Beckman Coulter Selects Visage Mobile for Greater Enterprise Mobility Management

Beckman Coulter Selects Visage Mobile for Greater Enterprise Mobility Management

MobilityCentral SaaS Solution Provides Transparency into Corporate Wireless Spend and Employee Usage

San Francisco, CA (Vocus) June 22, 2010

Visage Mobile (www. visagemobile. com]), provider of MobilityCentral, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for enterprise mobility management (http://www. visagemobile. com/product/288-Enterprise-Mobility-Management), announced today that Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE:BEC), the leading provider of biomedical testing products, has selected MobilityCentral to reduce the time it takes to manage the company’s mobility program, which includes tracking mobile devices and easily identifying and taking action on unnecessary mobile billing overages.

Beckman Coulter (http://www. beckmancoulter. com/Default. asp? bhfv=2) recently evaluated the mobility management landscape and quickly identified MobilityCentral as the leading solution in the market today. Visage Mobile’s MobilityCentral application was implemented in less than two weeks giving Beckman Coulter immediate and unprecedented visibility and control over its mobile operations.

“With over 11,500 employees, it was becoming increasingly difficult to track and process the multiple wireless carriers billing statements, users mobile devices and track the employee users,” said Jackie Neeley, mobile device administrator at Beckman Coulter, Inc. “We selected Visage Mobile because they offer a unique enterprise mobility management solution – one that is easy-to-use, and the only true multi-tenant SaaS solution on the market. With MobilityCentral, I can log in and immediately access amazing dashboards that show the state of my mobility program, including cross-carrier spend data and metrics, individual employee mobility usage and the ability to drill down into the details as needed. Combined with its world-class reporting capabilities, MobilityCentral saves our business time and money.”

Visage Mobile’s MobilityCentral (http://www. visagemobile. com/product) SaaS solution allows a company to track the number of mobile devices it has under management, employee assignment of devices and overall monthly spend on wireless plans and features. With greater mobile management, organizations can significantly reduce costs by applying a mobility budget, eliminate wireless overspend and reduce the time and effort required to process carrier invoices and track inventory. Once a company’s mobility program is transparent, MobilityCentral can also assist in managing corporate policies and ensuring compliance.

“As corporate smartphone use continues to rise, organizations are going to have to start monitoring their mobile spend more closely,” said Bzur Haun, president of Visage Mobile. “Day in and day out, we are amazed at the hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted on outrageous roaming charges, 411 calls, ringtones and mobile entertainment. With MobilityCentral, Visage Mobile offers a one-stop solution for enterprise mobile management, with rapid time to deployment, integration with all of the major carriers and a simple SaaS delivery model.”

To sign up for a demo of MobilityCentral, visit http://www. visagemobile. com/try-it-now (http://www. visagemobile. com/try-it-now).

About Beckman Coulter
Beckman Coulter, Inc., based in Orange County, California, develops, manufactures and markets products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical tests. More than 200,000 Beckman Coulter systems operate in laboratories around the world, supplying critical information for improving patient health and reducing the cost of care. Recurring revenue, consisting of consumable supplies (including reagent test kits), service and operating-type lease payments, represent about 80 percent of the company's 2009 revenue of $3.3 billion. For more information, visit http://www. beckmancoulter. com (http://www. beckmancoulter. com).

Beckman Coulter is the registered trademark of Beckman Coulter, Inc.

About Visage Mobile
Visage Mobile (www. visagemobile. com), based in San Francisco, is a leading provider of management solutions for enterprises seeking to gain visibility and control over its smart phones, cell phones and other workforce mobility solutions. Its flagship product, MobilityCentral, provides policy management, spend control, inventory tracking, end-user allocations, configurable reporting and more. Moreover, MobilityCentral is a Software as a Service and the only Do It Yourself (DIY) approach to mobility management; a clear alternative to expensive and often unsatisfactory outsourced approaches.

