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Solera Health Names Mary Langowski New CEO to Lead Next Stage of Growth

October 12, 2020

“I am excited to lead Solera into its next stage of growth,” says Langowski. “After already getting to know the company for several years, I’m thrilled to build on Solera’s success in diabetes prevention to tackle the most pressing and costly chronic conditions. Especially during COVID, it is critical to improve the consumer experience enabling them to stay healthy and meet them where they are, particularly in areas like weight management, smoking cessation and sleep, stress and resilience.”

“We are delighted to have someone of Mary’s caliber joining Solera at this critical stage in the company’s lifecycle,” says Matt Downs, Chairman of the Board at Solera Health and Managing Director of the Blue Venture Fund. “She has an incredible track record of delivering results through strategic thinking combined with world-class execution. We look forward to continuing to serve our payer customers by enabling them to better reach consumers and

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October 12, 2020

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PHOENIX, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Solera Health, the premier platform for addressing chronic conditions, today announced Mary Langowski as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Langowski is the former Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer at CVS Health. She joins after having served on the company’s Board of Directors for several years and as its interim CEO since the beginning of 2020.

“We are delighted to have someone of Mary’s

DC charters lead the way on in-school teaching experiment

October 12, 2020

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WASHINGTON (AP) — While most of the kids in Washington’s public schools are dealing with computer screens and Zoom rooms, a dozen students work diligently at their desks at Meridian Charter School, many separated by tall, three-sided partitions that were originally set up as protection against COVID-19.

Head of School Matt McCrea said administrators later realized the enclosures wouldn’t do much to prevent the spread of the virus. Now the cardboard is optional, but more than half of the students still use them as personalized organizers — taping up calendars, decorations and schedules.

“It’s all a learning experience and it’s all playing out in real time,” McCrea said.

While the mainstream public school system in the nation’s capital was forced to start the year with total distance learning for all its approximately 52,000 students, about a dozen charter schools have essentially chosen to become medical-educational experiments, offering in-person instruction for

Cleveland Clinic names physician to lead virtual health

October 8, 2020

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Cleveland Clinic on Thursday announced Dr. Steven Shook, a neurologist, will serve as the health system’s virtual health lead.

Shook will report to Dr. James Merlino, Cleveland Clinic’s chief clinical transformation officer, in the new role, where he will develop and monitor the health system’s virtual health strategy. Shook will also work closely with Josette Beran, Cleveland Clinic’s chief strategy officer, according to the health system.

Merlino appointed Shook to the virtual health role after an internal search.

Shook, who joined Cleveland Clinic as a staff neurologist in 2007, teaches at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and previously served as quality improvement officer and vice chair of operations in the health system’s neurological institute.

Cleveland Clinic joins a growing number of health systems carving out telehealth leadership roles as virtual care has skyrocketed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Telehealth proved a powerful interim avenue for physicians to continue seeing

What’s in store for the exec tapped to lead Cook County Health

October 8, 2020

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Rocha, 42, declined an interview request through a CCH spokeswoman. “Out of respect for the formal process, it would be premature for me to say anything more than I look forward to the next steps,” he said in an email from the spokeswoman.

As a vice president at NYC Health + Hospitals, Rocha has served as CEO of Elmhurst Hospital since 2016 and CEO of Queens Hospital since earlier this year.

The 11-hospital system, with 42,000 employees, was inundated with COVID-19 cases this year, having gone from no hospitalized coronavirus patients on March 1 to 3,700 patients by April 1, system CEO Dr. Mitchell Katz recently told Modern Healthcare. The experience challenged the system to think differently about keeping up with demand, as increasing staffing numbers only hikes costs, Katz said.

