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LISLE, IL, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SXC health Solutions Corp. (”SXC” or the “Company”) , a leading provider of pharmacy benefits management technology and services, announces a multi-year, multi-million dollar extension to its software maintenance and professional services agreement, and software license expansion with CVS Caremark Corporation.
The agreement provides CVS Caremark with software maintenance and professional services over a multi-year period along with expanded license rights. SXC has historically provided software maintenance and professional services to CVS Caremark. The scope of the services provided will not change under the new agreement.
“Since 1994, we have supported CVS Caremark or certain of the predecessor organizations; we are proud of our track record with this client and excited about the future prospects of working together,” said Mike Bennof, SXC’s Executive Vice President of health Care Information Technology (HCIT). “This announcement validates our business strategy by demonstrating that we remain a valued provider of pharmacy and non-pharmacy related technology and services to a wide variety of health care organizations that manage prescription drug benefit programs.”
About SXC health Solutions Corp.
SXC health Solutions Corp. is a leading provider of pharmacy benefits management (PBM) services and health Care Information Technology (HCIT) solutions to the healthcare benefits management industry. The Company’s product offerings and solutions combine a wide range of software applications, application service provider (ASP) processing services and professional services, designed for many of the largest organizations in the pharmaceutical supply chain, such as Federal, provincial, and, state and local governments, pharmacy benefit managers, managed care organizations, retail pharmacy chains and other healthcare intermediaries. SXC is headquartered in Lisle, Illinois with 13 locations in the US and Canada. For more information please visit .
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CHICAGO, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Allscripts, the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, and the founding member of the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI(TM)), today announced its firm support for the United States Senate’s approval of legislation that provides financial incentives for physicians to adopt electronic prescribing, or “e-prescribing,” and requires adoption by 2011. If signed into law by President Bush, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (H.R. 6331), also would reverse a planned 10.6 percent pay cut to physicians who treat Medicare patients.
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“Electronic prescribing can prevent many of the needless deaths and injuries that medication errors cause each year, and with this legislation, the Senate has taken a significant step toward ensuring that patients are safer,” said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts and Co-Chair of NEPSI. “Allscripts and our NEPSI partners are committed to providing electronic prescribing technology at no cost to every physician. We urge the President to sign the bill into law and make it easier for more physicians to adopt this life-saving technology.”
As an incentive for physicians to adopt e-prescribing, H.R. 6331 would increase Medicare payments to physicians who regularly utilize e-prescribing by 2 percent in 2009 and 2010, then slightly less over the next three years. Physicians who do not use the technology would see their payments cut by 1 percent in 2011, and a maximum of up to 2 percent for 2013 and beyond. The bill allows for some exceptions to the rule.
An estimated 35,000, or fewer than 10 percent, of U.S. physicians use e-prescribing. The technology cuts the risk of medication errors by automating the prescribing process and alerting physicians to possibly dangerous drug interactions or side effects. Electronic prescriptions also reduce the risk of a misread prescription and save money because physicians are made aware of cheaper generic drug options when writing prescriptions. The nonprofit Institute of Medicine, part of the Washington-based National Academy of Sciences, has urged physicians to move to e-prescribing to reduce what it says are 1.5 million preventable medication errors each year.
“Electronic prescribing and this legislation are essential steps to improving the quality of health care and safety of patients,” said James Coffin, Ph.D., Vice President, Dell health Care and Life Sciences. “Along with our NEPSI partners, we’re committed to making this technology accessible and easy. Dell sees this legislation as an important first step in the broader adoption of technology across the U.S. health care system, which will ultimately result in better quality care and a more efficient system.”
NEPSI is a coalition of the nation’s leading healthcare and technology companies that is dedicated to eliminating preventable medication errors by providing free e-prescribing technology to every physician in America. NEPSI is led by Allscripts and national sponsor Dell Inc. , a leading global systems and services company.
Other NEPSI sponsors are Aetna, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Google — the coalition’s Search Sponsor — Horizon BCBS of New Jersey, Microsoft, NaviMedix, Quest Diagnostics, Sprint Nextel, SureScripts, Wellpoint, and Wolters Kluwer Health. The Allscripts web-based e-prescribing software is designed to appeal to physicians in solo practice or small groups. Available through NEPSI at no cost to any healthcare provider with legal authority to prescribe medications, the solution requires no download, no new hardware, and minimal training. The product can quickly generate secure electronic prescriptions and deliver them to the patient’s pharmacy of choice.
According to the National Progress Report on ePrescribing (), 35 million prescription transactions were routed electronically in 2007. A new study by the Department of health and Human Services estimates that if just 18 percent of physicians in Medicare adopt e-prescribing, the government will save $4 billion and nearly three million adverse drug events can be prevented over five years.
About NEPSI
The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI) is a coalition of the nation’s most prominent technology companies and leading healthcare organizations dedicated to improving patient safety by providing free access to simple, safe and secure electronic prescribing for every physician in America. NEPSI includes national sponsors Allscripts and Dell; executive sponsors Cisco, Fujitsu, Microsoft, NaviMedix, Quest Diagnostics, Sprint Nextel and Wolters Kluwer Health; healthcare sponsors Aetna, Horizon BCBS of New Jersey and WellPoint; connectivity sponsor SureScripts; and search sponsor Google. The NEPSI offering also is supported by a growing number of academic medical centers, integrated delivery networks and physician groups across the U.S. who are leading the rollout of the NEPSI electronic prescribing solution within their states and regions. For more information, visit NEPSI on the web at .
About Allscripts
Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The company’s unique solutions inform, connect and transform healthcare, delivering improved care at lower cost. More than 40,000 physicians and thousands of other healthcare professionals in clinics, hospitals and extended care facilities nationwide utilize Allscripts to automate everyday tasks such as writing prescriptions, documenting patient care, managing billing and scheduling, and safely discharging patients, as well as to connect with key information and stakeholders in the healthcare system. To learn more, visit Allscripts at .
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements about Allscripts Healthcare Solutions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are developed by combining currently available information with Allscripts beliefs and assumptions. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance. Because Allscripts cannot predict all of the risks and uncertainties that may affect it, or control the ones it does predict, Allscripts’ actual results may be materially different from the results expressed in its forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may affect Allscripts, see the Company’s 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at .

