North Carolina
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to Modernize Medicaid Systems Platform with KPMG and Red Hat
KPMG collaborates with Pink Hat to ship an built-in platform to remodel the state’s Medicaid software program program for streamlined care supply
NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — KPMG LLP right now introduced that the State of North Carolina Division of Well being and Human Companies has chosen the KPMG Useful resource Integration Suite (KRIS) Linked Platform to combine a number of expertise options and allow optimized well being outcomes throughout the state. The KRIS Linked Platform primarily makes use of business main enterprise Kubernetes platform, Pink Hat OpenShift, to implement a central techniques integration cloud platform and modernize the state’s Medicaid software program operations to assist streamline the supply of vital well being providers.
North Carolina Division of Well being and Human Companies (NCDHHS) manages the supply of well being and human-related providers for North Carolinians, working carefully with healthcare professionals, neighborhood leaders and advocacy teams and plenty of native, state and federal entities to look after NC residents. The division noticed a chance to modernize its Medicaid program, a medical insurance program for low-income people and households who can’t afford well being care prices, to higher serve residents and enhance the digital expertise for care suppliers in this system.
With KPMG and Pink Hat, NCDHHS is shifting away from its legacy environments to undertake trendy, cloud-based functions to combine disparate techniques and adjust to Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Companies (CMS) steering, enabling sufferers and care suppliers to extra safely and effectively entry important well being data. NCDHHS chosen KPMG’s KRIS Linked Platform powered by Pink Hat OpenShift to boost software and knowledge interoperability for its Medicaid software program techniques.
The KPMG KRIS Linked Platform can allow NCDHHS to reply extra quickly to market calls for and helps lower the general prices of the state’s expertise footprint by using Pink Hat OpenShift to assist cloud-native, containerized workloads. As well as, NCDHHS will use Pink Hat Integration to extra seamlessly combine varied functions and expertise options mandatory to handle nuanced components of the Medicaid system.
KPMG and Pink Hat’s collaboration continues to offer enhanced hybrid cloud experiences for patrons whereas assembly necessities for regulated industries comparable to well being care. By combining Pink Hat’s open supply applied sciences with KPMG’s providers, such because the KRIS Linked Platform, clients comparable to NCDHHS can extra simply modernize techniques to higher meet the wants of sufferers and care suppliers.
Supporting Quotes
Mark Calem, advisory managing director, Well being and Authorities Options, KPMG LLP
“The KRIS Linked Platform has seen a number of curiosity from Medicaid and the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies as a result of it’s modular, versatile and excellent for assembly the mixing and shared providers wants of native, state and federal authorities companies. Most significantly, it helps the way forward for hybrid cloud integration, and we’re glad to work with Pink Hat to convey these transformational alternatives to our purchasers.”
Charles Carter, Assistant Secretary of Expertise Companies, State of North Carolina Division of Well being and Human Companies
“By leveraging the KPMG KRIS Linked Platform and Pink Hat expertise, we’re bringing North Carolina’s Medicaid program into the following era so we meet the long-term wants of North Carolinians. This collaboration has been an vital step to make sure our techniques are progressive, clear, and may reply to programmatic adjustments sooner.”
Chris Grey, vp, North America Companion Ecosystem, Pink Hat
“Pink Hat collaborates throughout an unlimited ecosystem of resolution suppliers, techniques integrators, software program distributors and extra to assist our clients efficiently modernize and remodel IT environments to satisfy their distinctive enterprise wants. By integrating Pink Hat OpenShift with KPMG’s KRIS platform, North Carolina Division of Well being and Human Companies can extra simply convey collectively cloud-based, legacy and on-premises techniques to streamline operations and supply higher consumer experiences for care suppliers and sufferers. We sit up for persevering with our collaboration with KPMG within the public sector and past.”
About KPMG LLP
KPMG LLP is the U.S. agency of the KPMG world group of impartial skilled providers corporations offering audit, tax and advisory providers. The KPMG world group operates in 144 international locations and territories and has greater than 236,000 individuals working in member corporations around the globe. Every KPMG agency is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG Worldwide Restricted is a personal English firm restricted by assure. KPMG Worldwide Restricted and its associated entities don’t present providers to purchasers.
