Geisinger Health System, a physician-led health care system dedicated to health care, education, research and service spanning 42 counties and serving 2.6 million people, has selected the Orion Health Rhapsody Integration Engine as the health system?s new platform for migrating, managing, and streamlining message exchange between over 200 clinical and business systems. The new integration engine will enable them to better participate in Pennsylvania?s Keystone Health Information Exchange.

Gregory Miller, technical analyst at Geisinger explains, ?We needed a reliable and flexible data integration platform that supports newer technology capabilities and connectivity to our RHIO — Rhapsody is a key component in our participation — and participation in health information exchanges. Rhapsody will also support our goals to automate and connect to federal programs such as NHIN and PHIN.?

Geisinger Health System?s previous integration engine was sunsetting so they used the opportunity to review their criteria list and explore other product options. Rhapsody was selected for its ability to provide a broad set of monitoring capabilities, for its easy to use drag and drop functionality and its ability to run anywhere, including UNIX. In addition, Rhapsody provides a migration tool set to enable a seamless, step by step process away from eGate, significantly reducing migration time.

Orion Health Senior Vice President of Global Marketing Christopher Ward says, organizations faced with a sunset situation as with eGate have the opportunity to deploy a platform for the future. ?Orion Health?s focus on health care customers results in products that are remarkably straight forward and adapted to future requirements. Rhapsody?s eGate migration tool kit means an IT department can reduce the time it spends replacing technology and implement a platform to get on to the current and future business of meeting health data exchange needs.?

?Geisinger Health System is a leader in developing systems that help patients and physicians use technology to connect for better health outcomes. Orion Health is delighted to enjoy association with innovative, mission-forward organizations like Geisinger.?

Orion Health solutions use standards-based technology to integrate data within a facility and external partners without incurring costly rip and replace approaches. Currently the company helps facilities and healthcare communities that connect 35 million patients with tens of thousands of active users.

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On January 29, 2006 firecrackers and dancing dragons will ring in the Chinese Year of the Dog. But this year, they might also be ushering in the Year of Dog Meditation.

Dog meditation, canine contemplation, pooch prayer — call it what you will — but according to James Jacobson, author of the bestselling book “How to Meditate with Your Dog: An Introduction to Meditation for Dog Lovers,” (Maui Media, $ 16.95; Hardcover, ISBN 0975263110, http://www.dogmeditation.com) dog meditation is being lapped up by dog lovers everywhere.

Chinese astrologers say that people born in the year of the dog have the qualities of loyalty, faithfulness, and honesty. According to Jacobson, they may also have an edge over those born in the Year of the Horse, Rat, or Boar in another canine quality: meditation.

?Dogs are natural meditators,? Jacobson says. ?They live fully in the present moment, and spend an enormous part of their days in ?hound-lounge,? the canine equivalent of human meditation.?

But the author cautions, you shouldn?t feel trapped on the wrong side of the doggy door if you were born in a year other than dog.

?Dogs are natural meditation gurus, and just living with a dog can serve as a great introduction to meditation,? says Jacobson.

In fact, the author of “How to Meditate with Your Dog,” says most people with dogs already meditate with them, they just don?t call it that.

?It happens in those moments where you sit down with your dog and relax,? says Jacobson who has been meditating with his maltese for over 13 years.

He teaches introductory meditation classes in Hawaii and says that during meditation, the breaths become longer and less hurried.

“After a few moments, your thoughts slow down until it seems like you are not thinking at all.?

Jacobson says most dog lovers already share moments like these and meditating with a canine friend is a natural next step.

Meditation isn?t just for when you’re dog-tired at the end of the day. Jacobson says that the benefits make it worth setting as a daily Year of the Dog resolution while claiming that meditation improves a dog?s health and well-being.

“It helps excitable dogs become calmer, aggressive dogs become more loving, and dogs that once whined and howled for attention become quieter and more content,” says Jacobson.

He continues, “Meditation is great for humans, too. It relieves stress, lowers blood pressure, and sharpens mental focus.”

The author attributes the success of the book to the fact that dog lovers will do almost anything for their pets.

?People are willing to do things for their dog that they wouldn?t do for themselves?and that includes meditation.?

So what does the dog meditator recommend to usher in the Year of the Dog?

