Prudential Long-Term Care Product Simplifies Decisions

Prudential Long-Term Care Product Simplifies Decisions

- Consumers' now faced with a single benefit decision when selecting long-term care insurance.

Newark, NJ (PRWEB) March 3, 2009 -- If all the complexities involved in selecting long-term care insurance are scaring you off, Prudential (www.prudential.com) has a way out the maze. Prudential today introduced a simpler long-term care insurance product with few options to confuse the decision-making process.

Although its design is simpler, the revolutionary product helps provide comprehensive coverage for an important class of services not covered by most health insurance policies: ongoing care for individuals with a chronic illness or disability.

"It's no secret that consumers have struggled with the numerous benefit option decisions facing them when selecting a long-term care insurance product," said Malcolm Cheung, vice president of Prudential's Long-Term Care insurance business. "Streamlining the decision-making process is key in helping make sure more consumers understand their options and are empowered to make smart, well-informed decisions about long-term care insurance."

This individual long-term care insurance (http://www.prudential.com/view/page/14001?seg=3&name=longtermcare) product is issued by The Prudential Insurance Company of America, part of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), and is available in 14 states (AL, AR, DE, IA, LA, ME, MI, MS, NE, NH, OK, RI, WV, and WY). This coverage is sold under the Prudential LTC Evolution banner.

The straightforward approach of the product requires consumers make only a single benefit decision of a Policy Lifetime Maximum ranging from $100,000 up to $1 million - a pool of money available to reimburse clients for 80% of their costs for all covered long-term care services, large and small, now and in the future. Unlike many other products which leave consumers to guess at the benefit amount they might need on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, this product offers consumers a greater degree of flexibility in how they access their benefit dollars.

The product's standard features include:

- An Alternative Plan of Care benefit, which may cover new and emerging forms of care that do not become available until years after a consumer has purchased the policy.

- A Starter Benefit, which offers benefits when a sudden need arises, such as a stroke or car accident. In situations like these, this benefit could begin paying $1,500 a month in cash as soon as a chronic illness or disability is certified.

"Healthcare costs (http://www.prudential.com/media/managed/LTCCostStudy.pdf) are continuing to skyrocket and the government has squarely placed responsibility for paying for long-term care on the shoulders of the individual," Cheung said. "Consumers continue to be faced with a wide range of risks when it comes to protecting their assets and income in retirement, as well as care decisions that can affect their quality of life. The ongoing market volatility and uncertainty underscores the value of long-term care insurance as a more stable source of funds to meet potential long-term care needs."

With over 20 years of long-term care insurance experience, Prudential is a leading long-term care insurance carrier. Superior service allows financial professionals to work easily and seamlessly across product lines, including long-term care insurance, life and disability insurance. In addition to individual long-term care insurance, Prudential also provides group long-term care insurance, providing producers with a single resource for all of their client needs. The new Prudential LTC Evolution product will complement Prudential's LTC3 product in the states launched.

Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a financial services leader with approximately $558 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2008, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping approximately 50 million individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, investment management, and real estate services. For more information, please visit http://www.news.prudential.com/.

Life insurance, annuities, and long term care insurance are issued by The Prudential Insurance Company of America. Securities products and services are offered through Pruco Securities, LLC. Both are located in Newark, NJ and are Prudential Financial companies. Prudential and the Rock logo are registered service marks of The Prudential Insurance Company of America.

IFS-A162002; Ed. 2/2009

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The Flag Company, Inc. Releases 'Feel Good' Light Lenses to Help Counter Gloomy Economic Outlook

The Flag Company, Inc. Releases 'Feel Good' Light Lenses to Help Counter Gloomy Economic Outlook

Perfect for any room, The Flag Company, Inc.'s new 'Feel Good' Light Lenses are perfect decorating pieces to stir up positive sentiments and lift spirits during this trying economical time.

(PRWEB) March 3, 2009 -- In light of the frustrating economical atmosphere that has gripped the nation, the Flag Company, Inc. recently launched 'Feel Good' Light Lenses as a cheerful decorating alternative. Perfect for waiting rooms and office buildings, 'Feel Good' Light Lenses are a simple, yet effective way to put a smile on faces and lift spirits.

In addition to providing a silent ray of feel-good light, Light Lenses (http://www.flagco.com/lightlenses/index.shtml) give any room better visual interest. Whether a doctor's office, conference room, classroom, or even a home basement, light lenses provide the extra pizzazz missing from any room.