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MEDICAL PRESENT VALUE'S PHYNANCE™ SERVICE INCREASES MEDICAL GROUP'S NET COLLECTED REVENUE BY 3 TO 6% ONLINE CLAIM AND VERIFICATION SERVICE ALSO SHORTENS BILLING CYCLE AND IMPROVES MEDICAL OFFICE WORKFLOW EFFICIENCIES

MEDICAL PRESENT VALUE'S PHYNANCE™ SERVICE INCREASES MEDICAL GROUP'S NET COLLECTED REVENUE BY 3 TO 6% ONLINE CLAIM AND VERIFICATION SERVICE ALSO SHORTENS BILLING CYCLE AND IMPROVES MEDICAL OFFICE WORKFLOW EFFICIENCIES

MEDICAL PRESENT VALUE'S PHYNANCE™ SERVICE INCREASES MEDICAL GROUP'S NET COLLECTED REVENUE BY 3 TO 6% ONLINE CLAIM AND VERIFICATION SERVICE ALSO SHORTENS BILLING CYCLE AND IMPROVES MEDICAL OFFICE WORKFLOW EFFICIENCIES

(PRWEB) June 6, 2002

SAN ANTONIO, -- Medical Present Value (http://www. mpv. com (http://www. mpv. com)), a health care company striving to align and bring uniformity to financial transactions between payors and providers, says medical practices deploying its Phynance(TM) service have realized increases in net collected revenues of 3-6%, based on successful identification and appeal of underpayments.

"For the typical $50 million physician partnership, our Phynance service can help the practice recover anywhere from $1.5 million to $3 million," says James M. O. Rubin, MD, president and chief executive officer of Medical Present

Value (MPV). "Equally important, payment contracts are now fully understood, and their performance is accurately measured."

MPV's Phynance service is an innovative Internet-based claim and payment verification service that automatically verifies the accuracy of all claims and payments by payor, contract and line item. The resulting "contract transparency" improves business processes in the medical group and throughout health care. By helping lower health care administrative costs, the Phynance service ultimately benefits patients and their employers.

MPV's Phynance service has been shown to bring significant value to physician practice groups especially those with over 20 physicians. MPV is currently focusing on mid-size and larger specialty groups, large multi-specialty groups, and faculty practice plans at academic medical centers.

A study conducted by MPV for the Texas Medical Association (TMA) has helped quantify the extent of the underpayment problem for medical groups:

-- One of five claims by MPV's Texas provider clients was valued by payors below the contracted amount.

-- The value of these claims averages five percent of a practice's net-collected revenue.

-- Many of these problems involve claims with multiple line-items billed per claim, especially those that involve surgical and other specialty procedures.

"Since the onset of managed care, there has been a steady deterioration in the ability of physicians, hospitals, payors and patients to understand reimbursement and the contracts and payment policies that drive it," explains

Dr. Rubin. "These vaguely defined contracts and policies create staggering problems."

For one, the lack of contract transparency frustrates medical groups' efforts to budget, plan and finance operations because practices do not know in advance what they will be allowed for submitted claims, according to Dr. Rubin. Moreover, appeals are scattershot and ineffective. When practices challenge the allowed amount, they are generally unable to justify, with precision, the appropriate contractual value.

Exacerbating this problem are two factors:

-- Reimbursement is based upon contracts, and the contract terms and payment policies are usually not fully disclosed to providers

-- Payors use multiple line item adjudication, with the value of each Current Procedure Terminology (CPT(R)) code on a claim depending on

The presence of other codes and modifiers, bundling edits, "medical necessity" criteria and complex rules

Adding to the complexity, most current physician reimbursement systems draw on the Medicare physician fee schedule and resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS), which have altered the health care reimbursement landscape in the past decade.

"Payors also suffer from a mirror image of the problems facing physicians and hospitals," emphasizes Dr. Rubin. "The confusion has forced payors to create a time-consuming and costly infrastructure to address both substantiated and unsubstantiated appeals."

MPV's Phynance service is the first solution to truly empower medical groups, as well as payors, to deal effectively and accurately with their contracts. Integrating along side medical group's practice management system (PMS), MPV's Phynance service relies upon claim data that are already flowing through the PMS. On a daily basis, the tool evaluates claim data at two points in their life cycle:

-- First, Phynance software values claims. Contract level errors are identified before filing, allowing for review & correction prior to

Submission, thus reducing payment cycles by submitting cleaner claims. In addition, these pre-payment values for all claims allow

Groups to maintain more accurate accounts receivable.

-- After payment allowables are posted to the PMS, Phynance software flags contract-level errors in allowed amounts and their code-level sources, providing concise and accurate explanations for informed and successful appeals or refunds to payors.

"Phynance reporting modules also provide powerful tools that enable medical practices to produce custom reports on a broad range of practice metrics," continues Dr. Rubin. "Physicians and their staff can use information about payor performance to eliminate poor performing contracts and/or negotiate improved contracts."

About MPV Phynance

MPV's Phynance solution is a set of products and services that fully defines all of a client's government and commercial fee-for-service contracts. Working alongside the client's practice management system, Phynance software automatically calculates the contractually obligated amount due for each claim and verifies the accuracy of allowables by contract, by claim, and by line item. MPV's Phynance service combines rules-based claims valuation technology with a powerful run-time database to deliver superior reporting capabilities and a robust application service provider (ASP) environment providing continual software and data updates. MPV's Phynance service is compliant with

The Medicare Internet Policy. Its security and privacy practices will be fully compliant with the final HIPAA security and privacy regulations as issued and implemented.

About MPV

Medical Present Value (MPV), based in San Antonio, Texas, is an information technology services firm aligning financial transactions between health care payors and providers. The company's powerful contract-based solutions bring clarity and accuracy to the complex claims, contracts and reimbursements flowing between physicians, hospitals, and payors. The company currently has over 30 clients, representing over 1,200 Texas physicians, hospital and payor clients including Medicare, and is expanding nationally in 2002. MPV is endorsed by the Texas Medical Association (TMA), the Texas Orthopaedic Association (TOA), and the Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS). For more information about MPV and its products and services, visit the company's Web site at http://www. mpv. com (http://www. mpv. com).

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Discover The No Cost Mattress Contamination Test Using Proven Technology That Will Benefit You, Your Family and Help Promote a Healthy Home

Discover The No Cost Mattress Contamination Test Using Proven Technology That Will Benefit You, Your Family and Help Promote a Healthy Home

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Welland, ON (PRWEB) September 8, 2006

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Learn How To Lose Weight Safely With Low Carb Diet

Learn How To Lose Weight Safely With Low Carb Diet

Most reducing diets restrict calorie intake, so you lose weight but some of that is fat and some of it is lean muscle tissue as well. Less muscle means slowed metabolism, which makes losing weight more difficult and gaining it back all too easy.

(PRWEB) January 27, 2005

People diet for two primary reasons, to lose weight, or to improve health--or both. If you are a healthy adult who is not overweight, the food pyramid recommendations of the USDA will work fine, as long as you remember that the carbohydrates that are recommended are those contained in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.

For those who are overweight, or who have diabetes, the low-calorie and low-fat diets recommended by the government do not work well. In fact, for diabetics, they can actually worsen the condition. The only diet that strikes at the real cause of obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, hypoglycemia, and type 2 diabetes is a low-carbohydrate diet. Many doctors and nutritionists are now starting to recognize this.

After being told for years to eat a low-fat, high-carbohydrate balanced diet, Americans are now the fattest people on Earth, and getting fatter every year! The occurrences of adult-onset diabetes is also increasing. We now know, because research has shown, that fat is not the enemy -- carbohydrates are.

On a low-carb diet, you can eat until you're full, as long as you eat only allowed foods. Allowed foods are meats, fish, poultry, eggs, and cheese, plus a limited amount of green vegetables.

The body was designed to eat meat (proteins and fats) and natural vegetables and nuts...mostly low in carbohydrates and high in proteins.

Due to this fact, the body has to be "better" at converting the low amount of carbs in these foods to energy than we now need with today's high carb levels. The result? More and more stored body fat!

Low carb diet or Ketosis Plan, has taken years researching and then carefully developing this diet system that tricks your body into relentlessly burning body fat, while you continue to eat your full three mouth-watering, real food meals each day. And the longer you follow the Ketosis Plan 30-Day Low Carb Diet the closer you will be in your desire to achieve the healthy body of your dreams!

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What is a ketogenic diet? "Ketogenic" refers to "ketosis," the state your body enters when your daily carbohydrate intake is below approximately 30 grams. This is the approximate amount

Required (for an average person) to enter ketosis (usually in about three days.)

Ketosis can be "maintained" for most people if the carbohydrate intake remains under 100 grams a day. However, although some diet experts believe that ketosis is a safe condition, it is not necessary to be in ketosis to lose weight. Keep in mind, that when you choose a higher level of carbohydrates than what is needed to bring on ketosis, you may have to limit your total food intake (calories) somewhat in order to lose weight.

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Bioelements Announces Seventeen Years of Responsible Packaging

Bioelements Announces Seventeen Years of Responsible Packaging

Since its beginning, Bioelements skin care has chosen glass to package its products. Seventeen years later, the brand celebrates its continued efforts to support consumers and the environment with its healthy, sustainable decisions.

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 26, 2007

Bioelements is announcing its seventeenth year of responsible packaging. The professional skin care brand has always been committed to excellence. From carefully selected ingredients to unparalleled quality control - nothing gets overlooked. After nearly two decades, one difference between the purity of this skin care line and its competitors has become very clear: its glass packaging.

"Since its launch in 1991, Bioelements has used glass to package nearly all of its products," says Bioelements founder and President, Barbara Salomone. "It's a natural choice for planet sustainability and it ensures the integrity and safety of our formulas. And that's a belief we've never compromised."

With an increase in scientific studies of body-accumulated toxins, there are rising concerns about plastics leaching chemicals into consumables. Bioelements packages primarily in glass to help ensure that every bottle and jar contains only those ingredients meant to be absorbed by the skin. Glass contains no chemicals and undergoes little, if any, interactions with them. Its inertness and impermeability makes glass one of the safest, healthiest packaging materials available. In fact, glass is the only packaging material to be categorized by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration as "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS).

Glass meets the highest environmental standards possible. Made strictly of naturally occurring ingredients, it can be recycled limitlessly - never losing its quality or purity. From creation to recycling, the material's lifestyle is environmentally responsible -- preserving raw material, reducing energy consumption, and lessening greenhouse emissions on a major scale.

"When you package in glass, you tell your customers you care about the purity of your product and its impact on the environment," explains Joseph Cattaneo, President of the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI). "Consumers can be ensured that glass packaging protects the quality and integrity of the products they purchase."

Bioelements packages over 80% of its products in glass. For the past seventeen years, Bioelements has strongly believed in responsibly producing its products - its products are manufactured in the United States, contain no synthetic fragrances or colorants and are not tested on animals. The brand proudly continues to lead the industry with its standards of safety and purity.

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Headspace of the Australian Cannabis Culture

Headspace of the Australian Cannabis Culture

We are a legitimate culture seeking our identity free from persecution. Until now we have been silent victims of cultural genocide to the detriment of the health of the planet and its people.

(PRWEB) April 27, 2005

"Welcome to our Headspace," says Editor Wayne Collins as he exhales a plume of sweet smoke thick enough to be from a bush fire. "We are going to combine the three separate arguments for law reform into one magazine, the great industrial hemp hope, medicinal marijuana magic and recreational lubricity matched by nothing else," he said.

"For too long in this country, and indeed around the world, recreational cannabis users have been blamed for denying the sick access to the best available medicine, and for not allowing industry a greener and better crop than anything currently being grown en-masse.

The views expressed in Headspace Australian Cannabis Culture are that we cannabis users, after almost a hundred years of persecution in this country; are seen as less than non-cannabis using citizens in the eyes of the law.

We reject this systemic apartheid. We reject judgments of us as criminals because of our educated decision to embrace the cannabis plant to what ever extent we do.

It is our further belief that users of cannabis are a part of a legitimate culture, the cannabis culture. Continued attempts to eradicate us and our choice of social lubricant to the detriment of farmers and the seriously ill equates to cultural genocide in this country; this multi-cultural country with a monopolistic attitude toward the alcohol industry and social drug use.

We intend to normalise cannabis.

We will be seen as radical by some, zealots by others, probable targets for law enforcement bureaus, and saviours of the smoke by millions worldwide when we succeed. It doesn't matter. We will not stop until there is positive change.

Due for release at Mardi Grass 2005, Headspace Australian Cannabis Culture is available for $4.95 + $2 p&h in Oz, $3 foreign. (Cheque/money order to P. O. Box 698, Nimbin NSW, 2480 Australia, with return address).

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Year-End Planning Content At myStockOptions. com Helps Employees And Executives Make Smarter Financial And Tax Decisions

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Brookline, MA (PRWEB) December 18, 2006

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