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Digital Collaboration Solutions Expands Dynamic Advisory Board with Addition of Healthcare IT Leaders Naomi Fried, Chuck Podesta, and Charlene Underwood

Boston, Mass. (PRWEB) January 28, 2014

Digital Collaboration Solutions (DCS), the health care solutions leader for facilitating critical business process change and improved outcomes through innovative care coordination, communications and collaboration, is pleased to announce the addition of three dynamic healthcare industry veterans to its advisory board: Chuck Podesta, senior vice president and chief information officer, Fletcher Allen Health Care and Fletcher Allen Partners; Naomi Fried, chief innovation officer, Boston Children’s Hospital; and Charlene Underwood, senior director of government and industry affairs, Siemens Medical Solutions.

Each brings deep industry experience and perspective to DCS that will accelerate the organization’s growth and unique position in the healthcare IT marketplace.

Podesta brings 30 years of experience, including numerous leadership roles. At Fletcher Allen, his healthcare IT experience is integral to Fletcher Allen Partners’ success as an integrated care system and accountable care organization. Under his leadership Fletcher Allen has successfully implemented Epic as its hospital information system. He is vice chair of the board of directors for Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL), which is both the designated health information exchange (HIE) for the state of Vermont and its federally designated regional extension center (REC). Podesta came to Fletcher Allen in 2008 after serving as SVP and CIO at Caritas Christi Health Care (now Steward Health Care) in Brighton, Mass.

As a longtime health IT veteran, Podesta lends often his expertise to the national stage, including seats on Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) working groups. He also serves on the advisory board for HealthSystemCIO.com and the editorial board at Healthcare Informatics Magazine.

Naomi Fried offers more than a decade of thought leadership expertise in several senior leadership roles as well as an in-depth understanding of how technology can spur healthcare innovation. As Boston Children’s Hospital’s first Chief Innovation Officer, Fried leads a team that promotes technological, clinical-process, and business model innovation across the world-renowned pediatric institution.

The Innovation Acceleration Program she leads focuses on enhancing the innovation culture by supporting strategic innovation initiatives, resourcing grass roots innovation, and identifying unmet innovation opportunities. Prior to joining Children’s, Dr. Fried served as Vice President of Innovation and Advanced Technology at Kaiser Permanente, where she built and managed a team of clinicians and technologists charged with identifying and assessing emerging clinical technologies and introducing them to operational leaders within Kaiser Permanente.

As Senior Director of Government and Industry Affairs at Siemens Healthcare, Charlene Underwood continues to build upon her reputation as one of the country’s foremost healthcare informatics experts. She directs Siemens outreach and advocacy activities in emerging market initiatives, specifically those related to government activities in healthcare IT. Underwood is delivering Siemens’ message to key stakeholders throughout the healthcare industry and on Capitol Hill, while developing programs that enable Siemens leadership in key government and industry initiatives.

Underwood served as the Vice Chair and Chair, HIMSS Board of Directors and as the first chair of HIMSS Electronic Health Record Vendor Association (EHRVA), is on the Federal Health IT Policy Committee Meaningful Use Workgroup, the HL7 Advisory Board, a member of the American Health Information Community (AHIC) Quality Workgroup and Expert Panel, and has sat on many other advisory groups involved in HIT development. Her many accomplishments include earning the HIMSS Fellow designation and being elected to HIMSS board. She boasts an accomplished history of actively advocating for industry involvement in defining how health IT is a means to improving patient safety and outcomes while reducing costs.

“We are extremely pleased and excited to add Charlene, Chuck and Naomi to our distinguished advisory board,” said Michael Levinger, president and CEO of Digital Collaboration Solutions. “Each brings deeply unique experience to the health IT field that recognizes the power of eCollaboration as an industry game-changer. We are eager to continue to build our organization through their steady guidance and invaluable insights.”

The new advisory board members join: Michael Aldridge, vice president of operations at Kansas Foundation of Medical Care and President and CEO of Synovim Healthcare Solutions, Inc.; Karen Bell, M.D., chairperson of the Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) and member of the healthcare IT Policy Committee Accountable Care Workgroup; Andy Freed, president, Virtual, Inc. and former CIO of the Massachusetts Hospital Association; Roger Holloway, executive director, IL-HITREC and Joe Heyman, M.D., a Massachusetts board-certified gynecologist, member of the Board of Directors of the Whittier Independent Practice Association and past chairman of the American Medical Association Board of Trustees.

