Health News and Scoops

St. Louis, MO, October 01, 2011 –(PR.com)– StLouisHolistic.com welcomes Dr. Robyn Lawrence of Ferguson Wellness and Chiropractic as the newest preferred member among the online community’s membership of more than 500 holistic and organic businesses in the St. Louis area. Dr. Robyn Lawrence recognizes the importance of educating St. Louis about holistic health and plans to announce the upcoming Wellness Orientation Workshop.

“Becoming a member of the online community of StLouisHolistic.com has many benefits. The St. Louis community needs and deserves a resource of healers and practitioners that are holistic in nature. I have found that being able to share my events and information on a site that is congruent with my beliefs is an asset to my business,” said Dr. Robyn Lawrence.

StLouisHolistic.com provides advanced membership for holistic practitioners to keep them front-and-center with consumers in St. Louis. Cara Naeger, Founder and Director of the online community, looks forward to promoting Dr. Robyn as a vital resource for the health of St. Louis.

“Dr. Robyn Lawrence has a no-nonsense approach to achieving wellness, and we are eager to share her holistic specialties to the St. Louis community,” stated Cara Naeger.

Dr. Robyn Lawrence and StLouisHolistic.com will be providing information through the month of October about the upcoming Wellness Orientation Workshop. The free 45 minute workshop will take place October 6 at 6:15 p.m. and October 22 at 10 a.m. at 111 Ferguson, MO. St. Louisans will learn about preventive lifestyle changes from positive mental health to holistic nutrition and diet. Dr. Lawrence designed the Wellness Orientation Workshop to empower people in St. Louis and provide them with essential tools to create healthy lives.

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About Dr. Robyn Lawrence
Dr. Robyn Lawrence DC, Chief Wellness Officer of Ferguson Wellness and Chiropractic, specializes in chiropractic care, nutrition, and wellness coaching. She uses a “whole person approach” when caring for individuals. This approach is a combination of detecting underlying interferences which may inhibit the body’s natural ability to heal itself along with the inspiration, knowledge and support for people to achieve better health through better living. For more information about Dr. Robyn’s workshops please visit www.getwellferguson.com.

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Lakewood, CO, October 07, 2011 –(PR.com)– Healing Traditions Oriental Medicine Wellness, Denver’s foremost specialists when it comes to holistic health and alternative medical treatment, has recently announced that they have added new services to help Denver patients with their fertility needs. The clinic will now be offering a full-service roster designed to help carry patients from preconception through to the post-partum stage.

Recent trends suggest that more people than ever before are interested in exploring treatment options that involve alternative medicine. This trend has been attributed to many different factors, one of which is the increase in cost and decrease in value of health care provided in America today. Now, people are yearning for new methods of treatment, such as those provided by Healing Traditions Oriental Medicine Wellness. Methods that rely upon a combination of an ancient understanding and treatment of the human body’s innate response mechanisms, as well as, understanding and treating the nutritional status of each individual based off of western diagnostic procedures such as blood and other laboratory analysis. By combining the ancient wisdom from Oriental Medicine coupled with the modern knowledge from the 21st century, Healing Traditions Oriental Medicine Wellness Clinic promotes health, wellness overall physical balance.

The specialists at Healing Traditions will provide their Denver patients with Fertility and OBGYN services and support within four key areas – preconception, natural conception, IVF and male Fertility. These services begin with directing patients through the preconception stage, in which patients are provided with the ideal tools and coached through the necessary dietary and lifestyle modifications to ensure that their internal bodily landscape is the ideal environment in which to conceive, maintain a viable and healthy pregnancy, and deliver a healthy child. Culminating with the post partum stage, in which patients are provided with support, guidance and treatment to ensure that their body has fully recovered from the child birth experience, Healing Traditions’ new suite of fertility services will offer patients a way to seamlessly make their way to parenthood with the experience of the clinic staff behind them every step of the way.

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Miami, FL, November 09, 2011 –(PR.com)– Align is a leading provider of outpatient physical therapy (PT) services and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. The company provides PT services to the worker’s compensation industry in the USA. The business coordinates patient care and actively manages the claims process for its clients. The process includes third-party administrators, insurance carriers, government insurance entities, and self-insured corporations. Align delivers a high value proposition through its national network of third-party PT providers. Established in 2005, the Company has an outstanding record of profitability and growth, which makes it an undisputed leader in the workers’ compensation sector.

Butch Hofstetter, Chief Executive Officer of Align, remarked that from the beginning, H.I.G. Capital has been a great benefit to the company by providing strategic insight and support as well as capital to fuel the company’s growth strategy. Rick Rosen, an Executive Managing Director at H.I.G. Capital, stated that the Align team flawlessly executed its long-term strategic plan and retained its focus on delivering exceptional customer service and value-added solutions to its clients. Align’s outstanding value creation and growth has resulted in a great investment outcome for H.I.G. and its investors.

