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Although it shows promise for reducing unnecessary healthcare spending and costs, and for improving decision making without adverse effects on clinical outcomes, shared decision making adoption has not been widespread.

The unionizing effort, a rare campaign within a major U.S. technology company, is supported by the Communications Workers of America as part of a recent tech-focused initiative.

Greg Poulin is the CEO of Goodly.

Patricia Pechter is the chief medical officer with HealthJoy.

Whether it’s because they have COVID-19 themselves, are worried about getting it or are taking care of someone who already has it, the number of workers who’ve missed days on the job has doubled in the pandemic.

The large self-insured healthcare provider network added new regions and partnered with programs to help consumers cope with quarantine challenges.

Jack Castonguay, Ph.D., CPA, is vice president of strategic content development – accounting, finance, and exam prep, at Knowfully Learning Group. He holds a BBA in accounting and a Master of Science in accounting from James Madison University, and received his Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Tennessee. He began his career in public accounting with a Big Four accounting firm auditing manufacturing and financial services clients, and has taught financial accounting, auditing, and research seminars at the graduate and undergraduate levels and is currently an assistant professor at Hofstra University.

Elizabeth Urish is a director for Steel Tower Investments. She provides wealth counsel to her clients, coordinating the multiple facets of their financial lives, and also works with the firm’s institutional clients, advising captive insurance companies on their investment management needs. She began her financial services career in New York with Deutsche Bank. As a vice president on the investment bank’s trading floor, she designed and executed bespoke investments across all asset classes for mutual funds, wealth management firms and high-net-worth individuals.

Traci Rutter, EA, MBA, is a tax supervisor, with Urish Popeck & Co. She has over 20 years of tax consulting and advisory experience. She serves clients in a variety of industries, but is primarily focused on higher education, professional services and technology. Her client service responsibilities are focused on providing tax structuring and consulting services to large, consolidated public or multistate C corporations, S corporations and partnerships. Prior to joining Urish Popeck, she worked with other regional accounting firms.

George White is the executive vice president at Custodia Financial.