 1,200 people from throughout the United States, public perception is that CEOs are “vastly overpaid” and their salaries should be drastically reduced. 

“The answer to that is certainly, yes.” With those seven words, the National Football League’s senior VP for health and safety may have just changed the gridiron game for good, and in who knows how many ways. 

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and 32 other organizations are asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to shorten the Meaningful Use reporting period for 2016 from 365 to 90 days.