1. <br />Bureau of Labor Statistics April 1, 2011<br />Unemployment rates<br />National8.8Bachelors degree and higher, 25 & over4.4Management, business and financial:4.8<br />News You Can Use<br />Hospitals fail to leverage Facebook to engage patients, study finds. A study suggests that many hospitals aren't using Facebook to their advantage, particularly in boosting their relationships with patients and communities or building their brands. Of the 120 facilities studied, less than 40% posted on their Facebook pages daily and about 80% failed to utilize the social media site's discussion board. Healthcare IT News, 2/28/11 <br />Last year, high-level job candidates might have been lucky to get just one job offer. But this year, 51% of executive recruiters say many of the candidates they see already have a competing job offer in hand. .. executives in the health-care and technology industries seem to be in high demand, while defense and nonprofit companies are growing the slowest.WSJ, 3/14/11<br />Amid a larger effort to use medical data to improve health care, a California physicians group, the Heritage Health Provider network, is offering a $3 million prize for the algorithm that can best predict when people are likely to be sent to the hospital. The winning team will create a predictive algorithm that can identify patients who are at risk for hospital admissions. Once known, health care providers can develop new care plans and strategies to reach patients before emergencies occur, thereby reducing the number of unnecessary hospitalizations. Heritage Provider Network, 3/11<br />The RAND Corporation studied more than 800,000 families and found that when they moved to (health) plans with deductibles over $1,000, health spending dropped an average of 14%. But the study also found that those families cut back on things like childhood immunizations, cancer screenings and diabetes tests. Childhood vaccination rates among families in traditional plans rose, while they dropped among those in the high-deductible plans. WSJ, 3/25/11<br />Around the Web<br />Kalorama: EMR market at $15.7B for 2010, MU to further growth.|http://bit.ly/fQ9xmu, Healthcare IT News, 2/28/11 <br />For Elective Surgery: Where You Live is What You Get. http://bit.ly/ezQit6 , Healthpoint Capital, 3/3/11<br />Health reform law means quot;
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