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eternalHealth Selects Inovalon Converged Cloud Platform to Make Quality Healthcare More Affordable

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Thursday, October 19, 2023
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eternalHealth launched in 2022 to provide members with a quality, affordable, and consumer-centric experience.

Key Points: 
  • eternalHealth launched in 2022 to provide members with a quality, affordable, and consumer-centric experience.
  • This October, eternalHealth will be offering MA products in six counties in Massachusetts and one in Arizona.
  • eternalHealth is using Inovalon’s Converged Risk solution to maximize risk score accuracy, Converged Quality for improved health and financial outcomes, and Converged Outreach to reduce member and physician abrasion.
  • For more information on Inovalon’s Converged suite of solutions, please click here: Inovalon Payer Cloud Software .

Papa Announces Digital Health Literacy Offering to Advance Health Equity for Older Adults and Other Underserved Populations

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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MIAMI, Oct. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Papa, a curated platform of companionship and support for older adults and families, today announced a new digital health literacy offering to bridge the care access gap and improve health equity among its members. Through this enhanced service, Papa is able to assess, address, and report on a range of digital health literacy needs to help health plans improve member access to quality health care and meet forthcoming health equity requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Key Points: 
  • The service addresses new CMS health equity requirement for plans to identify and offer digital health education to members with low digital health literacy, ultimately improving access to care
    MIAMI, Oct. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Papa, a curated platform of companionship and support for older adults and families, today announced a new digital health literacy offering to bridge the care access gap and improve health equity among its members.
  • The World Health Organization defines digital health literacy as "the ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise health information from electronic sources and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem."
  • Papa has now layered on specific tasks related to CMS' goal of growing digital health literacy for dual-eligible, disadvantaged, and low-income members.
  • Papa also provides additional reporting and expertise to ensure both members' and their health plans' digital health goals are met.

HealthPartners unveils 2024 Medicare Advantage plans featuring broad networks and unmatched customer service

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Monday, October 23, 2023
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Three HealthPartners Medicare Advantage (MA) plans received an overall 4.5 out of 5-Star Rating, including 5 out of 5-Stars for customer service, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for 2024.

Key Points: 
  • Three HealthPartners Medicare Advantage (MA) plans received an overall 4.5 out of 5-Star Rating, including 5 out of 5-Stars for customer service, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for 2024.
  • HealthPartners Journey (PPO), HealthPartners Robin (PPO) and HealthPartners UnityPoint Health (PPO) MA plans received the 4.5 Star Rating.
  • CMS bases its ratings on several clinical and performance measures including administration of care, management of chronic conditions, member experience, plan performance and customer service.
  • In addition to the support of a knowledgeable, 5-Star customer service team, HealthPartners offers plans to fit every budget and lifestyle, with options that include:
    Monthly premiums and primary care copays starting at $0.

transcosmos helps Ajinomoto Group run AJI MALL, the Group's e-commerce website

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Monday, October 23, 2023
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TOKYO, Oct. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- transcosmos inc. hereby announces that the company has built AJI MALL, Ajinomoto Group's D2C (direct-to-consumer) e-commerce mall powered by Shopify, and offered e-commerce operations services to the Ajinomoto Group. Not only creating a shopping-mall design website and web content specific to each brand, transcosmos has also linked member data stored in Ajinomoto Group's common ID platform - AJINOMOTO ID - to the website, connected actual data stored in the order management system with an ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, as well as deploying a CRM tool "b->dash." Ultimately, transcosmos has built and offered an environment and a framework that enable Ajinomoto Group to disseminate worldviews of its various D2C brands from the website.

Key Points: 
  • Ultimately, transcosmos has built and offered an environment and a framework that enable Ajinomoto Group to disseminate worldviews of its various D2C brands from the website.
  • As a strategy to make more Ajinomoto brand fans on the online mall, Ajinomoto Group plans to add more new brands going forward.
  • transcosmos, a Shopify Plus Partner, has helped Ajinomoto Group launch AJI MALL, the Group's D2C (direct-to-consumer) e-commerce platform.
  • transcosmos didn't stop there and created an AJI MALL guideline/rulebook summarizing all specifications of AJI MALL to help Ajinomoto Group smoothly roll out new brands on the site.

Capacity-Building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI) announced in Beijing

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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The Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI) aims to provide quality learning programs to support countries to develop sustainable finance in the ASEAN, Central Asian, African, the Middle East, and Latin American regions.

Key Points: 
  • The Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI) aims to provide quality learning programs to support countries to develop sustainable finance in the ASEAN, Central Asian, African, the Middle East, and Latin American regions.
  • Dr. Ma Jun, President of the IFS and former Co-Chair of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG), highlighted the importance of capacity building to unlocking sustainable capital in the Global South.
  • "The lack of technical capacity is a key impediment to mobilization of private sector financing for climate actions and sustainability in EMDEs.
  • A formal launch event for CASI will be held in Dubai during the annual UN climate talks (COP28) in early December.

