Reston, VA and St. Paul, MN (Vocus) November 9, 2010

AFrame Digital, Inc. and CMA announced today an alliance to integrate and market AFrame Digital’s MobileCare Monitor™ service through CMA to its healthcare clients seeking an enhanced personal healthcare monitoring tool.

CMA is an expert service provider of healthcare communication solutions working with healthcare facilities such as long-term care, clinical, and hospital settings.

“Our clients have been requesting a personal healthcare communications system for their patients,” says Mary Blackford, CMA director of sales and marketing. “We feel we have finally found the right technology through AFrame Digital. The company understands the real needs of the patient and the care provider.”

The AFrame Digital has developed a Personal Health Monitor™ – a non-intrusive wrist monitor similar to a sports watch – that represents the next generation in senior health care technology. The Personal Health Monitor and AFrame’s open wireless network records a user’s activity, impacts, and critical health data including weight, blood pressure, pulse and oxygenation levels. Changes in any one of these bodily functions can signal the need for immediate care. Additionally, concerned family members can be sent alerts and updates over mobile networks.

CMA realizes that each facility has its own set of distinct communication needs directly related to factors such as size, facility and floor layout, centralized or decentralized nursing stations, patient-focused care and other nursing styles. AFrame’s MobileCare Monitor service provides trending information and alerts to allow health care providers to properly treat seniors based on long-term data rather than one-time readings. “The ability to alert on changes in a user’s health eliminates the need to sift through data and reports. This enhanced communications tool allows medical personnel to determine the root causes of those changes faster,” says Blackford.

CMA is serving a growing clientele of seniors who want to live independently. However, one of the greatest fears is the risk of falling and not receiving help. AFrame removes that worry. If a senior falls, the system sends out an immediate signal to any one in the system. There is no need for a senior to press a button or pull an emergency cord that he or she may not have the ability to reach. “This system is cost-effective and focuses on wellness and prevention to keep people living independent and healthy,” says Blackford.

The AFrame Digital System is now being installed in CMA facilities across the Midwest.

AFrame Digital Inc., http://www.aframedigital.com, was founded in 2005 to research, design and manufacture non-intrusive, wireless sensor-based monitoring and situational awareness solutions for long-term care and occupational safety. AFrame has received support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institutes of Health, and is working closely with two large military treatment facilities, Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) and Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), to develop models of injury and disease recovery for the bioinformatics analysis software portion of the system. The company’s MobileCare Monitor system and Personal Health Monitor received FDA clearance in 2009 for in-patient, outpatient and home care settings.

CMA, http://www.cma-ideacom.com, has over five decades of experience in providing healthcare communications tools and solutions for healthcare facilities in the Midwest. The company focuses on healthcare and patient care by working to provide technology solutions that allows healthcare professionals to do what they do best – providing quality care to their residents or patients.

For Further Information Contact:

Kelly Besecker

571-308-0147

info(at)aframedigital(dot)com

http://www.aframedigital.com

Mary T. Blackford

651-228-2638

mblackford(at)Idea-ma.com

http://www.cma-ideacom(dot)com

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Burlington, VT (PRWEB) October 18, 2010

CapSite announced today that The Nebraska Medical Center, a 624 bed academic medical center has subscribed to the CapSite service to improve their capital expenditure process.

CapSite, the online subscription-based service provides healthcare organizations like The Nebraska Medical Center extraordinarily detailed transparency on healthcare technology pricing and packaging. CapSite is designed to assist providers with making capital expenditures in healthcare technology at the planning, budgeting and negotiating phases of the process.

CapSite covers more than a hundred different healthcare technology categories across Imaging Equipment, Medical Devices and Healthcare IT (HIT). The HIT categories include coverage of Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions which are of significant interest in light of the HITECH Act of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

“The Nebraska Medical Center is a prominent leader in the healthcare community, particularly with the adoption of healthcare technology, and we are very pleased to have an opportunity to partner with them,” says Shaun West, Provider Solutions at CapSite.

About The Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center is known for excellence, innovation and quality patient care. As the teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska’s health sciences programs, this 624 acute-care bed facility has an international reputation for providing solid organ and bone marrow transplantation services and is well known nationally and regionally for its oncology, neurology and cardiology programs.

The Nebraska Medical Center was created in 1997 by combining the operations of University Hospital, Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hospital, and their ambulatory care facilities. The Nebraska Medical Center is Nebraska’s largest health care facility – with more than 4,900 employees and more than 1,000 physicians on staff. Its physicians practice in all major specialties and sub-specialties attracting patients from across the region and from around the world. As the primary teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, The Nebraska Medical Center hosts more than 350 medical and surgical residents and assists in the training and education of more than 1,000 students.