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NEW YORK, July 9 /PRNewswire/ —

- GCI health meets global needs for the increasingly complex healthcare
environment

Cohn & Wolfe has announced the formation of GCI Health, a new global
healthcare public relations firm, specializing in all aspects of the
healthcare industry. GCI Health, which will be led by Jill Dosik as
president, offers high-science expertise, ROI-generating product marketing
strategy and leading-edge digital health capabilities. It is a Cohn & Wolfe
Group company, but will operate independently.

“This is an exciting day for our clients and our people. GCI Health
becomes a specialist agency in an industry that is becoming more complex and
requires very focused expertise. We will be able to find solutions for our
clients on the many challenging issues facing their industry, through our
diverse talent pool and proprietary tools and resources,” said Dosik.

GCI health was born from GCI Group’s renowned global healthcare practice,
and includes additional WPP resources. The agency meets the critical needs of
healthcare clients through a team of dedicated experts in regulatory,
science, product crisis, marketing and public affairs, as well as in the
digital arena. The agency currently serves some of the largest healthcare
companies in the world as well as hospitals, non-profits, associations,
medical devices, institutions and more.

“GCI health is perhaps best known for its high-science experts who
translate that language into the right voice for the right target audience.
It is respected globally for handling clients’ most difficult challenges,
creating and implementing product marketing strategy and pioneering the
digital landscape in healthcare,” said Donna Imperato, chief executive
officer of Cohn & Wolfe. “It’s an agency with a great heritage, and an even
more promising future.”
In addition to Jill Dosik as president, leadership at GCI health will
include Paul Keirnan, managing director in London, and Samantha Cranko,
managing director in New York. Team leaders in each of the other offices in
North America and Europe will continue in their roles as GCI health practice
leaders in their respective markets.

