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CHG Healthcare Switches to Rimini Street to Achieve Better System Availability

CHG Healthcare Switches to Rimini Street to Achieve Better System Availability, Smoother Operation and Enhanced Outcomes for 25 Million Patients Annually

Largest private healthcare staffing firm receives ultra-responsive, high-quality JD Edwards support for its provider and client systems to ensure patients have access to necessary care

LAS VEGAS- News of Emirates – a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced that CHG Healthcare, the nation’s largest privately-held healthcare staffing company, has switched to Rimini Street support for its JD Edwards software. By switching support providers, CHG Healthcare now has an extension of its in-house IT team that includes Rimini Street’s expert, forward-thinking engineers who provide true, follow-the-sun, around the clock global support.

Assuring Medical Staff is Available to Serve Patients

Headquartered in Midvale, Utah, CHG Healthcare continues to differentiate itself in the healthcare staffing market by its innovative use of digital tools and services to provide temporary and permanent placement of physicians, nurses and allied health professionals who save, extend and enhance the lives of 25 million patients annually. The organization has been using its JD Edwards platform to track and manage its staffing efforts, manage payroll and allow medical professionals to quickly obtain temporary assignments.

Rimini Street is a More Responsive Partner and Trusted Adviser

CHG Healthcare turned to Rimini Street to not only get the expert and highly responsive support they required to keep their mission-critical system working effectively, but also to provide strategic advisory around its future technology and systems roadmap.

The partnership with Rimini Street has enabled CHG Healthcare’s internal teams to address system issues faster and more efficiently, improving the overall experience for both its employees and customers. With Rimini Street Support, CHG Healthcare’s IT department is now able to ensure better system availability and smoother operation and focus its resources on achieving its business objective of enabling communities and providers to deliver the best patient outcomes.

CHG Healthcare is leading the industry by leveraging innovative technologies to streamline processes and improve user experiences along the entire healthcare staffing continuum. Rimini Street helps CHG Healthcare with seamless support of provider and client systems to ensure no downtime and no issues with patient billing or provider payments. These mission-critical systems must be available continuously and operate smoothly to ensure patients have access to necessary care.

“The partnership we have in place today with Rimini Street lets us know we are much more than a number,” said Catharine Reeder, senior applications support analyst, CHG Healthcare. “Rimini Street is able to provide the daily operational support we need and ensure we are making informed business decisions that set us up for success as we consider our future technology and application roadmap.”

“We’ve been impressed with the level of professionalism, communication, technical skill and prowess we receive. Rimini Street has created a partnership of immense trust. We wouldn’t be anywhere near as effective without them,” continued Reeder.

Improved Response Times, Quality of Support and Updates

As with all Rimini Street clients, CHG Healthcare benefits from a flexible, premium-level enterprise software support model that includes industry-leading Service Level Agreements with guaranteed response times of 10 minutes or less using a follow-the-sun model with 24/7/365 for all critical P1 cases. In addition, all clients are also assigned a Primary Support Engineer with an average of 20 years of experience in enterprise software and backed by a team of functional and technical engineers. The partnership with Rimini Street also has enabled CHG to stay compliant with tax, legal and regulatory mandates with ultra-fast Legislative-to-Live^TM tax, legal and regulatory updates designed to work in CHG Healthcare’s customized JD Edwards system.

“At CHG Healthcare, we believe that each of us is in the business of saving lives. For example, if a hospital doesn’t have a neurosurgeon and a patient is in critical need, CHG Healthcare can remedy that. We look for partners truly committed to assisting us in fulfilling this vision and found Rimini Street to be such a partner,” added Brad Spackman, IT manager, CHG Healthcare. “We strive to ensure that everyone in our organization can connect their role to our ultimate goal of impacting communities and providers in a positive way. Rimini Street has a big role and responsibility in helping us achieve that objective.”

“Healthcare industry organizations struggle to navigate fluctuating insurance and payment models, patient privacy and security regulations and new digital technologies. We are honored to be a trusted partner to help support CHG Healthcare’s current operations and help them strategically plan for future technological innovation that will help them improve competitive advantage and fuel growth,” said Emmanuel Richard, senior vice president and theatre general manager, North America at Rimini Street. “Rimini Street has enabled numerous staffing and healthcare industry leaders to dramatically improve their system operations and focus their IT resources on strategic initiatives.”

