Digital Scale

McGraw-Hill Education Partners With University of Minnesota To Launch ...

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NEW YORK, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- As universities and educational publishers grapple with the challenge of driving acceptance and adoption of e-books on college campuses, McGraw-Hill Higher Education has come one step closer to reaching the e-book tipping point through a new partnership with the University of Minnesota Bookstores. The partnership allows the company to provide e-books to large numbers of students at reduced prices, helping to make college more affordable and improve student performance.

Through this two-year partnership, McGraw-Hill Education will provide its complete catalog of e-books and adaptive learning products to University of Minnesota students at a significantly discounted rate. In this new business model, the bookstore - which has access to enrollment information and the course materials assigned for each course at the university - will identify the digital materials each instructor requires for their classes and then directly bill students' bursar accounts for those materials. The end result is that students will see significant savings and will have automatic and immediate digital access to their course content through their college's learning management system on any browser-enabled device.

Source: MarketWatch (press release)

EPiServer Scales for Big Data, Better Content Targeting With 200OK AB Acquisition

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The 200OK AB acquisition is the latest move in what has been a busy spring for EPiServer. The company, which itself was purchased by European private equity firm IK Investment Partners in November 2010,  bought Mediachase, a provider of an ASP.Net-based e-commerce framework (EPiServer also develops on the ASP.Net platform), in March 2012. Later that month, EPiServer released a new social media add-on for its web content management platform. The component, known as Social Reach, provides a single content management interface for multiple social media networks.

And in April 2012, EPiServer introduced an add-on called Site Attention that provides content editors real-time advice on optimizing content for search engines as they are creating it.

Source: CMSWire

Midmark Introduces New 625 Barrier-Free® Power Examination Table with ...

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Newest addition to Barrier-Free® line supports evolving exam room needs with increased efficiency and weight capacity

Versailles, Ohio (PRWEB) May 07, 2012

Midmark Corporation , a leading medical solutions provider and trusted leader in digital diagnostic devices for ambulatory care, today announced the introduction of its new 625 Barrier-Free® Power Examination Table with IQscale™ .

The Midmark 625 now features a fully integrated digital scale, IQscale™, as well as a handheld control that allows physicians and caregivers to send scale data, including body mass index, directly to electronic medical records (EMRs). In Midmark’s recently released 2012 Medical Trends Survey, 63 percent of primary care physicians selected the implementation of EMRs as the most important exam room enhancement to improve patient care.

Source: Virtual-Strategy Magazine