About Digital Collaboration Solutions, LLC

Digital Collaboration Solutions is a consulting and services company that helps healthcare organizations improve care coordination, patient experience, and provider engagement through innovative care coordination, communications, collaboration, and technology. Our team combines healthcare, healthcare IT and communications experience with the latest in digital collaboration technologies to deliver measurable results and improved outcomes. Visit thinkdcs.com and follow us at @thinkdcs for the latest in healthcare collaboration.







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NOVAtime Technology, Inc. Hosts Its 2014 Encounters Conference at the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas

(PRWEB) February 11, 2014

NOVAtime Technology, Inc. (http://www.novatime.com), a forward-thinking workforce management solution development company that continues to apply the latest technological advancements to its suite of Time and Attendance / Workforce Management products and services, announced today that it has successfully hosted its second User Conference February 4 – 6 at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

In line with the Encounters Conference theme of “Mobility,” NOVAtime previewed exciting mobile offerings planned for 2014. One of the highlights of the conference was Frank Su, Founder and CEO of NOVAtime, providing a live demonstration of the new Advanced Schedule Manager (ASM) product. The demonstration showed one employee calling in sick and the system automatically sending text messages to several qualified employees to fill the position. As one employee electronically accepted the position, the system filled the open schedule. Another employee who responded a bit later received a declination message, saying the position had been filled.

NOVAtime User Conference attendees also enjoyed a virtual tour of the data center, as well as overviews of new features that were introduced to the solution in 2013 and new functionalities on the 2014 development roadmap. Additionally, attendees benefitted from sessions presented by Adam D.H. Grant (“Use of Mobile Apps in the Workplace: Privacy and Security”) and Alfred J. Landegger, Esq. (“2014 Wage and Hour Trends and Litigation”). Mr. Grant is a shareholder of Alpert, Barr & Grant; Mr. Landegger is a senior partner at Landegger Baron Law Group, which specializes in employment labor laws and workers’ compensation.

During a Product Review Board session, NOVAtime’s guest speaker, Kevin Soohoo, CIO at Air Systems, discussed how their company has been successfully utilizing the NOVAtime system via PCs and iPads to manage both union and non-union employees since July 2011. Mr. Soohoo elaborated on the large-group feature that was implemented in NOVAtime to support over 15,000 combinations of jobs and work order codes.

Many NOVAtime team members were on hand, meeting with attendees that they have worked with on implementations and supporting installations. In addition to NOVAtime personnel, the conference provided an opportunity for attendees to network with other NOVAtime customers. Lucy Saldana said, “It’s really good to meet the other users and learn from each other. The interaction with other users was very helpful. I enjoyed learning about some features that are already in the system and ones that will be available in 2014.” Another conference attendee commented that she really enjoyed meeting other NOVAtime customers, and tweeted, “I had a good time at the banquet.”

NOVAtime’s social media was flooded with posts from enthusiastic conference attendees. Reyna Garcia posted on Twitter, “Best conference ever!!!! Great company!!!” Someone else tweeted, “History, products, networking… great conference.”

A NOVAtime user and conference attendee posted on Facebook, “I am excited to be here again. I was looking forward to this since last year’s conference. Looking forward to learning what is new for 2014. Excited for the multi edit feature.” Later, the same person posted again, “I downloaded the mobile app while at the conference. Thanks to this technology I was able to see some employees left work to go to the Seahawks parade but didn’t clock out.”

The Encounters Conference not only provided information to users, but also enabled NOVAtime to gain insight from customers in order to guide future development. “The conference was very informative. It was a very pleasant experience, and we got to suggest new features that will help us be more productive,” said Tatjana Projkovska of Gerawan Farming Inc.

Brian Harris, Vice President of Client Services at NOVAtime, concluded, “This conference was the perfect opportunity for our customers to meet, share their experiences, and learn from each other. It was also an opportunity for them to witness the passion and energy of the NOVAtime team that continues to develop innovative advancements within the Workforce Management / Time and Attendance industry.”