About CapSite™

CapSite™ is a healthcare technology research and advisory firm. Our mission is to help our healthcare vendor and provider clients make more informed strategic decisions that will enable them to accelerate the growth of their business.

The CapSite™ database is the trusted, easy-to-use online resource providing critical knowledge and evidence-based information on healthcare technology purchases. CapSite™ provides detailed transparency on healthcare technology pricing, packaging and positioning.

When it comes to healthcare technology research, it helps to see all the details. Those details are now available with CapSite™.

For more information about CapSite or to schedule a live demo, please visit CapSite.com

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Sausalito, California (PRWEB) December 3, 2008

A staggering financial crisis can’t dissuade President-elect Barack Obama from making healthcare reform a top priority, because small business – widely regarded as the ‘engine’ of our economy – can’t prosper amid rising and unpredictable costs. Dispelling a popular myth that small business doesn’t want healthcare reform is the first step in giving entrepreneurs the boost they need to help jump-start the economy.

That’s the opinion of John Arensmeyer, founder and CEO of Small Business Majority, a national small business healthcare advocate, speaking about research released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Public Opinion Strategies and Lake Research Partners (See a summary of the research findings at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). Surveyed were 400 small business owners and executives of firms that have fewer than 50 employees and pay for some portion of their employees’ health benefits.

According to the new research, more than one in three small business owners (36 percent) say that rising costs are likely to cause them to cut some portion of health insurance benefits for their employees. They look to Congress and the new president to help address their concerns, with nearly half of small business owners (42 percent) saying ‘making health care more affordable’ is the idea Washington should address first.

“Despite the enormous contributions of small business to the growth of the 21st century American economy, the stability of our communities, and our global competitiveness, entrepreneurial values are largely absent from our political debate, and small businesses have been woefully ill-represented politically,” said Arensmeyer. “Small business owners are looking to the new administration to tackle a problem that has long been spiraling out of control.”

“More so than erratic energy costs or taxes, small business owners views healthcare as key to their competitiveness and the economic health of the country.”

Arensmeyer went on to say that entrepreneurs are pragmatists who are focused on the bottom line, and that healthcare reform shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

“Small business owners are already under a strain, and when coupled with rising and unpredictable healthcare costs, the challenge can be almost insurmountable,”said Arensmeyer. “And all they are really asking for is a level playing field – a solution that puts them on par with their big business counterparts when it comes to being able to offer quality coverage for their employees.”

Particularly revealing in the RWJF research was the idea that one solution doesn’t dominate in the minds of small business owners. “A majority of small businesses are willing to pay into a system of shared responsibility that works and ensures small business access to affordable quality healthcare,” said Arensmeyer. “It’s not a question of ‘if’ we should pursue reform, it’s ‘how.’ And more importantly, ‘when.’”

About Small Business Majority (Small Business Majority)

Small Business Majority is a national nonprofit organization of business entrepreneurs working to ensure prosperity in the 21st century economy by building a politically aware and active community of small business leaders.

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Scottsdale, AZ. (PRWEB) January 9, 2006

Envision Health and Wellness LLC has made battling Metabolic Syndrome and its effects on employee health and company bottom line easy with the launch of its new, highly interactive, easy to use, health and fitness website, Health-Coach.com.

Metabolic Syndrome is characterized by having three out of a group of five risk factors: obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, elevated triglycerides and insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes. Any one of these can lead to serious and costly health problems, but new evidence shows that having multiple risk factors can dramatically increase an employee’s chances of developing even more serious conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer.

“The effects of Metabolic Syndrome on a company can be far reaching and the costs can be staggering, whether calculated as health care costs, productivity, presenteeism, and/or absenteeism,” says Terence Knealing, CEO.

Metabolic Syndrome can be preventable for most employees through changes in diet, exercise and lifestyle. Fortunately these are the cornerstone of Health-Coach.com. Health-Coach.com gives employees all the tools necessary to make healthy lifestyle changes thus lowering their risk factors. Employees, working with their health coach, design customized, personalized, diet and exercise programs. All information is securely tracked in an online journal that is reviewed daily by a certified health coach who makes assessments and recommendations, as well as answering questions and providing motivation and encouragement.

“Simply giving employees information is not enough; they need the personalized attention of a certified health coach to customize the information into a program that will fit their current lifestyle,” says Knealing.

