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Hires

Amwell welcomed Kathy Weiler as leader industrial and expansion officer. She involves the telehealth corporate from Optum, the place she served as leader shopper officer.

Artera, a healthcare SaaS corporate that specializes in affected person conversation, expanded its govt group. It added 3 vice presidents — Karri Alexion-Tiernan joined as vp of product advertising and marketing, Joanne Chen joined as vp of information, and Mark Thomson joined as vp of shopper good fortune.

Athenahealth named George Hamilton as its new leader company technique and building officer. Maximum just lately, he served as vp of technique and trade building at UnitedHealth Staff. Previous to UnitedHealth, Hamilton was once a founding spouse and managing director at Intermountain Ventures and vp of technique and trade building for Intermountain Healthcare.

Shannon Susko just lately become Centene’s new leader communications officer. She got here to the insurer from Edelman Smithfield, which is a part of the Edelman public members of the family company.

CommonSpirit Well being will quickly welcome Sheri Shapiro as its new leader technique officer. She involves CommonSpirit from Trinity Well being, the place she held the similar identify. 

Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare appointed Joon Sup Lee as its new CEO. He’s recently govt vp at UPMC and president of UPMC Doctor Products and services. Lee, who’s an interventional heart specialist by way of coaching, is leaving UPMC after just about 27 years there.

Mission capital company Matrix Companions employed TJ Parker as a common spouse. Parker is the co-founder and previous CEO of PillPack, which was once bought by way of Amazon in 2018.

Particle Well being, a healthcare interoperability platform, welcomed Jason Prestinario as CEO. He involves the corporate from Komodo Well being, a healthcare knowledge platform. 

UNC Well being just lately welcomed William Bryant as its new CFO. Bryant first joined the well being device in 2016, and he went on to carry quite a lot of monetary management roles. He in brief left UNC Well being closing yr to function CFO of dermatology supplier Qualderm Companions.

Promotions

Brilliant Well being Staff promoted Jay Matushak to the position of CFO. He joined the corporate in 2021, maximum just lately serving as senior vp of finance. Earlier than becoming a member of Brilliant Well being, he spent six years as CFO of Blue Move Blue Defend of Minnesota and 15 years at UnitedHealth Staff.

Exits

AHIP’s president and CEO, Matt Eyles, is resigning from his place. The business affiliation, which represents the medical insurance business, mentioned it plans to habits a countrywide seek for its subsequent chief. 

Centene is starting to search for a substitute for COO James Murray, who shall be retiring in 2024. 

CommonSpirit Well being just lately introduced that its president and COO, Marvin O’Quinn, shall be retiring in August.

College Hospitals, a 21-hospital well being device founded in Cleveland, is making ready for CFO Michael Szubski’s retirement. He’s making plans to retire after 15 years within the position. 

Layoffs

Amazon let cross of an undisclosed choice of workers when it just lately shuttered its Halo wearables department.

Brightline, an organization concerned about pediatric psychological well being, introduced a spherical of layoffs, chopping 20% of its staff for the second one time in six months.

Calibrate, a telehealth startup concerned about weight reduction, just lately eradicated 18% of its staff. The corporate already laid off 24% of its staff closing summer time.

Cue Well being, an organization providing telehealth and at-home diagnostics, laid off 30% of its staff, which is set 326 workers.

Mississippi-based Memorial Well being Gadget eradicated just about 90 roles, which is not up to 2% of the well being device’s staff. Lots of the positions that have been reduce didn’t contain direct affected person care. 

Monument Well being, a well being device founded in South Dakota, laid off about 2% of its staff. The eradicated jobs have been company and didn’t contain affected person care. The well being device additionally mentioned it plans to scale back govt pay by way of 20%.

Nuance, which Microsoft bought closing yr for almost $20 billion, just lately imposed a spherical of layoffs. The corporate didn’t divulge the choice of affected workers.

Oracle laid off about 3,000 Cerner workers. Those task eliminations affected roles in departments reminiscent of advertising and marketing, engineering, accounting, prison and product.

San Diego-based well being device Scripps Well being eradicated 70 administrative roles, WARN paperwork published. The task cuts affected company positions and didn’t affect any affected person care personnel.

PeaceHealth, a well being device founded in Washington state, just lately reduce 251 caregiver roles.

Walgreens just lately lowered its company staff by way of 10%. The spherical of layoffs affected 504 workers.