The Flag Company, Inc. 'Feel Good' Light Lenses consist of colorful backlit designs that are fabricated to lay in the fluorescent ceiling fixture with a "drop-down door" opening: 24" x 48", 24" x 24", and 12" x 48". Any of the 70 Light Lenses designs (http://www.flagco.com/lightlenses/index.shtml) can easily be trimmed to fit non-traditional fixture spaces. Customized, one-of-a-kind light lenses can also be crafted from artwork or high resolution photos, giving clients versatility that is limited only by the imagination.

Originally created for doctors' office waiting rooms, Light Lenses provide a comforting sky or tree scene that give patients something soothing to look at while waiting. The result is a more relaxed, less anxious environment.

Today, Light Lenses are still used in doctors' offices around the country, but can also be used for a variety of purposes, including as educational tools. Schools and Day care centers can use Light Lenses as color, letter, or number recognition prompts for toddlers, and as more complex lesson aids - geometric shapes, math formulas, the periodic table, solar systems, and more - for older children. No matter the need, Light Lenses can enhance any learning environment.

Want to spruce up a conference room? Try the newly featured cloud set (http://www.flagco.com/lightlenses/clouds.shtml#cloudsets). The two- or three-panel set of clouds fit perfectly into drop-down door fluorescent lights and instantly rejuvenates the room, giving the impression of a sky light where there is none. This gives employees or clients a more relaxing and enjoyable environment.

About The Flag Company, Inc.:

The Flag Company, Inc. offers a complete range of flags and flag-related products. Custom screen printing and digital printing are available for special events, corporate logos, etc. Stock merchandise includes U.S., state, international and military flags and all types of accessories such as bunting, memorial cases, pennants and more. The Flag Company, Inc. is the nation's largest producer of message flags, offering over 300 different messages, which are used by realtors, restaurants, car dealerships and every other kind of company imaginable. Surprisingly, toothpick flags are a hot item - in stock and available for state, countries, and holidays and produced on a custom-order basis for corporations and special events. The complete product line can be viewed at the website, www.flagco.com.

For more information and to see the large selection of Light Lenses offered by The Flag Company, Inc., visit the website, www.flagco.com.

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The Flag Company Inc.

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LifeMasters Introduces Health Activation Tool to Disease Management Participants

LifeMasters Introduces Health Activation Tool to Disease Management Participants

Innovator of the PAM™ Assessment in Chronic Disease Coaching

Irvine, Calif. (Vocus) March 2, 2009 -- In keeping with its commitment to implement the latest advances in behavior change, LifeMasters (https://www.lifemasters.com/innovation/) Supported SelfCare, Inc. is the first disease management company in the country to introduce a powerful health activation tool for use with its chronically ill participants.

The Patient Activation Measure™ (PAM™) was developed by Judith Hibbard, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Oregon to assess an individual's knowledge, skills and confidence in playing a role in one's own health and healthcare. By understanding participants' "activation levels," LifeMasters health professionals can better tailor participant coaching to an individual's level of activation, helping him or her identify and overcome barriers to behavior change.

"We know that higher levels of activation are correlated with improved self-care behaviors," said LifeMasters CEO Christobel Selecky. "By focusing on increasing a participant's activation level, our health coaches can help LifeMasters participants to develop self-efficacy and greater levels of motivation, which ultimately lead to greater confidence in managing their health. We are very excited about the potential that this tool provides us to improve outcomes and enhance sustained engagement."

LifeMasters is a health improvement company with more than 15 years experience in developing scientifically based interventions that target key cost drivers such as diabetes, congestive heart failure, asthma, coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, cancer and musculo-skeletal pain. The company began piloting the PAM in 2005. In 2007, it completed a 2-call-center comparison study based on the PAM with Dr. Hibbard and her team and is now widely implementing the use of PAM across all LifeMasters sites and additional research is being considered.

LifeMasters coaches are trained in the use of motivational interviewing techniques - informed by the insight gained from the PAM tool - which allows them to focus on helping participants develop confidence in managing their health (depending on their activation level) rather than on encouraging behaviors they may not be ready to achieve.

The Patient Activation Measure, which is licensed and marketed by Insignia Health, consists of a 10 or 13-question survey that asks people about their beliefs, knowledge and confidence for engaging in a wide range of health behaviors. Based on responses to the survey, each person is assigned an activation score and level. The PAM segments participants into one of four progressively higher activation levels.