About GCI Health

GCI health is one of the world’s largest healthcare public relations
firms. It has offices throughout North America and Europe as well as
affiliates around the world. GCI health is known for high-science expertise,
crisis management, leading-edge digital health capabilities, and
ROI-generating product marketing strategies. GCI health is part of Cohn &
Wolfe Group, a WPP company (Nasdaq: WPPGY), one of the world’s largest
communications services group.

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CARROLLTON, Ga., July 9 /PRNewswire/ — Greenway Medical Technologies Inc., recently participated in the National health IT Week’s Capitol Hill Technology Showcase, held in Washington D.C. the week of June 9, 2008. The showcase marked one of the healthcare IT industry’s first and most successful real-time demonstrations of ambulatory software providers exchanging healthcare data between disparate EHR systems.
The unique health information exchange took place at the Capitol Hill Technology Showcase with more than 150 key decision makers in attendance including members of Congress, government health officials, healthcare IT companies, regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and other health information technology (HIT) leaders. Greenway(R), NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., IBM and Initiate Systems all took part in the demonstration. During National health IT Week, public and private entities collaborated to advance health IT adoption with “one voice, one vision.”
Members of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) and the Electronic health Record Vendor’s Association (EHRVA) demonstrated real-time, standards-based exchanges of healthcare information using a common scenario of a patient with a cardiac health condition needing medical attention from multiple care providers. The scenario documented the process as the patient moved through numerous care settings, showing that the benefits of interoperability are here today and capable of streamlining the exchange of healthcare information between disparate providers while improving overall healthcare in the U.S.
In February 2007, the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) approved the Continuity of Care Document (CCD), which set standards for interoperability that enabled clinical data to be transportable, thus enhancing patient safety and efficiency. Acting upon this documentation, Greenway designed its EHR solution, PrimeSuite(R), to meet the CCD standards for interoperability. Greenway continues to develop and deploy interactive data integration tools geared toward collecting patient-centric information from other ambulatory care systems. In July the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT(R)) added the requirement that CCHIT Certified(R) Ambulatory EHR 2008 products be capable of sending patient summaries using the CCD standards.
“Greenway is excited with the success and collaboration achieved by two of the HIT industry’s leading EHR providers,” said Justin Barnes, vice president of marketing and government affairs for Greenway. “The showcase effectively demonstrated the reality of data sharing from one ambulatory product to another and the call to action is clear, it is time we bring interoperability from a concept into a practical working exchange that will improve the quality of healthcare across the board and afford EHR adoption incentives such as the Stark relaxation to increase EHR availability.”
“There remains a sense that it is not yet possible to electronically exchange meaningful healthcare data. Real-time demonstrations such as this event and use of the Continuity of Care Document shows that what was once simply a concept is now beginning to positively impact the way EHR providers design their solutions,” said Lisa Spellman, director of IHE at HIMSS. “Today’s practitioners are starting to understand and request applications that provide interoperability between systems — we look forward to more EHR vendors committing to interoperability as it plays a key role shaping the way healthcare is provided in the U.S.”
About Greenway Medical Technologies Inc.
Greenway Medical Technologies provides the latest in ambulatory healthcare business solutions and services to 18,000 customers nationwide, in 30 specialties and subspecialties, by enhancing the delivery of patient care through innovative HIT software and on-demand services that allow physician practices to function at their highest level of efficiency. Greenway’s PrimeSuite is a comprehensive, interoperable component of its integrated physician’s infrastructure solution, which serves as the starting point of a long-term business plan for physician practices. PrimeSuite 2007 R2, the first EHR to be certified by CCHIT(R) based on 2007 Ambulatory Certification requirements, integrates a practice’s clinical, financial and administrative processes, and allows practices to increase profitability, enhance patient satisfaction and facilitate adherence to compliance guidelines. Established in 1998, Carrollton, Ga.-based Greenway Medical Technologies is a privately held company with 260 employees. For more information about Greenway, visit
