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POMPANO BEACH, FL (PRWEB) March 18, 2015

Onstream Media Corporation, the leading online service provider of corporate audio and web communications, today reinforced its commitment to serving the healthcare community by announcing that its services are fully HIPAA-compliant. The HIPAA safeguards mean that all information Onstream transmits electronically on its customers behalf video, voice or text during webinars, webcasting, conference calls or other virtual meetings is handled in compliance with HIPAA regulations.

If your business involves storing, accessing or communicating personal health information, you are subject to HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Healthcare providers, clearinghouses, health plans, or vendors that service these organizations, are considered covered entities under the regulation. HIPAA is designed to safeguard sensitive patient data, called protected health information and electronic protected health information. HIPAA requires that organizations comply with specific rules for creating, storing and transmitting patient information, or face significant fines of as much as $1.5 million.

What many healthcare entities dont realize is that these guidelines extend beyond your primary organization, to all of your information technology vendors, said David Glassman, Chief Marketing Officer at Onstream Media. Whether you are using our Onstream Media webcasting, webinar, audio and web conferencing services, you can be confident that the data and information you share and use are stored and transmitted using the strictest and most compliant security procedures.

Onstream Media has the following HIPAA safeguards in place:

Helping your organization stay complaint within HIPAA guidelines is one of Onstream Medias top priorities. To learn more about Onstream Medias HIPAA processes and controls, contact us at 1-877-932-3400.

About Onstream Media Corporation: Onstream Media Corporation is a leading online service provider of corporate audio and web communications, including webcasting, webinar, conferencing and virtual event technology. Onstream Medias innovative webcasting platform has recently been ranked #1 by TopTenREVIEWS. The company's video streaming, hosting and publishing platform - Streaming Publisher - provides customers with cost effective tools for encoding, managing, indexing, and publishing content to the Internet or virtually any mobile device. To date, almost half of the Fortune 1000 companies and 78% of the Fortune 100 CEOs and CFOs have used Onstream Media's services. Select Onstream Media customers include American Honda, Dell, GE Capital, Georgetown University, IRS, HBO Latin America, HubSpot, PR Newswire, Stanford University, Twitter and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Onstream Media's strategic relationships include Akamai, BT Conferencing and Trade Show News Network. For more information, visit Onstream Media at http://www.onstreammedia.com or call 954-917-6655.

Media Relations: Patty Buchanan Fastlane Communications 973-670-1203 patty(at)fastlane(dot)co

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posted by Bob Kovacs / Broadcast Engineering Extra 03.17.2015 10:32 AM

Media General Stations Standardize on ChyronHego Graphics

Adopted a suite of ChyronHego graphics creation and workflow solutions for 15 of its stations

MELVILLE, N.Y. ChyronHego announced that Media General, one of the largest multimedia companies in the U.S., has adopted a suite of ChyronHego graphics creation and workflow solutions for 15 of its owned or operated television stations. Installed in MGFX, Media Generals centralized graphics hub in Richmond, Va., ChyronHegos BlueNet, Mosaic, Camio and Axis World Graphics systems will give each stations production control room an integrated platform for graphics creation and workflow management, asset management and cloud-based graphics order management.

One of our goals for the graphics upgrade was to empower our local teams at the stations to do more of their own graphics creation, said Mark Turner, vice president of station engineering and operations for Media General. After evaluating many products, it was clear that ChyronHego not only met our requirements for a fully integrated single-vendor solution, but also provides the cloud-based tools, such as Axis, to make the local stations more self-sufficientall in a manner that closely mirrors our existing workflows. Plus, the ChyronHego team is giving us outstanding support as we drive to our go-live date.

ChyronHegos BlueNet supports Media General's upgrade strategy by enabling an end-to-end graphics workflow to accelerate graphics creation and playout using Mosaic, while Camio powers distribution, access and management of the graphics assets. MediaMaker, a Camio component, integrates the ChyronHego graphics creation tools with Media Generals file-based workflows and third-party editing systems. The Axis World Graphics cloud-based order management system enables personnel at each station, ranging from reporters to editors to news producers, to access a set of graphics templates and build broadcast-quality graphics rapidly and easily.

To meet Media Generals aggressive delivery schedule, ChyronHego professional services has deployed a team of graphic artists that is working with MGFX and the local stations to migrate legacy content into the new ChyronHego platform.

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Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has drawn the personal ire of Rupert Murdoch. Photo: Christopher Pearce

Political history has shown that picking a fight with Rupert Murdoch can be career suicide.

Thus the media industry was awash with theories on why Malcolm Turnbull has jumped into the boxing ring with Rupert Murdoch over changes to media ownership laws. Chief among them is that it will ultimately do more damage to Tony Abbott.

Another theory around Turnbull's motivation is that he is under pressure to do something within his media and telecommunications portfolio beyond increasing the price of stamps and overseeing changes to the National Broadband Network.

It would be a lot more palatable to think that Turnbull is attempting to drag media legislation into the 21st century.