At the low end of the spectrum, individuals tend to be passive with regard to managing their health, and may fail to see the connection between their own behaviors and health outcomes. At the high end, individuals understand that relationship and have become good self-managers across a constellation of behaviors. However, even high activation level individuals may benefit from coaching to stay on course when stress occurs.

Answers to the PAM survey give the health professional insight into a participant's frame of reference and help facilitate tailored discussion about what a participant wants to work on. By periodically re-administering the survey and reviewing responses to individual items over time, changes in a participant's activation level can be reassessed and used as a guide for ongoing coaching.

"In using the PAM, LifeMasters is supporting consumers on a journey to improve the self-management competencies that drive health status, and in so doing, helping consumers unlock their potential to flourish," said Chris Delaney, Insignia's Chief Executive Officer.

The level of patient activation varies considerably in the U.S. population, with less than half of the adult population at the highest level of activation, according to a recent study by the Center for Studying Health System Change. More than 85 studies have documented the PAM's ability to effectively measure patient activation and to predict a range of behaviors in wide demographic variability. These include preventive behaviors such as exercise, diet, and smoking cessation, disease-specific self-management behaviors such as medication compliance and health monitoring, and consumer behaviors such as successful interaction with a healthcare provider.

Because of the strong correlation between activation and self-care behaviors, the PAM scores can also greatly enhance the credibility of reported outcomes. While return on investment and closing clinical gaps in care will always be important outcomes measures, the ability to demonstrate a concurrent improvement in activation increases the likelihood that those positive outcomes can be attributed to the health improvement program.

A research project between LifeMasters and Dr. Hibbard's team demonstrated that activation levels and health outcomes can be improved by tailoring participant care plans to the individual's activation level. The full results of this study are expected to be published in June of 2009.

About LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc.

LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc. is a leading provider of health improvement and condition management programs and services that create health partnerships among individuals and their physicians. The programs improve the quality of care for populations with risk factors and

chronic conditions and reduce healthcare cost trends for the nation's leading health plans, employers, retirement systems, labor unions/trusts and governmental organizations. LifeMasters offers programs for individuals with diabetes, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, asthma, cancer, depression and musculo-skeletal pain. LifeMasters' programs are holistically focused, support co-morbidities like depression, and facilitate lifestyle changes such as smoking cessation and weight loss. LifeMasters is accredited by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and URAC. More information can be found at innovation.lifemasters.com (https://www.lifemasters.com/innovation/).

About Insignia Health

Insigna Health is committed to helping consumers develop the behaviors that are crucial to becoming more active and effective members of their own healthcare team. These efforts are anchored by the Patient Activation Measure and the self-management competencies revealed by this assessment tool. With this knowledge, Insignia's tailored coaching resources and self-care products can be leveraged to help individuals begin to master new positive behaviors that are realistic given one's current level of activation. Research has shown consistently that with increased activation comes better health and the more effective and efficient use of healthcare resources. More information can be found at www.insigniahealth.com.

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AnaptysBio Selects Gable PR of San Diego for National Communications Program During Key Phase in Growth

AnaptysBio Selects Gable PR of San Diego for National Communications Program During Key Phase in Growth

AnaptysBio, Inc., a privately-held therapeutic antibody platform and product company seeking expanded outreach to the biotech and pharma industries, has selected Gable PR of San Diego to provide national public relations and investor communications programs as a key part of the company's strategic growth plan for 2009 and beyond.

San Diego, Calif. (PRWEB) March 2, 2009 -- AnaptysBio, Inc., a privately-held therapeutic antibody platform and product company, today announced it has selected Gable PR to provide public relations and investor communications programs as a key part of the company's strategic growth plan for 2009 and beyond. Gable PR is a growing public relations firm based in San Diego and known for its sophisticated and successful approach to managing complex programs for national biotech companies and organizations.

"Gable PR will play a vital role in helping us communicate with key audiences about the advantages of our platform for antibody discovery," said Tom Smart, AnaptysBio chairman and CEO. "We selected Gable PR because of their past successes helping biotech companies with complex messages reach out to broader industry audiences. We anticipate achieving several important milestones in 2009 in validating our platform and need an agency partner that can take charge of getting out the word in a very targeted way to potential partners and investors."

