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Liberty HealthShare Selects AudioEye to Enhance Website Accessibility
Seeking to ensure that everyone has equal access to its website, Liberty HealthShare has added AudioEye’s world-class technology to LibertyHealthShare.org.
AudioEye’s technology and services help identify and resolve accessibility issues for online visitors who might have a disability that impacts their use of a website.
“We are excited about working with AudioEye, which will bring robust and easy-to-use accessibility solutions to our members and others interested in learning about medical cost sharing,” said Dorsey Morrow, Liberty HealthShare chief executive officer. “By creating an equally accessible experience for all site visitors, AudioEye will help Liberty Healthshare reach the broadest possible audience.”
The technology automatically monitors Liberty HealthShare’s website for more than 400 accessibility issues, fixes 70 of those issues automatically, and monitors the site for other barriers for people with disabilities. It helps keep the website in compliance with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) standards.
Website visitors can use this technology seamlessly with assistive technology, or they can mitigate certain issues by clicking on an icon displayed on the homepage. There, they can make changes to how the website is displayed and structured to make it easier for them to use.
Established in 1995, Liberty HealthShare is a non-profit 501(c) Christian medical cost-sharing ministry focused on members helping each other in times of need. The faith-based program is a caring community of more than 100,000 health-conscious individuals and families who choose to support one another and agree to the Christian values of stewardship to make healthcare affordable for all. Learn more about Liberty HealthShare at www.libertyhealthshare.org.
AudioEye, Inc. is an industry-leading digital accessibility platform delivering ADA and WCAG compliance at scale. By combining easy-to-use technology and subject matter expertise, AudioEye helps companies solve every aspect of web accessibility. AudioEye delivers automated remediations and continuous monitoring for accessibility issues without making fundamental changes to website architecture, source code, or browser-based tools. Learn more about AudioEye at www.audioeye.com.
SOURCE Liberty HealthShare
Education, Featured, Healthcare, New Hire
Acadia Healthcare Announces Christopher Hunter as New Chief Executive Officer
Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHC) today announced that its Board of Directors has named Christopher Hunter as the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer. He will join Acadia on April 11, 2022 and will serve on the Company’s Board of Directors. Hunter brings an array of executive and healthcare experience from prior senior leadership roles at Humana, TriZetto and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. He replaces Debbie Osteen, who became the Company’s Chief Executive Officer in 2018 and oversaw more than three years of successful growth. Osteen has entered into a consulting agreement to assist with the transition and will remain on Acadia’s Board of Directors.
“The Board conducted a thorough and highly selective process to find a Chief Executive Officer who would complement our existing executive team and build on our strong foundation,” said Reeve B. Waud, Chairman of Acadia’s Board of Directors. “Chris brings the right combination of skills and expertise to lead Acadia as we continue to extend our market reach to meet the behavioral health needs of millions of Americans. His proven track record of leadership and innovative growth within the healthcare industry will ensure that we continue to execute our strategic growth plan with favorable results. At the same time, Chris believes in our objective to remain a patient-first organization focused on quality of care and an employer of choice delivering strong returns for our stockholders over the long term. Chris has the complete confidence of the Board, and we are fortunate to also have the support of a committed executive management team. Together, we look forward to the opportunities ahead for Acadia as we advance our position as a leading behavioral healthcare provider.
“We greatly appreciate Debbie’s important contributions to Acadia’s growth and success, and we are confident this will be a smooth transition of leadership. We are pleased to have Debbie remain on the Company’s Board as we continue to benefit from her expertise and valuable insight,” added Waud.
Hunter joins Acadia’s experienced and proven leadership team, bringing more than 20 years of healthcare experience and expertise across a range of sectors, multiple technology-focused companies, as well as the investment banking industry. Most recently, he served as President of Humana’s Group, Military & Specialty Segment, where he oversaw three distinct business units, totaling approximately $7 billion in revenue and serving 20 million members across 45 states. He also served as Humana’s Chief Strategy Officer with responsibility for all corporate strategy, merger and acquisitions and partnership activities.
