MedStar Newsletter - July 2009

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Holiday Hours
• Cybernet Medical and Wayne State University Strengthen Ties
• New Cybernet Medical Financing Options
• New Web-based Government IT Spending Tracker
• Support, Feedback, and Newsletter Subscription Info

HOLIDAY HOURS

While Independence Day falls on a weekend this year, Cybernet Medical's staff still gets to enjoy a vacation day in recognition of it. As such, Cybernet Medical's offices will be closed on Friday, July 3rd for the holiday.

Online help will remain available as usual, and our technical support number will still accept support messages, but any support requests made that day may not be responded to until after we reopen and resume our normal business hours on Monday, July 6th.

Thanks for your patience, and enjoy the holiday!

CYBERNET MEDICAL AND WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY STRENGTHEN TIES

Cybernet Medical is happy to announce the nomination of Cybernet Medical Product Manager Damon Green to the Wayne State University School of Nursing Board of Members. This appointment strengthens the relationship between Cybernet Medical and Wayne State University, as they together strive to provide future Nurses and Doctors the advantage new technology access and tele-health training as part of their curriculum. Congratulations, Damon!

NEW CYBERNET MEDICAL FINANCING OPTIONS

The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act appropriates $19.2 billion dollars to encourage the adoption of electronic health records as part of its incentives for health IT adoption. The packages offered are sufficient to completely pay for conversion to electronic medical record systems in many cases.

However, since most of the payout incentives require existing use of such systems, there is still a need to invest up front to take advantage of the program -- and this presents a difficulty to many organizations in the current economy. To help solve this problem, Cybernet Medical has teamed up with Fidelity Capital to offer financing options for purchases of our MedStar monitoring packages and kiosks.

Additionally, Cybernet Medical is now offering our MedStar Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system as a standalone service option, to assist organizations that do not require a complete system to take advantage of the stimulus package. Company branding options are also available upon request.

If you are interested in discussing how Cybernet Medical can help you take advantage of this program, please contact us at:

1-800-CYBERNET or e-mail sales 'at' cybernetmedical.com

NEW WEB-BASED GOVERNMENT IT SPENDING TRACKER

On June 28th, Vivek Kundra (Federal CIO) announced a new Web site designed to track more than $70 billion in government information technology spending, showing all contracts held by major firms within every agency.

The revamped site, USAspending.gov, was unveiled at the Personal Democracy Forum conference on technology and politics. The website shows detailed information about whether IT contracts are being monitored and budgets being met.

For more information, view the complete article referenced above:

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063001370.html?wprss=rss_technology/techpolicy

Or visit the new website:

usaspending.gov

SUPPORT, FEEDBACK, AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

We want to hear from you, not just when you need help, but when you have comments or suggestions! You can reach the MedStar team via the following methods:

For Support:
1-800-CYBERNET (1-800-292-3763)
support 'at' cybernetmedical.com

For Sales:
1-800-CYBERNET (1-800-292-3763)
sales 'at' cybernetmedical.com

For Feedback:
www.cybernetmedical.com/maillist.html

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