Category: Advisory Board

Morehouse College, Verily Announces $575k Endowed Life Sciences Scholarship to Support STEM Careers

Advisory Board, Biotech, Life Sciences, Silicon Valley, Verily / April 1, 2021 April 1, 2021

– Today, Verily announced a partnership with Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, to establish an endowed award of $575,000 to fund a new Verily Scholars Program. – The program will provide an annual scholarship to an exceptional Morehouse student majoring in STEM (Science, Technology, Mathematics, and Engineering) careers and will also fund up to three annual all-expenses …

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Long-Time Cerner Board Member Linda M. Dillman Passes Away

Advisory Board, Cerner, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Most Popular, Walmart / March 22, 2021 March 22, 2021

Linda M. Dillman What You Should Know: – Linda M. Dillman, a long-time and trusted Cerner Corporation board member, passed away on Saturday, March 13. – Dillman retired from QVC in January 2017, having served as its Chief Information Officer since January 2012. Previously, she held positions as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer …

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Executive Hires: Walgreens Appoints New CEO, Cityblock Health, Innovaccer, Others

AbleTo, Advisory Board, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Autism, AVIA, behavioral health, Behavioral Telehealth, cancer, Care Coordination, Cerner, Cityblock Health, Cognoa, Data-Driven Healthcare, digital health, Digital Health Hires, Digital Medicine, Elsevier, health innovation, Health IT, Health Systems, healthcare and technology, healthcare technology, Innovaccer, IPO, Livongo, Lumeon, News, Oncology, Partners, patient experience, Philips, PhysIQ, Population Health, R1, R1 RCM, rcm, StayWell, Telehealth, Telemedicine, venture capital, Walgreens, WebMD, Wellcentive / February 5, 2021 February 5, 2021

Walgreens appoints Rosalind (Roz) Brewer as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective on March 15, 2021. Brewer will also join the WBA Board of Directors upon assuming the role. She succeeds Stefano Pessina who, as previously announced, will transition to the role of Executive Chairman of the Board of WBA. Brewer, 58, will become the …

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Cerner Leadership Changes, Other Key Executives Hires

Advisory Board, Autism, behavioral health, Biotech, Cerner, Cognoa, dario health, diabetes, drchrono, global healthcare, Harvard Medical School, Health IT, Joslin Diabetes Center, Medical Device, Mercy Health, Partners, Physicians, revenue cycle, Siemens, Siemens Healthineers, Ultrasound / January 15, 2021 January 15, 2021

Travis Dalton Dan Devers Cerner announced some leadership changes promoting long-time associates Travis Dalton to Chief Client & Services Officer and Dan Devers to Chief Legal Counsel. After long, respected, meaningful careers at Cerner, John Peterzalek and Randy Sims will be departing. Cognoa, the leading pediatric behavioral health company developing diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for children living with …

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For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications

Advisory Board, Care Coordination, Caregivers, CMS, Electronic Health Record, f, Final Rule, foundational, google, health information exchanges, Health Information Technology, Health IT, Heart, HIEs, Interoperability, MD, Meaningful Use, Medicaid, medical records, Medicare, medication, Medication Adherence, mental health, Opinion, Patient Care, Patient Education, PhD, Physicians, Portal, primary care, public health, risk, Secure Messaging / December 22, 2020 December 22, 2020

Catherine Thomas: Co-Founder and VP, Customer Engagement, careMESH Peter Tippett MD, PhD: Founder and CEO, careMESH A recent Advisory Board briefing examined the annual Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Readmission penalties. Of the 3,080 hospitals CMS evaluated, 83% received a penalty for payments to be made in 2021, based on expected outcomes for a …

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Recent Executive Hires: CVS Health New President, Cleveland Clinic/Amwell Joint Venture Leadership, Others

Accolade, Accountable Care, ACO, Advisory Board, AI, Amwell, Apervita, Augmedix, behavioral health, Bernoulli, cancer, Cleveland Clinic, Clinical Intelligence, Clinical Trial, cloud, CVS Health, cybersecurity, digital health, Digital Health Hires, Evolent Health, FDA, Health Catalyst, Health IT, Health IT Hires, Healthcare Data, healthcare innovation, healthcare it, Imprivata, Kaiser Permanente, Life Sciences, Lumiata, Machine Learning, MD, Nuance, nuance healthcare, Payers, Pharmacy, PhD, Population Health, Premier, Qventus, SAN FRANCISCO, Siemens, Suki, Telehealth, Tridiuum, Value-Based Care, venture capital / November 25, 2020 November 25, 2020

Neela Montgomery, EVP & President at CVS Pharmacy/Retail CVS Health Corporation names Neela Montgomery Executive Vice President and President of CVS Pharmacy/Retail, effective November 30, 2020. Montgomery will oversee the company’s 10,000 pharmacies across the United States. Montgomery, currently a Board Partner at venture capital firm Greycroft, most recently served as chief executive officer of …

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COVID-19 and Racial Disparities: Transforming the Health of Businesses

Advisory Board, AI, Buoy Health, digital health, Diversity and Inclusion, Harvard Medical School, Health Disparities, health insurance, Opinion, PhD, public health, risk / November 20, 2020 November 20, 2020

Margarita Alegría, PhD, Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital American businesses and their leadership are at a crossroads. COVID-19 has forced us all to re-evaluate how we work and live, while the current protest movements have placed a spotlight on the systemic injustices non-white workers face both in and out of …

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New Coronavirus Advisory Team Announced

2020 election, Advisory Board, coronavirus, COVID-19, Joe Biden, task force / November 16, 2020 November 16, 2020

Wasting no time to start enacting his forthcoming administration’s plan for tackling COVID-19, new president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, has unveiled his coronavirus advisory team. “Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important battles our administration will face, and I will be informed by science and by experts,” he stated. …

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Ginger Lands $50M to Expand On-Demand Mental Health Support Platform

Advisory Board, Aetna, Anthem, behavioral health, Behavioral Healthcare, Behavioral Telehealth, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cigna, depression, digital health, Kaiser Permanente, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, mental health, Mental Health Apps, Mental Health Startups, Mental Healthcare, model, Optum, Partners, Payers, SAN FRANCISCO, Sanofi, Startups, Tele-Behavioral Health, video, WASHINGTON / August 6, 2020 August 6, 2020

What You Should Know: – Ginger announces $50 Million in Series D funding to expand access to its on-demand mental healthcare system led by Advance Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners; joined by Cigna Ventures and existing investors. – Company has more than tripled revenue over the past year, now brings access to on-demand mental …

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Post COVID-19: 3 Things I Hope Healthcare Won’t Recover From

Advisory Board, EMR, Facebook, google, Health Systems, healthcare technology, Heart, HIT, medical records, Opinion, Physicians, Telehealth, Telemedicine, The Advisory Board, virtual care / July 9, 2020 July 9, 2020

Randy Carpenter, SVP of the Executive Advisory Board at HCTec The loss of lives and livelihoods from COVID-19 is almost too much to comprehend. And yet, slowly, conversations are emerging about the positives percolating from the pandemic. It’s human nature to want to look for the positives in even the worst of situations, and I’ve …

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