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CollaborateMD Offers Upgrade Program to Competitors’ Users

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) August 14, 2008

CollaborateMD, a leading provider of Internet practice management and medical billing software for the healthcare industry, announced today an upgrade program for existing users of Medisoft, Lytec, AltaPoint, Medical Manager and Misys. The program, offered through August 31st, was designed to help medical offices and billing services lower costs and have more freedom and flexibility by utilizing an on-demand practice management software program.

“Every time we run this program, the response is overwhelmingly positive,” commented Douglas Kegler, CollaborateMD president and CEO. “The offices that have switched to CollaborateMD are most enthusiastic about our product’s flexibility and ease of use.” According to Kegler, other benefits to making the exchange include use-anywhere flexibility, collaboration between unlimited locations, no large upfront or annual costs, Microsoft Vista compatibility, frequent updates, and streamlined workflow.

CollaborateMD manages all transmissions to the clearinghouse, retrieves clearinghouse and payor reports, and complies with HIPAA-mandated updates. Users tinned perform customized searches by payor; rejection keywords; and claim acceptance, rejection or denial. CollaborateMD also facilitates database management, security and co-location back-ups.

CollaborateMD also offers P2P+™, an on-demand electronic health record (EHR) program. This collection of physician communication tools allows for reimbursable patient encounters (webVisits®) and other messaging services, such as prescription refills and renewals, results delivery, requests for appointment scheduling and referrals, and health education information.

For more details and specific terms and conditions of the competitive offer, visit: http://www.collaboratemd.com/medisoft-upgrade.asp . In combination with this offer, CollaborateMD is also offering a discount on data conversions.

About CollaborateMD
Headquartered in Orlando, FL, CollaborateMD provides the health care industry with a HIPAA compliant, Internet practice management and electronic medical billing software and Revenue Cycle Management application that has the speed of a local PC application and the “use anywhere” flexibility of a Web browser application. CollaborateMD is a 100% Java application utilizing Sun Microsystems Java Platform. CollaborateMD offers physician offices and medical billing services the opportunity to become more efficient and flexible. For more information, visit http://www.CollaborateMD.com or call 888-348-8457.

Contact:
Jenni Smith
407-404-5297
PR @ CollaborateMD.com

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The Collaborative Communications Summit (CCS) Announces Key Themes and All Star Speaker Line Up

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 5, 2005

The Collaborative Communications Summit, CCS, which will take place October 24-25, 2005, announced its San Francisco summit case studies and participants today. The CCS will focus on video communication, VoIP, instant messaging, team collaboration environments, real time presence-aware collaboration tools and services, and mobile collaboration tools.

The CCS will provide an executive-level view of applications that focus on managing real time communications between individuals and groups within any collaborative environment. End User case studies will be highlighted during in-depth conference sessions addressing the latest trends, needs, and technologies available to the government, medical, financial, education, non profit, enterprise, publishing, & entertainment industries.

Case studies and speaker presentations will be presented by Reuters, Screen Actors Guild, Oracle, Cargill, Barton Malow, University of Tennessee, GroupSystems, Logitech, CBS News, IBM, Parlano, Alphalogix, Genesys Conferencing, Ferris Research, MeetingOne, SMART Technologies, and Barco.

Participating sponsors and exhibitors include Reuters, Logitech, Alphalogix, SPL Integrated Systems, Encounter Collaborative, Amity Systems, Barco, Codian, MeetingOne, Sonexis, Genesys Conferencing, GroupSystems, Parlano, SMART Technologies, Collaborative Strategies, ConferZone, Ferris Research, Telecom Reseller, Video Systems, Silicon.com, and ZDNet UK.

The CCS’s end user focused program will provide an unique opportunity for buyers and sellers to interact in a constructive and informative environment. “For Cargill, the integrated enterprise collaboration solution is to dissolve traditional communication barriers, overcome communication limitations and empower our employees to drive the business towards its strategic objectives,” Dean Dahlen, Worldwide Media Services Manger, Cargill, Inc. “The CCS will provide invaluable insight for organizations seeking to understand the advantages and what it takes to successfully implement collaborative technologies into their business process” said Waco Hoover, Managing Director CCS.

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Glowan Consulting Announces “The Collaborative Advantage” – Innovative approach to building collaborative relationships compliments L3 Leadership Learning Program

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) April 18, 2005

The program is geared for employees at all levels and compliments Glowan’s existing L3 Leadership Learning Process for managers and executives. The program focuses on building collaborative environments and improving working relationships to improve productivity and performance.

By working collaboratively, individuals can cultivate an environment that fosters broad participation and inspires creative solutions to issues facing their organizations. The investment that results from broad participation is key to creating shared visions, engaging in collaborative decision-making, and sustaining change.

Leaders and other stakeholders can benefit tremendously from exploring collaboration concepts and will focus on facilitating authentic partnerships and real change.

In Creating a Collaborative Advantage™ individuals will:

     Gain new insights into the art of working collaboratively     Learn how to apply collaboration concepts and principles     Practice creating a shared vision     Identify new tools for working collaboratively

The program includes:

    Introduction: Collaboration Concepts and Principles of Working Collaboratively     Taking the Time: The Art of Working Collaboratively     Creating Authentic Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities     Collaborative Decision-Making     Creating a Shared Vision     Sustaining Change Optional telephonic coaching for participants follows the one-day program.

The process results in increased cooperation and collaboration, faster, more effective decision making, increased productivity and a more harmonious work environment.

About Glowan Consulting

Based in San Jose, CA., The Glowan Consulting Group is engaged in the business of helping companies nationwide adapt to the rapidly changed business climate in our rising global economy. Our network of Business Professionals have broad and deep experience and are skilled not only in all facets of operating businesses but also in moving our client companying from their current positions to structures and processes that position them to better serve their customers.