Alignment Healthcare and Walgreens to Introduce Co-Branded Medicare Advantage Plans in Select Markets in 2024

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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The plans offer comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage including a $0 copay on more than 10,000 prescription drugs at Walgreens and other in-network pharmacies.

Key Points: 
  • The plans offer comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage including a $0 copay on more than 10,000 prescription drugs at Walgreens and other in-network pharmacies.
  • Alignment Healthcare offers a diverse portfolio of MA plans and benefits through Alignment Health Plan across Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas.
  • Medicare-eligible adults can select plans during the Medicare enrollment period from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7, for plan benefits starting Jan. 1, 2024.
  • For more information about Alignment Health Plan’s product offerings, visit www.alignmenthealthplan.com .

ZVOX Celebrates 20th Anniversary Sale With 20% Off Six Popular Audio Products

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., Oct. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ZVOX, the world leader in voice clarifying technology, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a special sales promotion from now through November 6th, 2023. The commemorative offer includes a 20% price reduction on ZVOX's most popular products – soundbars, earbuds, Bluetooth speakers, and hearing aids. Consumers simply enter the promo code A20 when checking out from ZVOX.com.

Key Points: 
  • According to ZVOX founder Tom Hannaher, it was a "perfect storm" of four factors that led to the need for voice clarification in TV programming.
  • First, Hollywood increasingly emphasized audio mixing for dramatic effects that de-prioritized dialogue.
  • Second, the flatscreen TVs that were becoming popular typically came with poor-quality audio speakers.
  • Today, ZVOX offers a variety of hearing-related products, including speakers, wireless headphones, and hearing aids.

Alignment Healthcare California, North Carolina Medicare Advantage HMOs Receive High 2024 Star Rating Scores from Medicare

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Monday, October 16, 2023
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Additionally, its North Carolina HMO achieved an overall 4.5- out of 5-star rating for 2024, its second year eligible for rating.

Key Points: 
  • Additionally, its North Carolina HMO achieved an overall 4.5- out of 5-star rating for 2024, its second year eligible for rating.
  • “Our noteworthy star ratings reflect the high quality of our plans and service, but we are not done,” said John Kao, founder and CEO of Alignment Healthcare.
  • The company has announced a diverse range of 2024 MA options through Alignment Health Plan that include enriched benefits and services in 53 counties across six states: Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas.
  • The Medicare annual enrollment period runs Oct. 15 through Dec. 7 for plan benefits starting Jan. 1, 2024.

Santhera Receives Positive CHMP Opinion Recommending Approval of AGAMREE® (vamorolone) for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

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Friday, October 13, 2023
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Santhera plans for a first commercial launch in Germany in Q1-2024, subject to approval by the EC.

Key Points: 
  • Santhera plans for a first commercial launch in Germany in Q1-2024, subject to approval by the EC.
  • “We are thrilled about the CHMP’s positive opinion, which recognizes the urgent medical need for an effective and well tolerated treatment for this devastating disease.
  • “We are very excited about the positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency,” declared Ezio Magnano, President of Parent Project Italy.
  • A marketing authorization decision from the EC is expected within approximately two months of the positive CHMP opinion.

uniQure Announces Strategic Reorganization to Reduce Operating Expenses and Support Advancement of Multiple Clinical-Stage Programs

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Thursday, October 5, 2023
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LEXINGTON, Mass. and AMSTERDAM, Oct. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- uniQure N.V. (NASDAQ: QURE), a leading gene therapy company advancing transformative therapies for patients with severe medical needs, today announced a strategic reorganization that will significantly reduce operating expenses while supporting focused execution to rapidly advance multiple clinical-stage programs to proof-of-concept.

Key Points: 
  • and AMSTERDAM, Oct. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- uniQure N.V. (NASDAQ: QURE), a leading gene therapy company advancing transformative therapies for patients with severe medical needs, today announced a strategic reorganization that will significantly reduce operating expenses while supporting focused execution to rapidly advance multiple clinical-stage programs to proof-of-concept.
  • “At uniQure, our highest priority is to deliver innovative, life-changing therapies to patients with significant unmet needs.
  • To accomplish our mission and generate near-term value for our stakeholders, we will implement a strategic restructuring of our business,” stated Matt Kapusta, chief executive officer of uniQure .
  • “We are taking important actions today to cut operating expenses while ensuring that we have the necessary resources to advance our prioritized clinical-stage programs as rapidly as possible to proof-of-concept.