Sentences with phrase «health companies while»

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Keith stayed on for a while as a consultant, while Marcus became a vice-president, managing the company's bids on giant public - private partnership projects, such as the first phase of the reconstruction of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a $ 300 - million gig.

While it's nice to have a large footprint on a trade show floor, those who can't afford it shouldn't worry, says Michael Brody - Waite, CEO of InQuicker, a health - tech company focused on connecting consumers with services.

And while true reform will require all the relevant parties — government, industry, and health care consumers themselves — to make major adjustments, an insurgent group of digital health companies is doing its best to drag American medicine into the 21st century kicking and screaming.

I had two from health care providers I used after having a heart attack; my insurance company kept claiming it had paid while the providers said it had not, and eventually the accounts ended up with a collection agency.

Interestingly, more female than male poll respondents cited «flexibility» and a «pleasant atmosphere» as an attractive job quality, while more men than women said they were drawn to companies with «strong financial health» and «strong management.»

Company director and former WA attorney general Cheryl Edwardes has been appointed as the new chairperson for agribusiness CropLogic while St John of God Health Care has appointed Azure Capital managing partner Adrian Arundell to its board.

While the Arkansas company says that de-identified data remains that way, such a fuller picture of consumers can enable health care companies to do a better job treating, insuring, or marketing to them, it says.

Passed amidst bitter partisan division and an ambivalent public... the right depends on private actors, private health insurance companies, and willing states to administer and participate in a newly transparent, competitive, and streamlined private health insurance market, while these same actors hesitate to invest in the infrastructure of this market due to uncertainty from legal and political challenges to the ACA.

While this may not yet affect Health Canada — governed companies, you can rest assured that your SPF 30 is good enough.

«While we expect tech and health care to remain active, the IPO market will broaden to include large PE - backed names (Biomet, La Quinta), spinoffs (GE's Synchrony) and Chinese companies (Weibo, JD.com, Alibaba),» Renaissance said in a statement.

Ten venture - backed companies in the first quarter came from the IT sector, while 24 were life sciences companies including biotech and health concerns, NVCA reports.

Cardinal Health agreed to pay $ 20 million to the state and issued this statement: «While the company denies the state's allegations, Cardinal Health recognizes that the epidemic of prescription drug abuse is a multifaceted problem driven by addiction and demand.»

While some may see McKesson as part of the problem, Hammergren believes that his company, given its position in the health care system, might have insights to help with the solution.

In a statement addressing the company's demise, Hansen said that while there were fans of Mexx's latest collections at both the industry and customer levels, «macro-economic headwinds» including a slowdown in retail sales in Europe, Russia's currency depreciation and Eastern European political unrest meant the company's health couldn't be revived to fighting form.

While Jawbone adhered to modest designs, its failure stemmed from the company's pivot to health and fitness - tracking devices in 2011.

If a forklift triangulates all the employee ID badges in its vicinity, when someone gets too close while the forklift is moving, the brakes can apply themselves, saving both employee health and company expenses on workplace hazards.

While our government would probably screw it up if they tried to implement universal public health insurance (as in Canada or France), it would definitely create a more level playing field between big companies and smaller firms.

While a few sports - related devices were introduced for more professional athletic purposes, there were dozens of other companies that unveiled some kind of fitness band or health tracker.

Quorum Health initially tumbled as much as 5 % Wednesday, while Patterson Companies (pdco), a medical supplier, shed nearly 2 % and Tenet shares fell almost as much.

While 50 percent of companies with more than 50 employees have wellness programs, they are not achieving the desired employee health improvements, the New York Times recently reported.

While Silicon Valley firms made the list, health companies, retailers and food and beverage businesses also made the cut.

Both Price and Gottlieb were questioned on their intimate involvement with biopharmaceutical and health care companies by lawmakers; Price specifically was the subject of sharp ethics questions about his financial investments in medical firms that would also benefit from legislation he was pushing while serving in the House of Representatives.

While Western Australia is a lot bigger than one man and one company, with a bit of imagination it is possible to see the state through the financial health of a firm that sells equipment to the mining industry, and the personal wealth of a man with the biggest stake in that business.

While declining sales may be bad for soft drink companies, they're good for a public health system straining under an obesity epidemic posing as much or more of a threat than cancer.