About National health IT Week
National health IT Week, held annually, is the leading forum for developing common ground to advance adoption of health information technologies that transform health and care in the U.S. Organizations with diverse perspectives on health and care gather to work together under one banner with the goal of improving healthcare efficiency, quality, cost-effectiveness and patient safety through health IT.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in the press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe-harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including but not limited to economic, competitive, governmental, and technological factors affecting the Company’s operations, markets, services and related products, prices, and other factors.
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CLEVELAND, July 9 /PRNewswire/ — Hyland Software, developer of the OnBase(R) enterprise document management software suite, announced that SSM health Care has experienced immediate results since the deployment of OnBase in March. Based in St. Louis, Missouri and offering services in four states, SSM is a forward-thinking health care provider to patients regardless of their ability to pay.
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As a core component of SSM’s electronic health record (EHR) project, OnBase already has made physicians more efficient, allowing each physician to see approximately three more patients on a daily basis. OnBase gives physicians access to the most up-to-date medical records and supporting documentation making patient information such as medication requirements or previous illnesses more accurate and physicians more effective.
Because the implementation date was set with a strict deadline of March 30, 2008, SSM had to find a solution that was both flexible and scalable. With OnBase’s capability to be implemented in phases while also integrating with EPIC, Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R) and SAP(R), SSM was able to reach the deadline while staying within budget.
“We saw a need for a system to grow and scale with us while also being able to move outside of scope of the electronic health record,” related Chris Bullerdick, IT Director at SSM health Care. “As a partnership, Hyland Software worked with us to go-live with OnBase in 45 days in the first hospital and will eventually scale OnBase across more than 5,000 physicians in our system.”
Bullerdick continued saying, “With such a variety of users within our 25,000 plus employees, the integrations with SharePoint and SAP make OnBase the complete solution for our ultimate goal of accomplishing patient safety.”
“SSM is a prime example of a healthcare system that understands the importance of technology as it relates to patient care and quality,” according to Tim Tegeder, Director of Healthcare Solutions at Hyland Software. “Our collaboration with SSM to create an integrated solution that also worked within the timetable of the EHR initiative has allowed the provider to increase their already strong focus on the patient.”
About SSM health Care
SSM health Care is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary and based in St. Louis, Mo., and is one of the largest Catholic health systems in the country and the first health care recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The system owns, manages and is affiliated with 20 acute care hospitals and two nursing homes in four states: Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Oklahoma. More than 5,000 affiliated physicians and 24,000 employees work together to provide a wide range of services that are compassionate, holistic and of high quality. For more information, please visit .
About Hyland Software Healthcare Solutions
Hyland Software Inc. is the developer of OnBase, a rapidly deployable suite of enterprise content management (ECM) software applications. Deployable as a premises-based solution or via software as a service (SaaS), OnBase is a modular suite of ECM applications that includes document imaging, workflow, electronic document management, COLD/ERM and records management. OnBase Healthcare Solutions enable organizations to run more efficiently by managing content and streamlining workflows across the enterprise with point solutions for revenue cycle management, medical records and back office operations. For more information about OnBase, an AHA endorsed solution, please contact an Authorized OnBase Solution Provider or visit .
Contact:
Kaitlin Maurer
Public Relations Manager
Hyland Software
(440) 788-6833

Hyland Software Inc.