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Question by Stuart G: What online project collaboration software do you recommend for managing client projects?
I am looking for a hosted project collaboration drive to manage my client projects. Some of my requirements are:1. It must be nonrational and easy to use.2. It must have basic project management features like tasks and milestones with the ability to specify due dates.3. I would like to be able to brand it so it looks like my company.4. Integration with email would be great too since I know I probably won’t be able to get some of my clients to use the tool.Any recommendations?

Best answer:

Answer by Dave W
Some products to consider are:Basecamp: http://www.basecamphq.comCentral Desktop: http://www.centraldesktop.comTeamWork Live: http://www.teamworklive.comThey are all hosted, easy to use, and all allow you to brand the site. Basecamp is the simplest to larned but it has trammel project management features. Note that you do not have the ability to assign due dates to to-do items in Basecamp. Central Desktop is the most full-featured of the III: it includes many additional features like online databases, customizable pages, and web meetings (costs extra). The amount of features do it harder to learn, though, which might be a problem if you are using this with clients. My personal favorite is TeamWork Live: it has Basecamp’s ease of use but it is much more fully-featured. It is also fully integrated with email so your clients don’t even have to login in to the site to collaborate with you. They can simply reply to the notification emails and it will automatically be saved to TeamWork Live. They have other features which I really like too, such as a full-text search engine and an internal Gmail-like messaging system.I’m putting together a site that aggregates articles about project collaboration software along with reviews of each of the product if you are interested. You can check it out at: http://www.projectcollaborationcenter.comCheers,Dave

What do you think? Answer below!

by esagor

Collaboration is hot.

We’re seeing new collaboration solutions pop up left and right, all claiming to enhance team collaboration.

A huge mistake that many businesses are making, however, is turning to free “collaboration tools”. While “free tool” always sounding enticing, it too always means less functionality, less features and zero customer support.

If you’re serious about creating an organized system of information, improving communication between your team members and automating business procedures, you should get serious about investing in good online collaboration tools. A recent  Frost and Sullivan study revealed that of the thousands of companied surveyed, almost a half were investing in collaboration tools. What’s even more compelling, though, is that the more they invested into their collaboration solution, the higher ROI (return of investment) they saw.

Still not convinced? Here’s a look at specific examples of why collaboration tools are worth every cent of your investment.

1. Document Management

Document management tools should allow you to not only organize your files, but collaboratively revise and edit them online. Free apps might allow you to create documents and share them online- but this isn’t really any better than standard e-mail.

Paid collaboration solutions, however, come with document revision controls, which allow a team member to upload his or her file into a workspace where the other team members can review and edit it. There should also be a document revision history feature, so that any previous version of the document can be reinstated if necessary. Another essential document management feature is the ability to add comments to each file and choose who to notify when each comment is added. Finally, all of these documents are filed into online workspaces that you can set admin permissions to, so your docs are being seen by only the right people.

2.Task Management

Task management tools include online calendars, task lists, SMS/Text reminders and more. You might be thinking “Well, there are calendars and tasklist applications I can access online, for free.”  These free tools, while great for a student wanting to organize his or her personal schedule, don’t offer the deeper features that help businesses and professional teams effectively manage their schedules.

The online calendars in collaboration solutions like Central Desktop, however,  let you to qualify an event, provoke the attendees, schedule audio or web conferencing so distant team members can undergo as good, posed SMS/text reminders and choose which workspace(s) can access the meeting information. Another example is that with more complex task lists, you can positioned a task, designate it to multiple team members, set a priority level and owed date for the task, and request a modify at any time. These are simply two examples of the bass task management features of full collaboration solutions that gratis applications but do not have. (Hence the telling, you get what you payed for. )

3. Project Management

Project management tools are the most important and sought after features in collaboration solutions. Free project management apps allow you to create a site for a project, usually set up as a wiki. You can share documents, images, create discussions and set up simple project to-do lists.

For most businesses, however, this simply isn’t  enough- especially when dealing with large scale projects. Businesses need project management features like time tracking, workflow systems and complex databases, all of which are features in the top collaboration solutions. Intranets and extranets are other essential features of project management tools. Intranets allow you to connect with your internal team members, and Extranets allow you to share files, plans, discussion threads and invoices with external members (clients, partners, vendors, etc) in an isolated workspace.

4. Security

Here is something that not enough companion consider before choosing free collaboration applications- is it safer to place your important and classified company data onto an unfastened free application server, or is it better to place it into a trusted collaboration platform that has passed enterprise grade security requirements, has backward-up data storage centers in isolated locations and has a team of professional IT sponsoring managing it? Surprisingly, not many accompany realize that by trusting in various unlike free applications, they are increasing chances of their data being stolen, misplaced or lost completely. If you aren’t paying for security, don’t expect there to be any.

Free applications usually don’t rearwards up their data, don’t provide IT support (unless you reckoning posting a question into a public forum & waiting weeks for a reply “good IT support”) , and never have the depth and range of features that businesses need for real collaboration. Don’t be fooled – online collaboration, just as any early good tool, comes with a price- a price worth every penny.

HootSuite introduces Team Collaboration tools to the popular social media dashboard. Now, each social network been in HootSuite is assigned an Owner who can add a variety of Team Members to manage social network accounts. Further, teams can be assembled around topics, projects, or client and can include colleagues, consultants, interns and owners – all without compromise account security. We think this release will be particular interest to enterprises, agencies, publishers, customer service groups, marketing teams and organizations with multiple editors.
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