The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected ICD-10 code translation technology from 3M Health Information Systems to assist the federal agency in converting systems, applications, and reports based on ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes into ICD-10 language.

The code translation tool from 3M will be used by CMS to streamline code translations and support ICD-10 transition planning at CMS headquarters in Baltimore.

CMS also licensed the software for use by its Fiscal Intermediaries (FIs), Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and carriers to promote translations from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in all of the CMS systems.

ICD-10 will replace ICD-9 as the nation’s coding standard beginning Oct. 1, 2013. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, ICD-9 no longer meets the needs of today’s healthcare system because of its limited ability to accommodate new procedures and diagnoses.

The ICD-10 code translation technology is a web-based application that supports code conversion of large, complex information systems and creates customized code mappings for clinical and business needs at large health systems and stand-alone community hospitals.

Source:http://www.cmio.net/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=29473:cms-selects-icd-10-conversion-software

Cougar Mountain Software (CMS), a developer of accounting software, announces the promotion of Lori Pennington to Director of Product Management from Senior Product Manager, effective September 1, 2010.

As Director of Product Management, Lori leads a team that conducts market research to determine new products and functionality that is needed to bring new accounting software customers on board. From there she and her team design innovative software, new products and enhancements to meet market and customer demands in order to ensure the continued growth of Cougar Mountain Software. Lori also oversees management of the Custom Modification Division.

Chief Marketing Officer, Dave Haworth said of Lori’s promotion: “(Lori) has demonstrated professionalism, team spirit, hard work and has been a motivation to people working with her. She has done a great job in improving her skills from a design perspective and in her abilities as a manager. We are sure Lori will bring the same spirit and energy to her work in this new capacity.”

Lori began working with Cougar Mountain Software in 2003 as a Technical Writer and later advanced to the role of team leader. In 2009, Lori again was promoted to Senior Product Manager. Lori holds a B.A. in English, with a Technical Communication emphasis and an M.A. in Technical Communication from Boise State University. Lori has authored and co-authored multiple articles in trade and academic journals. She is also an adjunct professor of business communication at Boise State University.

Source:http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=506010&Itemid=30

CMS Products, a provider of data security, backup, disaster recovery and content management technologies, has released its family of Instant Server Recovery solutions and software designed for small-to-medium businesses running Microsoft’s Foundation or Small Business Server operating systems.

According to a release, the solutions are tools to ensure business continuity during server hard drive failures, or catastrophic data loss. The solution consists of a two-drive desktop storage device with support for RAID 0 &1 technology available in 2TB or 4TB capacities.

“SMBs depend on their servers to do business, and even one failure can be disastrous to the bottom line,” said Ken Burke, president of CMS Products. “BounceBack Server Edition creates a mirror image of the entire business server, and should the server fail, users quickly and easily can restart the server directly from the external BounceBack instant recovery device. Utilizing these instant recovery products is like having ‘business continuity insurance’ for an SMB, avoiding downtime, costly data loss and possibly saving the business from catastrophic consequences.”

The Instant Server Recovery solutions are powered by the BounceBack Server Edition software, which provides full server backup, including the operating system, applications and user data.

CMS Products is a provider of data backup, encryption and security technology.

Source:http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/sbcod_cms-products-releases-instant-server-recovery-solutions-1089950.html

Website content management system (CMS) pioneer SiteSuite Australasia Pty Ltd has engaged Bali-based Mitrais to provide website coding services.

This follows a trial which also included software development service providers both within and outside Australia.

Executive chairman of SiteSuite, Grant Goodger said the Sydney-headquartered company planned to outsource some of its website coding to provide greater flexibility and capacity during peak times and enable the in-house focus to be on providing consistently high levels of customer service. SiteSuite was looking for an external partner with which it could develop an ongoing relationship.

“We selected Mitrais because of the quality of its work, the strong English language skills of its staff and the quality and frequency of its project reporting mechanisms.

“Its favourable time zone also influenced our choice,” Mr. Goodger said.
SiteSuite’s foundation product is an innovative content management system now in its fourth major release and which has been implemented by Sensis for Yellow Pages, Yahoo! Australia and New Zealand and latterly the Melbourne IT group. In addition, SiteSuite’s staff of more than 30 provides website design services, e-commerce software and newsletter campaigns.

The CMS provides the website management foundation for a large client base and the product’s ongoing development ensures that relevant new web technologies can be incorporated and released to customers as soon as they become available.

Source:http://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/4376