DARIEN, Ill., July 8 /PRNewswire/ — Healthation, a healthcare technology company, today announced that it has signed a 10-year Software as a Service agreement with health Partners, a not-for-profit health plan serving more than 140,000 members in southeastern Pennsylvania. health Partners will implement AboveHealth(R), the industry leading e-business healthcare portal to deliver interactive, real-time communication and administration capabilities to its provider community.
With the AboveHealth portal, health Partners will empower physicians and their staff with increased efficiency while reducing costs. Important to health Partners is the 24-hour a day interaction healthcare professionals will have with their health plan. Hal Augustine, CIO of health Partners said, “We are truly excited about our new relationship and look forward to working together to meet our goals for further enhancing our providers’ experience with significantly advanced self-service capabilities.”
“Health Partners shares our vision for a transformed retail healthcare marketplace,” said Scott Kornhauser, CEO of Healthation. “We look forward to playing a key role in their innovative market advancement.”
Healthation’s AboveHealth Self Service Web Portal is an integrated Web portal solution supporting a payer’s Web self-service and automated e-business strategies. Clients can use the AboveHealth rules-driven interface to configure everything from branding and forms management to workflow, all down to the group or line of business.
About health Partners
Founded in 1985, health Partners is the result of a unique collaboration among seven area hospitals to create a not-for-profit health plan for residents of Philadelphia. Over more than 20 years, health Partners has garnered national attention for innovations in managed care, and now serves more than 140,000 members throughout southeastern Pennsylvania. Please visit us at
About Healthation
Darien, IL-based Healthation is a healthcare technology company helping payers and administrators improve business performance with user-driven rules-based benefits management and transaction processing solutions. Healthation’s goal is to accelerate a retail transformation in healthcare with a real-time, open exchange platform. The company’s AcceleHealth(R) solution is the industry’s only web-based payer system built to administer benefits in real-time across all lines of business under one master member record including medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life and AD&D.
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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., July 8 /PRNewswire/ — Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry, announced today the appointment of Susan Driscoll as Executive Vice President & General Manager of the Books division of its Professional & Education business unit.
Driscoll brings to Wolters Kluwer health more than 25 years of experience in academic, trade and online publishing. Prior to Wolters Kluwer Health, Driscoll held the positions of Vice President, Strategy for Author Solutions, Inc., and President & CEO of iUniverse, Inc., the world’s leader in online publishing. She successfully built the model for authors to find their customers utilizing state of the art publishing systems coupled with the marketing power of the internet.
“The appointment of Susan Driscoll brings us extensive electronic publishing experience as well as the C-level skills and business proficiency to take our leading books’ and journals’ content into the next era of new media,” said Gordon Macomber, President & CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional & Education. “We could not be more thrilled to have Susan join our leadership team.”
Driscoll gained extensive e-business experience while she served as Chief Operating Officer of Bedford, Freeman & Worth, guiding operations for the college text book publisher. She also held senior management roles at HarperCollins and Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Jeff McCaulley, President & CEO of Wolters Kluwer health continues: “I am excited about the leadership team within our Wolters Kluwer health Professional & Education business unit, and our potential to accelerate growth and competitiveness as we strive to drive medical excellence via the transformation of healthcare through information.”
Driscoll, who will be based in Philadelphia, PA, is a graduate of University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
About Wolters Kluwer Health
Wolters Kluwer health (Conshohocken, PA), a division of Wolters Kluwer, is a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons(R); electronic information providers, such as Ovid, Medi-Span(R) and ProVation(R); and pharmaceutical information providers such as Adis International and Source(R). Wolters Kluwer health has annual revenues (2007) of $1,044 million (euro 761 million) and employs approximately 2,700 employees globally. For more information, visit .
About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services globally for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal, and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer has annual revenues (2007) of euro 3.4 billion ($4.8 billion), maintains operations in over 33 countries across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific and employs approximately 19,500 people worldwide. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Visit for information about our market positions, customers, brands, and organization.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by words such as “expect,”"should,”"could,”"shall,” and similar expressions. Wolters Kluwer cautions that such forward-looking statements are qualified by certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from what is contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Factors which could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements may include, without limitation, general economic conditions; conditions in the markets in which Wolters Kluwer is engaged; behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors; technological developments; the implementation and execution of new ICT systems or outsourcing; and legal, tax, and regulatory rules affecting Wolters Kluwer’s businesses, as well as risks related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestments. In addition, financial risks such as currency movements, interest rate fluctuations, liquidity, and credit risks could influence future results. The foregoing list of factors should not be construed as exhaustive. Wolters Kluwer disclaims any intention or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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TUCSON, Ariz., July 8 /PRNewswire/ — A new service offering free downloadable summaries of the most popular books on health and green living has just been launched by two well-established health information publishers: Mike Adams and Kevin Gianni. PDF summaries of three top health books are available right now for downloading at
To create the summaries, HealthBookSummaries.com brokered deals with top book authors and publishers to distribute summaries of their books at no cost to readers. Twice a month, registered readers receive a free, downloadable book summary in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat), which they can read or print from any computer. There is no charge for the service, and readers can unsubscribe at any time.
Authors currently participating in HealthBookSummaries.com include:
Bruce Lipton (The Biology of Belief)
Dr. Gabriel Cousens (Spiritual Nutrition)
Ray Moynihan (Selling Sickness)
Michele Simon (Appetite for Profit)
Dawson Church (The Genie in Your Genes)
Mark Schapiro (EXPOSED: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products)
David Wolfe (Sunfood Diet Success System)

