Beyond the Appointment: PHA at your Fingertips
When you diagnose someone with PH, their whole world is turned upside down. You may be saving a life with the evaluation and treatments, but how do you save the spirit of an individual who...
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HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - Oct 21, 2013) - Next Wave CONNECT (www.nextwaveconnect.com), provider of the first healthcare industry-specific enterprise social networking application, today announced that the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has signed a letter of intent to partner with Next Wave CONNECT, Inc. Next Wave CONNECT is a smart social networking application that connects healthcare professionals and peers from across healthcare organizations, providing members with a place to collaboratively solve the industry's toughest challenges. The agreement was finalized during the CHIME13 Fall CIO Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Next Wave CONNECT went live on Oct. 8, and already has a deeply-committed community of 31 healthcare industry enterprises, comprising over 450 hospitals operating in more than 30 states.
Next Wave CONNECT offers a cloud-based collaborative environment that includes professional facilitation and support services for members via a network of Community Managers and Community Advisors. Next Wave CONNECT's Advisory Council Experts (ACEs) are well-known, accomplished healthcare industry professionals who will assist members as they work together to crowd-source solutions and best practices.
"CHIME is excited to begin working with Next Wave CONNECT," said CHIME president and CEO Russell P. Branzell, FCHIME, CHCIO. "With a mutual interest in guiding the healthcare industry forward, CHIME and Next Wave CONNECT intend to transform the way leaders collaborate and problem-solve together using the tools of social media."
In keeping with CHIME's goal to advance the role of CIOs and other senior healthcare IT leaders -- through education, collaboration and advocacy in support of improved health and healthcare in our communities -- Next Wave CONNECT is a social platform that will enable CHIME members, CHIME Foundation representatives, and other relevant stakeholders to engage with each other in meaningful and ongoing collaborative discussions in real-time.
"Next Wave CONNECT takes the possibilities of online engagement to a higher level," said Next Wave CONNECT CEO Drex DeFord, FCHIME, CHCIO. "CHIME is precisely the type of forward-thinking organization to help bring the healthcare IT industry together to solve real and meaningful issues and challenges."
About Next Wave CONNECTNext Wave CONNECT is a wholly-owned social networking application company of Next Wave Health, based in Houston, Texas. Next Wave CONNECT is the first healthcare industry-specific, smart social networking application, connecting healthcare professionals and peers -- of all types, from across healthcare organizations -- giving them a place to collaboratively solve the industry's most challenging problems. For more information, visit http://www.nextwaveconnect.com.
About CHIMEThe College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,400 CIO members and over 95 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit http://www.cio-chime.org.
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BELMONT, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 21, 2013) - Actiance, helping organizations benefit from communications, collaboration and social networking, today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with ZL Technologies. Under the terms of the expanded partnership, the organizations will deliver archiving capabilities for enterprise and public social data, integrated with current capabilities for instant messaging and unified communications to ZL Technologies' customers. As ZL Technologies' partner for social media and social business content capture, Actiance delivers the capability to contextually control, monitor and collect unconventional or unstructured data sources, such as collaboration tools and social media, which then, through the integration is stored and leveraged for analytics in the ZL Unified Archive.
"We're thrilled to announce the growth of our relationship with Actiance to deliver an incredibly robust and seamless archiving solution for social data to our enterprise customers," said Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies. "The widespread adoption of social media has unleashed a new class of complex data that the enterprise must treat as both corporate records and a source of powerful business insight, and our continued integration with Actiance enables them to do so effectively."
In addition to traditional interactions through email, emerging sources such as instant messaging, web chat and social media are considered electronically stored information, and as such, they must meet regulatory requirements for compliance and e-discovery purposes such as future litigation and legal discovery. This integration enables businesses to process data from disparate sources and pool messages into a consolidated group. Each message -- regardless of origin -- is indexed, made available for search and analytics, checked for compliance violations and presented for review if applicable. In addition, enterprises can monitor and view archived data from a single portal while keeping the context and source of each message intact.
"Building on Actiance's history of providing best-in-class solutions, we're pleased to deepen our integration with ZL Technologies to include contextual social media and social business data," said Sarah Carter, general manager of social business at Actiance. "Ensuring that our joint clients can utilize both solutions gives complete flexibility and maximizes existing infrastructure."
For more information on Actiance or its products, please visit http://www.actiance.com/. Actiance is on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/actiance. To read the company's blog, please visit: http://blog.actiance.com/.
About ActianceActiance is a global leader in communication, collaboration, and social media governance for the enterprise. Its governance platform is used by millions of professionals across dozens of industries. With the power of communication, collaboration, and social media at their fingertips, Actiance helps professionals everywhere to engage with customers and colleagues so they can unleash social business. The Actiance platform gives organizations the ability to ensure compliance for all their communications channels. It provides real-time content monitoring, centralized policy management, contextual capture of content and smart archiving which improves the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of eDiscovery and helps protect users from malware and accidental or malicious leakage of information. Actiance supports all leading social media, unified communications, collaboration, and IM platforms, including Facebook (FB), LinkedIn (LNKD), Twitter, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Skype, IBM, (IBM), Jive (JIVE), Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco (CSCO), and Salesforce.com (CRM).
Actiance headquarters are in Belmont, California. For more information, visit http://www.actiance.com or call 1-888-349-3223.
About ZL Technologies. ZL Technologies, Inc. makes Unified Archive software ("ZL UA") to enable large enterprises to manage all unstructured content such as e-mail and files, to satisfy corporate archiving needs for e-Discovery, records management, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and storage management. It also enables the same unstructured content to become the organization's Corporate eMemory for competitive advantage, such as sharing knowledge, experts, and history across the enterprise. ZL UA's unique differentiator is its unified architecture, which consolidates all applications and billions of documents under one platform, thus eliminating today's fractured data silos which significantly raise operating costs and legal risks. Demonstrating a proven track record with Global 500 customers and strategic partnerships with major players such as Oracle, Unisys, and SunGard, ZL has emerged as the technology leader in harnessing unstructured "Big Data" for strategic advantage. For more information, please visit http://www.zlti.com
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers who turn to social networking sites focused on quitting smoking form strong supportive bonds with their like-minded peers, a new study reveals. And these cyber-connections boost the odds they'll kick their habit.
The finding is based on survey responses from 252 registrants of health-centric websites.
"I found that people who join health-based social networking sites are able to quit smoking and abstain for longer periods of time because of the sense of community they build with other members," said study author Joe Phua, an assistant professor in the department of advertising and public relations at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The study appeared online recently in the Journal of Communication.
To assess how online social networking might affect smoking cessation efforts, between 2009 and 2010 Phua focused on registered members at one of six health-focused portals, including iVillage, Why Quit and Inspire. None of the sites was sponsored by a drug manufacturer, and all included standard social media features, such as profiles, news feeds, message boards and "friend" links.
About seven in 10 of the network users were white, at an average age of roughly 40. As a whole, the group tended to be relatively affluent and well-educated.
Participants completed an online questionnaire about the amount of time they spent on the site and the degree to which each felt their attitudes, beliefs, sense of self and specific views on smoking were shared by other site members.
They also indicated the amount of social support they felt they got from other members, alongside informative, emotional and practical assistance. Finally, respondents ranked themselves in terms of their confidence about being able to snuff out their cigarettes for good.
On average, those surveyed spent nearly four hours a week on their respective sites, posting an average of six messages each week, Phua found.
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Social networking sites may help smokers kick the habit