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Nationally Recognized Healthcare Provider Will Use Edifecs ICD-10 Solution to Identify Risk, Simplify Code Mapping and Better Leverage Resources BELLEVUE, Wash. (PRWEB) April 17, 2013 Edifecs, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare software solutions, today announced that OhioHealth, a not-for-profit healthcare organization, has selected Edifecs as its strategic technology partner for ICD-10. OhioHealth will use Edifecs ICD-10 Impact Analytics and ICD-10 Code Management to automate much...
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The American Islamic Congress offers its condolences to the victims, families, and all Bostonians affected by yesterday's attacks in Boston," said AIC's Executive Director Ms. Zainab Al-Suwaij. "We are heartbroken by this tragedy, and condemn those responsible for this terrorist attack. Boston has been AIC's home since 2002, and it remains a focal point of AIC's programs and activities today. We know that the Boston community is...
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Earth Day, William McDonough, co-author of The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance, sustainability advisor to business and government leaders, and renowned green architect, will share his and his co-author Michael Braungart's powerful vision for a positive future, talking about how an outlook focused on "more good" can be incorporated in our studies, careers, and lives. He'll be speaking at American University School of...
3,000 Schools Grow to Over 15,000 Users Across the U.S. KIRKLAND, Wash., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Prepared Response, Inc. has announced that its Rapid Responder Crisis Management System is now used by over 15,000 school officials and first responder end users at over 3,000 K-20 school campuses across the U.S. Since the tragic event at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December, the 12 year old system has experienced a significant increase in activity by campus...
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs highlights advanced veteran service improvements, and Microsoft announces 10 agencies realizing White House digital government strategy with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as recipients of this year's Microsoft Dynamics Customer Excellence award. The award is presented annually to Microsoft Dynamics customers that...
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FOX Architects, an expert in commercial office design, today announced that it received two prestigious awards from the International Interior Design Association's Mid-Atlantic Chapter. During the 2013 Design Awards program, FOX was recognized for their CQ Roll Call and Sapient projects. These awards are the interior design industry's premier program that recognizes IIDA members' achievements and design innovations. Bob Fox, Principal of...
More than 26 million are at risk of a Hydrofluoric Acid Release WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A United Steelworkers (USW) study released today--"A Risk Too Great, Hydrofluoric Acid in U.S. Refineries"--warns that refiners that use hydrofluoric acid (HF) in their alkylation process to make clean-burning gasoline do not have adequate safety systems in place and are not prepared to handle a release. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO...
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club's Press Freedom Committee will hold a panel discussion on May 2, the night before World Press Freedom Day, about the growing role of media organizations that are at least partly government-funded. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) As the press in most western democracies has had to retrench in recent years, cutting staffs and abandoning foreign (and domestic) bureaus, there is...
BELLEVUE, Wash., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. (PSPINC) has been named by Puget Sound Business Journal as Healthy Community Corporate Champion in the category of Global Giving in the annual ranking of Washington's Top Corporate Philanthropists. PSPINC is being recognized for their work in creating the Summer Experience in Seattle program for child survivors of natural disaster and the establishment of PSP Children's Foundation (PSPCF) as a non-profit...
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Qorvis partner and renowned public relations expert Rich Masters taught Bloomberg Businessweek's Joshua Green how to argue like a pundit as part of his recent feature in the publication. Masters is known in Washington for leading Qorvis' media training program. In his How-to feature, Masters shared his tips for combining message discipline with spontaneity by using something he calls a message diamond. "When the host asks a...
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Mount Rainer National Park is located in the state of Washington in the United States. The park holds 236,381 acres of land that was once inhabited by Native American tribes including the Puyallup and Yakama tribes. Many sites were found throughout the park showing evidence of older tribes including rock shelters and projectile points. The establishment of the park began in 1893, when the Pacific Forest Reserve was established. This area included a national forest as well as Mount Rainer and...
Olympic National Park is located in the state of Washington, in the Olympic Peninsula, in the United States. The park holds 922,650 acres of land that was once inhabited by Native Americans. Most of the tribes were wiped out once European explorers introduced diseases into the area. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the logging industry boomed, but the public began to express concerns of over logging in the 1920’s. However, the first proposal to establish the area as a...
North Cascades National Park is located in the state of Washington in the United States and was established in 1968. The park holds 504,781 acres and is the largest of three national park areas known as the North Cascades National Park Service Complex. It once contained 318 glaciers, but all of these have retreated at a fast rate and many glaciers have completely disappeared. The largest remaining glacier is Boston Glacier, but other large glaciers include Redoubt, Neve, and McAllister....
Symbol: WARO Group: Monocot Family: Arecaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Tree Native Status: L48 I Synonyms: WAGR2 Washingtonia gracilis Parish WASO Washingtonia sonorae S. Watson Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:FL Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta...
Symbol: POLA10 Group: Monocot Family: Poaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Graminoid Native Status: L48 N CAN N Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:ME, NH, NY, VT Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta –...