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Changing the antiquated media ownership laws in Australia is more about extending the survival of the big incumbent players than it is about giving them carte blanche to dominate or earn mega profits. There are some traditionalists in federal politics that are still operating in a bygone era. The reality is that while print media is dominated by Murdoch's News Corp the profitability of all print assets in Australia is commercially challenged.

The television networks are under huge pressure from fragmenting audiences, most recently from the introduction of streaming services like Netflix and locally grown defensive plays like Presto and Stan.

The returns from print assets have been decimated by the internet and more recently by giant online aggregators like Google and Facebook.

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Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has drawn the personal ire of Rupert Murdoch. Photo: Christopher Pearce

Political history has shown that picking a fight with Rupert Murdoch can be career suicide.

Thus the media industry was awash with theories on why Malcolm Turnbull has jumped into the boxing ring with Rupert Murdoch over changes to media ownership laws. Chief among them is that it will ultimately do more damage to Tony Abbott.

Another theory around Turnbull's motivation is that he is under pressure to do something within his media and telecommunications portfolio beyond increasing the price of stamps and overseeing changes to the National Broadband Network.

It would be a lot more palatable to think that Turnbull is attempting to drag media legislation into the 21st century.

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Changing the antiquated media ownership laws in Australia is more about extending the survival of the big incumbent players than it is about giving them carte blanche to dominate or earn mega profits. There are some traditionalists in federal politics that are still operating in a bygone era. The reality is that while print media is dominated by Murdoch's News Corp the profitability of all print assets in Australia is commercially challenged.

The television networks are under huge pressure from fragmenting audiences, most recently from the introduction of streaming services like Netflix and locally grown defensive plays like Presto and Stan.

The returns from print assets have been decimated by the internet and more recently by giant online aggregators like Google and Facebook.

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When President Obama took office in 2009, the American media was in free fall. In February of that year, theColumbia Journalism review estimated thatmore than 12,500 editorial newspaper jobshad been cut over two years, and papers across the country were folding or scaling back.

Journalism's business model implodedas readers and advertisers migrated online. Craigslist killed the classifieds, and the idea of"bundled" news available via a subscription became unnecessary, especially with the growth of social media as a place to share and find it. And the market crash didn't help.

It's a sign of the state of the media today that a numberof the interviews Obama has given this year have beenwith outlets that either didn't exist at all or didn't exist in their current formwhen he was inaugurated. There have been interviews withGrantland(est. 2011)andVox(est. 2014).BuzzFeed, with which he did an interview and a video, was founded in 2006 but didn't hire political reporters until 2012, and theYouTubestars who interviewed Obama all made their viral debuts since he's been president. Vice, the outlet that released an Obama interview in recent days, has been around longer than Obama's presidency, but is a far different (and better-funded) product these days than it was in the years after its 1990s founding.

The Internetlaid waste to newsrooms across America, but it eventually led to experiments injournalism forthe social age. Aided by money from venture capitalists, native ads and wealthy benefactors, some are actuallygrowing again.TweetDeck is the new Newswire, posting to your Facebook feed is the new paper route, and it's once again safe to encourage college students to study journalism (we hope).

Obama, the first president in this new media landscape, has adapted to it. The White House's press strategy is savvy and selective, and it gets the results it wants. TheVox interview felt like an ad, the BuzzFeed Motion Pictures video (separate from the interview with editor-in-chief Ben Smith)was an ad (for Obamacare), and the Grantland piece was written by Rembert Browne, who disclosed that hevolunteered for the Obamacampaign in 2008 and applied for a job for his 2012 campaign. Meanwhile, the Washington Post hasn't interviewed the president since 2009.

Obama's defenders would argue that this strategy reflectshisaversion to Washington and a desire to reach a young audience, but traditional media are none too impressed. TheColumbia Journalism Reviewsaid astudy of his interactions with the media"reveals a White House determined to conceal its workings from the press, and by extension, the public." In all of 2014, hegave only five solo press conferences. Five decades early, John F. Kennedygave as many as 23 per year. (Obama also gave 20 joint press conferences with foreign leaders and 24 short question-and-answer periods after he made a statement in 2014.) So much for the "most transparent administration in history."

Unlike JFK, though, Obama doesn't necessarily need newspapers, magazines, radio or television to get his message out. With social media, the White House can bypass the other outlets entirely. Thenight of his State of the Union address, rather than giving the pressadvance embargoed copies of his speech, the White Housepublished it onMedium(est. 2012).

And lest you think this practice won't live in with the next president, witness Hillary Clinton. The Democratic frontrunneralso chose to bypass the traditional media withher initialresponse to the controversy surrounding her use of a personal e-mail account while Secretary of State. Her first response was a 26-word tweet, indicating she wanted the State Department to release her e-mails.It was viewed by more than 3.3 million times, 2.3 million of which came from embeds, according to Twitter.

Her tweet was low-hanging fruit in the our new media age, easily embedded. Itwas a press release, and it was echoed widely. But it didn't really address the controversy at hand-- or mention that the State Department didn't have her e-mails to begin with, and as many as half of them were deleted without a third party deciding whether it should be public record.

Eventually, she had to go the traditional-media route. Standing in front of the press at the United Nations on Tuesday, she actually had to answer questions, and she left many unanswered.

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