Rocha “has deep experience with handling the unexpected twists and turns of this virus. . . .He has run

Biden more trusted than Trump to lead health care system: survey

October 8, 2020

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More Americans trust Democratic presidential nominee Joe BidenJoe BidenFive takeaways from the vice presidential debate Harris accuses Trump of promoting voter suppression Pence targets Biden over ISIS hostages, brings family of executed aid worker to debate MORE than President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive takeaways from the vice presidential debate Harris accuses Trump of promoting voter suppression Pence targets Biden over ISIS hostages, brings family of executed aid worker to debate MORE to lead the nation’s health care system amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.

Fifty-two percent of American adults surveyed told Gallup they trust the former vice president to lead the health care system most efficiently as the country battles COVID-19, compared with 39 percent who said the same of Trump. Another 9 percent chose “other candidate.”

The results are sharply split along party lines with 95 percent of Democrats trusting Biden and 88

Do Online Searches For Health Information Lead to Anxiety?

October 8, 2020

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We’ve all done it before. Presented with a new ache, pain or rash, we turn to the internet to find out what’s wrong. Typically, the search results include a myriad of health problems ranging in severity from “it will go away on its own” to “you only have months to live.”

It’s not surprising that these types of searches could make people feel anxious about their health. Now a new body of evidence explains what’s going on.

A systematic review conducted by mental health researchers in Australia looked at the body of evidence on Internet health searches and anxiety.

The authors include 20 studies with more than 7,300 participants in total that explored the relationship between health anxiety and seeking health information online. They found that the internet provides a wealth of health information that can help people to better understand their own health, how to prevent

Investors eye discounted U.S. healthcare sector as Biden’s lead in polls grows

October 8, 2020

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By Lewis Krauskopf

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are looking for bargains among healthcare stocks, even as prospect of a Democratic “Blue Sweep” in next month’s elections threatens more volatility for a sector already trading near a historical discount to the broader market.

A victory by former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump on Nov. 3 and a potential Democratic takeover of the Senate could clear the way for prescription drug price and healthcare coverage reforms, generally seen as potential negatives for companies in the sector.

Some investors are betting these factors have already been priced into healthcare shares or may not be as detrimental as feared, while the companies stand to benefit from relatively stable earnings prospects and their medical innovations.

“For high-quality companies that are trading at reasonable valuations … there is a strong argument to be made for adding some healthcare exposure to portfolios,” said

big health problems lead to big health spending

October 7, 2020

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The pandemic – and developments in health care – have forced the Commonwealth government to commit to a massive increase in spending on health care this year.

In the 2019-20 budget, the Commonwealth promised an increase of A$540 million in health spending in 2020-21. In this year’s version, delivered by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg last night, the promise is an order of magnitude greater: an uplift of $5.347 billion since the last economic statement.

During 2020-21 and 2021-22, likely to be the biggest years for the COVID-19 response, the Commonwealth is promising almost $10 billion of extra spending. Never before has the federal government opened the health purse strings to this extent.

Although there are 35 items in the health budget measures table – all detailed in a 163-page “Stakeholder Pack” – just five of them account for 94% of the increase in spending.

1. Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)

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White House rebuffed CDC offer to lead contact tracing investigation of Trump outbreak

October 6, 2020

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The White House rejected on Monday an offer from the nation’s public health experts to lead the effort to track down and notify Americans who were exposed to a growing coronavirus outbreak linked to President Donald Trump and several top aides.

a man wearing a suit and tie walking down the street: US President Donald Trump walks to Marine One prior to departure from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, October 2, 2020, as he heads to Walter Reed Military Medical Center, after testing positive for Covid-19.

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US President Donald Trump walks to Marine One prior to departure from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, October 2, 2020, as he heads to Walter Reed Military Medical Center, after testing positive for Covid-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is widely considered the federal government’s authority in contact tracing, the public health best practice of reaching out to people at risk of acquiring an infectious disease and to identify others who were subsequently exposed.

Robert R. Redfield wearing glasses and looking at the camera: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Commissioner Robert Redfield testifies at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on September 23, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Commissioner Robert Redfield testifies at a hearing of the Senate

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