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Russian ruble holds steady at 96 against the US dollar ahead of tax payments

The Russian ruble steadied near 96 to the dollar on Tuesday, trading in a narrow band, supported by upcoming tax payments and high oil prices.
At 0710 GMT, the ruble was 0.2 percent stronger against the dollar at 96.10 and had gained 0.3 percent to trade at 101.69 versus the euro. It had firmed 0.1 percent against the yuan to 13.13.
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Month-end tax payments, that usually see exporters convert foreign currency revenues to pay local liabilities, support the ruble, but the currency can slide early in the month once the period has passed.
The ruble has also now lost the temporary support of higher sales of foreign currency than usual by the central bank, which was selling around 21.4 billion rubles of yuan a day until the start of this week.
“At the end of the week, when the tax period ends, there is a high likelihood of the resumption of the national currency’s smooth devaluation,” said Alor Broker’s Alexei Antonov.
Brent crude oil, a global benchmark for Russia’s main export, was down 1.1 percent at $92.23 a barrel.
Russian stock indexes were lower.
The dollar denominated RTS index was down 0.5 percent to 992.5 points.

The ruble based MOEX Russian index was 0.6 percent lower at 3,028.8 points.
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Digital, electric solutions can cut carbon emissions in office buildings by 70 pct

Retrofitting buildings using a digital-first approach is the best pathway to decarbonization, according to new research from Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation.
Buildings represent an estimated 37 percent of global carbon emissions, and as about half of today’s buildings are still likely to be in use in 2050, the sector must urgently reduce operational carbon emissions, by making buildings more energy efficient.
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The research findings show that deploying Schneider Electric’s digital building and power management solutions in existing office buildings could reduce their operational carbon emissions by up to 42 percent with a payback period of less than three years. If fossil fuel-powered heating technologies are replaced with electric-powered alternatives, and a microgrid with local renewable energy sources is installed, all-electric, all-digital buildings will see an additional 28 percent reduction in operational carbon emissions resulting in a total reduction of up to 70 percent.

Mike Kazmierczak, Vice President of the Digital Energy Decarbonization Office, the team leading the science-based research and product innovation to accelerate the energy transition within Schneider Electric’s Digital Energy division, explained that, “Tackling operational emissions is the number-one lever to decarbonize existing buildings at scale and achieve net-zero emissions targets by 2050. This breakthrough research reveals that reducing carbon emissions by up to 70 percent is feasible if we transform our existing building stock into energy-efficient, fully-electrified, and digitized assets.”
The research, carried out with the global design firm WSP, is based on modeling the energy performance and carbon emissions of a large office building built in the early 2000s across various US Climate Zones. This digital approach to building renovations is, however, applicable to all building types and climates, and is, therefore, the most effective building decarbonization strategy, yielding fast results with lower ‘upfront carbon.’
Renovating through the deployment of digital technologies is not only less disruptive to daily operations, but also more effective from a lifecycle carbon perspective. Failing to rapidly decarbonize buildings could also result in stranded assets that lose value and are unattractive to both investors and tenants.
Furthermore, recent research from the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability and the Schneider Electric Sustainability Research Institute estimates that there is a sizable potential to create new jobs through the transition to low-carbon buildings.

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UK’s cost of living crisis to significantly increase early death: Study

The UK’s inflation-fueled cost-of-living crisis is set to “cut lives short” and “significantly widen the wealth-health gap”, according to a study published by open access journal BMJ Public Health on Monday.

Modelling conducted for the study predicted that the proportion of people “dying before their time” (under the age of 75) will rise by nearly 6.5 percent due to the sustained period of high prices.

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The most deprived households will experience four times the number of extra deaths than the wealthiest households, it forecast, with the poorest having to spend a larger proportion of their income on energy, the cost of which has soared.

The researchers studied the impact of inflation on death rates in Scotland in 2022-3, with and without mitigating measures such as government support to help cut household bills.

The collected data was then used to model various potential future outcomes on life expectancy and inequalities for the UK as a whole if different mitigating policies were implemented.

Without any mitigation, the model found that inflation could increase deaths by five percent in the least deprived areas and by 23 percent in the most deprived — coming down to two percent and eight percent with mitigation, with an overall rate of around 6.5 percent.

Overall life expectancy would also fall in each case, it added.

“Our analysis contributes to evidence that the economy matters for population health,” said the researchers.

“The mortality impacts of inflation and real-terms income reduction are likely to be large and negative, with marked inequalities in how these are experienced.

“Implemented public policy responses are not sufficient to protect health and prevent widening inequalities,” they added.

UK inflation unexpectedly slowed in August to 6.7 percent from a high of 11.1 percent, but remains the highest in the G7, fueled by coronavirus lockdowns, Brexit and the war in Ukraine.

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