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Technology: Computer

Cybereason Kicks off October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month by Educating Citizens on the Dangers of Cyberstalking

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Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform, today announced it is hosting an important and timely SecureMA panel discussion and live stream event “Protecting Yourself from Cyberstalking,” Wednesday, October 2nd, 12:00pm -1:00pm ET from its headquarters in Boston.

Panelists include leading experts in the fields of cybersecurity, higher education, law enforcement and the private sector, including:

Kelley Misata, CEO, Sightline Security and a survivor of cyberstalking.

Lodrina Cherne, Product Manager, Cybereason, SANS Instructor and digital forensics expert.

Paul Fitzgerald, Director of Security Services, The Edward Davis Company and former Superintendent and Chief of the Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis with the Boston Police Department.

Raymond Hansen, Associate Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Allie Mellen, Senior Content Writer, Cybereason will moderate the panel.

According to the Stalking Prevention, Awareness and Resource Center (SPARC), stalkers use many tactics including: approaching the victim or showing up in places when the victim didn’t want them to be there; making unwanted telephone calls; leaving the victim unwanted messages (text or voice); watching or following the victim from a distance, or spying on the victim with a listening device, camera or GPS.

Register to attend ‘Prevent Cyberstalking’ in person: https://www.cybereason.com/prevent-cyber-stalking

Register for the Live Stream: https://www.cybereason.com/prevent-cyber-stalking-live-stream

About SecureMA                                                                                                                    SecureMA was launched by Cybereason in 2017 and convenes periodically to empower IT professionals with free information, resources and tools to defend against cyber threats. There is no program that currently exists like SecureMA where small businesses, non-profits, local law enforcement agencies and citizens can collaborate and share information on cyber threats.

About Cybereason

Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform, gives the advantage back to the defender through a completely new approach to cybersecurity. Cybereason offers endpoint prevention, detection and response and active monitoring. The solution delivers multi-layered endpoint prevention by leveraging signature and signatureless techniques to prevent known and unknown threats in conjunction with behavioral and deception techniques to prevent ransomware and fileless attacks. Cybereason is privately held and is headquartered in Boston, with offices in London, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Asia-Pacific and continental Europe.

Learn more: https://www.cybereason.com/

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Bill Keeler

Senior Director, Global Public Relations

Cybereason

bill.keeler@cybereason.com

(929) 259-3261

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Technology: Electronics

CTL Amedica to unveil MONET™ Integrated ACIF Cage System during NASS Sept. 25 – 28

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CTL Amedica Corp will unveil the MONET™ ACIF Integrated Cage System during NASS 2019.

The MONET™ enables greater flexibility during anterior cervical spine surgery, which can help surgeons to better serve their patients’ individual needs.


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CTL Amedica Corporation will officially launch its MONET™ ACIF Integrated Cage System with Supplementary Fixation during the North American Spine Society (NASS) annual meeting and exhibition Sept. 25-28, 2019. NASS will be held at McCormick Place, West Building, located at 2301 S. King Drive in Chicago, IL. CTL Amedica representatives will be available in booth 2627 to answer questions about MONET™ and the full line of CTL Amedica products.

The MONET™ is an FDA-approved, integrated anterior cervical fusion system, designed with patients in mind. It features streamlined instrumentation, cage material offerings in both titanium and PEEK, and anterior plating in low-profile, four-screw and zero-profile, two-screw configurations. This provides surgeons with a variety of construct options and allows true intra-operative flexibility.

“The MONET™ enables greater flexibility during anterior cervical spine surgery, which can help surgeons to better serve their patients’ individual needs,” says Daniel Chon, CTL Amedica president and CEO. “We’ve been working on the product for quite some time and received FDA approval to market it several months ago. We’re excited to officially unveil it to the spine community at NASS.”

NASS is the largest spine meeting and exhibition worldwide. The North American Spine Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. For more information, visit http://www.spine.org.

CTL Amedica Corporation is a medical device company headquartered in Dallas that designs, develops and manufactures spinal implants and instruments that are tailored to fit the unique needs of both surgeons and patients. It maintains an in-house manufacturing facility and an R&D Center of Excellence, and it provides a full line of cervical, thoracic and lumbar products. It also is the world’s exclusive provider of silicon nitride spine products. Silicon nitride demonstrates unique bacteriostatic properties, provides superior imaging across all modalities and fosters an enhanced osteogenic response. For more information, visit https://www.ctlamedica.com/.

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Society: Disabled Issues / Disabilities

Excy Announces New Exercise Equipment Rental Program to Make Therapeutic Cycling More Accessible for Prehab, Rehab, and Post Rehab

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New Excy XCS Pro for Physical Therapy Table or Bed Bike Leg Pedal Exercises

New Excy XCS Pro for Physical Therapy Table or Bed Bike Leg Pedal Exercises

I love that Excy is small enough to fold up and fit in my closet, yet performs better than the recumbent bike that turned into a dust collector and couldn’t be used after having stroke complications from postpartum heart failure


SEATTLE (PRWEB)

Excy (http://www.excy.com), the leader in quality portable full-body cycling equipment, today announced it will provide month-to-month and rent-to-own programs to make its high-end exercise equipment more accessible.

The Excy portable exercise bike integrates thousands of dollars of upper and lower body cycling equipment into a single compact device that is used by hospitals, physical therapists, athletic trainers, and consumers. Excy’s patented device adjusts easily to become a gym quality recumbent exercise bike, upper body ergometer, step cycle, bed pedal exerciser, and range of motion trainer. Excy also provides a free mobile coaching application for Android and iOS with live, on-demand, and guided training from physical therapists. Rental fees vary based on the model and terms selected. Products can be returned and payments stopped at any time.

“We’ve been using Excy in our physical therapy clinics for nearly two years and love the versatility. We can easily set Excy up on a table and use it as an upper body ergometer or have a patient remain sitting to use it as a recumbent bicycle,” said Julie Vanni, PT, DPT with Biojunction Sports Therapy in Seattle. “Excy equipment’s size and portability make it perfect for our clinics that aren’t able to have a full gym’s worth of cardio or strengthening equipment. Excy provides us with one compact device that’s great for cardiovascular work, range of motion, and strengthening. We’ve been able to use Excy with anyone from our young athletes to our elderly patients. I’m excited about the new rental programs for PTs and patients and hope people take advantage of Excy’s size and versatility to help produce better outcomes. Patients with access to Excy will have greater continuity of care between the clinic and home.”

Excy’s Unique Patented Approach Unmatched in Quality and Versatility

The Excy portable full-body cycling device turns any chair into a quality recumbent exercise bike, tones and sculpts arms with versatile upper body ergometer positions, and strengthens legs with floor, desk, bed, and step cycling. Weighing just 14 pounds, all Excy portable exercise bikes are capable of light to athletic performance levels for cardio, strength training, balance, flexibility, and range of motion exercises. Quiet, bi-directional resistance with a range of 2-70 pounds allows you to pedal arms or legs with light or heavy forces while sitting, standing, kneeling, or lying down. The company offers 30 on-demand training videos in its free app from physical therapists, as well as guided interval clocks to help keep people motivated.

Consistent Access to Medical Fitness Drives Demand for Excy’s Rental Programs

The founding story of Excy starts with Michele Mehl, a busy mom and technology-marketing professional who broke her leg and got a blood clot. Her story has resonated with others battling temporary injuries and is the primary driver of the rent-to-own program. Like Mehl, those recovering from a lower extremity injury or surgery are turning to Excy for arm bike workouts while having non-weight bearing exercise restrictions. As restrictions are removed and weight-bearing exercises are allowed, they are then coordinating their lower extremity rehabilitation on Excy with their physical therapists. Rent-to-own programs are in response to Excy customers living with longer-term disabilities, chronic conditions, and injuries like Parkinson’s disease, MS, arthritis, heart disease, POTS and more. Since Excy is portable, the device is easy for people to coordinate with their physical therapist, doctor, or personal trainer specializing in medical fitness to create custom therapeutic cycling exercise experiences for home, work, and while traveling to achieve successful health outcomes.

“I love that Excy is small enough to fold up and fit in my closet, yet performs better than the recumbent bike that turned into a dust collector and couldn’t be used after having stroke complications from postpartum heart failure,” said Excy customer Kristy who lives in Redmond, WA. Kristy got a new heart in July and is supported with home physical therapy and occupational therapy services offered by Evergreen Health in Kirkland, WA. “With Excy, I can pedal it as a recumbent bike from my wheelchair under the supervision of my home physical therapists. But what’s even cooler is that I can use the same device with my home occupational therapists as we work on rehabilitating my partially paralyzed arm. Excy is playing a critical role in my home rehabilitation as I work hard to be the best, healthiest, and most independent person I can be.”

How the Excy Exercise Equipment Program Works

*Rent-to-Own Program: Available for all Excy products at retail costs. The programs require a small down payment, with remaining payments divided into monthly installments. Down payments and monthly terms vary based on the product selected and start for as little as $299 down and $34 per month. The renter owns the device at the end of the term.

*Month-to-Month Rentals: Available for Excy’s most popular XCS 260 model. The down payment is $149 and $59 per month.

Excy Customers in Action


“We understand that many people who need access to our device have lost income or gained medical expenses due injury, illness or a disability, yet have medical fitness requirements to help improve their health,” said Excy co-founder and CEO Michele Mehl. “We are committed to eliminating the barriers of exercise for all, not only with the inclusive design of our hardware and software, but in every aspect of building the company. We believe our new exercise equipment rental programs finds the sweet spot to make the convenience of Excy’s quality, versatility, and utility more affordable when they need it most.”

Click here to learn more about Excy rental program.

About Excy

Excy is a Seattle-based company creating quality portable exercise equipment and on-demand training for those who want to safely and conveniently enjoy the benefits of full body cycling and resistance training without the barriers of big, expensive, and hard to access exercise equipment. All Excy systems ship in recyclable packaging. For more information visit http://www.excy.com.

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Lifestyle: Self Help

New Book Provides Roadmap to a Life of Freedom and Fulfillment

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Curt Mercadante

“You don’t have to be confined to live a lifestyle by default.”


CHARLESTON, S.C. (PRWEB)

A roadmap to build a life of freedom and fulfillment is what’s provided in “Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle: How to Escape Your Comfort Zone of Misery”, a new book released today by author Curt Mercadante and published under the Lioncrest Publishing imprint.

“You don’t have to be confined to live a lifestyle by default,” said Mercadante. “You can design a lifestyle in which your relationships are excellent, your mental and physical health is excellent, in which you’re fulfilled by your job, and you spend your days doing things you want to do versus things you feel compelled to do.”

Are you fulfilled by your job? Are your relationships excellent? Is your mental and physical health excellent? Are the three facets of your life — self, family, work — aligned? These are some of the questions Mercadante asks in the book to help you determine if you have the freedom and fulfillment you deserve.

“We are autonomous human beings who have the ability to design the lifestyles we desire,” added Mercadante. “And you can get there by following the Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle: Superpowers, Vision, Alignment, Outcomes, and Flow.”

Mercadante has founded six profitable businesses, including a seven-figure PR/ad agency he shut down at peak revenue to seek fulfillment. Now an international speaker, trainer, and Gallup-certified Strengths Coach, he helps individuals around the world find their fulfillment.

In “Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle”, he masterfully breaks down the excuses holding you back from unlocking your personal superpowers. He provides strategic insight on how to build the life, relationships, and business you deserve.

The book is available in paperback or Kindle on Amazon or at FivePillarsofFreedom.com.

About Curt Mercadante

Curt Mercadante is an international speaker, trainer, and disruptive entrepreneur whose mission is to save the world by helping people fight for freedom and fulfillment. Curt’s speeches and training empower individuals to live their Freedom Lifestyle, and he also hosts the popular Freedom Club Podcast.

Raised in the Chicago area, he and his wife, Julie, now live in Charleston, South Carolina, with their four children, when they aren’t traveling the world. Curt is a diehard fan of the White Sox, a superhero nerd, and can frequently be found at his local boxing gym.

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health and fitness

Blue Zones and Barry Community Foundation Launch Groundbreaking Countywide Transformation

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“I am impressed with the local will and drive to make Barry County a better place to live, grow up, and grow old from the community leaders as well as local changemakers.”—Ben Leedle, CEO of Blue Zones


MINNEAPOLIS (PRWEB)

The Barry Community Foundation and other local leaders have joined forces with Blue Zones to begin a countywide well-being transformation in Barry County, Michigan through the Blue Zones Activate program. Blue Zones uses scientifically proven lessons of longevity, health, and happiness to boost the well-being of entire communities. Barry County is proud to be the first community in Michigan to partner with this innovative approach to increase community health and wellness.