“Celebrate Chinese New Year with a dragon dance, fireworks — and a howl at the moon. Then settle in for a moment of meditation, with your dog.”

Download a sample chapter of the book or audio book at http://dogmeditation.com.

HOW TO MEDITATE WITH YOUR DOG:

An Introduction to Meditation for Dog Lovers

By James Jacobson

with Kristine Chandler Madera

Published by Maui Media, LLC

October 2005

0-9752631-1-0 / $ 16.95 / Hardcover / 200 pages

http://www.dogmeditation.com


http://MauiMedia.com

“How to Meditate with Your Dog” is available at book stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com.

Members of the Media may visit Maui Media’s online newsroom for this book at: http://www.dogmeditation.com/media.html.

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MD Check is delighted to announce the launch of a completely redesigned website viewable and searchable at MDCheck.com.

The new MD Check website provides users with comprehensive resources for background checking doctors and significantly expanded content, including free federal doctor license status check; doctor location information; an organized directory of state medical boards; and access to paid doctor background checks where you can search through billions of public records. Visitors to the site also will find the new user interface to be simple to use, well organized and visually pleasing. This product is the result of months of hard work by our team to analyze and redesign the site to assure it is the most comprehensive resource for checking your doctor or potential doctor out. At MDCheck.com, our goal is to provide our visitors with a valuable experience in examining their doctor?s credentials and public records about their doctor.

?In these times of increasing risk with the cases in the news of fake doctors, doctors performing unnecessary surgeries for profit and running pill mills,? says Jon Wright, the founder of MD Check. ?The need for doctor background screening by healthcare consumers has grown. It is simple, quick, comprehensive and there is much free information on our website at http://www.mdcheck.com. Consumer who either have a doctor or who are looking for a new physician owe themselves a doctor background screen to make sure they get the quality of medical care they deserve.?

About MD Check

MD Check was founded in 2009. Its founder is an attorney and former healthcare executive who has done many employee investigations and had to research doctors backgrounds for a family health issue. MDCheck?s goal is to become the one stop shop for all your research of public records on your doctor?s background or other health professional?s backgrounds. So what are you waiting for, it?s your health and safety in their hands, do a doctor background check at MDCheck.com now!

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Based on an understanding of the difficulties of non-profit fund-raising and the personal desire of the founders to make a difference in ending Breast Cancer, Ribbon Nutrition has created an Affiliate Fund-Raising Program (AFRP) as a means to help raise money for non-profit organizations and to educate and empower individuals in the fight against Breast Cancer.

The purpose of Ribbon Nutrition?s AFRP is to provide Breast Cancer, Cancer, Health, Women?s, and Environmentally-oriented non-profit organizations of all sizes the ability to raise additional funds without having to spend existing resources to do it. The program offers non-profit organizations the opportunity to directly raise money through a ?click-through? link placed on their website. Each time a member clicks over to the Ribbon Nutrition website, their ?click-through? is linked back to the non-profit organization. From there, Ribbon Nutrition will donate 30% of the shopper?s total purchase to non-profit organizations. The program is further supported by customized marketing support that the company creates for each individual organization. To view a sample, visit http://www.ribbonnutrition.com/ad/young.

Ribbon Nutrition?s AFRP has several other unique features. A pitfall of many affiliate programs is that they work the first time when a member ?clicks-through,? but do not continue to raise money for the organization when members go back to the website for a subsequent purchase. To address this, Ribbon Nutrition created a system where shoppers cannot purchase Ribbon Nutrition products on their website without ?clicking-through? a non-profit organization or choosing a non-profit organization that their purchase will benefit. The logos and websites of the participating non-profit organizations are displayed on the Ribbon Nutrition website for the shopper to choose from and can be viewed at http://www.ribbonnutrition.com/locate/locate.php.

Ribbon Nutrition?s Affiliate Fund-Raising Program is also designed to offer more than just supplements. Each purchase from the site in October will also include a free subscription to the natural lifestyle magazine inPink as well as other educational materials on diet, nutrition, and other lifestyle factors that may help prevent Breast Cancer. Visitors to the website will also have the option to sign-up for Life Saving Email

(http://www.lifesavingemail.com), a free Breast Self Exam Reminder System and Healthy Lifestyle e-Newsletter offered by Pink Penguin Press, a non-profit organization focused on education and empowerment. Participating non-profit organizations are invited to send educational information to Ribbon Nutrition for disbursement with orders from the Affiliate Program website.