AnaptysBio has developed a platform for generating therapeutic antibodies that is unique in the field. The platform mimics the body's natural evolution and selection processes for creating potent antibodies to fight disease. As a result, AnaptysBio believes the antibodies generated by its platform will result in therapies that are highly effective and better tolerated by the human body. Competing platforms often require scientists make artificial changes to antibodies, resulting in lower likelihood that they will be well tolerated.

"In checking out competing companies, we were impressed with the clear advantages AnaptsyBio demonstrated with the quality of its team, technology and culture," said Tom Gable, CEO of Gable PR. "They have a clear vision to 2010 and beyond and we're pleased to have been selected to help them reach key partners and potential investors with their story and data."

AnaptysBio's public relations program will be managed by Erin Koch, Gable PR director. The agency team includes professionals with significant investor relations, media relations, and media training experience.

About AnaptysBio:

Founded in 2005, AnaptysBio, Inc is a privately-held therapeutic antibody product company and the leader in the use of somatic hypermutation, or SHM, for antibody discovery and optimization. SHM is the body's natural process for generating potent antibodies to fight disease. The Company's SHM-Platform™ utilizes the key components of SHM and other techniques to generate antibodies for therapeutic applications through an iterative process of natural evolution and high-throughput selection - a process that has been referred to as "naturalizing" antibodies. This versatile platform can be used both to discover and optimize antibodies directed at specific disease targets and also affinity mature existing antibodies to improve their binding properties. The company has established broad intellectual property around the use of SHM for therapeutic antibody applications, and is currently building a pipeline of novel therapeutic antibody product candidates. For more information, visit www.anaptysbio.com.

About Gable PR:

Gable PR, based in San Diego, delivers highly effective public relations and marketing communications programs for clients in a broad range of industries. Its tradition of success goes back 30 years with Tom Gable, APR, PRSA Fellow and a nationally recognized authority on the strategic use of public relations for positioning, reputation management and delivering meaningful results. Clients have included private and public companies, organizations, institutions and government agencies at every stage in their life cycles, from start-up to a Fortune 100 company (Pfizer). Agency programs have earned the highest honors in the PR profession and helped clients of all sizes and needs succeed. For more information: www.gablepr.com.

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Gable PR

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Common Approaches to Member Retention by Health Insurance Plans are Ineffective, New Study Shows

Common Approaches to Member Retention by Health Insurance Plans are Ineffective, New Study Shows

Most Health Plan Members Drop Coverage for multiple Reasons; Integrated Retention Strategy and Senior Management Commitment Are Necessary to Reduce Disenrollment and Improve Balance Sheet.

Orlando, FL (Vocus) March 2, 2009 -- Market research conducted on behalf of ConnextionsHealth provides both good and bad news for health insurance providers. The good news: properly managing member disenrollment delivers a significant, positive impact on net enrollment and revenue generation. The bad news: member retention is increasingly difficult for health plans to achieve, and most plans are doing it poorly. A host of economic factors are currently driving unprecedented membership losses at most health insurance plans.

Results of a proprietary study conducted by a leading management consulting firm show:

o    Two-thirds of members in individual health insurance plans have multiple reasons for leaving; these include 6 broad categories, 32 subcategories and nearly 300 distinct root causes for dropping coverage.

o    Root causes of member disenrollment vary widely, based on factors such as plan type, geographic region, sales channel, and most notably a member's tenure with the health plan - which can be identified and addressed by specific stages in the member lifecycle.

o    Traditional phone-based campaigns to capture and analyze disenrollment reasons are ineffective. Exit interviews that lack clear focus and tenacious questioning regarding root causes do not provide health plans with meaningful insight into disenrollement.

o    The majority of disenrollment drivers are controllable. But success in member retention involves sophisticated research into disenrollment drivers; careful design of proactive and reactive retention initiatives; and most importantly, a sustained commitment to member retention from senior management.

o    The most successful disenrollment initiatives by health plans do not approach member retention as an isolated strategy, but also integrate the discipline into their member acquisition and member service programs.

Details on this new research, as well as other valuable market insight on the subject of member retention will be presented at the World Congress Leadership Summit on Member Retention for Health Plans, scheduled for March 18-19 at Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando.

Co-sponsored by ConnextionsHealth, the agenda for this first-of-its-kind forum will feature presentations from leading consulting and research firms, including McKinsey, Gartner and Forrester. Opening keynote Michael Leavitt, the outgoing Department of Health and Human Services cabinet secretary heads a distinguished Summit faculty that includes several health plan executives who will share insights and best practices on member retention, including; Ingrid Lindberg, Chief Experience Officer at CIGNA; John Cheng, VP of Strategic Marketing at Aetna; Steve Nelson, VP of Consumerism and Retail Marketing at Highmark; Thomas Rekart, EVP and Chief Administrative Officer at Bravo Health; and Steven Auerbach, who recently left his EVP role at UnitedHealth Group to serve as President of Connextions Inc.

Through interactive workshops, best practices showcases, keynotes from recognized authorities and panel discussions, attendees will learn how to build, apply and measure member retention strategies designed to yield results similar to those in the new research on the impact of disenrollment programs. For additional information, visit www.worldcongress.com/retention.

About Connextions Inc.:

Founded in 1992, Connextions and its ConnextionsHealth unit provide technology, people and industry expertise that enables its clients to grow, retain and serve customers. Connextions client list includes America's best-known corporate and healthcare organizations, including Kaiser-Permanente, Caremark, FedEx and Sprint. For information, see www.connextions.com

About World Health Care Congress Leadership Summits:

The World Health Care Congress Leadership Summit Series addresses the most cutting edge issues for health care executives across a wide range of industry sectors. Designed to expand on topics discussed at invitation-only summits during the World Health Care Congress, this series offers new perspectives on established methodologies, and details solutions to foster innovation and change. For more information, please visit www.worldcongress.com.

For additional information:

Gordon G. Andrew

Senior Vice President

Connextions, Inc.

(407) 563-4440

Cell: (609) 987-0200

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Pixavi Releases Recession Proof Technology

Pixavi Releases Recession Proof Technology

Pixavi today officially launched its new Xcaster series of wireless High Definition video communication products designed and optimized to help companies and organizations achieve considerable cost savings and efficiency improvements. These goals are particularly important in the current world economic climate, where the impact of recession and a global financial crisis is felt everywhere. The product is capable of virtually eliminating the need for travel in several situations, and to considerably improve the way employees interact and perform.

Stavanger, Norway (PRWEB) March 1, 2009 -- Pixavi today launched its new video collaboration product, the Xcaster. The product is expected to provide considerable cost savings and efficiency improvements to small business all the way up to large multinational corporations and organizations.

The Xcaster is a compact, wireless videoconferencing and collaboration camera, capable of communication and collaboration using high definition video and cd quality audio to any computer, video conferencing or telepresence endpoint. The Xcaster can connect from the field to anywhere in the world using a standard internet connection or a satellite link. The Xcaster user is able to connect from the field to experts and coworkers located practically anywhere, in order to solve problems and visually discuss issues and collaborate in real time. Both parties are offered an audiovisual experience so far offered only by stationary and meeting room HD video conference systems. The result is obvious: Reduced travel cost and increased efficiency.

Background:

The new and technically advanced Xcaster is designed to help organizations face today's challenging global situation dominated by issues like a financial crisis, global warming, pollution, terror threats, increasing travel costs and increased efficiency demands. The product incorporates cutting edge technology such as high speed wireless (802.11n), Bluetooth, AVC HD and high definition video conferencing.

Video Conferencing support:

The Xcaster has the capability of connecting to any videoconferencing system, Telepresence system or a standard desktop or laptop computer and instantly start communicating using two way high definition video, cd quality audio and 5 megapixel images. It supports both H.323 and SIP, which are the dominant IP video and audio telecommunication standards in today's market. The product can communicate directly over the internet, also with multiparty support without the need for subscriptions or paid services.

Rugged:

The Xcaster comes in a very compact ergonomic and rugged design. Built in high quality Norwegian aluminum, the product is IP68 rated (waterproof), impact proof and drop proof up to 2 meters on to concrete.

Collaboration:

Using Pixavi's laser collaboration technology, combined with an integrated gyroscopic MEMS sensor, the user is able to collaborate in real time over a HD video and audio session ubiquitously with his or her surroundings. The result is an unique and transparent user experience, further excelled by an intuitive user interface.

Applications:

Potential application areas (http://www.pixavi.com/applications-video-communication.html) for the product includes among others the manufacturing industry, oil&gas, chemical industries, building and construction, telemedicine, surveillance, ship yards, mining, journalism, firefighting, law enforcement and military.

Services:

Pixavi offers the Go Live server solution for improving the manageability and ease of connection between the Xcaster and other systems as well as networked multimedia storage. The next generation, Go Live 2.0 provides a secure, encrypted communication solution based on Web 2.0 technology.

Pixavi CEO, Christian Rokseth explains: "High definition video conferencing is becoming increasingly popular, and almost 50% of the video conferencing endpoints and VC enabled computers are now HD capable. This growing trend perfectly matches our target of developing a HD collaboration camera when we started this project."

Mr. Rokseth continues: "This is a communication concept known to both save cost and increase efficiency already proven worldwide by the popular previous generations VisiWear video collaboration products initially introduced by Pixavi back in 1999. Today, many more companies have the Infrastructure in place to start using this technology. Meeting rooms are equipped with video conferencing systems, workers are using high performance laptop computers and wireless networks are therefore becoming a standard. In addition, the Internet has become increasingly suitable for high definition video communication, with increased quality of service, bandwidth and lower latency. In sum this means close to instant access to this technology without considerable investments. Pixavi provides our customers with a complete wireless video collaboration solution (http://www.pixavi.com/systems-pixavi-standard.html), including wireless network solutions (http://www.pixavi.com/networks-wireless.html), wireless surveillance products (http://www.pixavi.com/systems-wireless-cctv.html) and wireless location systems (http://www.pixavi.com/systems-wlan-location.html). With this complete offering, our customers can now deploy a cost efficient, secure and industrial grade communication infrastructure solution all provided from one vendor."

Green Technology:

Pixavi Sales Manager, Thomas Zaubi states: "Green technology is becoming an increasingly important, if not mandatory key to success for maintaining the planet we live on. The Xcaster product has the capability of contributing to a lower carbon footprint for businesses through decreasing the need for travel and improving operational efficiency. We launched the Green Ring of Excellence (http://www.pixavi.com/greenring.html) initiative in an effort to put emphasis on this very important aspect."

Interoperability:

Pixavi has successfully tested interoperability with HD endpoints from leading vendors like Tandberg, Polycom, Lifesize and Radvision.

Pricing & Availability:

The Xcaster ST5000 (http://www.pixavi.com/hardware-xcaster-specifications.html) will be available in May 2009, with a price tag of 7950 USD. In addition, Pixavi is offering 3 levels of service, depending on the customer needs, including hosted and managed services like Go Live 2.0, SIP services and hosted video conferencing software solutions.

Pixavi will shortly be introducing an EX Zone 1 intrinsically safe and explosion proof version of the product.

About Pixavi:

Pixavi is a privately owned Norwegian company offering innovative and industrial grade wireless communication products, including wearable and mobile High Definition video products, wireless network products (802.11n, 802.11g WiFi and WIMAX), WLAN antenna products, location tracking and wireless video surveillance technology.

Pixavi introduced its first video collaboration system back in 1999 (ST1000). The company's award-winning products are used by leading enterprises in a multitude of industries. With a broad suite of high tech open, standards-based (Linux) products, Pixavi has a high focus on technology innovation. Pixavi is currently recruiting and are also looking for potential investors and partners in order to further accelerate growth.

Contact us for more information:

Thomas Zaubi

Sales Director

USA: "+1 408 627 7811"

Norway: "+47 90943156"

sales(a)pixavi (dot) com

www.pixavi.com

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MakroCare opens new office in Tokyo

MakroCare opens new office in Tokyo

MakroCare, a global clinical services firm, opens office in Tokyo.

(PRWEB) March 1, 2009 -- MakroCare, US based multidisciplinary knowledge and technology driven global clinical services firm, which provides clinical research support services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries has opened its new international office in Tokyo, Japan.

To meet the growing needs and serve its clients in Japan, MakroCare has chosen Tokyo as it's strategic base in Japan. MakroCare has other offices currently in USA (New Jersey, Illinois, Pennsylvania), Asia (India), and Europe (Frankfurt).

About MakroCare:

MakroCare, a global clinical services firm, provides clinical research support to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. The company offers site selection, patient recruitment, project and data management, clinical monitoring, quality assurance, medical writing, PMS/PharmacoVigilance, biometrics, and regulatory assistance. MakroCare has offices in USA (New Jersey, Illinois, and Pennsylvania), India (New Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad), Japan (Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt).

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