Top food and nutrition author Jonny Bowden has also agreed to allow his books to be summarized in the service, including his popular new book, “The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth.”
In a pre-launch announcement, HealthBookSummaries.com reached an astonishing 10,000 registered readers virtually overnight, and readers are expressing strong enthusiasm for the service.
HealthBookSummaries.com is supported by sponsors whose ads appear in the book summaries, just like magazine ads. Current sponsors include Vitacost.com, Wellness Resources, Organic Food Bar and others.
HealthBookSummaries co-founder Mike Adams is also the founder of NaturalNews.com, one of the top natural health news websites in the world, involving over 50 contributing writers and reaching 1.2 million readers each month. Kevin Gianni is the creator of the Renegade health online TV show.
Health Book Summaries, Inc. is a private corporation owned by Mike Adams and Kevin Gianni. For more information, visit
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DALLAS, July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Zix Corporation (ZixCorp(R)), , the leader in hosted services for email encryption and e-prescribing, today announced an upcoming webcast featuring Daughters of Charity health System on Thursday, July 10 at 4:00 p.m. ET. The webcast will feature Michael Day, Director of Information Technology, and Ajay Chaudhari, Network Design Specialist for Daughters of Charity and they will discuss their process for choosing and implementing a solution: how they built internal buy-in, identified and addressed potential pitfalls, and made critical decisions on replacing their previously implemented system with ZixCorp’s Email Encryption Service.
To register for this informative webinar, please visit or call 866-257-4949.
Additionally, the ZixCorp website is now featuring a Daughters of Charity success story that outlines issues that will be discussed during the upcoming webinar. Below is an excerpt from the success story:
“The security of protected health information (PHI) is very important,” said Michael Day, Director of Information Technology for DCHS. “Not only from a regulatory standpoint enforced by the health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), but because our patients and staff need to have that confidence in us.”
Not satisfied with the email encryption solution they were using, DCHS switched to ZixCorp’s Email Encryption Service.
“With our old solution, we were concerned we were at risk of not properly protecting our patients’ sensitive data or other important business information,” said Day. “It was also a massive challenge to administer the whole process from installation through to mailbox management, information tracking and overall maintenance. We needed a more efficient and thorough process.”
Day liked what ZixCorp had to offer because of its ease of use and excellent reputation as the leading email encryption solution for health care organizations. “It was simple to set up, fast to deploy, and transparent to use,” he said. “It has a better hit rate of encrypting messages than our previous solution. ZixCorp’s service detects PHI and other sensitive information and ensures they’re secured before delivery.”
To read the entire DCHS success story, please visit the ZixCorp website or click on the following link: .
About Zix Corporation
ZixCorp is the leading provider of easy-to-use-and-deploy email encryption and e-prescribing services that Connect entities with their customers and partners to Protect and Deliver sensitive information in the healthcare, finance, insurance and government industries. ZixCorp’s hosted Email Encryption Service provides an easy and cost-effective way to ensure customer privacy and regulatory compliance for corporate email. Its PocketScript(R) e-prescribing service saves lives and saves money by automating the prescription process between payors, doctors and pharmacies. For more information, visit .
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ROSEMONT, Ill., July 7 /PRNewswire/ — New guidelines have been released in the July issue of Pediatrics, recommending cholesterol screening of children and adolescents with a family history of high cholesterol or heart disease.
These guidelines, part of a new clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) “Lipid Screening and Cardiovascular health in Childhood,” also recommend dietary changes for certain children and reemphasize the importance of following the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and increasing physical activity.(1)
One change the report recommends is to consider the use of reduced-fat dairy foods, such as reduced-fat (2%) milk, for children between 12 months and 2 years of age for whom overweight or obesity is a concern or who have a family history of obesity, dyslipidemia or cardiovascular disease.
“Research continues to show that for infants and children, milk and milk products are fundamental to a healthy diet,” said Karen Kafer, Vice President of Nutrition Affairs/Health Partnerships at the National Dairy Council (NDC). “We are working in partnership with the AAP to educate parents with children of different ages and health circumstances how to choose the milk products best for them. We want parents to understand that milk is more than just an important source of calcium for their children; it also contains eight other essential nutrients that help build and maintain strong bones, muscles and teeth.”
The AAP continues to emphasize calcium recommendations from its 2006 Report on Bone health which promotes 3 servings of dairy foods daily for children and 4 servings for adolescents.(2) Likewise, the Dietary Guidelines encourage children from ages 2-8 to consume 3 child-size servings from the milk group each day for a total of 2 cups; children age 9 and older should consume 3 cups per day.(3) Whole, reduced-fat (2%), low-fat (1%) and fat-free milk all provide the same package of vitamins and minerals; the only difference is the amount of fat.
Of the five important nutrients cited in the Dietary Guidelines as nutrients of concern because of inadequate intake by children and adolescents (calcium, potassium, fiber, magnesium and vitamin E), dairy foods are a major source of three — calcium, potassium and magnesium.(2)
“Since the overwhelming majority of children do not get the recommended 3 servings of low-fat or fat-free milk and milk products, increasing their consumption to recommended levels is key to improving their overall diet quality,” Kafer said.
“There are many factors for parents to consider when making dietary choices for their children,” said Tanya Remer Altmann, M.D., FAAP and author of the upcoming book Mommy Calls: Dr. Tanya Answers Parents’ Top 101 Questions About Babies and Toddlers (American Academy of Pediatrics, October 2008). “Based on these new AAP recommendations, parents should consult their pediatrician to determine the right type of dairy products for their family.”
For more information on the health benefits of dairy foods, visit and visit for recipes and tips to help children consume the recommended 3 to 4 servings of dairy each day. To view the AAP’s new clinical report “Lipid Screening and Cardiovascular health in Childhood,” visit .
The National Dairy Council(R) was founded in 1915 and conducts nutrition education and nutrition research programs through national, state and regional Dairy Council organizations, on behalf of America’s dairy farmers.
For more information:
NDC Media Hotline
312-240-2880

(1) Daniels SR, Greer FR and the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition. Lipid Screening and cardiovascular health in childhood. Pediatrics 2008;122 198-208.
(2) American Academy of Pediatrics, Optimizing bone health and calcium intakes of infants, children and adolescents. Pediatrics. 2006; 117(2):578- 585.
(3) U.S. Department of health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005. 6th Edition, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 2005.
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