Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety: Study Shows Bedside Monitoring Improves Hospital Efficiency and Patient Safety

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 10, 2012

Like many hospitals in North America, Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) in British Columbia was challenged with providing safe and appropriate perioperative and postoperative management of patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). KGH is a 345-bed tertiary hospital in the interior of British Columbia, Canada.

Richard Milo, RRT (Professional Practice Leader, Central Okanagan Respiratory Services, Interior Health, at KGH) described for me the situation they faced:

“Prior to utilizing EtCo2 technology our site had a significant backlog of OSA/possible OSA patients requiring surgery.

Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety: Study Shows Bedside Monitoring Improves Hospital Efficiency and Patient Safety

Appointment-Plus Enterprise Scheduler Sees Increased Interest in Scheduling Cloud Enterprise Solution as Franchise Industry Improves

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) May 03, 2012

Appointment-Plus, the worldwide expert in online enterprise scheduling software solutions and creator of the scheduling industrys most flexible and feature-rich application, is experiencing an increased interest in its Scheduling Cloud Enterprise Solution among franchises looking for the premier scheduling solution for their unique booking needs. This enthusiasm directly correlates with a new business index created by the International Franchise Association that shows the franchise industry is performing stronger than it did a year ago.

The associations Franchise Business Index increased 0.3 percent in February 2012 to 107.7, a 1.4 percent increase from the February 2011 mark of 106.3. Overall, the Index has risen for six consecutive months. Thats good news for franchises such as H&R Block, Jiffy Lube, Merry Maids, Sylvan Learning and Handyman Connection.

As this sector strengthens, franchises needing a proven and reliable solution for managing their appointments and reservations are quickly turning to the Appointment-Plus Scheduling Cloud platform for perfecting this important task.

Scheduling appointments and reservations is a common operational fixture among franchises coast-to-coast, says Bob La Loggia, CEO of Appointment-Plus. As the franchise industry strengthens and bookings increase, the need for a proven scheduling solution becomes even more apparent.

Appointment-Plus online enterprise scheduler is the best bet for franchises looking to automate, simplify and improve their scheduling processes.

Among the franchise industries benefiting from the Appointment-Plus enterprise scheduler are retail, automotive, business services and maintenance.

As a provider of online enterprise scheduling software solutions since 2001, Appointment-Plus possesses the knowledge and expertise to craft an ideal scheduling process for franchises of all sizes, regardless of their scopes of business. Having adopted CRM, CMS and other Web-based services such as Salesforce, Zoho and WordPress into their operations, many franchises are already familiar with the benefit cloud technology such as Appointment-Plus brings to their processes.

These processes are taken to the next level with the Scheduling Cloud engine, which provides an enterprise-level suite of services geared specifically to the needs of franchises. In particular is the high scalability of the application, which allows for seamless scheduling across many locations and for large numbers of customers, staff, and appointments and reservations. Implementing Appointment-Plus standardizes the scheduling process across all of a franchises locations, as opposed to each location implementing its own procedure.

Other benefits of the Scheduling Cloud Enterprise Solution include:

Web services, including integrations with existing software systems.
The most configurable scheduling software system available.
24-hour support from its headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Dedicated business and support contacts.
Turnkey, existing solutions that are instantly ready to go live.
Custom graphic user interface (GUI) development.
Robust reporting capabilities.

Appointment-Plus Enterprise Scheduler Sees Increased Interest in Scheduling Cloud Enterprise Solution as Franchise Industry Improves

WordPress Hosting Reviews Improves Functionality and Design for their Users

Atlanta, Ga (PRWEB) September 15, 2011

WordPress Hosting Reviews website was started to help consumers find the best hosting for their WordPress blogs. Hosting is an expanding field, so WordPress Hosting Reviews works hard to stay up to date. They are pleased to announce the next step in this evolution, the redesign of http://wphostingreviews.com This redesign and relaunch has new implemented functionality, improved usability, and enhanced performance designed to decrease page load times.

New Features and Site Improvements:

Hosting Categories — With categories its easy to narrow down the search to just one type of hosting. The categories display all WordPress hosts that are part of that category. Now visitors can go the WordPress Hosting Review Directory, browse around the site and always have a clear list of types of hosting on the right column.

Improved Review Listing Pages — The hosting company review pages have been redesigned, moving the most important elements to the top of the page. This change makes the information more accessible and easier to find. In addition to page layout changes, a cleaner, more refined layout has been applied to the entire site. Visit the HostGator Review to get a first hand look at their redesigned page layout.

Social Network Integration — All host reviews and guides now have social sharing buttons, making it even easier to share reviews and guides with friends. These buttons include the Twitter Tweet, Facebook Like and Google +1.

Speed Improvements — In addition to the improved user functionality, much of the code has been updated to decrease page load times. The end user will not see any of these updates but will notice pages loading consistently faster. The changes include the combination and minifying of CSS / Javascript files and the addition of a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for faster image delivery. Also, moving their hosting to a WordPress specific hosting provider has increased the speed of server response times.

Steven Johnson, site redesign coordinator, was quoted saying: We are very pleased with our most recent version of WordPress Hosting Reviews. We have utilized the latest versions WordPress and MyReviewPlugin. These tools have really improved the quality of the site. We have received many positive comments from readers and look forward to many more improvements.

WordPress Hosting Reviews is dedicated to finding and reviewing the latest hosts so that potential customers know and understand what they are getting in to. The site consists of expert editor reviews, customer reviews, editor top picks and WordPress hosting advice and guides.

WordPress Hosting Reviews is not associated with WordPress.org or WordPress.com. The goal of the site is for WordPress site owners to find the best host without having to read and sift through all of the marketing hype that polutes many search results.

Learn more about WordPress Hosting Reviews at the following social networks: Twitter @wphostingreview Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/WordPress-Hosting-Reviews/135496839803513 and Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/wordpresshostings

The site was developed in WordPress using MyReviewPlugin for the user review functionality. This most recent version took full advantage of the MyReviewPlugin features.

WordPress Hosting Reviews is owned and managed by Intown Web Design of Atlanta, GA. Intown Web Design focuses on website development and online marketing for small to medium sized companies. They produce sites that are functional, stylish and search engine optimized.

When Intown Web Design is not developing sites for clients they focus on creating customer and end user sites.

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WordPress Hosting Reviews Improves Functionality and Design for their Users