For more information about Ribbon Nutrition, please call the founders directly: Stephen Hennessy at 404-441-6683 or Jim Powers at 941-779-5940. For more information about the Affiliate Fund-Raising Program, call 800-757-7212 ext 709. Visit Ribbon Nutrition on the web at http://www.ribbonnutrition.com.

About Ribbon Nutrition:

Founded in 2005 by Jim Powers and Stephen Hennessy, Ribbon Nutrition?s (http://www.ribbonnutrition.com) mission is to help fight Breast Cancer through a message of prevention, empowerment, and education. Ribbon Nutrition offers a complete selection of over forty vitamin, mineral, digestive, herbal, and specialty supplements for the whole family. All Ribbon Nutrition products are manufactured to the strictest quality standards and feature the highest quality ingredients available. Ribbon Nutrition also offers their products at health food stores nationwide where they donate up to 10% of the total revenue from the sale of the products to non-profit organizations who share their mission of ending Breast Cancer.

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Want to learn meditation, but stressed about finding 30 minutes in your packed schedule? A new CD from Buddhist teacher and author Bodhipaksa may be just the thing for you. With Bodhipaksa’s “Guided Meditations for Busy People,” anyone can find time to meditate. Most of the nine meditations on the CD are around eight minutes long, and the shortest is only three minutes, meaning that even the busiest person can find the time to de-stress.

Bodhipaksa explained that he made this CD in response to demands from potential students. ?Many people told me that they wanted to learn meditation but found it stressful even to think about taking 30 or 40 minutes out of their schedule, so I decided that this was an opportunity to create meditations that can be done in just a few minutes,? he said.

Bodhipaksa provides fully guided meditations with clear and detailed instructions. These meditations would be ideal for any skill level from beginner to expert. The meditations on the CD are all adaptations of traditional Buddhist meditations, although you don?t need to be a Buddhist to benefit from them. “Breathing in, breathing out” is a compact version of a common meditation known as mindfulness of breathing. “Interconnectedness” is a nine-minute meditation that connects you with all living things, while “Protected By Light” surrounds you with an aura that can protect you and those you love.

One aim of the CD is to give people tools that they can bring into daily life. ?Meditation is a set of skills and approaches to life that you can put into practice at home, at the office, or while traveling,? Bodhipaksa explains. ?When you realize that you?re becoming stressed, you can, for example, visualize yourself protected by an aura of light. From the outside, no one would even know you were meditating.?

Reactions to the CD have been very positive. “I was so pleased by Bodhipaksa?s voice,? and ?I found myself relaxing immediately,? are typical comments. Terri Trespicio, associate editor of a well-known spirituality and health magazine, was impressed by Bodhipaksa?s soothing Celtic burr. ?The Scottish accent doesn?t hurt!? she said.

Bodhipaksa has been practicing meditation since 1982 and has been a member of the Western Buddhist Order since 1993. Born in Scotland, he now lives in New Hampshire. He leads meditation courses internationally, and also teaches online at http://www.wildmind.org. He is the author of “Wildmind: A Step-by Step Guide to Meditation,” and of a number of highly successful guided meditation CD?s.

Meditation for Busy People is available for purchase at http://www.wildmind.org , a website dedicated to the practice of meditation, as well as on Amazon. Wildmind, a nonprofit organization founded by Bodhipaksa, aims to benefit the world by promoting awareness and compassion through the practice of meditation, and offers an extensive online guide to meditation as well as running online meditation courses, publishing meditation CD?s, and teaching meditation to inmates at the state prison in Concord, New Hampshire.

Contact:

Steve Cardwell

Wildmind Meditation Services

177 Main Street

Newmarket, NH 03857

603-659-3800

To discover more about Wildmind, visit http://www.wildmind.org.

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Nutritional Products International (NPI) is pleased to announce that the Biotropics line of natural health products is now available on RevNutrition.com.

Biotropics, a company that develops a variety of Malaysian resources into superior natural health products, focuses on merging past traditional approaches to medicines and well being into cutting-edge, innovative health solutions.