“This is an incredible honor, and I am excited to join such a strong, respected organization that is addressing a critical societal need at a pivotal time for our country,” said Hunter. “With a growing patient base and an industry-leading executive team already in place, I’m looking forward to building on the successful trajectory set by Debbie and the leadership team. I am proud to work with Acadia’s committed facility leaders and 22,500 dedicated employees across the country with a shared mission to provide high-quality behavioral healthcare services to existing and new communities.”
Hunter received his bachelor’s degree with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. His recent board experience includes AfterNext HealthTech (NYSE: AFTR), Availity, Youth Villages and the UNC-Chapel Hill Honors Program.
About Acadia
Acadia is a leading provider of behavioral healthcare services across the United States. As of December 31, 2021, Acadia operated a network of 238 behavioral healthcare facilities with approximately 10,500 beds in 40 states and Puerto Rico. With more than 22,500 employees serving approximately 70,000 patients daily, Acadia is the largest stand-alone behavioral health company in the U.S. Acadia provides behavioral healthcare services to its patients in a variety of settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, specialty treatment facilities, residential treatment centers and outpatient clinics.
Featured, Healthcare, Technology
TriNetX Acquires Pharmacovigilance Leader Advera Health Analytics
The world’s largest real-world data network takes aim at improving drug safety
TriNetX, the global network of healthcare organizations driving real-world research to accelerate the development of new therapies, today announced the acquisition of Advera Health Analytics, the leader in pharmacovigilance software and data for detection, management, and mitigation of drug safety concerns.
The acquisition of Advera, and its industry-leading Evidex platform, will enable TriNetX clients to gain a complete view of drug safety issues as they happen in real time. The power of Evidex, and the vast real-world data on the TriNetX network, will help life sciences companies refine, manage, and validate safety signals with deep clinical data, and greater efficiency than what the industry has traditionally relied upon.
“Life sciences companies trust Advera for safety signal detection and management,” said Brian M. Overstreet, President and CEO of Advera who will now lead the pharmacovigilance business unit at TriNetX as a senior executive and member of the company’s leadership team. “The Evidex platform enables drug safety teams to quickly validate signals through advanced technology, multiple safety datasets, and integrated workflow management tools. Evidex’s adoption in the market has led to significant progress in the evolution of pharmacovigilance.”
“The combination of TriNetX and Advera brings forth a powerful opportunity for the life sciences community to efficiently evaluate and manage safety signals from traditional pharmacovigilance databases, and then further investigate and refine those signals in context of large and deep clinical real-world data in real time,” said Dr. Jeffrey Brown, Chief Scientific Officer at TriNetX.
“This marriage between Advera and TriNetX creates tremendous potential for growth, and I am thrilled to advance our capabilities to help bring new therapies to market faster, and now safer,” said Gadi Lachman, CEO of TriNetX.
About TriNetX, LLC
TriNetX is a global network of healthcare organizations and life sciences companies driving real-world research to accelerate the development of new therapies. Through its self-service, HIPAA, GDPR, and LGPD-compliant platform of federated EHR, datasets, and consulting partnerships, TriNetX puts the power of real-world data into the hands of its worldwide community to improve protocol design, streamline trial operations, refine safety signals, and enrich real-world evidence generation. For more information, visit TriNetX at www.trinetx.com or follow @TriNetX on Twitter.
About Advera Health Analytics, Inc.
Advera Health Analytics is a global leader in pharmacovigilance software, analytics, and data at the leading edge of drug safety science. Advera Health has created Evidex, a next generation pharmacovigilance platform to connect disparate drug safety data sources and provide a user experience that elicits actionable intelligence from those data. The Evidex platform links to internal ICSR databases, FAERS, VigiBase, EVDAS, Claims/EHR, EDC and other data and provides for a validated, audit ready environment to track and manage safety issues that are found in those data. Founded by a group of passionate healthcare entrepreneurs, Advera Health’s mission is to mitigate risk in the healthcare system by improving the transparency and actionability of drug safety data through the curation and aggregation of large disparate datasets and the application of advanced analytics and workflow. Please visit www.adverahealth.com for more information.