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Mumbai, April 25 -- The government is set to make erring charitable hospitals fall in line as far as offering free treatment to poor patients is concerned. It has begun installing software and appointing facilitators in charitable hospitals to check manipulations and implement the benefit scheme efficiently.

This action comes after the public health department served show cause notices to as many as 40 charitable hospitals for various violations. In raids conducted on 49 hospitals in January this year, 31 were found guilty of violating norms related to the reservation of beds for the poor. 10% of the beds in the hospitals should be reserved for the free treatment of patients below the poverty line while another 10% of the beds should be reserved for the treatment of poor patients (with the annual income below Rs. 1 lakh) at a concessional rate.

When the hospitals failed to respond satisfactorily, the government turned to technology to ensure transparency.

"The software not only keeps a record of the billing and the beds available but will also maintain treatment records along with the patient's personal details," said an official from the department, requesting anonymity.

"This would help curtail manipulation. Some hospitals were charging patients against the doctor's fee, without actually paying the doctors. Others treated its own staff under the scheme meant for the poor," the officer said.

While four hospitals have already installed the software, 24 more will do so shortly. 24 Arogya-Mitras (facilitators) were also appointed to help admit the poor. But eight hospitals have refused to install the mechanism and insisted on communication with the charity commissioner.

Published by HT Syndication with permission from Hindustan Times.

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Free Software for Data Analysis and Organization with TD Loggers

Chesterland, OH CAS DataLoggers and bestselling manufacturer T&D announce the official release of the popular T&D Graph software for data management and analysis. Having passed beta testing, this graphing utility software is compatible with most T&D products and offers users new features including posting comments and memos on graphs and accessing logged data stored on T&D's WebStorage Service. Version 1.00.1 fixes a search result bug and also features updated Help file information. Download the latest update program at T&D's website: http://tandd.com/support/download/software/td_graph.html.

T&D Graph allows you to read larger numbers of recorded data files into the same graph, merge your data, and view & save data in several different ways. This accessibility makes it a useful tool for data management and analysis. The official version fixes a previous problem which occurred when using [Open with Search] to search for voltage recorder type files (.vt7) over a specific time period, where the search result was not within the specified time period.

T&D Graph is compatible with Microsoft Windows 8 and 7 (32-and 64-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit (SP1 or later), and XP 32-bit (SP3 or later). This user-friendly software brings users even more effective features for the management and analysis of data recorded by T&D dataloggers. Users can also directly read their recorded data stored in the T&D WebStorage Service.

Free Online Service Stores Your Critical Data

With T&D dataloggers, now you can share your recorded data over the Internet! You can access all the data sent to the T&D WebStorage Service using your web browser from anywhere at anytime. It's perfect for processing and managing data recorded in remote places or for allowing several people to view the same recorded data at their convenience.

Recorded data can be transmitted to the WebStorage Service from any of our compatible T&D data loggers including: TR-71Ui/72Ui, TR-73U, TR-74Ui, TR-76Ui, TR-77Ui, TR-5i Series, RTR-500 Series, RTR-7 Series, TR-700W Series, TR-7W Series, VR-71 (Excluding Event Data).

Example: Managing Product Temperature During Transit

Using the T&D RTR-500GSM wireless data logger as an example, the WebStorage Service enables Senders, Receivers, and Carriers to monitor the same current readings graph and verify the temperature condition of the products while in transit. This way, all parties are on the same page regarding proof of product quality and electronic documentation.

These popular products are commonly use in many different applications including transportation and warehousing, food processing and storage, industrial manufacturing and processing, agriculture, and more. As a distributor of T&D, CAS DataLoggers can help you find the ideal data logger for your own application and also provides free technical support and installation for our customers.

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In cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others, the free-software organization calls on the W3C to keep DRM out of Web standards.

An illustration used by opponents to digital rights management technology moving to Web standards

The Free Software Foundation, never a friend to digital rights management, has taken issue with its arrival in the Web standards world.

In a letter from the FSF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, and other allied groups yesterday, the group called on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to keep DRM out of the standards it defines.

"We write to implore the World Wide Web Consortium and its member organizations to reject the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) proposal," the groups said. "DRM restricts the public's freedom, even beyond what overzealous copyright law requires, to the perceived benefit of this privileged, powerful few."

It's not clear how much effect the letter and an accompanying anti-DRM petition will have, since the technology is already in use though not formally standardized. And even if the W3C balks at standardization -- after it opened up to entertainment-industry involvement in 2011 -- DRM would likely live on through other channels.

A key HTML standardization figure and outspoken DRM opponent, Ian Hickson, sees the DRM-blocking effort as unlikely to succeed in practice. In a Google+ comment, he said:

The reality is that whether the W3C publishes this or not will have no effect. If the W3C doesn't publish it, the browser vendors will just work on the spec elsewhere. Asking the W3C to do it or not is pointless. The W3C knows this, and as far as I can tell, they figure that if it's gonna happen anyway, they might as well be the venue where it happens, since that way they get to claim new members.

FSF founder Richard Stallman has long called DRM "digital restrictions management," because it limits what people can do with their computers and the data on them. Despite any number of successful circumventions of DRM, though, it remains popular in the entertainment industry as a way to try to keep people from copying TV shows, movies, books, and sometimes music.

Adobe Systems' Flash Player long has been used to encrypt streaming video, but with its fading into the sunset, allies including Microsoft, Google, and Neflix have been working on DRM-friendly Web standards.

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ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwired - Apr 24, 2013) - WSWA Annual Convention & Exposition --OnTrak Software, the only provider of Web-based software to help wine and spirits wholesalers and suppliers track, measure and manage all of their point-of-sale (POS) marketing communications materials such as menus, samples and signs, today announced a partnership with Menu Designs, a leading provider of wine list and menu covers and other POS products.

Under the agreement, Menu Designs customers have the option of implementing OnTrak's software to increase speed to market and consistently manage co-op reimbursements when using Menu Designs products. A referral by Menu Designs provides special benefits and pricing on an installation of any OnTrak solution.

As a paperless, Web-based software tool, OnTrak's MenuTrak solution enables wine and spirits wholesalers to automate the order workflow, including configuration, approval and production of custom beverage menus and printed signs. MenuTrak also helps eliminate errors and reproofs and reduces time-to-market while also tracking and managing costs and improving supplier bill-back recovery.

Both companies are highlighting their new partnership April 28-30 during the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) 70th Annual Convention & Exposition, and will be presenting their solutions in The Boardroom lower level suite at The Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes in Orlando.

"Throughout our 30 plus years of serving the wine and spirits industry, we've gained first-hand experience with how important order management and bill back recovery procedures are for our beverage distributor customers," said David Dobbs, CEO at Menu Designs. "OnTrak is the only system we have seen which gives the customer such complete control over their wine and drink list POS marketing process -- reducing time-to-market, increasing market share, and improving recovery billing.

"We're pleased to work with an industry-leading menu cover and wine list manufacturer such as Menu Designs," said Denis Clark, executive vice president at OnTrak. "Our technology works hand-in-hand to provide the most efficient and error-free processes for managing the ordering and production of custom beverage menus. By working alongside Menu Designs, OnTrak adds significant value and cost savings."

About Menu Designs Menu Designs, a division of David Dobbs Enterprises, Inc., has been manufacturing and delivering high quality wine list and menu covers, and other presentation products to the beverage alcohol, restaurant and hospitality market for more than 30 years. Menu Designs offers the production and design of products to enhance the marketing and sales of food and beverage items. Based in St. Augustine, Florida, Menu Designs is privately held. Visit http://www.menudesigns.com

About OnTrak SoftwareOnTrak Software is a technology company that develops software solutions for the beverage distribution industry. OnTrak's software products drive growth and value for beer, wine and spirits distributors and help them track, measure and manage their graphics and POS/marketing communication materials, including custom beverage menus, beverage samples, and custom and permanent point-of-sale signs. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, OnTrak Software is privately held. Visit http://www.ontraksoftware.com

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SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 23, 2013) -

Serena Software, the leader in Orchestrated IT solutions, today announced new change and release management capabilities for its award-winning Orchestrated IT solution set. Serena's newly enhanced solutions provide essential tooling for IT shops that are embracing the DevOps movement, as well as those that are simply looking to increase their change and release cadence.

DevOps has become a primary driver for IT organizations that are delivering Revenue Applications (RevApps), software applications that directly transact customer activity and bring in considerable revenue to the enterprise. The speed and frequency with which RevApps get enhanced directly impacts how quickly the business can respond to customer requests, competitive moves and changing market conditions.

Serena's response is a series of enhancements that provide developers with self-service provisioning of environments (to go with previously available self-service application deployment), more cloud and virtualized infrastructure deployment targets, improved resource management and demand planning, as well as other enhancements that significantly reduce development and operations hassles.

The new capabilities available in version 4.5 of Serena's Orchestrated IT solutions include:

Self-Service Provisioning of Environments

Release Automation Targets Now include Windows Azure and VMware ESX/ESXi

Hassle-Free Capturing Of Change Request Actuals

Pricing and AvailabilityThe new Serena 4.5 Orchestrated IT solutions will be generally available on May 15, 2013. Pricing starts at $12,500 for 250 users.

Supporting Quotes"DevOps allows IT to become truly agile," commented Greg Hughes, president and CEO of Serena Software. "Serena's enhanced change and release management capabilities allow Dev to exploit more self-service functions and Ops to release at the rapid cadence required of today's Revenue Applications."

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