Sentences with phrase «business health operations»

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Here are six books that at least partially cover the entrepreneurial gamut: starting a business, personal productivity, marketing, improving skills, operations — even health and fitness.

Ralph Gaines, CEO of BeBetter Networks, a Charleston, West Virginia, business that runs corporate health programs, hired a consultant in November to audit technology and operations.

The announcement today comes after months of speculation about the future of the business after a proposed layoffs and a leaked memo that admitted that the health operation was struggling and could see no way ahead to improve things, and announcing to staff that the company was starting a strategic review of the business.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

The resulting company could resemble UnitedHealth Group, which has a large insurance operation but also runs a leading pharmacy benefit manager, OptumRx, and related health service businesses.

In addition to its insurance business, Aetna has partnerships with numerous large health systems and a sophisticated technology operation.

In particular, the information provided in this press release may contain certain forward - looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of Centene and certain plans and objectives of Centene with respect thereto, including but not limited to the expected benefits of the acquisition of Health Net, Inc. («Health Net Acquisition»), New York State Catholic Health Plan, Inc., d / b / a Fidelis Care New York («Fidelis Care»)(«Proposed Fidelis Acquisition») or MHM Services, Inc. (the «Proposed MHM Acquisition»).

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Primarily, a cash business will give you an understanding of the importance of cash flow in the financial health of a company's operations.

NAHB today called on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to expand its small business compliance assistance to help home builders and other small business owners to improve the safety of their operations.

Tenet Healthcare Corporation (Tenet) is an investor - owned company that operates in one line of business: the provision of health care services through the operation of acute care hospitals and related health care facilities.

Maxwell Health is there with you every step of the way, with hands - on support to help retain and grow your book of business, win new clients, and streamline your operations for peak performance and efficiency.

A number of sessions focus on food safety, including «Enhancing Your Culture of Food Safety and Public Health» and «Taking Your Operation from Food Safety Compliance to Food Safety Culture» on May 21 to «Why Large Businesses Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Advanced Food Safety Technologies» on May 22.

«We have examined all areas of our business, and we are confident that we have a successful formula — superior award winning quality, exciting innovation, strong brand health, strategic customer partnerships, efficient operations and service — that will continue to see great value offered both to our direct customers and to end consumers.»

That means helping farmers, forest managers and tourism businesses realize greater economic benefits by ensuring ecosystems within and around their operations are protected, and that their workers are well - trained and enjoy safe conditions, proper sanitation, health care and housing.

To help fund our operations costs, such as maintaining our website and servers, business fees, Facebook advertising, printed materials for health providers and health facilities, etc..

New Yorkers - both individuals and businesses - that purchase health insurance currently pay more than $ 3.1 billion in health taxes through the Covered Lives Assessment; the (HCRA) hospital services surcharge; the Insurance Department Section 332 industry - wide assessments that fund Department operations and are also suballocated to other agencies and programs; and the 1.75 percent premium tax.

The Thumbay Group, is a UAE — based diversified international business conglomerate, headquartered in Dubai, with operations across 20 sectors including Education, Healthcare, Medical Research, Diagnostics, Retail Pharmacy, Health Communications, Retail Opticals, Wellness, Nutrition Stores, Hospitality, Real Estate, Publishing, Technology, Media, Events, Medical Tourism, Trading and Marketing & Distribution.

