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LexisNexis Risk Solutions has appointed new executives to its Health Care Business leadership team. Dave Corbett will serve as head of Sales and Client Engagement and Jeff Diamond has been promoted to senior vice president of Commercial Operations. “[Corbett] brings tremendous experience in nurturing client relationships and leading high-performing sales teams that will help us deliver more value for our clients,” said Josh Schoeller, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' health care business.

Susan Arthur, chief operating officer at OptumInsight, has been named to Rackspace’s board of directors.

Patrick Gerding, formerly vice president for sales at Health Catalyst, will assume the same role at Livongo, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday.

CNSI announced on Tuesday that Kelly Loeffler has joined the company as the vice president of deals, strategy & capture. Loeffler will be responsible for developing and executing the company’s growth strategy and identifying, developing and evaluating partnership and investment opportunities.

CNSI announced on Thursday that Melissa Fannin has joined the company as the senior vice president of Federal Business Development.

Don Shanks, former senior capture executive at ASRC Federal, has joined technology services contractor NTT Data as a senior director, FedHealthIT reported Wednesday.

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Robert Wilkie, secretary of Veterans Affairs, was inducted into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his achievements in modernizing the VA electronic health care system. This honor marks the first Wash100 Award win for Wilkie.

Optum‘s public sector business has received contracts to manage three regions of the Department of Veterans Affairs‘ network of care service providers. The company will work to manage parts of the Community Care Network, VA’s new contract vehicle for procurement of community health care services that comply with industry standards, …

Optum‘s federal government health services unit has secured two contracts from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide medical disability exams and telehealth lifestyle coaching services to military veterans. The company said Wednesday its OptumServe business will perform scheduled lifestyle consultation over the phone to help veterans who receive care from 20 VA …

Optum’s federal government health services business has renewed two of its federal health contracts with a total value of $58.7 million to extend its services to 9/11 first responders and the military. The health services provider said Tuesday OptumServe’s Logistics Health subsidiary will participate in the World Trade Center Health …

Patricia Horoho, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined Optum to lead the company’s efforts to deliver information technology-based support services to active duty military personnel, veterans and their families. She will be responsible for helping align Optum’s healthcare technology, operations and data analytics offerings with its government support …

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Optum have selected three finalists from the “Demo Day” competition of the 2nd annual Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion to pilot medical technologies that can help clinicians to prevent, diagnose or treat veterans who have experienced traumatic brain injuries. Optum said Friday The Daptly Display, Save a Warrior and King-Devick Technologies …

The Department of Health and Human Services has teamed up with OptumLabs, a healthcare research center co-founded by Mayo Clinic and Optum, in an effort to utilize OptumLabs’ databases of de-identified patient data for healthcare research. OptumLabs will work with HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to compare identified trends in …

Optum has expanded its portfolio of information technology services intended to help medical facilities update their IT systems for operational and clinical management. The Analytics Data Warehouse Services offering is designed to identify patient care, quality and cost trends in a hospital and the IT Infrastructure Services platform is built …

Optum has unveiled a new health intelligence platform that is intended to help healthcare providers extract insights from large volumes of patient data. The Optum One platform is built for customers to analyze information from electronic medical record systems and make decisions based on the results by using applications, Optum said …