“We are very excited to partner with RevNutrition.com for the selling of the Biotropics line of products,” said Siti Nooruhani, Business Development, Sales & Marketing Director of Biotropics. “This will give consumers even more access to the best natural, name-brand nutrition and health products on the market today.”

Based on extensive research and modern science, Biotropics’ products are designed to meet the health, wellness and vitality needs of today’s men and women. The brand’s all-natural products include an array of the highest quality proprietary botanical extracts, including standardized extracts, all-natural dietary supplements and ingredients for nutraceutical, functional food and cosmetic applications. The company also develops herbal medicines and botanical drugs.

RevNutrition.com brings a wide range of high-quality, affordable wellness products to consumers around the world. On the site, consumers can choose from the most trusted names in the industry, backed with the assurance of competitive pricing and a price match guarantee.

“Biotropics’ products are all backed by the best research available when it comes to all-natural health solutions,” said Mitch Gould, CEO of RevNutrition.com. “By providing scientifically tested natural supplements from Biotropics on our site, we are adding to our comprehensive selection.”

NPI, one of the world’s leading nutraceutical companies, provides sales and marketing solutions for Biotropics and hundreds of other brands worldwide. This enables foreign brands to be successful with consumers in the United States.

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Meditation CDs announces that it is making both “Introduction to Guided Meditation” and “A Short Guided Meditation” available for free. These guided meditations are now available at the Free Guided Meditation link.

Scripted and voiced by Reverend Stan Smith the free guided meditations are the first two tracks from Rev Stan’s “Beginning Guided Meditation” CD but provided in the MP3 format. Rev. Stan has written thousands of guided meditations. He is a councilor, minister and teacher.

Guided Meditation is used by millions to relax and heal the soul. These techniques allow you to overcome the “busy mind” that interferes with sleep and good health.

In addition to the Beginning CD, Relaxation, Spirituality, and Weight Loss CDs are offered. All are professionally recorded and reproduced.

Meditation CDs has been selling meditation CDs on the web for over five years. The site offers the CDs as well as articles about meditation and the full scripts of the CDs that are offered.

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QA Graphics, a Midwest interactive design company, has formed a relationship with KB Nutrition Consulting, a nutrition consulting firm, to further assist their clients when developing digital menu boards with nutritional menu labeling for use in restaurants, quick serve restaurants, convenience stores, grocery stores, retail outlets etc.

With the FDA?s impending menu labeling laws requiring restaurants to provide calorie information as well as other nutrition information on request, QA Graphics anticipates the increased use of digital menu boards to display this nutritional information. To facilitate a smooth transition for their clients, QA Graphics has formed an alliance with KB Nutrition Consulting. This collaboration will ensure that QA Graphics is familiar with the new menu labeling requirements and other trends relating to nutritional guidelines. In addition, KB Nutrition will serve as a resource for QA Graphics? clients, available to help those that have not yet analyzed their menu?s nutritional values according to the menu labeling laws that will take effect later this year.

?By collaborating with KB Nutrition, we have access to an experienced professional to assist our clients in complying with menu labeling laws, as well as other nutritional guidelines,? said Dan McCarty, president and owner of QA Graphics. ?Now?s an opportune time for restaurants of any size to switch to digital menu boards, to simplify compliance with the nutritional labeling laws and stay current with industry trends.?

KB Nutrition, located in Dallas, Texas, is dedicated to working with restaurants to provide nutrition information for their recipes, identify allergens and work to modify recipes to meet certain health guidelines. KB Nutrition can help QA Graphics? clients determine what information must be displayed as part of the menu labeling laws, as well as what additional information needs to be available, such as calories from fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, etc. Kim Blum, owner of the nutrition company, brings over 10 years of experience as a registered dietitian, with extensive experience conducting nutrient analysis and menu development.

?Restaurants and food service establishments have a unique opportunity to provide nutrition information to their customers via menu labeling. In addition to posting calorie counts, restaurants can also provide allergen information as well as help patrons identify menu items that meet certain health guidelines,? said Kim Blum, MS, RD, owner of KB Nutrition. ?Digital menu boards are the perfect way for restaurants to meet the needs of their health-conscious consumers and keep their company on track with current trends and laws.?

QA Graphics provides nutritional menu board design services for static digital signage, drive-through displays and interactive applications for use on kiosks in high-traffic areas. Example features include: