Dayton, OH Oct 8, 2015 – CSafe Global and American Airlines Cargo have finalized a master lease agreement that will allow the airline to offer leasing options for the industry-leading CSafe RKN via the carrier’s ExpediteTC° program.
“With ExpediteTC°, American Airlines Cargo offers an exceptional experience for customers who are shipping temperature-sensitive products. The addition of CSafe to our cold chain program provides customers with another option for their shipping needs,” said Tom Grubb, Manager of Cold Chain Strategy for American Airlines Cargo. “This technology is desired by our customers for accurate temperature management of delicate shipments in order to protect and maintain the efficacy of potentially life-saving products for patients.”
Mark Mohr, Director of Customer Support and Partner Management, spoke on behalf of the entire CSafe global team saying, “We are very excited to have reached this agreement with American Airlines Cargo. American Airlines has been transporting CSafe containers for nearly a year and this new agreement will offer our mutual customers leasing options via a partner that is already well established in the transport of temperature-managed products by air.”
Author: Julie Kaloides
Jiff & Quantum Health launch joint product to improve healthcare experience for employees
Columbus, OH Oct 6, 2015 – Jiff, the leading enterprise health benefits platform, and Quantum Health, the leader in care coordination and consumer navigation, announced today a joint-service offering for self-funded employers that will address the growing need for a comprehensive personal and digital solution to improve the health and healthcare experience of employees.
Both Quantum Health and Jiff are proven experts at understanding the consumer, and together with the launch of IQHealth, they integrate Jiff’s smart technology with Quantum Health’s live experts for guided support to create the ultimate personalized experience for employees. IQHealth allows the consumer to quickly and easily connect to expert advice and information about individual health plan and healthcare options through their preferred channel. IQHealth is driven by the power of data connection to point solutions and real-time health plan interaction data from members and providers, which allows for better coordinated care and steers employees to the most relevant and helpful health tools available to them, improving experience and overall health. Furthermore, IQHealth allows employers to engage their entire population from sick to well, addressing employee needs earlier in the healthcare journey when there is the maximum opportunity to impact engagement and health outcomes.
Key features of IQHealth include a mobile-first interface for quick answers to health and benefits questions; access to Care Coordinators when users need a live expert; employer- and individual-level knowledge of benefit design, coverage, and programs; proactive, personalized recommendations delivered in real-time; and population-level analytics and insights for administrators.
“The healthcare system continues to grow more overwhelming and complex every day. Cutting through the confusion and clutter and getting employees what they need, when they need it, is critical for employers,” said Kara Trott, founder and chief executive officer, Quantum Health. “IQHealth is a unique hybrid, the best of all the digital and human solutions on the market, combined as one. This joint offering is a huge step towards the goal of eliminating the confusion and wasteful spend that happens when consumers get lost in the system.”
Quantum Health built a best-in-class model for care coordination and navigation based on an extensive two-year study tracking how people experience their healthcare journey, what they need and how best to connect with them. Quantum Health’s model eliminates confusion for employees by providing a single point of contact for questions about claims, pharmacy, and general benefits, as well as third-party vendor assistance and optimization.
“Companies are spending too much on healthcare and getting too little for it,” said Derek Newell, Chief Executive Officer at Jiff. “IQHealth is the result of a deep product integration which seamlessly manages the patient journey and elevates the functionality of both Jiff and Quantum Health’s offerings, helping employees reach their health goals and lower healthcare spend for employers.”
Jiff’s enterprise health benefits platform lowers overall costs by allowing employers to deliver smarter and simpler benefit programs personalized for each employee. Using data analytics, Jiff can adapt in real-time to address the needs of an employee population and drive utilization of services proven to work. Jiff provides a personalized experience for each employee that is beautifully designed, engaging, and effective. All this adds up to reduced enterprise healthcare costs – and healthier and more productive employees.
Jiff & Quantum Health launch joint product to improve healthcare experience for employees
Columbus, OH Oct 6, 2015 – Jiff, the leading enterprise health benefits platform, and Quantum Health, the leader in care coordination and consumer navigation, announced today a joint-service offering for self-funded employers that will address the growing need for a comprehensive personal and digital solution to improve the health and healthcare experience of employees.
Both Quantum Health and Jiff are proven experts at understanding the consumer, and together with the launch of IQHealth, they integrate Jiff’s smart technology with Quantum Health’s live experts for guided support to create the ultimate personalized experience for employees. IQHealth allows the consumer to quickly and easily connect to expert advice and information about individual health plan and healthcare options through their preferred channel. IQHealth is driven by the power of data connection to point solutions and real-time health plan interaction data from members and providers, which allows for better coordinated care and steers employees to the most relevant and helpful health tools available to them, improving experience and overall health. Furthermore, IQHealth allows employers to engage their entire population from sick to well, addressing employee needs earlier in the healthcare journey when there is the maximum opportunity to impact engagement and health outcomes.
Key features of IQHealth include a mobile-first interface for quick answers to health and benefits questions; access to Care Coordinators when users need a live expert; employer- and individual-level knowledge of benefit design, coverage, and programs; proactive, personalized recommendations delivered in real-time; and population-level analytics and insights for administrators.
“The healthcare system continues to grow more overwhelming and complex every day. Cutting through the confusion and clutter and getting employees what they need, when they need it, is critical for employers,” said Kara Trott, founder and chief executive officer, Quantum Health. “IQHealth is a unique hybrid, the best of all the digital and human solutions on the market, combined as one. This joint offering is a huge step towards the goal of eliminating the confusion and wasteful spend that happens when consumers get lost in the system.”
Quantum Health built a best-in-class model for care coordination and navigation based on an extensive two-year study tracking how people experience their healthcare journey, what they need and how best to connect with them. Quantum Health’s model eliminates confusion for employees by providing a single point of contact for questions about claims, pharmacy, and general benefits, as well as third-party vendor assistance and optimization.
“Companies are spending too much on healthcare and getting too little for it,” said Derek Newell, Chief Executive Officer at Jiff. “IQHealth is the result of a deep product integration which seamlessly manages the patient journey and elevates the functionality of both Jiff and Quantum Health’s offerings, helping employees reach their health goals and lower healthcare spend for employers.”
Jiff’s enterprise health benefits platform lowers overall costs by allowing employers to deliver smarter and simpler benefit programs personalized for each employee. Using data analytics, Jiff can adapt in real-time to address the needs of an employee population and drive utilization of services proven to work. Jiff provides a personalized experience for each employee that is beautifully designed, engaging, and effective. All this adds up to reduced enterprise healthcare costs – and healthier and more productive employees.
Quantum Health To Speak At National Business Group On Health’s 29th Annual Conference
Columbus, OH Oct 5, 2015 – Quantum Health’s founder and Chief Executive Officer Kara Trott will present on the panel “Building Empowered and Engaged Health Consumers for Greater Productivity” alongside Meg Newman, Senior Vice President of Human Resources, HD Supply and Jan Berger, MD, President & CEO, Health Intelligence Partners; Medical Director, Midwest Business Group, at the National Business Group on Health’s 29th National Conference on Health, Productivity and Human Capital. The conference will be held October 6-8, 2015 in Boston. Trott will share key insights from Quantum Health’s ongoing healthcare consumer behavior research and lessons learned from over 16 years of guiding consumers toward appropriate utilization. The presentation will focus on how employees truly manage their health and how to ensure long-lasting engagement that delivers measurable results.
CSafe Global Expands in Korea with New Director of Sales
Dayton, OH Sep 28, 2015 – CSafe Global is pleased to announce Kevin Lee as the Director of Strategic Life Science Sales in Korea. Kevin will be responsible for growing the Korean market with CSafe’s comprehensive suite of active and passive cold chain protection solutions.
In this new role, Kevin will be reporting to Nadine Siqueland, Vice-President of Global Sales at CSafe. “Korea is of considerable strategic importance to CSafe. We’ve seen strong sales growth in Korea and in the Asia Pacific region overall,” says Nadine. “Kevin’s record of achievement developing the Korean biopharmaceutical market will be instrumental in helping us achieve our ambitious growth plans in this region. We are honored to have him join the global team.”
Kevin Lee is a highly experienced and successful sales leader with an exemplary twenty year track record in the Korean healthcare industry. He was educated at Pukyong National University in Business Administration. Before joining CSafe, Kevin worked in Korean sales leadership positions with the medical imaging specialist, Guerbet, and the pharmaceutical companies Schering-Plough (now Merck), Novo Nordisk and Daewoong Pharmaceutical.
Webinar: Avoiding the ICD-10 Fallout
Plano, TX and Pleasanton, CA Sep 23, 2015 –
Webinar: Avoiding the ICD-10 Fallout
Time: Wednesday, September 23rd @ 11 a.m. PST | 2 p.m. EST
Panelist: Derek Morkel, CEO of GAFFEY Healthcare
If you’re a healthcare finance or financial operations professional, you already understand the importance of revenue and maintaining a steady cash-flow for your organization – both of which will be put to the test upon the ICD-10 go-live.
In our next webinar, we review how our cloud-based automated claim statusing platform, AutoStatus, can quickly be implemented before the deadline and used to not only boost collector productivity but also as an ICD-10 mitigation strategy by:
• Detecting denials 14 – 21 days earlier
• Closely monitoring and reporting on collector efficiency
• Leveraging more detailed claim data than contained in a 277
• Eliminating the time-intensive task of checking claim statuses by phone or payer website, allowing collectors to focus on revenue generation
Altaris Capital Partners, LLC is pleased to announce that Healthcare Staffing Services (HSS) has been sold to Thomas H. Lee Partners.
New York, NY Sep 23, 2015 – Altaris Capital Partners, LLC is pleased to announce that Healthcare Staffing Services (HSS) has been sold to Thomas H. Lee Partners.
Founded in 1989 and acquired by Altaris in 2014, HSS is a highly differentiated provider of specialized travel nurse staffing solutions addressing hospitals’ most urgent and crucial temporary labor needs. The company’s ability to deliver the right nurse, at the right time, for the right length of time is supported by its focus on hospital efficiency and unique access to highly specialized nurses. HSS is headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
HSS and Altaris Capital Partners were advised on this transaction by Harris Williams & Co. and Schiff Hardin LLP.
NeuroVascular Quality Initiative® expands with new Cerebral Aneurysm and Cerebral AVMs modules
Chicago, IL and West Lebanon, NH Sep 16, 2015 – The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery® (SNIS) and M2S®, a leading clinical registry provider, are pleased to announce the launch of the new Cerebral Aneurysm module for the NeuroVascular Quality Initiative (NVQI®), and the planned launch for the Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs) module in early October. The development of these web-based quality modules significantly broadens the scope of NVQI, and, together with the existing Acute Ischemic Stroke module, will provide new insights into outcomes and the efficacy of different NeuroInterventional therapies. The NVQI is the first clinical registry to focus exclusively on all aspects of neurovascular care.
The NVQI has already enrolled several facilities across five states and captured over 120 procedures. Additional contracts are in process for all three modules. Some of the current participating centers include the Cleveland Clinic, Erlanger Medical Center, Cadence Health Central DuPage Hospital, Novant-Forsyth Medical Center and Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Future NVQI modules are planned for 2016.
“To drive the quality improvements essential for our profession and for our patients, we need detailed outcomes data that only a registry designed for NeuroInterventional procedures can provide for us. The NVQI will be instrumental in building greater understanding of different patient populations and best practices as we start to tap into this valuable data source,” said Charles J. Prestigiacomo, MD, Medical Director of the SNIS Patient Safety Organization.
The NVQI has been designed to track key outcomes to demonstrate areas for clinical improvement. NVQI centers can compare processes, complication rates, and length of stay as well as medical device effectiveness. Specifically, NVQI is designed to support individual neurointerventionalists and hospitals by driving better understanding of outcomes and developing best practice in neurovascular surgery.
M2S has been working with the SNIS as their registry technology partner, and hosts the NVQI. All data are securely stored within the M2S PATHWAYS quality improvement data platform. All three NVQI modules track and measure individual procedures, as well as benchmark variation among different physicians and different centers and provide drill-down capabilities.
Betti Kerrigan, VP of Sales and Marketing for M2S, adds, “Use of M2S PATHWAYS will allow NVQI members to collect and analyze procedure data in greater detail, in real time. Together, PATHWAYS and NVQI can help hospitals and clinicians track neurovascular outcomes so they can drive quality and reduce costs.”
International Medical Group, Inc. Enters into Acquisition Agreement with ABRY Partners
Indianapolis, IN Sep 10, 2015 – International Medical Group®, Inc. (IMG®), a leader in the global insurance and assistance services market, has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by ABRY Partners (ABRY), a leading private equity firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
“ABRY is a natural fit for ownership as IMG continues to grow,” said IMG President and CEO Brian Barwick. “With decades of experience investing in high-quality companies, ABRY will complement IMG’s growth by providing capital to further expand our global presence.”
IMG’s operations will not be impacted by the ownership change, Barwick said, adding, “It will be business as usual for our employees, producers and clients.”
Founded in 1989 as a managing general underwriter, IMG has become one of the leading international insurance providers in the world, serving members in more than 200 countries.
“Over the years, IMG has developed a reputation for excellence in the global insurance and assistance services markets,” said ABRY Partner Brent Stone. “We are excited to welcome such a well-established company to our portfolio and look forward to working with the IMG team.”
IMG’s executive management team, Board of Directors and current private equity partners — Altaris Capital Partners and Galen Partners — approved the agreement.
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Todd Hancock said, “ABRY shares our vision, energy and commitment to being there to protect and enhance the health and well-being of our constituents. We look forward to working with ABRY, and we are grateful to Altaris and Galen Partners for their support since August 2012.”
Austin Urologist Discusses Cryotherapy and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month with KTBC-TV
Indianapolis, IN Sep 8, 2015 – September is Prostate Cancer Awareness month, a time when the disease is brought into focus.
Dr. Eric Giesler, a urologist in Austin, Texas, talked about cryotherapy for recurrent prostate cancer with local Fox affiliate, KTBC.
Dr. Giesler’s patient and local pastor, Rick Cundieff, shared his prostate cancer journey and his positive experience with cryotherapy. Cundieff had the treatment twice — the first time in 2005, and then again this year when the cancer struck again.
Both Cundieff and Dr. Giesler urged men to start the conversation about prostate cancer, the PSA screening test, and treatment options, should a problem arise.
To watch the entire story, click below.
http://www.fox7austin.com/good-day/16984932-story