Reed Group

Westminster, CO (PRWEB) October 14, 2010

Reed Group, Ltd. (reedgroup.com), publisher of the industrys leading clinical case management and treatment guidelines, MDGuidelines, announced today its development and release of new content and tools that will help stakeholders navigate and comply with the recently announced New York State Workers Compensation Board (WCB) medical treatment guidelines.

The New York WCBs new regulations require stakeholders to incorporate new state-specific medical treatment guidelines into their policies, procedures and practices. Carriers, self-insured employers, third party administrators, payers and other stakeholders all are required to incorporate the New York guidelines in their daily activities within 120 days of December 1, 2010 -- and to certify their on-going compliance thereafter.

Reed Group shares the New York WCBs commitment to expediting claimant access to quality health care and improving outcomes, says Jon Seymour, M.D., Reed Groups president, Guidelines. Its clear that the key to successful state guidelines adoption is the availability of tools that allow easy and efficient navigation between guidelines language, treatment and procedures. MDGuidelines is uniquely designed to deliver that ease of navigation, and were looking forward to helping stakeholders in the New York workers compensation system achieve full compliance more easily.

Reed Groups NY Guidelines solution is a suite of tools available through a standalone website or simple integration with existing software applications such as claims systems, case management software, or utilization review and physician management programs.

The suite of tools will include the core New York Guidelines, which presents specific, proprietary treatment material by ACOEM (American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine), a tool to help align diagnosis and procedure codes more efficiently, and payment tables and other critical decision support and process efficiency tools. Additional MDGuidelines content will be available on an a la carte basis.

The Reed Group team will be providing extensive training in Guidelines tool use throughout the state in the near future.

An overview of the New York WCB announcement can be found at wcb.state.ny.us/content/main/hcpp/MedicalTreatmentGuidelines/MTGOverview.jsp. Complete text of the regulations is available at wcb.state.ny.us/content/main/wclaws/RecentlyAdopted/Adopted_MedTreatGuidelines.jsp. Additional information is available from the WCB website at wcb.state.ny.us/.

For further information or a demonstration of the MDGuidelines New York Treatment Guidelines tools, contact Reed Groups Keith Mayers at 800-347-7443 or kmayers@reedgroup.com. Interested parties also can follow new developments and find tips on adopting the NY guidelines on Reed Groups blog Solutions at Work as well as on Twitter at @ReedGrp and @MDGuidelines.

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Free Spirit Publishing Releases Tenth Book in the Award-Winning Toddler Tools Series

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) November 02, 2011

Free Spirit Publishing presents ON-THE-GO TIME ($ 7.95), the tenth book in the award-winning Toddler Tools series of board books by author Elizabeth Verdick and illustrator Marieka Heinlen. ON-THE-GO TIME was written to help take the hassle out of shopping and running errands with little ones. In the book, toddlers learn simple tools and encouragement to keep moving, cope with the changing scenes, and be super helpers in the car, at the store or library, and on the road. What do they do when theyre on-the-go? Listen, follow along, and even lend a hand. If theyre struggling with transition times, or feeling disappointed or overstimulated along the way, they can take deep breaths to calm down.

The Toddler Tools series offers a fresh look at the times and transitions all toddlers face daily, giving young children coping skills to ease transition times and handle everyday routines with confidence and cooperation. In ON-THE-GO TIME, MEALTIME, BEDTIME, CALM-DOWN TIME, MANNERS TIME, SHARING TIME, NAPTIME, LISTENING TIME, BYE-BYE TIME, and CLEAN-UP TIME (Free Spirit Publishing, $ 7.95 each), Heinlens signature illustrationsvibrant color interwoven with vintage fabricsare the perfect complement to Verdicks rhythmic text.

Each book also contains a section of tips for parents and caregivers. Here are few tips from ON-THE-GO TIME to keep toddlers moving:

Alta Software Tools, Inc. Customers Discover Unique Applications for Property Mapping Software

Nashville, Tennessee (PRWEB) November 03, 2011

With the recent advancement in technology, creating engineering software that everyone can use and afford is now a reality. "Last year when Alta Software Tools, Inc. released Map My Land property mapping software, we had no idea of some of the applications our customers would come up with according to co-founder and partner, Trevor Evans. We knew our biggest marketing challenge would be convincing over 200,000,000 property owners why they needed to spend $ 79 for property mapping software and why they needed to spend 20 minutes learning how to use it.

Much to their surprise, property and home owners have used the software in many ways including:

Verifying metes and bounds or distances and bearings in their property deeds

Printing map transparencies to overlay and quickly find errors on tax maps

Checking distances and acreages in MLS listings before buying property

Discovering closure errors and discrepancies in their own property survey as well as adjoining property surveys

Real estate agents, their second largest market, use the software to protect buyers by verifying the distances and acreages in the sellers MLS listing as well as advertising their own listings with the property boundaries overlaid on Google Earth.

Evans said While not a large market, the real surprise application is genealogists using Map My Land to show the property divisions of a familys land or farm over a period of time. It appears that there is no limit to our customers applications.

Alta Software Tools, Inc continues to expand its product by listening to its customers ideas. A free software upgrade with add-ons for forestry, maple-sugar stands, and agricultural fields is scheduled for early next year. When it comes to protecting your property investment, Map My Land provides you with information you can trust.

For more information visit our new website at http://www.propertymappingsoftware.com.

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