“The education, motivation and accountability that Health-Coach.com provides are what differentiate it from all other online programs,” continues Knealing.

Health-Coach.com is packed with easy to use features including a nutrition journal, exercise journal, personal journal, online health and wellness magazine, recipe library, video exercise library, registered dietician designed menus, BMI and calorie calculators, certified fitness trainer designed exercise programs and many other tools to maximize employee participation and engagement and ensure success.

Built into Health-Coach.com’s feature rich platform are also comprehensive reporting functions for tracking employee progress, participation and company ROI. Health-Coach.com can serve as a stand alone wellness program for companies looking for an easy cost effect way to start a program. For companies that are already operating a wellness program, Health-Coach.com can be integrated to support the current initiatives and add additional functionality.

Ultimately the number one problem facing companies today is healthcare costs. Smart companies know that reducing risks associated with Metabolic Syndrome, a leading driver in rising healthcare costs, protects their most valuable asset—employees—which has a lasting impact on the bottom line.

Envision Health & Wellness is a preventive health management and consulting company specializing in corporate health and productivity management programs. Envision Health & Wellness partners with companies to develop and provide integrated on site and online comprehensive preventive health programs, creating a healthier and more productive work force.

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San Francisco, CA and Miami, FL (PRWEB) June 25, 2008

MedHelp (http://www.medhelp.org), the largest health community on the web, and HealthCare.com, Inc. (http://www.healthcare.com), the leader in local healthcare provider search, announced today that MedHelp has launched a private-label version of HealthCare.com’s Care Provider Search™. As part of the agreement, MedHelp’s 5.5 million monthly users will have full access to the 1.3 million listings in HealthCare.com’s leading online healthcare provider directory. MedHelp’s users can search the directory for medical and dental professionals, medical practices, health facilities and other health-related businesses in over 180 health and wellness-related categories.

“We are pleased to provide HealthCare.com Care Provider Search™ to MedHelp, the leading health community, for the benefit of its millions of members,” said Howard Yeh, VP of Corporate Development at HealthCare.com. “Adding new partners, especially of the size and quality of MedHelp, pushes us ahead in our goal to assist online users in making better and more informed healthcare decisions for them and their loved ones.”

“HealthCare.com’s Care Provider Search™ is a natural extension of MedHelp’s goal of providing expert advice and information to the millions of visitors to our community,” said John de Souza, CEO of MedHelp. “We are excited to be able to offer this functionality to our users, and especially pleased to welcome HealthCare.com as a partner.”

MedHelp’s care provider directory, powered by HealthCare.com, is located at http://www.medhelp.org/find-a-doctor.

About MedHelp

MedHelp, with over 5.5 million monthly users, is the largest online health community site connecting people with shared medical experiences. MedHelp provides its users with access to advice from experts at the top medical institutions such as the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, National Jewish, Partners Health, and Mount Sinai. MedHelp members can access an online archive of millions of posts across hundreds of medical conditions. In addition, MedHelp offers personalized user accounts, information on health topics and treatments, and an extensive set of health tools to help users track and monitor various health conditions. For additional information, please visit http://www.medhelp.org.

About HealthCare.com, Inc.

HealthCare.com, with its flagship web property at http://www.healthcare.com, features the web’s leading healthcare provider directory connecting health consumers with healthcare professionals and healthcare-related businesses. In addition to operating a leading online health website, HealthCare.com has syndicated the Care Provider Search™ to leading newspaper websites, local media and health portals, allowing its partners’ audiences to engage with local health providers. Syndication partners include MedHelp, AOL Health, Everyday Health and drugstore.com. For health professionals, HealthCare.com offers free profile pages, free email service, a blogging platform, and a soon-to-be-launched healthcare jobs search engine. For health consumers, HealthCare.com offers informational content through a health portal, health content search, health products and health medications. For additional information, please visit http://www.healthcare.com.

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Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) June 4, 2009

Orion Health Inc., a market leader in providing clinical workflow and integration technology for electronic health record (EHR) solutions, today announced its position among the top 100 Healthcare IT companies, as ranked by Healthcare Informatics. Listed in the top 100 for the fourth year running, the company moved up seven positions since 2008, to 63rd place.

Much of Orion Health’s success can be attributed to an ever-increasing need for data integration and the recent call from the federal government urging healthcare providers to implement an EHR system. In addition, the company has gained market in the public health industry as the CDC and other federal agencies urging departments of health to strengthen their emergency systems and improve nation-wide early detection and rapid response.

Paul Viskovich, Orion Health President of North America and EMEA Operations says “This is the second year in a row we’ve made a jump of seven places and we plan to continue the upward trend as we increase our position as the provider of choice when it comes to health data integration.”

Orion Health has experienced continued growth and success in 2009, with license revenues for Rhapsody™ and Symphonia software up 50% on last year. In 2008 the company announced its position as New Zealand’s leading software exporter, reporting million NZD in consolidated gross revenue for 2008. Orion Health continues to expand its efforts in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, recently opening offices in Boston and Reading in the UK.

Founded in 1993 by CEO Ian McCrae, Orion Health is the largest New Zealand owned software exporter and regarded internationally as a leading provider of health data management systems.

About Orion Health

Orion Health is a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector. Orion Health’s easy-to-use solutions and applications improve patient care and clinical decision making by providing integrated health data in a single, unified view. By enhancing existing healthcare information systems, Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine, Concerto™ Physician Portal, and workflow solutions provide healthcare workers with easy access to patient data and trends, and reduce errors and omissions by streamlining information transfer.

Worldwide, Orion Health implements health information communities involving over 35 million patients with tens of thousands of active users including Spain’s IB Salut, Maine’s HealthInfoNet and the Vermont Health Information Exchange. Orion Health’s partners include leading health system integrators and IT vendors such as Accenture, IBM, Oracle, Sierra Systems and others. Orion Health has more than 1,000 clients around the world, including Lahey Clinic, several of the U.K.’s NHS Trust Hospitals, UCLA Medical Center, and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More information can be found at http://www.orionhealth.com.

Concerto and Rhapsody are registered trademarks of Orion Health and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Chicago, Illinois (PRWEB) July 14, 2010

CSG Government Solutions, a national leader in providing public sector strategy, quality management and systems modernization services, today announced that Darren Steiner, former Medical Systems Manager for the State of Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, has joined CSG as a Principal in the firm’s Healthcare Practice.

Mr. Steiner has extensive experience in strategic planning for the modernization of business processes and technical capabilities in state government healthcare-related programs. He has proven himself as a leader in coordinating and directing all phases of project efforts while managing, motivating, and leading project teams. “Darren is recognized nationally in the Medicaid program community as a strong contributor to state modernization efforts,” says Tim Lenning, Executive Vice-President of CSG Government Solutions. “His experience in state government and his personal focus on the customer’s best interests benefit CSG’s Healthcare Modernization Practice and the customer engagements we support.”

CSG Government Solutions continues to increase its presence across the United States. The company deploys highly experienced teams and innovative proprietary methodologies to help governments modernize their most complex program enterprises. Its clients include the state governments of Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Vermont; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and large municipal governments.

Contact:

Garrick Beil

Senior Principal

CSG Government Solutions

180 North Stetson Avenue, Suite 3200

Chicago, Illinois 60601

(312) 444-2760

About CSG Government Solutions

CSG Government Solutions is a growing Management and Information Technology consulting firm focused on delivering high value solutions for our public sector clients. The firm employs its CSG REALizeSM suite of proven planning, process, and quality management methodologies to help our clients successfully leverage technology to modernize critical program enterprises. Founded in 1997, CSG has established itself as an innovative and trusted partner to government agencies throughout the U.S.

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(PRWEB) June 29, 2005

Until recently, most payer organizations stored contracts as Word documents with little or no management of contracts. Much time was wasted in wading through contracts to find the right clause, or the right version of a contract, or even locating the details of a negotiation. eprovion™ significantly simplifies contracting. The product allows payers to store versions of contracts in a central repository, to create and use a library of clauses, to enforce standard contracting language through the use of templates, and to track various details of a negotiation. eprovion™ generates reminders for contract renewal and for the other tasks involved in contracting. With eprovion™ organizations can create complex contracts with physicians, hospitals, ancillaries and networks. Large volumes of contracts can be handled through the product’s batch contracting facility. Most organizations today use MS-Word to write and store their contracts. eprovion™ integrates seamlessly with Word making it exceptionally easy for users to migrate to the platform. Because the product is designed to scale from a single-user to the enterprise, it is easy to move from the lower priced single-user configuration to an enterprise configuration.

eprovion™ enables payers to store rate tables and link them with contracts easing the task of loading a contract into a claims system. The product has a provider cost modeling utility that allows contract managers to project costs based on historical claims data, and use it in contract negotiations.

Features planned in later releases include full-strength claims integration, and more sophisticated mining of contracts.

The product uses web technologies and is portable across a variety of operating systems and databases including the Microsoft and Unix platforms.

About ObjectOrb

ObjectOrb Technologies (www.objectorb.com) is an IT services and products company based in Bangalore, India. ObjectOrbÂ’s product division caters to the needs of the healthcare industry in the US, the Middle East, and other geographies. It creates and markets a suite of products that meet the critical business needs of the healthcare industry. Business in the healthcare vertical contributes nearly 90 percent of the companyÂ’s revenues each year. ObjectOrb, an ISO 9001:2000 certified company, has extensive experience in working on multi-year, full life cycle product development in the healthcare vertical for customers in the US and Europe.

Founded by software professionals from the US, Switzerland, and India, ObjectOrb has been an offshore development partner for product companies in the US and Europe. ObjectOrb has a software development center in Bangalore, India, and marketing and sales partners in the US and Europe.

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(PRWEB) January 14, 2010

The Insurance Corruption National Healthcare Plan was produced in response to public objection to the government’s various complicated and extremely expensive plans. It’s designed to be voluntary, make a profit, and yet be a low-cost plan which would give immediate benefits. It’s offered as a compromise between what Democrats and Republicans want by Insurance Corruption, an independent group.

Instead of increasing the national deficit, the voluntary Insurance Corruption Plan would produce a profit from several sources:

Premiums and services would be very affordable, on a sliding scale. Healthcare would not be free, to avoid abuse of benefits. No insurance companies would be involved in the Insurance Corruption Plan.

The Plan would be contracted out, instead of becoming another massive and incompetent government bureaucracy, which would eliminate huge bonuses for executives, and taxpayers would not be supporting insurance company abuse, greed, excess, crime, and high-priced lawyers.

The plan includes veterans, which would create enormous savings by eliminating the VA medical program. No money would be spent on advertising.

It’s simplified and would save taxpayers millions to implement and operate. It’s streamlined, as opposed to the government’s numerous and complicated plans, and is designed to be completely separate from all other government programs. It’s designed to help the struggling middle class, although it would be available to everyone.

Details of the Insurance Corruption Plan are on the website, http://insurancecorruption.com.

There have been ongoing complaints that legislators are not listening to public complaints about the numerous plans the government has proposed. For example, there has been a great deal of public anger over forced payments to insurance companies.

The Insurance Corruption website offers powerful and effective ways to remind legislators that they work for the American people and not insurance companies. The Plan would also cut the financial ties between legislators and insurance company executives and refers to www.legalparasites.com.

There is no time limit for implementing the Insurance Corruption Plan, since any decision made by Congress can always be changed. However, the sooner a final decision is made by the American people, the less it will cost taxpayers to implement the healthcare plan. The Insurance Corruption Plan offers to give Republicans reassurance that this would not be more government welfare, and Democrats the freedom from insurance company corruption. The reality is that there will be a healthcare plan, and this could be the best compromise which all Americans would benefit from.

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“While certain factors, both economic and political, clearly influence short-term performance I am fundamentally confident of the success chances of our Healthcare business in the long run.” Mr. Rusckowski commented. “Our world is facing some inescapable challenges in the medium-to-long term. We have come a long way already in building up the Healthcare portfolio needed to face those challenges. This, coupled with our leading business positions and our differentiating approach in general, positions us well for the future, despite the short-term headwind we face today.”

During today’s meeting, several Healthcare executives will discuss the fundamental drivers and positioning of their respective businesses. For instance, the chief executive of Home Healthcare Solutions will discuss how ever-more pressing challenges like overburdened healthcare systems and ageing populations will lead to out-of-hospital medical treatment and patient monitoring becoming an increasingly important element in the Healthcare mix. He will elaborate on how Philips is excellently positioned to benefit from this trend, while providing sensible solutions to some of the key healthcare challenges of our time.

Other executives will cover a range of relevant topics, including progress made in building out the business in key emerging economies such as China, India and Latin America by making strategic acquisitions, expanding service businesses and extending the product offering. There will also be a session dedicated to Philips’ holistic care-cycle approach to Healthcare and how it gives the business a strong competitive edge. Steve Rusckowski will also discuss how, despite some short-term negative trends, the fundamentals of the business remain strong.

During the day, analysts will also be given more insight into Philips Healthcare’s efforts to tackle the short-term impact of the current economic slowdown through a strong focus on cost and cash management and ensuring that maximum value is captured from recent acquisitions. Philips will also provide an update on restructuring and cost reduction measures for Healthcare, which are now expected to result in total savings of EUR 150 million for 2009.