About NOVAtime

Established in 1999, NOVAtime has helped over 10,000 organizations around the world benefit from the use of NOVAtime Workforce Management solutions. With corporate offices located in Diamond Bar, California, NOVAtime utilizes the latest advancements in technology for its complete suite of Workforce Management solutions. This has enabled NOVAtime to serve companies with complex data collection requirements, including badge/biometric time clocks, browser-based data collection, telephone features, PDA scanners, etc. NOVAtime offers solutions for scheduling, labor allocation, job costing, work-order management, and cost center allocation. The NOVAtime 4000 SaaS solution is delivered via Software-as-a-Service and features a multi-tiered, multi-tenant infrastructure. Alternatively, the NOVAtime 4000 STAR licensed solution can be delivered on-premise, installed on the customer’s servers. While NOVAtime 4000 STAR is available for companies with over 1000 employees, NOVAtime also offers the NOVAtime 4000 STARbox for companies with up to 1000 employees. For more information about NOVAtime and to learn about how it has helped other companies control costs and remain compliant with today’s challenging business requirements, please visit http://www.novatime.com or call 877.486.6682.







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ACR Electronics, Inc. & George Poveromo a Saltwater Partnership for Safety at Sea

Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) February 11, 2014

ACR Electronics, Inc., a leader in safety and signaling technologies, announces their newest brand ambassador – George Poveromo, nationally recognized saltwater fisherman and host of the NBC Sports Network TV series, “George Poveromo’s World of Saltwater Fishing”.

A world-renowned angling authority and long-time customer of ACR, George Poveromo has also experienced his own close call at sea. While off the Florida Keys in 2012, George was pulled overboard while hooked to a 256 pound swordfish, which he ultimately went on to catch. With this experience serving as a prime example that the unexpected can happen even to the most experienced fisherman, Poveromo now touts the merits of safe boating and fishing among his strong following of saltwater fishing enthusiast.

“The very first EPIRB I purchased was an ACR, and every one since has been an ACR, because of their untouchable reputation in the marine safety field,” said Poveromo.

Together, ACR and Poveromo are getting the word out to offshore boaters that 406 MHz beacons are a small price to pay for lifesaving technology and should never be viewed as optional gear. “People tend to associate boating mishaps with sinking,” said Poveromo. “But what if there’s an electrical fire and you need to abandon the vessel, or if you fall overboard at night and no one notices? There are inherent dangers associated with offshore fishing and boating, and that’s why every sea-going vessel should carry an ACR EPIRB as well as personal locator beacons. You can’t put a price tag on the safety of your family and friends who are on board for a fun day of fishing,” added Poveromo.

Learn more about ACR’s 406 MHz beacons on George Poveromo’s World of Saltwater Fishing show on NBC Sports or at his Salt Water Sportsman National Seminar Series.







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NewCrop Adopts Point-of-Care Partners ePrescribing Regulatory Tracker

Coral Springs, Florida (PRWEB) February 13, 2014

NewCrop, the leading provider of healthcare electronic prescribing services, has selected Point-of-Care Partners’ ePrescribing State Law Review to help the company stay abreast of the ever-changing ePrescribing regulatory landscape. Point-of-Care Partners, a national health information technology (HIT) strategy and management consulting firm, has published the State Law Review since 2006 as a means to simplify ePrescribing regulatory compliance for stakeholders and to facilitate the adoption of ePrescribing and related electronic transactions.

Point-of-Care Partners’ ePrescribing State Law Review is a succinct yet comprehensive data set that provides a regularly updated analysis of state and federal rules, regulations and statutes governing electronic prescriptions. The ePrescribing State Law Review is designed to help electronic health record vendors and health information service companies avoid sanctions or other problems that may delay implementations and cause pharmacies to reject electronic prescriptions, or create tensions between them and their provider customers.

“The Law Review will help NewCrop keep track of the expansive ePrescribing landscape and provide added intelligence to ensure that our business rules reflect the most current state of the ePrescribing industry, said Lawrence Susnow, MD, CEO, NewCrop. “This is another important tool that helps us provide a positive patient experience from the physician office to the pharmacy.”

Point-of-Care Partners employs pharmacists and other legal or clinical experts who execute a valid research and review methodology to ensure that ePrescribing State Law Review remains a best-in-class resource and the company works with pharmacy boards to elicit clarifications when rules or regulations don’t specifically address innovative features and functionality of ePrescribing software or services.

“The regulatory landscape for ePrescribing is constantly changing at the federal and state levels. These changes impact ePrescribing product delivery and customer relations. We are delighted to provide NewCrop with intelligence to maintain its tradition of service excellence, particularly as the industry expands its use of the ePrescribing transaction,” said Tony Schueth, Point-of-Care Partner’s CEO and managing partner.

About Point-of-Care Partners

Point-of-Care Partners is a health IT management consulting firm with in-depth expertise in ePrescribing, eMedication management, health information exchange, accountable care organizations and multi-stakeholder initiatives and other programs requiring health IT project management. For more information, go to http://www.pocp.com, email erxlawreview(at)pocp(dot)com, or follow us at twitter.com/pocpHIT.

About NewCrop

NewCrop is the leading electronic prescribing service and has been deployed in a wide range of EHRs and medical networks since 2003. The company’s user interface allows for rapid installation of fully expedited e-Prescription networking, as well as Meaningful Use certifications, lab integration, secure messaging, registry reporting, DEA-compliant EPCS audit, and more. All services are available as an integrated user interface and/or data services for all individual features, facilitating easy and flexible installations to fast track network and Meaningful Use 2014 certifications. For more information, contact Randy Barnes at rbarnes(at)newcroprx(dot)com.







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How To Utilize Electronic Message Centers And Other Overlooked Methods Of Advertising

When it comes to advertising, no method should be left unconsidered. After all, if customers do not know about a product or service, they will not purchase it. That means that marketing is an essential part of any business’ plan of action. There are several methods of advertising that are continually overlooked by both small and large businesses alike. Those are often some of the easiest, least expensive and most efficient forms to spread the word about a business. Continue reading to learn more about some overlooked methods of advertising in the article below.

Outdoor led signs were one of the first methods for marketing in the early years. These days, they are far too overlooked. Those who cannot afford to create a custom led sign should look into led sign rental opportunities. Those who have signs in front of their store front will most definitely notice an influx of traffic as people will be able to identify them easier with a sign.

Electronic message centers are like signs but better. Because they are electronic, they are much better at catching attention. They can be animated and made to change messages quickly and easily with the strokes of a few keys. Changes are quick and therefore kept up to date on prices, sales, products and more. Indeed, those who are serious about their advertising should consider something of this nature.

The radio is something that many people listen to on a daily basis. Furthermore, it’s much easier to narrow down a certain type of customer based on the music they like to listen to. This leads to less waste in advertising investment as it’s easier to reach a specific demographic over a specific type of radio station. These ads are often well received by consumers as they flip through their favorite stations and can be used as a great tool to spread the word about any product or service.

Catalogs are a great idea as they last for quite some time. It has been said before that the average consumer needs to see something at least seven times before they will purchase. With a customized catalog being sent out to salons, grocery stores and individual consumers, it is undeniable that customers will be subjected to the marketing efforts within again and again.

Offering savings to potential customers is a great way to win customers also. This can be done in the form of flyers that are left at the post office, on store counter tops, front doors and even car windshields. Each of these advertising methods is often overlooked, inexpensive and effective.

Main Stree Led Signs, LLC (http://www.mainstreetledsigns.com/roi.html) proudly introduce outdoor led signs as one of the most affordable and overlooked methods of generating customer traffic.

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Finding The Right Message

How do you know when you have the right message going to the right market? Is it because sales are up, you have a constant flow of jobs, or is it because you are getting the sorts of clients you are after. Ensuring you are getting the right message across really does start with some simple planning and preparation.

Your message is the key to your business success; it is not your products or service, these will always be around. If you cannot spread the word, if you cannot tell others about what it is you do, in a short precise manner, then you do not have a business that is sustainable.

So think about all the ways you market your business, now think about whether the message is the same all the time or are you confusing your prospect. The message you project underlies the response that you are going to get.

Creating the right message begins with these simple steps.

1.Understanding your prospect
To understand the message required you must first understand the people who are buying your product or service. What are their gender, age, social demographics, family background, what else do they like doing, the more you know about your prospect the easier it becomes to speak to them on their level. Write it out, have it on the wall around your office, ensure that all staff are on the same page. When you truly understand who it is your selling to you can build deeper and more meaningful relationships.

2.Solving The Problem
When spreading the message you need to ensure that your message helps solve your prospects problem. Far too often small business owners and marketing teams get caught up in themselves and do not think about it from a prospects point of view. Always remember that we as humans are asking ourselves what is in it for me if we do not answer that question within our message then we have lost the prospect for good. Focus on benefits and solutions.

3.Speak The Language
Every industry has its own language the lingo that allows you to look clever and know your stuff, however your prospect does not care about the lingo. They just want to understand the message in their language. You must remember to keep the message simple, in easy to understand language, without the big fancy terms. As impressive as they might sound to you, your prospect, more than likely does not even now what those terms mean. When getting your message across the less fancier the more productive.

Your message is the key to your business success, the more people that hear your message and understand it, and the more customers you create. It is always worthwhile taking some time and ensuring you have the right message going out to the market every six months. Remember without the right message you have no business.

Michael Griffiths is the CEO and Founder of My Small Business Marketing Guru, providing small business with relationship based marketing strategies to generate more leads, increase their clients and grow their profits. For your free black mask marketing resources visit http://www.mysmallbusinessmarketingguru.com.au

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Smart Women Have a Clear Message

A few weeks ago, while vacationing with my family in Park City, I injured my low back ice-skating with my daughter Jenna.  It was quite painful and required me to lay low for a couple of days.  I watched a few movies, did some reading and caught up on emails.  Some of the email promotions really “pulled me in” and got my full attention, while I found others far less interesting, causing me to leave the promotion quickly.  What was the difference?  What caused me to “linger” or “leave”?  This got me thinking about how Smart Women have a clear marketing message.

With all of the information we receive each day, it’s critical that you keep your message simple and easy to understand.  Getting laser clear on who benefits from your product or service (i.e. your ideal client) is key to your success.  When your ideal client reads your marketing message, you want them to understand quickly how you can help them.

Here are three tips to help you hone your message to your ideal client and ensure that when they open your email, letter, postcard or video they understand what you have to offer is exactly what they need:

1.  Offer Specific Benefits – You can go to Google or other search engines and obtain almost any “general” information you want online.  The days of offering “general” information and getting paid well for it are over.  In your marketing message, you need to share specific benefits or outcomes that your ideal client will get when they work with you or use your product.  Remember “WIIFM.” (What’s In It For Me?)  Your client has a problem and they want it solved.  Period.  I found myself “lingering” on promotions that were clear how their program or service could help me.

2.  How does it work? – Be very clear about how your program or service works.  Is it by phone?  In-person?  Online?  Let them know when the program begins, how long it will last and what they can expect.  If they can visualize your process, it will make it easier for them to make a decision.

3.  Make it a “no-brainer” – When you have an offer, make it easy for them to buy or sign-up right now on the spot.  Give them clear instructions on how to contact you or your team for more information.  I found myself attracted to certain promotions when I had easy to follow instructions on how to take the next step.

That afternoon, lying on the sofa reading my emails was a helpful exercise.  It gave me time to pause and reflect on my own marketing message and discover how I can serve women entrepreneurs more effectively.  I invite you to schedule some time for this as well.  It will make a huge difference in your marketing message, which in turn means more of your ideal client and greater income.  

Anything is possible.  Everything is waiting for you.

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© 2010 Joy Chudacoff

 

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Voice message broadcasting

As there are a lot of vantages to utilizing Voice message broadcasting to big audiences since you could take benefit of these automobile telephone dial for mass communications to thousands of call receivers at once. Although, a voice electronic messaging service is the most excellent manner to reach to your possible customers by these surveys or present time clients with an individualized or same massage to allow them experience concerning forthcoming consequences, discounts, sales event or new merchandise releases. Additionally, there are choices that could make your calls more fertile, perhaps becoming them into gross sales, hinging upon how you assemble your system.

There are two types of Voice message broadcasting systems. The beginning is an on location organization which necessitates you to purchase the computer with negotiation phoning voice cards increased to a computing device’s CPU board & particular calling software to act together with the voice cards.  This could get extremely valuable, especially if you calculate the preservation of the system plus may have to employ a special person to work at it whenever it breaks down. This is how come the second selection is so beautiful and attractive.

The next alternative is to employ an on-line system. A web-altered voice broadcast system devotes you the entire elasticity you demand. You reimburse exactly for the long-distance call and that is it. There are no worries to concern about it.

Moreover, most companies are on a tiered determining scale which could hurt littler businesses. You may desire to attempt to struggle on in large quantities voice broadcasting which will provide you directly the rating nearer to one penny per moment.  The Voice message broadcasting software system would make available you with custom-made accounts, establishing you a numbered of finished plus deliver. Thus the information could give you whole the selling information you demand to modify and get improved consequences on future campaign.  

Message broad casting could be an extremely cost efficient if exercised appropriately. It will definitely give you with the several of the aimed superiority extends for your business Voice message broadcasting is turning more well-liked & being utilized through various businesses, campaigns, charity systems, & security interest companies.

Voice message broadcasting could be planned to deliver the communication to electronic device or live someone’s but in most cases explore demonstrates that a blended campaign workings preeminently.

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