Unit 1: Understanding Customer Service in the Retail Sector Unit 2: Understanding the Retail Selling Process Unit 3: Understanding how individuals and teams contribute to the effectiveness of a retail business Unit 4: Understanding how a Retail Business Maintains Health and Safety on its Premises Unit 5: Understanding Retail Consumer Law Unit 6: Understanding Security And Loss Prevention In A Retail Business Unit 8: Understanding the control, receipt and storage of stock in a retail business Unit 9: Understanding visual merchandising for retail business Unit 29: Understanding how the smooth operation of a payment point is maintained Please note these resource are for the Online assessment units, in order to achieve the Diploma the learners are required to complete portfolio based assessmenbusiness Unit 4: Understanding how a Retail Business Maintains Health and Safety on its Premises Unit 5: Understanding Retail Consumer Law Unit 6: Understanding Security And Loss Prevention In A Retail Business Unit 8: Understanding the control, receipt and storage of stock in a retail business Unit 9: Understanding visual merchandising for retail business Unit 29: Understanding how the smooth operation of a payment point is maintained Please note these resource are for the Online assessment units, in order to achieve the Diploma the learners are required to complete portfolio based assessmenBusiness Maintains Health and Safety on its Premises Unit 5: Understanding Retail Consumer Law Unit 6: Understanding Security And Loss Prevention In A Retail Business Unit 8: Understanding the control, receipt and storage of stock in a retail business Unit 9: Understanding visual merchandising for retail business Unit 29: Understanding how the smooth operation of a payment point is maintained Please note these resource are for the Online assessment units, in order to achieve the Diploma the learners are required to complete portfolio based assessmenBusiness Unit 8: Understanding the control, receipt and storage of stock in a retail business Unit 9: Understanding visual merchandising for retail business Unit 29: Understanding how the smooth operation of a payment point is maintained Please note these resource are for the Online assessment units, in order to achieve the Diploma the learners are required to complete portfolio based assessmenbusiness Unit 9: Understanding visual merchandising for retail business Unit 29: Understanding how the smooth operation of a payment point is maintained Please note these resource are for the Online assessment units, in order to achieve the Diploma the learners are required to complete portfolio based assessmenbusiness Unit 29: Understanding how the smooth operation of a payment point is maintained Please note these resource are for the Online assessment units, in order to achieve the Diploma the learners are required to complete portfolio based assessment packs.

Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive and economic factors, and the Company's reaction to those factors, on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company's products; continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the ability of the Company to deliver to the marketplace and stimulate customer demand for new programs, products, and technological innovations on a timely basis; the effect that product introductions and transitions, changes in product pricing or mix, and / or increases in component costs could have on the Company's gross margin; the inventory risk associated with the Company's need to order or commit to order product components in advance of customer orders; the continued availability on acceptable terms, or at all, of certain components and services essential to the Company's business currently obtained by the Company from sole or limited sources; the effect that the Company's dependency on manufacturing and logistics services provided by third parties may have on the quality, quantity or cost of products manufactured or services rendered; risks associated with the Company's international operations; the Company's reliance on third - party intellectual property and digital content; the potential impact of a finding that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the Company's dependency on the performance of distributors, carriers and other resellers of the Company's products; the effect that product and service quality problems could have on the Company's sales and operating profits; the continued service and availability of key executives and employees; war, terrorism, public health issues, natural disasters, and other circumstances that could disrupt supply, delivery, or demand of products; and unfavorable results of other legal proceedings.

If these operations are even regulated, which many are not, APHIS or a state agency or law enforcement typically turn a blind eye, dithering over their authority to shut them down, pretending these are somehow legitimate «businesses» that should be supported, ignoring that these sleazy operators make their money from animal cruelty and leave communities with unwanted dogs in their shelters, environmental and health hazards from improperly disposed of carcasses and waste, infestation, and wastewater and other sewage problems.

«The addition of Janssen's animal health business will strongly support a number of strategic growth priorities for Elanco, while providing synergies with our current operations» said Jeff Simmons, Lilly senior vice president and president of Elanco.

With more than 9,000 employees, the business markets its products in more than 120 countries with operations in developed and emerging markets and provides comprehensive animal health solutions to veterinarians and the livestock farmers and companion animal owners they support.

Organized veterinary medicine, that reaped great profits for the drug companies selling antibiotics, vaccines and a host of other drugs, never voiced concern over the proliferation of cruel factory farms, so - called concentrated animal feeding operations that now blight rural America, helped put family farms out of business and now pose significant environmental and public health risks.

Under the category «Regulatory and litigation risks» the 10 - K says specifically that «changes in environmental regulations or other laws that increase our cost of compliance or reduce or delay available business opportunities (including changes in laws related to offshore drilling operations, water use, or hydraulic fracturing)» are a risk to the company's health and wellbeing.

«Aligning our operation's carbon - reduction targets with climate science is necessary not only for the health of our planet, but also to the future of our business,» said Jon Flaxman, Chief Operating Officer, HP.

