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Dutch company joins others in the sector by expanding into the famed Tennessee area.

Women have a lot at stake in the fight over the future of healthcare and are more likely to be poor and depend on Medicaid and plan healthcare coverage for the whole family.  

Glen Tullman’s digital health startup, which helps people manage diabetes, has hired Any Page as CFO.

Pilot aims to integrate mental and physical health by using Quartet’s virtual, data-driven environment for shared care planning.

Penquin introduces ‘The Friendship Code,’ a coding workshop for ages 8-12.

Although children between the ages of 11 and 14 years old demonstrate a high level of interest and skills in STEM ­– science, technology, engineering and math – their interest dwindles as they get older, according to new research from Randstad, a global human resources firm.

Writing in a blog published on the HIMSS site, Willa Fields advises young women starting their healthcare IT career to find a mentor. On the flip side, she also urges women – and men – in healthcare IT to become a mentor for those just getting started in healthcare IT. Fields is former chair of the HIMSS Board of Directors; a judge of the 2017 HIMSS Women in Health IT Awards; and professor, School of Nursing, San Diego State University Many of the inequality concerns she has today, stem from the discrimination women continue to experience in the technology workplace today, she says, including pay inequality and the paltry representation of women in the executive suite today. Read Fields’ blog here.

Nominations for the HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards, will close on August 28 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time.

The group published the guidance to help hospitals define what job roles cybersecurity teams require and, ultimately, to help them find top talent.

The company - founded by biotech mogul Patrick Soon-Shiong - said the layoffs and other recent business dealings will save the company $70 million a year.