According to company founder and Vice Chairman Steven Neelman, the health account industry is growing at an average rate of 20 percent annually, while his own company has seen its annual revenue increase about 40 percent in recent years.

While no one enjoys letting employees go, leaders must consider the health of their company above all else.

Steve Deangelo, co-founder of Oakland - based dispensary Harborside Health Center (and president of ArcView) told Fortune that he prepared for California's long - expected decision by planning a business expansion that includes expanding into cultivation while also planning new Harborside locations in California (the company currently operates locations in Oakland and San Jose).

The number of health - care deals rose 16 percent last year, while value surged 27 percent, according to a new report from Bain & Company.

Stocks are closing lower as Apple and smaller, more domestically - focused companies rise while health care and food and drink companies fall.

Franken also took on Representative Tom Price, Trump's nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their bidding in Congress and for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech stock.

While many companies have adopted health and wellness programs to combat employee obesity and other harmful behaviors, those initiatives are often a reaction to a pre-existing problem.

CVS operates a chain of pharmacies and retail clinics that could be used by Aetna to provide care directly to patients, while the merged company could be better able to offer employers one - stop shopping for health insurance for their workers.

While terms like «patent protection» and «public domain» were clearly part of the IPR debate, it also stretched to the cost of drugs and the availability of medicines, encompassing terms like «health advocates» and «pharmaceutical companies.»

While the company offers refinancing for undergraduate, graduate, and parent loans, it specializes in loans for health professionals.

The company envisions systems that will let consumers download a high - definition, full - length feature film in less than five minutes, allow rural health clinics to send 3 - D medical images over the Internet and let students collaborate with classmates around the world while watching live 3 - D video of a university lecture.

But while the three companies bring successful management, technological expertise and substantial capital to the venture, many health industry experts expressed doubts about whether their results would match their ambition.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

That said, while the version Orbita is showing at the Connected Health Conference works with Alexa, Treloar said the company is not prescriptive about which voice assistants its software will run on and, in fact, it's already working on Google Home, Apple Siri and Microsoft Cortana iterations to follow sometime next year - just not before HIMSS17.

After enjoying a period of very strong performance, the shares of health care companies fell by more than 40 percent in value from the beginning of 1992 through the summer of 1993 (while the market was flat) as investors feared lower health care profits from proposals of broad nationalization and increased regulation.

Learn from industry veterans from across the health sector on how they have built their companies while remaining agile, dedicated and resilient.

The two have complementary interests when it comes to investing, Ms. Gouw said — Ms. Fonstad has focused on enterprise and mobile applications, application services and health - care IT, while Ms. Gouw, a former engineer, has focused on consumer, social commerce and security companies.

An Australian health care services company was the Fund's top contributor in the quarter, while a Swiss bank holding company was the largest detractor.

The health insurance industry has since been transformed by the federal Affordable Care Act, handing Bertolini and other executives the opportunity to remake the companies they lead while navigating a changed environment.

Medical staffing companies will need to be covered with larger bonds and more insurance to obtain a license from the state, while home health companies that provide more personal services, such as meal preparation, companionship and grooming will not be as restrictive.

Ali also brings a strong personal motivation to improve the quality and cost of company - sponsored health care after experiencing a major health problem while employed at a growing technology company.

Tilenius said she started the company after witnessing her father struggling with his health, while existing coaching tools were too expensive, she added.

Brown said he mentioned the proposals he first presented to Trump at a dinner last month: One would expand access to the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit, while the other would give tax credits to companies that pay workers at least $ 15 an hour and offer health - care and retirement benefits.

«Our strongest product category is health, like vitamin supplements,» Jian explained, while the company's maternal and baby products are also top sellers on the mainland.

Munger agreed and added that U.S. manufacturers have a «huge competitive disadvantage caused by the health system» over say European counterparts since U.S. businesses have to pay for health care costs while European companies don't.

While the law does not require that companies provide retirement plans, health plans, dental or vision plans, life insurance plans, or paid vacation time, many firms still provide these benefits and many candidates have come to expect at least some of these benefits, especially as they progress to the higher management positions,» said Andrew Challenger, vice president of global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc..