Philadelphia-based ecommerce technology company Monetate, today announced that its Director of Product Management, Eric Miller, will present at the Philadelphia Futures’ Annual Conference Saturday, January 7.

Miller’s session will address an audience of over 600 high school and college students as well as their teachers, mentors and family members. Discussing key tools and attributes for professional success in the 21st century, Miller will be joined on the panel by Janis Moore Campbell, director of graduate student professional development at the Fox School of Business, Temple University; and Che′ Ward, emergency physician at the Albert Einstein Medical Center. As an emerging technology company in the Philadelphia area, Monetate is committed to driving thought leadership and innovation in the community.

“We want to encourage students to develop and utilize 21st Century skills such as, taking calculated risks, problem-solving and technology,” said Eric Miller. “At Monetate, these are all key characteristics that embody our ethos and company culture and what we look for in future candidates. Events like Philadelphia Futures, which bring together an entire community of people dedicated to college access and success, strongly support our philosophy of fostering innovation.”

With its recent trajectory and impressive growth over the last year, Monetate plans to hire 100 employees in 2012. Monetate offers employees a fast-paced work environment and culture of innovation that nurtures their pre-existing desire to learn.

About Monetate

Monetate is the leading provider of testing, targeting, and personalization solutions for websites. The company’s cloud based platform empowers marketers to test and target product offers and site features and convert successful tests into personalized messaging and promotional campaigns, instantly, anywhere on the website. Monetate removes the IT bottleneck and is quick and easy to install using just a single JavaScript tag, inserted only once, and requiring no internal IT resources. Some of the best known brands in the world use Monetate to make the most of their online marketing dollars, increase conversion rates, and personalize the website experience including Best Buy, Aeropostale, Urban Outfitters, Altrec, The Sports Authority, PETCO, QVC and more. Based in Philadelphia, Monetate serves a growing list of B2C websites around the world. For more information about Monetate, visit http://www.monetate.com.

About Philadelphia Futures

Philadelphia Futures: a union of White-Williams Scholars and Philadelphia Futures provides Philadelphia’s high-potential, economically disadvantaged, college-bound students with deep, rigorous and life-changing programs and resources as they make their journey to and through college. To learn more, visit http://www.philadelphiafutures.org.

Colorado-Fayette Medical Center is one of several hospitals that recently selected an enterprise clinical and financial system including the electronic health records solution from Prognosis Health Information Systems to improve care delivery, enhance operations – and get on the road toward qualifying for incentive monies under the federal government’s $27 billion EHR adoption initiative.

“We knew we had to quickly implement an electronic health records system if we were going to take full advantage of the meaningful use dollars coming from the federal government,” said Steve Gularte, CEO at Colorado-Fayette, a 38-bed hospital in Weimar, Texas.

To do so, a committee comprised of representatives throughout the hospital investigated multiple options and invited two vendors to provide product demonstrations to staff members.

“The ease of use of the Prognosis EHR stood out as the deciding factor. We realized how important it is to bring in a technology that users will quickly adopt to reach all of our organizational goals,” Gularte said. “The fact that so many other rural and community hospitals have already used the solution to qualify for meaningful use incentives simply strengthened our resolve to move forward with Prognosis HIS.”

Colorado-Fayette also chose to implement the Prognosis HIS patient accounting and billing and general financials system, which offers 18 integrated revenue management modules. With one system providing both clinical and financial functionality, the hospital expects to improve efficiency and eliminate all of the cumbersome manual transfer of data between disparate systems and between paper and electronic databases.

In addition to Colorado-Fayette,  Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital (Gridley, Calif.), Plumas District Hospital (Quincy, Calif.) and Shamrock General Hospital (Shamrock, Texas) all recently selected enterprise solutions from Prognosis HIS.  Built as a “disruptive innovation,” the solution provides a viable alternative to other options by providing a platform that helps community hospitals overcome the cost, speed of implementation, and usability obstacles commonly cited as impediments to electronic records success. The fact that Prognosis HIS has implemented many of these systems in 120 days – and has already helped more than 16 healthcare providers meet meaningful use confirms that hospitals can quickly experience success by leveraging this technology.

“Our complete solution is resonating in the market because it is making what formerly seemed impossible – possible. Our system makes it possible for hospitals to afford what previously had been financially elusive technology,” said Ramsey Evans, CEO of Prognosis HIS.  “In addition, hospitals typically implement the system quickly and users take to the functionality right away – making it possible to demonstrate all of the requirements that the government is looking for in meaningful use – and perhaps more importantly making it possible to truly improve the care that is being delivered to patients in communities across the country.”

A shared web-native system delivered via a cloud computing model or on site, ChartAccess® Comprehensive EHR software applications are made available as a service over an encrypted health information network. The system’s built in analytics and health information exchange (HIE) capabilities help hospitals provide consistent, high-quality patient care. The ability to utilize an online dashboard to track and direct progress toward meaningful use helps hospitals move quickly toward the realization of incentive funds.

About Prognosis Health Information Systems

Prognosis Health Information Systems (PHIS), Houston, is committed to utilizing advanced 21st-Century technologies to help healthcare providers significantly improve the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care while also achieving better financial results. PHIS enables rural and community hospitals to utilize pure browser-based electronic health record (EHR) and financial systems designed to be fully operational in less than six months at a predictable, affordable cost. For more information, visit www.prognosisHIS.com. Follow us on Twitter (@PrognosisHIS).

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Zmags Inc., a rich media marketing company in Boston, has landed $7 million in a debt funding round, CEO Michael Schreck said today.

The company develops a software-as-a-service product that enables marketers to turn static print or PDF collateral into interactive flash format. The result, Schrek said, is a new “shopping discovery” platform for tablets and mobile devices called CommercePro that aims to compete with giants like Amazon.com by taking a different strategy altogether.

“It’s the opposite of Amazon, where you know what you want,” Schreck said, noting that the online marketplace giant tends to cater to customers who know what they want, find it online, buy, then leave the site immediately. The CommercePro platform caters to the casual, social shopping experience that comes with in-store browsing.

Schreck thinks he’s hit on valuable niche that enables retail stores to still gain market share online against Amazon.com. “You can’t compete by doing one click better,” he said. “You can’t play by the same rules. You have to play a different game.” He points to three data points that he said Zmags’ rich media platform has achieved: Almost 100 percent increase in online order size; three to six times the amount of time spent on site; and 80 percent of Zmags users visiting every single page. The company has attracted a number of familiar brands and retailers to use its platform, including Kenneth Cole, Neiman Marcus, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Home Depot and Audi.

The $7 million financing Zmags has taken in includes $5 million in debt funding from new investor Square One Capital and $2 million from the company’s existing investors – OpenView Venture Partners and Northcap Partners. This spring, Zmags is planning for a larger, pure equity funding with a lead investor closely tied to the retail industry, Schreck said.

Schreck joined Zmags in May from his former role as a partner at General Catalyst Partners. The company then named a new chief operating officer in August with W. Sean Ford.  Schreck and Ford co-founded online college savings service Upromise Inc. in 1999.

Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimization and application performance management solutions featuring Unified Performance Management, today announced the appointment of Greg Veres to Vice President, Engineering at Exinda.

Veres, an industry veteran with over 20 years of engineering and engineering management, comes to Exinda from Blue Coat Systems and will be responsible for executing Exinda’s product development and R&D strategy, including the creation of a new North American development center in Waterloo, Ontario.

“We are pleased to have Greg Veres join the Exinda leadership team,” said Michael Sharma Exinda’s President & CEO. “Greg brings extensive experience strengthening our domain expertise in WAN Optimization and Network Management for the enterprise and service provider customers we serve.”

Most recently, Greg served as Vice Present, Security Products at Blue Coat Systems managing development teams in Waterloo, Ontario, Sunnyvale, California and India. Greg spent six years at Blue Coat in a variety of engineering leadership roles, prior to Blue Coat, Greg held senior engineering management roles at Research in Motion, AGFA Healthcare and Alias|wavefront.

Mr. Veres holds an Honours Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science w/ Electrical Engineering and a Masters of Mathematics both from the University of Waterloo.

About Exinda®

Exinda is a proven global supplier of WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration products. The company has helped over 2,500 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide to reduce network operating costs and ensure consistent application performance over the WAN. For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com.

Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimisation and application performance management solutions based on Unified Performance Management (UPM), has appointed Bytes Systems Integration as a national reseller.

“Exinda is growing at over 90% per annum globally due to its unique UPM solution that encompasses application visibility, control, optimisation and intelligent acceleration within a single network appliance,” says Alan Rehbock, sales director, Exinda South Africa. “Since launching an office in South Africa, we have experienced enormous interest in our solutions and have therefore appointed one of the most respected IT integrators in South Africa to sell and support Exinda in the region.

“When looking at prospective partners, Bytes Systems Integration demonstrated significant experience and competencies in the wide-area network (WAN) optimisation space, making it an obvious choice.”

Says Patrick Hastings, divisional MD, Advanced Technology Services for Bytes Systems Integration, “We tend to be very selective in the number of vendor partners appointed to service our region, but Exinda was an easy choice. Exinda presents an extraordinary value proposition that directly addresses application performance issues across the WAN.

“In addition, Exinda’s unique UPM value proposition is compelling and presents an ideal opportunity to cater for the requirements of some clients that are not addressed with the technologies we currently represent.”

A senior member of the Bytes’ technical team attended the first Deep-Dive technical train-the-trainer session held by Exinda in Johannesburg during November and passed the rigorous test with flying colours. The company will now ensure this technical expertise is transferred to other Bytes’ specialists dealing with WAN optimisation issues in a variety of vertical market segments.

He adds that Exinda excels in a competitive market because of its speed, simplicity, scalability, its superior performance and fast return on investment (ROI). “Additionally, key differentiators for Exinda include in-depth network visibility, quality of service (QoS) assurance and intelligent acceleration.”

Moreover, Exinda’s Global Partner Programme works to the benefit of the reseller as it provides for additional benefits in the form of deal registration bonuses, margin accelerators, special performance incentive discounts and rebates.

“Bytes Systems Integration has posted a growth rate of 60% this year and plans to grow even faster next year,” adds Rehbock. “It has a sterling reputation among its clients and hence is a partner of choice for Exinda.”

About Exinda®

Exinda is a proven global supplier of next generation WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration products. The company has helped over 2,500 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide improve the end user experience, manage application performance, manage congestion over the WAN and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive. For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com

With the federal government offering both carrot and stick incentives to implement electronic health records, Biggs Gridley Memorial Hospital needed a system that could create the requisite digital environment.

After an exhaustive analysis of various options, leaders at the California provider selected an enterprise clinical and financial system that includes an innovative EHR solution from Prognosis Health Information Systems.

“Plain and simple, we needed to quickly move toward electronic health records because the government said we have to. So, we went to every conference and event that had to do with EHRs to gather information and become aware of what options are out there,” saidDavid Yarbrough, CEO at the critical access hospital. “But we wanted to select a system that would not only help us meet the government’s emerging requirements but one that would help us improve the quality of care and operational efficiency at our hospital here in California.”

The ChartAccess® Comprehensive EHR is expected to help the hospital quickly meet the meaningful use requirements needed to qualify for its share of the government’s $27 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) incentive funds. In addition, by having an electronic system in place, the hospital will avoid the Medicare reimbursement penalties that are expected to hit providers that are still operating in a paper-based environment in 2015.

Built as a “disruptive innovation,” the solution provides a viable alternative to other options by providing a platform that helps community hospitals overcome the cost, speed of implementation, and usability obstacles commonly cited as impediments to electronic records success. A shared web-native EHR system delivered via a cloud computing model, ChartAccess software applications are made available as a service over an encrypted health information network. Intuitive and easy-to-use, the system offers built in analytics and health information exchange (HIE) capabilities, which can help hospitals provide consistent, high-quality patient care.

With clinical care improvement as the ultimate goal, the fact that the system does not just turn data into digital information but enables users to transform the information into intelligence that can be acted upon and reported to various quality initiatives is what made ChartAccess stand out from other systems, according to Yarbrough.

“We will be able to use all of the data in the system and evaluate it to help improve our clinical care. Each and every piece of data can be reported to quality initiatives and used in benchmarking initiatives to improve our performance,” Yarbrough said. “Prognosis HIS is just far and away better than other vendors in its ability to provide a system that can do this type of clinical analysis and reporting.”

Biggs is planning to go-live on the system early next year, complete implementation within 120 days and then attest to meaningful use to qualify for incentive monies.

“We are offering a disruptive innovation that not only helps hospitals that might have previously been left on the EHR sidelines get into the game but also helps them win the game,” said Ramsey Evans, CEO of Prognosis Health Information Systems.  “Our powerful solution provides advanced functionality along with an implementation approach that makes it possible to move the needle forward by enabling improved care, instead of merely transforming paper data to electronic data.”

About Prognosis Health Information Systems

Prognosis Health Information Systems (PHIS), Houston, is committed to utilizing advanced 21st-Century technologies to help healthcare providers significantly improve the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care while also achieving better financial results. PHIS enables rural and community hospitals to utilize pure browser-based electronic health record (EHR) and financial systems designed to be fully operational in less than six months at a predictable, affordable cost. For more information, visit www.prognosisHIS.com. Follow us on Twitter (@PrognosisHIS).