As we observe National Suicide Prevention Week 2017, we sat down with Dr. Shareh Ghani, vice president and medical director at Magellan Healthcare who lead Magellan’s Driving Suicide to Zero Initiative. Magellan Health Insights: Dr. Ghani, thank you for chatting with us today. Tell us about the work you did with the Driving Suicide to…
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We’ve all been impacted by the horrific flooding taking place in Texas due to Hurricane Harvey, and witnessed the many instances of heroism and community support in response to this tragedy. In addition to the widespread damage occurring, we have a number of Magellan team members and their families who live in impacted areas and…
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Privacy is a funny thing, and peoples’ choices about privacy when technology is involved is often hard to explain. We don’t think twice about letting companies track what we like and don’t; what we search for and when we search; the photos we like and the ones we don’t; our shopping patterns and our wish…
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Magellan Rx Management will soon be hosting the 14th Annual Specialty Summit. We had the opportunity to sit down with Phillip Vecchiolli, senior vice president and general manager of our specialty division at Magellan Rx Management to share his thoughts on this exciting event. Magellan Health Insights: What can attendees expect at this year’s Specialty…
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A study by a team of Magellan researchers, demonstrating the pervasiveness of opioid addiction, was presented at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting, and was also the subject of an article by Clinical Psychiatry News. The study, an analysis of medical and pharmacy data from 2009—2012 for 2.5 million people aged 20-64 who were…
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Over the past decade, technology has become enmeshed in our lives. From the ubiquitous smartphones we all carry, to connected houses, cars, cameras and more — it seems like just about every object we come into contact with is gaining new capabilities from being connected to the cloud. At Magellan Health, we feel strongly that…
Read More I shared this message with all 10,000 associates at Magellan yesterday. As I said in my message, times like these require all of us not to be silent, but instead to stand tall and make it very clear that we are committed to an environment where all people can progress personally and professionally, and work…
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The past decade has seen some remarkable changes in technology, which has ushered in an era where we are always “on,” always connected and where most everything that was analog now is digital. Many of us walk around with powerful computers in our pockets –also known as smartphones–that are more powerful than the computers that…
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