Represented private equity sponsor, Partnership Capital Growth Investors, in acquisition of The Alaska Club, Inc., a premier health and fitness club business with operations in Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks, Alaska, from an affiliate of Lincolnshire Management Inc..

Her business litigation experience involves complex commercial transactions, large contract disputes, employment matters, class actions, securities, antitrust and health care operations and litigation.

Except for refill reminders and similar communications, treatment and health care operations communications for which a covered entity or business associate receives remuneration is considered marketing.

Another holds a master's degree in public health, worked in the pharmaceutical industry and provided business operations counsel to a private medical practice.

OCR's investigation uncovered that North Memorial's business associate had access to its hospital database containing electronic protected health information (e-PHI) of more than 289,000 patients in order to perform payment and operations activities on its behalf.

To protect the business interests of health care clients, the firm's attorneys regularly provide litigation representation in cases involving vendor contracts, employment agreements, service contracts, non-competition agreements, leases, and any other litigation that arises in our client's business operations.

«It has been suggested that businesses could look elsewhere to base their operations because of the increased health and safety requirements,» he says.

Risk management is a critical and complex factor in every aspect of the energy sector, whether it be in relation to the health and safety of people or the environment or in relation to managing legal and business risk in commercial transactions, developing projects or business operations.

We note that there may be other instances in which a business associate may combine or aggregate protected health information received in its capacity as a business associate of different covered entities, such as when it is performing health care operations on behalf of covered entities that participate in an organized health care arrangement.

Data aggregation, as discussed below, is where a business associate in its capacity as the business associate of one covered entity combines the protected health information of such covered entity with protected health information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity in order to permit the creation of data for analyses that relate to the health care operations of the respective covered entities.

In the final rule, data aggregation is defined, with respect to protected health information received by a business associate in its capacity as the business associate of a covered entity, as the combining of such protected health information by the business associate with protected health information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity, to permit the creation of data for analyses that relate to the health care operations of the respective covered entities.

For example, a business associate performing a function under health care operations on behalf of an organized health care arrangement would be permitted to combine or aggregate the protected health information obtained from covered entities participating in the arrangement to the extent necessary to carry out the authorized activity and in conformance with its business associate contracts.

However, we permit covered entities that enter into business associate contracts with a business associate for data aggregation to permit the business associate to combine or aggregate the protected health information they Start Printed Page 82506disclose to the business associate for their respective health care operations.

See § 164.501 (definitions of «business associate» and «health care operations»).

Data aggregation means, with respect to protected health information created or received by a business associate in its capacity as the business associate of a covered entity, the combining of such protected health information by the business associate with the protected health information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity, to permit data analyses that relate to the health care operations of the respective covered entities.

Instead, we describe the activities that constitute health care operations in broad terms and categories, such as «quality assessment» and «business planning and development.»

We make this change to clarify that health care operations includes general administrative and business functions necessary for the covered entity to remain a viable business.

The exceptions to the definition of marketing fall within the definitions of treatment and / or health care operations, and therefore uses, or disclosures to a business associate, of protected health information for these purposes are permissible under the rule without authorization.

Disclosures for health care operations may be made to an entity that is neither a covered entity nor a business associate of the covered entity.

A covered entity that is a federal agency may disclose relevant information to its attorneys, who are business associates, for purposes of health care operations, which includes uses or disclosures for legal functions.

Whether a disclosure is allowable for health care operations under this provision is determined separately from whether a business associate contract is required.

Because the definition of «health plan» excludes many types of insurance products (in the exclusion under paragraph (2)(i) of the definition), we would consider an entity that has one or more of these lines of insurance in addition to its health insurance lines to come within the definition of «hybrid entity,» because the other lines of business constitute substantial parts of the total business operation and are required to be separate from the health plan (s) part of the business.

In their comments on our proposed rule, numerous organizations representing health plans, health providers, employers, and others acknowledged the value of a set of national privacy standards to the efficient operation of their practices and businesses.

For example, covered entities that operate as «organized health care arrangements» as defined in this rule may share protected health information for the operation of such arrangement without becoming business associates of one another.