Blue Zones Activate is based on research and principles developed by Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and New York Times bestselling author, who identified the cultures of the world—or blue zones—with the healthiest, longest-living populations.

Blue Zones focuses on the single largest determinant of our health: the place we live. By focusing on the places where people live, work, learn, and play, Blue Zones has been able to help communities move the needle in improving overall population health and reducing healthcare costs in hundreds of places around the country. The innovative strategy is built on the foundation of improving food and built environment policies that impact public health and health inequalities to increase the availability of healthy choices within the community

By optimizing the places where people spend most of their time, Blue Zones Activate helps communities with policy initiatives to create environments where healthy choices are easier and accessible to everyone. As a result, people can live longer and better, and communities can lower healthcare costs, improve productivity, and boost their city’s national recognition as a great place to live, work, and play.

As an official Blue Zones Activate community, world-renowned Blue Zones experts will work with local leaders and citizens of Barry County to implement policies that drive lasting and sustainable changes that will benefit the entire community and future generations to follow.

The Barry Community Foundation is the lead partner, with primary sponsorships from the MTC Community Fund, Spectrum Health Pennock, and Hastings Fiberglass, and supporting sponsorships from Highpoint Community Bank, Pierce Cedar Creek Institute, the DeCamp Foundation, Barry Community Foundation, Barry Eaton District Health Department and Barry County.

“The board of the Barry Community Foundation is committed to building a vibrant healthy community through our adaptation of Seven Elements of a Healthy Community. Specifically, our vision statement for Health Access is for our residents to have access to high-quality health services on a personal, community and systems level. Blue Zones is the perfect program to provide the means for our community to institute systemic pathways for a healthy community,” says Bonnie Gettys, President and CEO of the Barry Community Foundation.

Ben Leedle, CEO of Blue Zones, says: “I am impressed with the local will and drive to make Barry County a better place to live, grow up, and grow old from the community leaders as well as local changemakers. I’m excited to see the changes to come that will help make the region a healthy and thriving community for current and future generations.”

For more information on Blue Zones Activate or to learn how to get involved, visit bluezones.com/activate-barry-county.

About Blue Zones®

Blue Zones employs evidence-based ways to help people live longer, better. The company’s work is rooted in explorations and research done by National Geographic fellow Dan Buettner in blue zones regions around the world, where people live extraordinarily long or happy lives. The original research and findings were released in Buettner’s bestselling books The Blue Zones Solution, The Blue Zones of Happiness, The Blue Zones, and Thrive—all published by National Geographic books. Using original Blue Zones research, Blue Zones works with cities to make healthy choices easier through permanent changes to a city’s environment, policy, and social networks. Participating communities have experienced double digit drops in obesity and tobacco use and have saved millions of dollars in healthcare costs. For more information, visit bluezones.com.

About Barry Community Foundation

The Barry Community Foundation’s mission is to improve lives by bridging resources. This organization is dedicated to improving the lives of people in Barry County and brings together the resources of individuals, families, and businesses to support other local nonprofits, projects and community initiatives. Over the past 25 years it has become a trusted leader and resource, forging lasting relationships that inspire and empower our community to make a difference. The Foundation is positioned to be reactive in times of community need however it has also adopted a framework called the Seven Elements of a Healthy Community in which the community is divided into seven different sectors. This is a strategic approach where each sector is examined and decisions are made based on the assets our community currently has on hand. For more information, visit barrycf.org.

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Industry: Healthcare

Combined Global UHNW Wealth Slumps for First Time in Three Years

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Wealth-X, the world’s leading provider of data and insight on the wealthy, released the 7th edition of its annual World Ultra Wealth Report today. The report, which analyzes the state of the world’s ultra high net worth (UHNW) population (those with US$30m or more in net worth), reveals that this population showed muted growth in 2018, rising by 0.8% to 265,490 individuals. This subdued increase comes on the heels of a year of significant growth the prior year, when the population increased by nearly 13%.

The combined net worth of the UHNW population saw a decrease for the first time in three years, falling by 1.7% in 2018 to $32.3 trillion, implying a modest drop in the average net worth of the UHNW class, in part due to a late-year slump in investor sentiment and global equity markets.

Despite these findings, the World Ultra Wealth Report 2019 forecasts robust growth for the UHNW population, with a projected population increase to 353,550 individuals possessing a total combined wealth of $43 trillion by 2023.

Further key insights from the Wealth-X World Ultra Wealth Report 2019 include:


  • All seven regions of the globe saw a drop in ultra wealth: regional declines ranged from a marginal dip in the Middle East to a drop of 7% in Latin America and the Caribbean. Net worth in Asia fell at a faster rate than in both North America and Europe.

  • Population growth varied significantly across regions: there was robust growth in the UHNW populations of the Middle East, alongside a modest expansion of ultra wealthy numbers in North America and Europe. The other four regions posted falls in population, led by a 6% drop in Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • The US continues to lead in UHNW population: the leading country for UHNW individuals in 2018, the US accounts for a 31% global share. This compared with 9% for second-placed China, and nearly 7% for third-placed Japan.

  • New York regained its status as the world’s leading UHNW city from Hong Kong: in 2018 the top 10 UHNW cities accounted for 18.9% of the global ultra wealthy population. Modest ultra wealthy growth in New York was sufficient for it to regain the top spot as Hong Kong wealthy were impacted by the slump in Asian stocks and a softening Chinese economy.

  • Hong Kong has, by far the highest density of ultra wealthy individuals: at 1,364 for every million adults, Hong Kongs’ UHNW population density was considerably higher than the next-ranked countries of Switzerland, Luxembourg and Singapore – all established financial- services hubs – and more than four times the density of the US.

  • Women make up a larger portion of the global ultra wealthy population than ever before: the number of ultra wealthy women increased to nearly 39,000, equivalent to a record- high share of 14.6%. Among UHNW individuals below the age of 50, women account for almost one in five.

In addition to revealing a global view of the status and trends of the ultra wealthy, the World Ultra Wealth Report 2019 also examines the population based on their asset holdings, gender, industry focus, wealth source, and hobbies. From this insight, the report reveals ultra wealthy archetypes across three main age groups – under 50 years old, 50-70 years old, and over 70 years old.

The World Ultra Wealth Report 2019 leverages the proprietary information in Wealth-X’s Global Database of records on wealthy individuals, the largest of its kind in the world.

Visit http://www.worldultrawealthreport.com to download the full report.

About Wealth-X

The global leader in wealth information and insight, Wealth-X partners with leading prestige brands across the financial services, luxury, not-for-profit and higher-education industries to fuel strategic decision-making in sales, marketing and compliance. Wealth-X boasts the world’s most extensive collection of records on the world’s wealthiest individuals and produces unparalleled high net worth market research. Founded in 2010, with offices across North America, Europe and Asia, Wealth-X works with over 500 clients providing them with unique data, analysis, and counsel to drive business success.

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Business: Insurance

Useful Guide For Obtaining Cheap Auto Insurance Quotes Online

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“Getting cheap car insurance is easier than you may think. Visit our website and get free quotes provided by top insurance companies”, said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director of Internet Marketing Company.


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Cheapquotesautoinsurance.com has released a new blog post that explains how to find cheaper car insurance online.

For more info and free car insurance quotes, visit http://cheapquotesautoinsurance.com/how-to-find-cheap-car-insurance-online/

Getting online car insurance provides multiple benefits to prospective drivers. The internet is the biggest repository of knowledge worldwide and used properly, it can save drivers a lot of money. Get more info about car insurance and free car insurance quotes online from http://cheapquotesautoinsurance.com


  • Be a safe driver. This is imperative for those who want to get cheap car insurance. People with recent traffic violations and coverage lapses are considered high-risk and pay more on auto insurance. In extreme cases, they will be denied coverage for a number of years.

  • Install safety devices. Adding extra safety features and anti-theft devices will be rewarded by companies with lower premiums. The investment will be recovered in time.

  • Create a list with reputable insurance companies. It is important to work only with companies known to be trustworthy. When evaluating a potential insurer, look for customer satisfaction indexes, like J.D. Powell customer satisfaction rating and the insurer’s financial solvency. Again, drivers can check more info online. Also, look for companies with low complaint ratios.

  • Get online quotes from those companies. After selecting 4-5 insurance companies, make sure to obtain quotes. Provide accurate and honest data about the car, driving history and recent traffic violations.

  • Customize coverage limits. Online questionnaires are highly customizable, allowing the driver to create a coverage suitable for his budget. The user can select liability coverage limits, full coverage deductibles, payment options and extra riders. The price will fluctuate with tens-hundreds of dollars, depending on the user’s selections.

Cheapquotesautoinsurance.com is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc.

For more information, please visit https://cheapquotesautoinsurance.com/

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Business: Executives

Committed to Organizational Excellence, Greenway Health Announces New Leadership in Product & Development

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As we continue on our mission of further fueling our customers’ success, we will strive to innovate every day, working to ensure our solutions and services enable providers to transform patient care, said Richard Atkin, CEO of Greenway Health.


TAMPA, Fla. (PRWEB)

Greenway Health, a leading health information technology and services provider, today announced the appointment of four new executives to its leadership team. With decades of combined experience developing healthcare technology solutions and enhancing business innovation and strategy, the leaders join Greenway with a focus on continuing to drive forward key company initiatives that help customers grow profitably, remain compliant and work more efficiently.

The recently appointed team members are:

David Cohen – Senior Vice President, Product Management. With more than 20 years of enterprise information technology leadership experience, Cohen has spent the last 15 years specifically focused on healthcare solutions and services. He comes to Greenway from Cerner Corporation, where he was responsible for delivering client value through pioneering artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives.

David Millen – Senior Vice President, Product Development. Millen brings 20 years of executive-level experience in technology and business innovation. Most recently, he served as vice president of product development with R1 RCM, where he focused on building strategic solutions across the healthcare revenue cycle.

Sri Rajagopalan – Vice President, Architecture. Rajagopalan has more than 17 years of experience in enterprise architecture-driven business transformation. He joins Greenway from SAP America Inc., where he served in a variety of customer- and partner-facing roles, including his most recent role as chief enterprise architect.

Sagy Mintz – Vice President, Quality Assurance. Prior to joining Greenway, Mintz was the vice president of development at Allscripts, where he managed a multi-disciplinary team of developers, architects and researchers. He brings more than 30 years of software development experience to our organization.

“As we continue on our mission of further fueling our customers’ success, we will strive to innovate every day, working to ensure our solutions and services enable providers to transform patient care,” said Richard Atkin, CEO of Greenway Health. “With the addition of these industry leaders, we can continue to serve as trusted business partners committed to our customers’ success.”

Cohen, Millen, Rajagopalan and Mintz’s leadership in transformation, architecture, quality, information technology and cloud operations reaffirms Greenway’s commitment to bring a next-generation electronic health record and practice management system to market, which stands to empower practices to succeed in the era of value-based care.

To learn more about Greenway, its leadership team and solutions, please visit http://www.greenwayhealth.com.

About Greenway Health

Fueling our customers’ success is at the heart of Greenway Health’s work. Driven by our five-point customer pledge and our mission to be trusted advisers, we provide innovative technology, quality services, and strategic partnerships that help practices grow profitably, improve patient outcomes, run efficiently, and remain compliant with federal and state regulations. Greenway’s team of clinical, financial, and technology experts is committed to innovative solutions that keep people healthier and happier. We connect providers to the right information and insights, at the right place and time, so they can make patient-driven care a reality. Greenway partners with organizations and progressive providers across multiple specialties, which translates into millions of lives touched daily by our solutions. For more details, visit http://www.greenwayhealth.com, call 877-537-0063, or follow Greenway on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Contact:

Cortney Johnston

ARPR, on behalf of Greenway Health

(855) 300-8209

cortney@arpr.com

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Health

“DDQE” to pre-load and validate their quality measurement extracts for over two million members.

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HDD has been a tremendous partner helping us look at our data in ways we never had before. DDQE enabled us to make improvements in quality measurement rates, reduce vendor spend, and build the processes to carry these practices on our own in the future,” said Dr. Kyle, Medical Director, Quality.