H.I.G. Capital is a leading global private equity investment firm based in Miami. The firm has more than $8.5 billion of capital under management. H.I.G. specializes in providing capital to small and medium sized businesses and has offices in Atlanta, Boston, New York and San Francisco, as well as Hamburg, London and Paris in Europe.

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Orlando, FL, November 10, 2011 –(PR.com)– Congratulations to Lancaster General Health Urgent Care in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Washington Urgent Care in Fremont, California, BHS FastERCare in Butler, Pennsylvania and Allegheny Urgent Care Associates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the most recent Urgent Care Centers to earn Urgent Care Center Accreditation with the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine (AAUCM). These distinguished Urgent Care centers join the illustrious ranks of accredited centers in Arizona, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York and Ohio that have demonstrated the highest level of commitment to patient care and the practice of Urgent Care Medicine.

Accreditation is a voluntary process through which an Urgent Care Center is able to measure the quality of its services and performance against nationally recognized standards. The assurance that healthcare providers and facilities maintain adequate levels of quality is of vital importance to patients. Knowledge of and close adherence to the standards of Accreditation provide assurances that the care provided at an Urgent Care Center is state of the art and that the established policies and procedures ensure exceptional business practices. Accreditation demonstrates the highest level of commitment of the Urgent Care Center to providing quality medical care that is consistent with the highest ideals of the specialty of Urgent Care Medicine.

As a form of certification or validation, Accreditation is an indication to patients that the Urgent Care Center is committed to providing high-quality care. Urgent Care Center Accreditation ensures the provision of quality healthcare and the principles of professionalism. The goals of accreditation reflect the missions and goals of the AAUCM which are to elevate the standards of Urgent Care, provide positive and increased recognition of Urgent Care, and to serve the public by encouraging quality patient care in the practice of Urgent Care Medicine.

About the AAUCM
The American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine (AAUCM) is the leading society for physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners practicing Urgent Care Medicine. The purpose of the AAUCM is to contribute to the field of Urgent Care Medicine in the areas of professional growth, scientific and medical research, and medical education, all to improve the overall quality of medical care. The American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine is working diligently to protect and ensure the future of the specialty of Urgent Care.

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Hartford, CT, November 30, 2011 –(PR.com)– Support for non-standards compliant HL7 removes a large barrier to healthcare interoperability.

PilotFish Technology announces enhanced HL7 support for its XCS eiConsole for Healthcare. Licensed by organizations to support mission-critical systems integration involving sensitive health information, the latest edition of the XCS eiConsole for Healthcare, version 8.11R3, promises to even further reduce the barriers to interoperability of healthcare systems.

The XCS eiConsole for Healthcare is a unique graphical development environment for creating interfaces without code. An extensive library of configurable connectivity, transformation, data manipulation, validation and testing components are composed on an interface assembly line, enabling the rapid production of high quality, consistent interfaces. Data mapping is achieved through intuitive drag and drop rather than unmanageable scripting or inflexible line-drawing.

The latest release includes a suite of enhancements related to its HL7 capabilities with extended HL7 vocabulary browsing, inline references to HL7 documentation and code translation tables.

The centerpiece of the new release addresses implementations that do not strictly comply with HL7 standards. This feature, “Lenient HL7 Parsing,” provides an elegant solution to these deviations in HL7 usage.

“Many systems and organizations require or produce non-standards-compliant HL7. HL7 middleware that lacks a lenient parsing capability is compromised in these all-too-common scenarios, rendering the software practically useless,” said Neil Schappert, president of PilotFish Technology. “While other products are incapable of processing these non-standard HL7 messages, the XCS eiConsole for Healthcare’s new lenient HL7 parser can parse unknown segments, capturing the data for subsequent transformation and manipulation.”

The lenient parsing capability of the XCS eiConsole for Healthcare fills a vital gap in interoperability for healthcare. Organizations that have customized HL7 to suit their very specific requirements and, as a result, produce non-standards compliant HL7, will now be able to easily communicate with all entities in the healthcare ecosystem.

The XCS eiConsole for Healthcare is part of PilotFish Technology’s suite of XCS Healthcare Integration Solutions, a complete system for configuring, testing, validating, deploying, managing and maintaining complex interfaces.

Parties interested in learning more should visit the Pilotfish Technology’s website (www.pilotfishtechnology.com), watch the online video demonstrations or call the company for a live demonstration.

About PilotFish Technology
Founded in 2001 and based in Middletown, CT, PilotFish Technology provides comprehensive software and services to enable the integration of disparate systems. Whether developing simple point-to-point interfaces or a comprehensive Service Oriented Architecture, PilotFish integration tools, using a modern architecture, can help to dramatically shorten project timelines, reduce risk and improve the quality of deliverables. For more information, visit www.pilotfishtechnology.com, or for press or marketing inquiries, contact Monika Vainius at 860 632-9900 x 303.

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