Prognosis Announces 5 Executive Appointments to the Team

(Houston, March 21, 2011) – Prognosis Health Information Systems has added several experienced health information technology executives to its executive team. The leaders are expected to help Prognosis build upon the company’s recent dramatic growth in the electronic health record (EHR) market.

“We have tapped some of the top talent in the healthcare information technology industry. It is truly an exciting time for our company as these executives will bring the energy and knowledge that we need to continue to surpass expectations. With these leaders in place, we can provide innovative technologies and stellar service that healthcare providers across the country need as they strive to meet the government’s EHR meaningful use incentives. And, ultimately we can serve hospitals as they leverage technology to improve the clinical care that they are delivering to their communities,” says Ramsey Evans, CEO.

Over the past year, Prognosis has increased revenue by more than 200%, doubled its staff and expanded into six states by providing EHR solutions to hospitals ranging in size from 25 to 250 beds.

To build upon this remarkable growth, Evans recently announced the following executive appointments to the Prognosis team:

Bryan Haardt, Executive Vice President of Technology. Haardt will be responsible for developing the integration strategy, process, and methodology for all third party software and hardware vendors as well as assisting with the technical direction of the mobile strategy. Haardt most recently worked as the Chief Technology Officer of C-Gate Health, a clinical laboratory information systems vendor. He has more than 15 years of information technology development, management and consulting experience. Haardt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Houston and is currently an adjunct professor at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.

Stephen Payne, Chief Financial Officer. In this position, Payne will oversee the corporation’s financial reporting and analysis, accounting policy and treasury management as well as other administrative functions. Prior to joining Prognosis, Payne served as CFO of WraSer Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a specialty pharmaceutical marketer and distributor. In this position, he oversaw all finance, accounting, human resources and business operations functions and played a key role in corporate development. Prior to his tenure with WraSer, Payne spent more than ten years with BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE: BMC) in various financial and operational positions. Payne holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Mississippi and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Paul Sinclair, Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Sinclair will provide general management and operations leadership to the company. He has more than 25 years of domestic and international experience in P&L/general management, operations and business development, having held senior management positions at a variety of companies such as Ingenix Consulting and Cerner Corporation. Sinclair holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from University of South Florida, and a master’s degree in operations research from Texas A&M University.

Jay Colfer, Executive Vice President of Client Solutions. In this position, Colfer will lead and manage sales, marketing and business partner development efforts as the company continues to expand across the country. He brings more than 25 years of healthcare information technology sales, marketing and operations experience to the post. He most recently served as Senior Vice President of North American Sales for Eclipsys. He has previously held sales and executive positions with McKesson and with other information technology companies that serve healthcare providers. Colfer earned a Bachelor of Arts in health services administration from St. Mary’s College.

In addition to these new hires, Melanie Breedlove Pita, who formerly held the position of Executive Vice President of Business Development, will transition to a new role, serving as Executive Vice President of Product Development. Pita will zero in on nurturing the Prognosis product portfolio to keenly meet the needs of the healthcare market. Prior to joining Prognosis, Pita worked as a healthcare attorney defending some of the nation’s largest healthcare organizations. Pita received her bachelor’s degree in speech communication from Indiana University and her law degree from Drake Law School.

The company’s founders also will continue to provide strategic leadership:

Isaac Ning Shi will spearhead the company’s technology development in his role as the Chief Technology Officer. His vision and innovation is a driving force behind ChartAccess® Comprehensive EHR, a cutting edge, interoperable solution that is distinguished by its novel web 2.0 architecture and framework and its multi-tiered, object oriented architecture pattern. Shi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in software engineering.

Roy McFadden will continue as Director of Professional Services. In this position, McFadden works closely with client organizations, leveraging his vast knowledge of systems integration delivery to help providers experience EHR success. His project experience includes software selection, strategic systems planning and analysis, business process improvement, IT governance and support. Additionally, he has engineered change management initiatives that have increased technology adoption and mitigated workflow disruption. McFadden received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas State University.

Ramsey Evans will provide overall leadership and strategic direction as the company’s President and CEO. He directs the company’s daily operations to ensure that Prognosis meets the clinical, financial, and operational needs of hospitals, physicians, and nurses. Evans received his finance degree from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and his Master of Business Administration degree from the Bauer School of Business at the University of Houston. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

About Prognosis
Prognosis Health Information Systems, Inc., Houston, aims to improve the quality and safety of patient care through ChartAccess, a certified Comprehensive EHR. Designed to be fully operational in less than six months at a predictable, affordable cost, the solution enables hospitals to meet meaningful use and improve patient outcomes by leveraging built-in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) milestone and quality measure tracking functionality. PHIS uses 21st-Century technologies to offer small community hospitals a pure browser-based system that can run on-premise or in the cloud. For more information, go to www.prognosishis.com

Woburn, Mass., March 21, 2011 Acronis, a leading provider of easy to use backup and recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today launched a new program targeting Managed Services Providers (MSPs).

Responding to the strong demand from its partner community, the Acronis MSP Program offers a monthly subscription-based licensing model for MSPs who would like to provide the award-winning Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 products as part of managed services to their customers.

The program is designed with a low entry cost and flexibility in licensing so partners can get up and going quickly and benefit from recurring, predictable revenue which grows as their business scales. Partners have the ability to easily move licenses between customers as well as obtain discounts for both license volume and length of commitment.

“We’re glad to see Acronis make this program available to the MSP market,” said Joel Ray, president LANstar, Inc.  “Acronis’ new MSP offering makes it easier for us to offer proven backup and recovery solutions to our customers with a business model that is really attractive to us.  Using this new program, we can build an appealing offer – a solid Acronis software-based backup and recovery solution that also helps to reduce storage costs for our customers.”

Izzy Azeri, senior vice president & general manager, Americas, at Acronis said, “One of Acronis’ goals is to provide our channel partners with the right tools to help them grow.  This is the reason we developed this program for MSPs looking for robust backup and recovery solutions. We look forward to expanding our channel ecosystem and allowing new partners to take advantage of the MSP program.”

Details on the Acronis MSP program are available on the Acronis website http://www.acronis.com/partners/msp/.

Acronis is holding a webinar on April 20, 2011, 1 pm ET to discuss how MSPs can profitably grow their businesses by offering Acronis-based backup and disaster recovery services.  Go to https://acronis.webex.com/acronis/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=683931999 to register for the webinar.
About Acronis

Acronis is a leading provider of easy-to-use backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. Its patented disk imaging technology enables corporations, SMBs and consumers to protect their digital assets. With Acronis’ disaster recovery, deployment and migration software, users protect their digital information, maintain business continuity and reduce downtime. Acronis software is sold in more than 180 countries and available in 13 languages. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com. Follow Acronis on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acronis.

Monetate, the leading independent provider of testing, targeting, and personalization for websites, today announced that David Brussin, the company’s founder and CEO, will join a panel of industry experts addressing website conversion at OMMA Metrics, a MediaPost event taking place Wednesday, March 23 at Sentry Center Midtown East.

Key Facts:

Brussin will be speaking on the panel titled “Optimizing the Digital Experience: Testing Ads, Landing Pages, Content and Features to Improve Conversion” at 2:15pm on March 23.

Brussin joins participants from Maxymiser, SiteSpect, Visual Revenue, Accordant Media, and Compete to discuss how marketers can test different combinations of creatives, calls to action, styles, offers, and other elements of the website experience to determine the best “recipe” for improving performance and meeting business goals.

Brussin will share insights and best practices drawn from thousands of successful tests that Monetate has executed for some of the world’s leading ecommerce sites including PETCO, QVC, Urban Outfitters and Sheplers.

Company Will Provide 10 Percent Match on All Rewards Survey-Takers Earn in March and April

ENCINO, Calif. (March 17, 2011) – uSamp (www.usamp.com), one of the world’s fastest growing technology and online sample companies, is joining the massive international effort to assist those affected by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

The company announced today that its survey community, Surveyhead (www.surveyhead.com), will serve as the focal point of a donation campaign to help raise money for American Red Cross relief efforts in Japan. During March and April, Surveyhead will match 10 percent of the value of a survey-taker’s reward and donate the funds to the international relief organization. The goal is to raise a total of $25,000 via its matching program.

“Every little bit helps,” said Gregg Lavin, President and co-founder, uSamp. “And in this case, we’re making it as easy as we can. All survey respondents need to do is participate in our surveys, and we will do the rest.”

Survey-takers also will have the option of donating accumulated reward balances in their accounts once they have reached the appropriate levels, with uSamp making the 10 percent match to the American Red Cross.

Gifts to the American Red Cross will support disaster relief efforts to help those affected by the earthquake in Japan and tsunami throughout the Pacific. Donations to the Red Cross will aid Japan’s relief and recovery efforts through the Japanese Red Cross and possibly other organizations as experts on the ground determine the best way forward. Donations received by the Japanese Red Cross from people within Japan will be pooled and managed by an independent grant disbursement committee, which will include the Japanese Red Cross. The grants will be disbursed in installments in order to responsibly and effectively respond to the country’s evolving relief and recovery needs.

About uSamp

uSamp (www.uSamp.com) is one of the world’s fastest growing technology and online sample companies, providing global survey panelists and an innovative sampling platform for use in market research. uSamp develops collaborative market research tools to foster more rewarding, profitable relationships between organizations and the people they serve. Founded in 2008, uSamp acquired DMS Insights in June 2010 and now has 160 team members worldwide and approximately 4.7 million global market research panelists. The company’s web-based panel platform is transforming the management and delivery of online panel for market researchers, offering unprecedented access over their panel. uSamp’s deep well of proprietary technologies includes SampleMarket™, PanelNet™, PanelShield™, Opinion Place® River and real-time Panel Book Search—cutting-edge solutions for accessing, branding, sampling and managing panels. uSamp is based in Los Angeles, with offices in Dallas, London, New Delhi and Trumbull, CT.

About surveyhead

Started in 2008, surveyhead (surveyhead.com) is global community of survey respondents helping market research companies, and the brands they serve, make better decisions about products and services. Surveyhead attracted more than 9 million unique visitors in 2010, with 9,000 per day signing up as survey respondents.

Performance, Executive Team, Board of Directors, Valuation Fuel Selection for ‘Next Big Thing List’

ChartAccess is Implemented in Georgia Hospital Health Services

Georgia Hospital Health Services (GHHS), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Georgia Hospital Association, has signed an agreement with Prognosis Health Information Systems that will enable Georgia hospitals to implement Prognosis’ ChartAccess Comprehensive EHR.

A shared web-native EHR, ChartAccess is built on a cloud-based SaaS (software-as-a-service) model, where applications are delivered over an encrypted network. Prognosis’ deployment initiative enables hospitals to get the system operational in months, according to Houston-based Prognosis. Users can access the system using a standard operating system and a secure browser, the company added.

The Georgia Hospital Association is a nonprofit trade association that serves 170 hospitals in Georgia. GHHS partners with companies to provide products and services at a discounted rate and/or with added benefits to member institutions.

 

Experts from Coca-Cola, L’Oreal, Sesame Street and Taco Bell to Explore Use of New Media for Competitive Advantage, in Panel Sponsored by J.D. Power & Asociates, NetBase and uSamp

Encino, Calif-(March 16, 2011)

WHO: Chuck Miller, chief research officer of uSamp (www.uSamp.com), and president and founder of DMS, a leader in online research since 1995. With uSamp’s technology, clients receive valuable feedback from approximately 4.7 million informed and motivated respondents around the globe who participate in panels, surveys and question-and-answer sessions. DMS provides sample to the market research industry via online panels and Opinion Place, leveraging websites to reach 90 percent of U.S. Internet households to create broad-based, real-time consumer samples.

WHAT:  uSamp’s Miller will be part of a Diamond Learning Session at the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) 2011 annual convention in New York City. The session – “The Need for Speed – Use Social, Mobile and More to Accelerate Your Insight Strategy” – is sponsored by J.D. Power & Associates, NetBase and uSamp.

Miller will be joined by several industry leaders. Merrill Dubrow, president and CEO of M/A/R/C Research, will moderate the panel discussion, which features representatives from leading “smart” companies: Stan Sthanunathan, Coca-Cola; Angelike Galdi, L’Oreal; James Williams-Ness, Sesame Street; and Lynn Hermans, Taco Bell. All are using new social, mobile and other digital research methodologies to find insights in real-time, develop innovative products, create more effective campaigns, manage crisis communications and more.

Among the issues the panel will explore:

• How major brands use insights from real-time social media conversations to make key marketing decisions

• How companies can be more “anticipatory” in their research

• How to combine research approaches and arrive at insights and actions rapidly

WHEN: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.,

Shubert Complex, 6th Floor, Marriott Marquis, New York City.

 

About uSamp™

uSamp (uSamp.com) is one of the world’s fastest growing technology and online sample companies, providing global survey panelists and an innovative sampling platform for use in market research. uSamp develops collaborative market research tools to foster more rewarding, profitable relationships between organizations and the people they serve. Founded in 2008, uSamp acquired DMS Insights in June 2010 and now has 160 team members worldwide and approximately 4.7 million global market research panelists. The company’s web-based panel platform is transforming the management and delivery of online panel for market researchers, offering unprecedented access over their panel. uSamp’s deep well of proprietary technologies includes SampleMarket™, PanelNet™, PanelShield™, Opinion Place® River and real-time Panel Book Search – cutting-edge solutions for accessing, branding, sampling and managing panels. uSamp is based in Los Angeles, with offices in Dallas, London, New Delhi and Trumbull, CT.