BOSTON (PRWEB)

Over the last 10+ years and after kicking off over 50 new engagements, HDD found a recurring theme and business need among its client base: there is a dire need in a very short amount of time to have analytic ready data. Quality measurement and risk adjustment vendors, whom health plans constantly send vast amounts of data to, are not necessarily focused on data accuracy, trends and completeness and often uncover data issues too late to be properly addressed. Health plans need to address their data quality issues internally prior to these key reporting and revenue optimization initiatives. HDD has developed a systematic, organized, & step by step process to analyze member, provider, claims and pharmacy data before it is sent to any analytic vendor to ensure quality, governance, and completeness. This process and SQL-based rules engine HDD named their “Data Decision Quality Engine” or “DDQE.” DDQE has dramatically helped assess, map, strategize, and improve fundamental data quality which has led to significant rate improvement nationally.

L.A. Care and HDD have run 100+ DDQE rules across its data ensuring the proper data governance and referential integrity providing insight into opportunities for improvement across hundreds of incoming files from delegated plans, labs, state registries and risk-bearing provider networks. DDQE was also used as a foundational comparison between L.A. Care quality measure vendor platforms, during the first year of a large cut-over between the vendors.

About Health Data Decisions

Health Data Decisions is a Massachusetts-based health analytics firm founded in 2008. We offer strategic data solutions for health plans and vendors, bringing broad expertise in data management and analytics, medical economics, risk adjustment, HEDIS, CMS 5-Star, regulatory reporting, and systems strategy. Health Data Decisions brings proven expertise in assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of HEDIS programs and helping plans understand and improve their performance. We provide health plans expert management and/or outsourcing services to help achieve or maintain ratings, accreditation, and performance incentive payment levels.

Please visit us on the web at http://www.healthdatadecisions.com or email tshankle@healthdatadecisions.com to schedule a consultation.

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Legal / Law: Criminal Law

Attorney David A. Fernandez Leads the Charge Against Giant Third-Party Student Loan Creditors

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Unfortunately, and unknown to the investors was that the mortgages sold did not have a paper trail and, consequently, when the third party sued the debtor for failure to pay on the note, the third-party creditor couldn’t prove they owned the account.


HOUSTON (PRWEB)

Fernandez, who has been named to the Top 100 Consumer Litigators in Texas, has handled 104 student loan cases, the majority of which went in favor of his clients over creditors, including National Collegiate Student Loan Trust, Navient, and Sallie Mae. “The result of 102 out of 104 cases defended is that my clients have not had to pay a penny to these industry giants, particularly National Collegiate Student Loan Trust, one of the nation’s largest holders of private student-loan debt,” said Fernandez.

As for National Collegiate Student Loan Trust, in 2017 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took action against the company and its debt collector, Transworld Systems, Inc., for illegal student loan debt collection lawsuits. It was fined millions of dollars for “false” lawsuits, and ordered to temporarily halt collections.

These cases stem from private student loans that were sold by the original creditor, e.g. banks such as JP Morgan and Bank One, to third parties, including National Collegiate Student Loan Trust, Sallie Mae and Navient. Fernandez likens these student loan cases to the mortgage loan crisis in 2009 that caused extreme financial distress and a financial market crash. The reason for the crash was that the mortgages were bundled and securitized and sold to investors.

“Unfortunately, and unknown to the investors was that the mortgages sold did not have a paper trail and, consequently, when the third party sued the debtor for failure to pay on the note, the third-party creditor couldn’t prove they owned the account,” noted Fernandez. “It is the same here. When National Collegiate and the other third-party student loan creditors sue, they provide the defendant debtor with a number of documents that look official and seem to suggest the plaintiff owns the account, but after careful review of the documents, invariably there are problems regarding ownership of the account.”

When Fernandez and his firm take on one of these National Collegiate Student Loan Trust and other third-party student loan creditor cases they meticulously examine the student loan documents to determine whether the creditor can prove ownership of the account. “Although reviewing the records page by page is onerous, we do it and as you can see, we have had much success,” concluded Fernandez.

About David A. Fernandez, Law Office of David A. Fernandez

David A. Fernandez focuses his practice on debt defense, bankruptcy, fraud, personal injury, business litigation and wrongful death. He is a member of the Texas Bar Association, Consumer Law Section of the Texas State Bar Association, and State Bar of Texas. For more information, please call 713-893-3244, or visit http://www.yourhoustonconsumerattorney.com. The law office is located at 2190 N. Loop West, Suite 102, Houston, TX 77018.

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