SIH’s service will help to address a pressing need in the industry, the need to strengthen the supply chain and materials management functions in healthcare. According to a 2002 research study by one of the nation’s largest volume purchasing companies for hospitals, some healthcare systems could realize 8-14 percent in supply cost savings. Since supplies represent 20-25 percent of all hospital expenditures, better management of these expenses could produce astronomical savings for hospitals. To assist providers with these efforts, SIH has developed a service which will recruit supply chain and materials management professionals for providers with the specific characteristics, skills set, and knowledge to match current and future needs of the organization.

SIH believes that the inefficiencies in hospital expense management are NOT attributable to incompetence on the part of hospital materials management professionals. According to Colonna, “These individuals have rarely received the specialized education and training to enable them to expand their role to keep pace with the rapid increases in non-labor expenses. At the same time, their ability to assume a leadership role in expense management has been limited by several critical factors; time, adequate staffing levels, and resistance from department managers who control large portions of hospital budgets. Our services will help providers to address all of these issues.”

According to Colonna, SIH is not the first to identify this need. In his book, The Health Care Value Chain Dr. Lawton R. Burns, (Professor of Health Care Systems in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Wharton Center for Health Management and Economics) points out that the role of hospital materials managers may be invisible and undervalued. Dr. Burns states, “Hospitals must realize they are missing the opportunity to control and manage their non-labor expenses by not enhancing their supply chain and materials management efforts.”

Colonna added, “This service is not contracted management for supply chain and materials management. To paraphrase Jim Collins comments in his book, Good To Great, it is about getting the right people on the bus, a process which can be assured by using our team of true experts.”

Despite the current crisis of cost in healthcare, unlike other industries, hospitals have failed to adequately transform their expense management efforts from a disjointed approach to a coordinated one using organization-wide processes. SIH plans to change that with services such as Resource Matching.

Strategic Initiatives In Healthcare is a consulting firm devoted exclusively to all aspects of expense control and management for healthcare providers. For more information on expense management in healthcare or to arrange an interview with Mr. Colonna, contact Matt Gyulay at mgyulay@sihealthcare.com 1-877-717-7444.

Aside from offering web hosting and domain registration services, all hosting resellers can become OpenWheeler affiliates and start promoting the cockpit simulator on their online stores availing of hundreds of ready-made banners and product images.

Furthermore, the resellers will receive a 2-tier affiliate commission upon each order placed via an affiliate link that belongs to an OpenWheeler affiliate they themselves have referred. ResellersPanel takes care of the billing service provision and product shipment.

OpenWheeler offers an ergonomic design, real car seat adjustment controls, gear shift support and full compatibility with all steering wheel models and home video game consoles, including Playstation3, Xbox 360 and Wii.

‘The simulator is meant to bridge the gap between real world racing and virtual racing by giving gaming devotees a truly lifelike driving experience,’ said Nick Blaskov, ResellersPanel president and CFO. ‘Now everyone can drive fast and incur no speeding fines.’

‘OpenWheeler is, indeed, open,’ Mr. Blaskov continued, ‘it is suitable for all body types and can be used both by kids and…grown-up kids also as a flight simulator through joysticks and other gaming accessories, so you can not only hit the road, but also take to the sky!’

OpenWheeler was presented at The Gadget Show Live 2011 fair in Birmingham by Mr. Blaskov himself.

About ResellersPanel

ResellersPanel spawned the first free reseller web hosting program on the web eight years ago – in April 2003. So far, it has helped more than one hundred thousand resellers to create their own fully featured web hosting companies and to offer a rich palette of online services on behalf of their own brand, among them shared web hosting packages, VPS, semi-dedicated and dedicated servers, domain names and SSL certificates. ResellersPanel is an ICANN accredited domain registrar as well.

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A small self administered pension scheme can be used in a variety of ways to transact with a business,which is usually the business of the members of the pension scheme. The following is an example of how a SSAS can be used to help your children purchase their first home.

The current low level of interest rates have made it slightly more affordable for first-time buyers to get on the property ladder by way of lower interest payments on their mortgage. However, it is still extremely difficult, especially for young people, to buy their first home. Banks who are willing to give a mortgage on the basis of a 10% deposit charge punitive interest rates and conditions. Most lenders require a deposit of 25% or higher.

Parents who are keen to help their children with this problem, may find they are able to do so if they have a small self administered scheme (SSAS). Instead of relying on a bank to obtain financing for the purchase of a home, under their terms and conditions, it is possible to use ones pension to loan the shortfall in capital needed and repay the interest to the SSAS very tax efficiently.

If you have sufficient funds in your pension, you can loan half the amount to your company, which may use the money to loan onto the director (who’s offspring needs the deposit), via the director’s loan account. The interest payments are set by the pension scheme, provided interest is at least one percent above the base rate. It is therefore possible to lend money at a rate of 1.5% using the current base rate of 0.5%. The loan must have a term of no more than five years, but can be rolled over once for an additional term of no more than five further years. Tax relief is also received on the interest payments to the pension scheme plus to ensure the SSAS does not face a loss, a first charge on an asset of equal value is made.

Pension Practitioner .Com is one of the most innovative administrators for SSAS, they have produced a free fact sheet on how this works in detail in conjunction with a leading firm of tax advisors. To get this free guide freephone 0800 634 4862.

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“This module eliminates redundant paper work and manual GL coding by moving the functionality from MAS 90/200/500 over to EZCM,” she said. “Once the user has scanned an invoice into EZCM, she/he can pull up the code table, find and apply as many codes as needed, apply the corresponding amounts, and electronically route the AP expense invoice for approval, all within the EZCM Process Manager workflow engine. When the electronic invoice approvals are complete, EZCM exports the data to the Sage MAS ERP for billing. The whole operation is virtually seamless.”

Other enhancements include:

- Workflow Process models allowing conditional participants to be based on metadata values. This will allow routing based on departments, PO vs. non-PO type invoices, and more.
- The new “Assigned to Me” filter in the Process Manager allows managers and other users to view workflow streams to identify all of the tasks that require their attention. They can also view all pending and completed tasks.
- Enhanced sorting and filtering capabilities.

“These and other modifications illustrate how EZContentManager has continued to grow in response to market feedback,” Doolittle said. “Many of these excellent ideas emerged from conversations with our users and reseller partners. We appreciate their collaboration.”

About ACOM Solutions, Inc.
For over 27 years, ACOM has been automating document and payment processes for more than 4,000 organizations, across all industries. Developing solutions that are best suited for accounting/financial departments of mid-size organizations, ACOM’s solutions integrate with any financial/ERP system to extend their capabilities to dramatically improve an organization’s efficiency by automating their previously manual, paper-based processes, and significantly decrease an organization’s costs. For more information, call 800-699-5758, email sales@acom.com, or visit http://www.acom.com

For more information about partner opportunities, call 800-347-3638 ext. 4150, email partnerinfo@acom.com, or visit http://www.acom.com/channels

During the interview with Carey Holzman of Craig Crossman’s ComputerAmerica, the longest running syndicated computer show, Mr. Abdulhayoglu discussed how Comodo has been actively working to make the Internet more secure at no cost to consumers. To hear the interview in its entirety, please visit http://archives.warpradio.com/btr/ComputerAmerica/100822 .MP3.

Below are interview highlights:
COMODO FIREWALL PRO (NEW VERSION 3.0) AVAILABILITY

Carey Holzman: Welcome back to the show. Melih is with Comodo. When you were here last time you were speaking about Comodo firewall version 2.0?

Melih: Correct

Carey Holzman: And now?

Melih: And now it’s Version 3. It’s in beta now and it’s going to be released very soon.

Carey Holzman: So where shall we start.

Melih: Well let’s start with when its going to come out first.

Carey Holzman: Is it out yet?

Melih: It’s out in our forum as a BETA version. People can go download it and play with it.
WHY CURRENT APPROACH FROM OTHER VENDORS IS FLAWED

Carey Holzman: This new firewall would include HIPS. What does that mean if it is going to include HIPS?

Melih: The name of the game now is prevention not detection. Detection is dead — long live prevention and that’s what we are going to talk about today.

Detection is good but now it is all about prevention. You know it’s like having a burglar alarm that only recognizes certain burglars. There is malware which we do not know about – and these unrecognized viruses go through without notice and that’s why we have a huge problem. The days of the anti virus, and the way we fight viruses are, well, gone and dead. We have to start preventing malware. There are 3 steps that one has to follow: Prevention, Detection and Cure. Just like you have a house with a door. The door prevents people from coming in and then you have the burglar alarm in case the door breaks down. Then, you have insurance if both fail. We need to start bringing that into computers. Today we only have a half working burglar alarm. That’s called the anti virus unfortunately.

Carey Holzman: Well, I like your analogy there.

Melih: I am looking at a site, VirusTotal, that reports on malware. In the last 24 hours, there has been 18,135 new malware and only 2 of them have been detected by at least one anti virus engine. So what happens to the rest – they get onto your computer without being detected. And that’s what we want to change.

Carey Holzman: It definitely needs to be changed because, look, viruses are not going away.

Melih: It’s exactly the point. I mean look at it. Now your computer has to check all the files you have in your computer – literally 10’s of 1000’s of files to see if any of those files have viruses on it.

Carey Holzman: It checks forever. It does not work very well.
COMODO’S NEW APPROACH IN FIREWALL PRO V3.0 – BASED ON WHITE LIST TECHNOLOGY

Melih: Checking for virus once they are on your computer is a losing battle. So the current default allow system is bad because it will let anything in and then check whether it is good or not. No! No! No! We have a new system now, it’s a default deny. I will deny until you’ve proven to me that you are good enough to get in and that’s the difference. And that’s the difference we are going to make.

Carey Holzman: Why can I not just use my Windows firewall, why is it not good enough, why should I get this new firewall from Comodo.

Melih: Well the problem with Windows firewall is it does not prevent attacks. It detects some of that but it does not have good outbound capabilities. What I mean is when there is a malware in your machine you need to know if it’s making a connection to the outside world or not. A firewall which has good outbound capabilities provides that to you. It tells you, “hey there is something here in your machine making a connection to the Internet” and that is very very valuable information. That alerts you and stops you from doing something wrong.

Carey Holzman: It’s like a coin toss where they allow or not. It is almost random whether to allow it or not. How does Comodo deal with this?

Melih: Well that’s a big big big area. I mean Comodo deals with this by creating the world’s biggest safe list. What we have done is we have a team of people whose job is to simply identify what is a good file and what is not a good file. We’ve got a database of under a million good files now.

Carey Holzman: Known good files. You recognize them and you know that they are safe.

Melih: Correct. And by that way, we do not bother the users by asking that. So we prevent Pop up Fatigue. Pop up fatigue is going to be the thing of the past with version 3 of Comodo firewall. We only ask the user if we do not recognize the file. And as we continue to update our database, it will recognize more and more files.

Carey Holzman: Well I am glad to hear to that.
HOW COMODO PROTECTS AGAINST DRIVE BY DOWNLOAD THREATS

Carey Holzman: Let’s talk about the ways people are getting infected now with the drive by download attacks.

Melih: I mean sometimes you just visit and don’t even click on things and the site executes a Buffer overflow attack. What that means is that it finds a vulnerability in your system or browser or messenger system and it injects the code straight into your machine without you even knowing about it. Drive by download attacks are the biggest problem that we have today, one of the biggest threats.

Carey Holzman: Let me ask you this. If someone has Comodo Firewall – are they safe?

Melih: Very much so. But the beauty with our version 3 of our firewall is once you have it you can almost certainly bet your bottom dollar that you are not going to get malware.

Carey Holzman: That’s a pretty big statement. Say it one more time for me.

Melih: Once you have our version 3 of our firewall, unless you disable it you are not likely to get malware into your system.

Carey Holzman: That’s a bold statement. I got some customers that have a gift for getting themselves infected and I know they would be perfect to see if it actually does what you say.

Melih: The reason why we can say such a bold statement is because the way we protect PCs is changing now. What we do is only allow good applications to execute in your machines. It’s just simple as that. If we don’t know an application, we simply do not give it access to your CPU so it can not execute and get installed on your machine. It’s as simple as that.

Carey Holzman: I got to tell you. It sounds fantastic.
WHY FREE?

Carey Holzman: Now our listeners want to know how you can give it away for free.

Melih: Well the thing is we wanted to build our brand and we thought about it and we said we could give away a free pen. But we thought, hey that’s old news. Why not make worlds best firewall and give that for free and lets see which one increases our brand awareness. Guess what – the firewall did. The idea is about building a trusted brand for Comodo.

Carey Holzman: I think you doing a great service for the Internet community at large and keep up the great work and thank you so much for joining us again.

Melih: Thanks a lot and have a great day.

To download the current version of the firewall, please visit http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com. Or to get a download of the new version (still in BETA), visit our Forums at http://forums.comodo.com.
About Comodo

The http://www.comodo.com companies provide the infrastructure that is essential in enabling e-merchants, other Internet-connected companies, software companies, and individual consumers to interact and conduct business via the Internet safely and securely. The Comodo companies offer PKI SSL, Code Signing, Content Verification and E-Mail Certificates; award winning PC security software; vulnerability scanning services for PCI Compliance; secure e-mail and fax services.

Continual innovation, a core competence in PKI, and a commitment to reversing the growth of Internet-crime distinguish the Comodo companies as vital players in the Internet’s ongoing development. Comodo secures and authenticates online transactions and communications for over 200,000 business customers and 3,000,000 users of our desktop security products.

For additional information on Comodo – Creating Trust Online™ visit http://www.comodo.com
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Robert Kery, Managing Director of Advanta and Glen Rabie, CEO of Yellowfin commented on the new exciting relationship between the two software partners.

“For some time we have been searching for a business intelligence solution that meets the broad range of web reporting and analysis needs of the 3PL and logistics markets. While there are many products available, we found Yellowfin’s product to be unique. It provides not only the broad functionality and ease of use required in the logistics market, but also the necessary interfacing flexibility which has made it possible to provide a seamless interface to ATLAS. Most importantly, Yellowfin’s product caters for the complexity inherent in the multi tiered relationship’s between 3PL/4PL’s, clients and the client’s customers to ensure that the reporting requirements are met across all levels of the supply chain”

Yellowfin’s, Glen Rabie comments “I am confident that Atlas BI will provide substantial value to logistics service providers and I am looking forward to a great long term relationship with Advanta Software”

Atlas BI is an advanced business intelligence module developed using Yellowfin’s underlying business intelligence application and providing the seamless integration to Advanta’s ATLAS suite.
Atlas BI improves business performance by presenting meaningful information in a visually attractive and easy to read format. As part of the Atlas e-Logistics suite, Atlas BI comprises of a number of components as shown below:

Atlas BI Ereports is a reporting toolkit which provides for the development of web based enquiries and reports which are presented in a visually attractive and simple to read format. Atlas E-reports’ transforms data from data tables into graphical reports which are easy to analyse. For example pie charts, report tables and line graphs.
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Atlas Console is a software and services bundle providing a logistics specific dashboard and reports together with a set of pre configured data views implementation services.

The ATLAS BI suite will be enhanced in the near future with; -

Atlas BI Alerts which will allow the establishment of system wide alerts to be triggered and delivered in response to specific user defined events. Atlas BI Alerts will utilise SMS and internet email integration technology to deliver alerts to the designated person or team.
“Atlas BI offers 3PL and logistics service providers an opportunity to offer their clients total transparency in business operations and the ability to measure actual KPI’s against target KPI’s providing greater control to the user” said Robert Kery.

“We are very excited with the addition of ATLAS BI to our product suite. Early feedback from our client bases has been very positive and we expect many of our clients to take up the ATLAS BI module in the coming months”.

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