KPMG is well known for being an ideal place to work and construct a profession. Our individuals share a way of function within the work we do, and a powerful dedication to neighborhood service, inclusion and variety, and eradicating childhood illiteracy. Be taught extra at www.kpmg.com/us.
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SOURCE KPMG LLP
North Carolina
USC Trojans Predicted to Flip Recruits from Utah, North Carolina Before Signing Day
The USC Trojans are in pursuit of flipping two class of 2025 recruits, Nela Tupou and Alex Payne. Can the Trojans flip one or both of these players before national signing day?
Nela Tupou Player Profile
Nela Tupou is a 6-4, 220 pound tight end/defensive end out of Folsom, California. He is rated as a three-star recruit and ranked as the 43rd-best ATH in the class of 2025 per 247Sports.
Tupou committed to the Utah Utes in February of 2024, but he just recently visited USC last weekend for the Trojans’ 28-20 win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
On3 is now predicting that Tupou will likely flip this commitment from Utah to USC.
Alex Payne Player Profile
Alex Payne is a 6-5, 265 pound offensive tackle out of Gainesville, Florida. He is rated as four-star recruit and ranked as the 16th-best offensive tackle in the class of 2025.
Payne committed to the North Carolina Tar Heels in January of 2024, but he as well as Tupou, visited USC last weekend.
In 247Sports recruiting analyst Tom Loy’s updated crystal ball prediction, he had Payne flipping his commitment from North Carolina to USC. Loy has a good track record of predicting where recruits will end up as his all-time hit rate for predicting recruits’ final destinations is 81.64 percent.
USC Bolstering Up Offensive Line to Go Along With Weapons
One of the glaring holes for the USC Trojans this season has been the offensive line. For USC to bounce back next season, they will have to get much better in the trenches. This has been exposed in their first season in the Big Ten. Landing Tupou, who can both be a factor in the run blocking scheme as a blocker, and Payne, one of the top tackle prospects in the country, would go a long way for next season and the future of the program.
Barring a flurry of transfer portal decisions, the Trojans will have an abundance of skill position talent coming back next season.
Freshman running back Quinten Joyner has been the second best back this season behind senior running back Woody marks.
Four of the Trojans five leading receivers are sophomores. Makai Lemon, Zachariah Branch, Ja’Kobi Lane, and Duce Robinson all have shown flashes of potentially being a number one wide receiver next season.
Add in the Trojans starting sophomore quarterback Jayden Maiava and they have one of the youngest teams in the Big Ten. If USC continues to address the offensive line in the last days of the 2025 recruiting cycle and in the transfer portal this offseason, the Trojans could be a dangerous team next season.
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North Carolina
School closings, delays in Western North Carolina, Friday, Nov. 22
Sledding in Haw Creek Dec. 9, 2018
The Tracey family enjoys the snow in Haw Creek with some sledding.
Angeli Wright, Asheville Citizen Times
Some school systems in Western North Carolina are closed Friday, Nov. 21, due to winter weather.
- Avery County Schools: Closed, remote learning day.
- Graham County Schools: Closed, workday for staff.
- Madison County Schools: Closed, optional teacher workday.
- Mitchell County Schools: Closed, remote learning day.
- Watauga County Schools: Two-hour delay.
- Yancey County Schools: Closed, remote learning day.
This story will be updated
North Carolina
North Carolina has some of the highest STD rates nationwide, report says
NORTH CAROLINA (WBTV) – North Carolina has some of the highest STD rates nationwide, according to a new study by the U.S. News & World Report.
The report analyzed the highest combined rates of three major sexually transmitted infections: Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis.
As far as the 10 states with the highest STD rates, N.C. ranked No. 7.
The data
According to the report, the state’s total STD rate is 911.5 per 100,000. That has actually decreased by -0.3% since 2022.
Rates for the three major STDs are:
- Chlamydia: 607.9 per 100,000
- Gonorrhea: 243.2 per 100,000
- Syphilis (cumulative): 60.4 per 100,000
South Carolina
South Carolina also has some of the highest STD rates in America, according to the report.
Ranked at No. 8 for the 10 states with the highest STD rates, the state’s total STD rate is 882.8 per 100,000. That has decreased by 10.9% since 2022.
Rates for the three major STDs are:
- Chlamydia: 612.1 per 100,000
- Gonorrhea: 222.4 per 100,000
- Syphilis (cumulative): 48.3 per 100,000
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