Great Expressions Dental Centers (GEDC) is proud to announce its affiliation with Ascent Dental Care in Massachusetts. This affiliation will allow GEDC and Ascent Dental Care to bring comprehensive and patient-centric oral care services to patients in Massachusetts.

"We are thrilled to welcome Ascent Dental Care to the Great Expressions family," said Nilesh Rajadhyax, GEDC Group President. "Dr. Coughlin has built an outstanding practice focused on high-quality patient outcomes and experiences. His team's operating model is highly complementary with our clinical philosophy. We are excited to have such a motivated, driven, and quality-oriented team be part of the GEDC story."

Dr. Kevin Coughlin, Ascent Dental Care founder, will join GEDC's team and continue leading Ascent. "I am excited about this partnership and feel this partnership will benefit our team and patients in the short and long term. Great Expressions recognizes our exceptional team, and I am confident we will continue to prove this exceptionalism every day," said Dr. Coughlin. Dr. Coughlin will work closely with Dr. Paul Kim, President Northeast operations, and Burt Rubin Group President to grow our footprint and capabilities in the Massachusetts market.

"Ascent Dental Care is an excellent addition to the GEDC family as we expand our service offerings in the Northeast. We look forward to continued growth in Massachusetts and beyond and as we strive to be the premier provider of patient-centered health care for every family in our community," said Adesh Ramchandran, CEO of GEDC. GEDC has continued to be selective in affiliating with high-quality practices across the United States and will continue to expand through affiliations in 2022 and 2023.

About Great Expressions Dental Centers

For over 45 years, Great Expressions Dental Centers has been a leader in preventative dental care, orthodontics and specialty care with dental offices in nine states. Great Expressions is consistently recognized for contributions to improving oral health through quality and safety initiatives, affordable dental care services, patient convenience, research and more. For more information, please visit www.greatexpressions.com.

About Ascent Dental Care

Ascent Dental Care is a fast-growing, Massachusetts-based dental services organization with practices in the greater Springfield market.  Ascent is focused on exceptional service and quality care, helping patients maintain a beautiful smile and have the confidence to smile often. For more information, please visit www.ascentdentalcare.com.

The globally distributed antimicrobial irrigation device, Irrisept^®, anticipates substantial growth in its North American markets after signing distribution agreements with additional partners in Mexico and Canada. Furthermore, Irrimax has established an inaugural agreement in New Zealand. Irrimax continues to see significant growth across all its current markets. In the U.S. alone, Irrisept is already trusted by more than 3,000 hospitals as their preferred antimicrobial irrigation product. 

Surgi-One Medical Technologies is Irrimax's newest Canadian distribution partner. Surgi-One aligns with the company's mission to reduce infections and healthcare costs while improving patient outcomes. Surgi-One President, Bill MacDonald, believes, "By providing our clients access to new products like Irrisept that help reduce the possibility of infection, we help them focus on other vital areas of care."

In Mexico, Sanabria Corporativo Medico S.A., serves the medical community by supplying operating rooms and emergency services with patient monitoring and other important medical devices. The new agreement with Irrimax demonstrates their continued effort to provide the highest quality equipment and service to its customers. "Adding the Irrisept product to our portfolio, clinicians now have another tool to help them fight infection and experience better outcomes for their patients," expresses Dr. Salvador Sanabria, Director General of Sanabria.

DBM Medical Group signs Irrimax's first New Zealand distributor agreement. DMB currently supplies medical products to every hospital in New Zealand. Director Courtney MacKay shares, "We believe Irrisept can become Standard of Care in New Zealand, replacing the most common current irrigation and debridement treatments. We are eager to introduce Irrisept to New Zealand."

"Our New Zealand partner aligns perfectly with our belief that Irrisept will become Standard of Care," says Chief Operating Officer Michael Gil.  "International expansion is a strategic priority for us, and we remain focused and committed to our goal of reducing infections and healthcare costs by improving patient outcomes across the globe. We couldn't be more excited to welcome our new partners."   

The new distribution agreements, along with regulatory clearance already in place in Brazil, Chile, Panama, and Saudi Arabia, validate Irrimax's ability and belief that Irrisept is a global product.   

About Irrimax Corporation

Established in 1994, Irrimax focuses on reducing infections and healthcare costs and improving patient outcomes. Its flagship product, Irrisept Antimicrobial Wound Lavage, contains 0.05% Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG) in 99.95% Sterile Water for Irrigation, USP. For more information, visit www.irrisept.com

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Smile CDR Inc. (doing business as Smile Digital Health), a leading health data and integration company, today announced it has passed an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Foundational Technical Review (FTR) and has achieved Amazon HealthLake (AHL) Connector partner status in the AWS Partner Network (APN). Healthcare organizations can expect Smile Digital Health running on AWS to provide a best-in-class data fabric platform along with the confidence that it is meeting various regulatory and compliance requirements in the U.S. and the EU when storing and sharing their sensitive health data via the platform. Smile Digital Health first announced its work with AWS in March, and this expansion represents the continual growth of that relationship.

"Our ongoing work with AWS demonstrates the deep collaboration between our companies, delivering the many benefits of the Smile Digital Health data fabric platform running in a world-class hyperscale environment. Having partner status provides our customers with substantial benefits including additional security, dependability and operational excellence," said Duncan Weatherston, Chief Executive Officer, Smile Digital Health. "Healthcare organizations — and in turn their patients — are well served by access to our scalable, high-performing, resilient and efficient data fabric platform on the leading cloud infrastructure."

The expansion and scope of work includes two key elements:

• Becoming an Amazon HealthLake (AHL) Connector Partner, demonstrating the company's ability to help transform existing healthcare data in real time into the required format, including standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR^®) format, so the data can be used across AHL applications and services.
   
• Passing the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR), which helps identify and mitigate technical risks in solutions built by independent software vendors (ISVs). Smile Digital Health's solutions were evaluated by a subset of AWS Well-Architected best practices. As part of the review, Smile Digital Health's reference architecture was approved to be deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS), a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises, and Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL to ensure a performant, cost-effective, secure and scalable solution.

"Our customers can expect Smile Digital Health to continuously meet and often exceed regulatory and compliance requirements when storing and sharing their sensitive health data via our data fabric platform. In that sense, we continue to guarantee the highest security and compliance standards," said James Agnew, Chief Technology Officer, Smile Digital Health.

Smile Digital Health's work on AWS continues to simplify the interoperability process between various data platforms, allowing for better health journey outcomes between patients, providers and health systems, and reducing information technology barriers.

About Smile Digital Health

Smile Digital Health is a health information technology company focused on delivering better global health through open standards. Our enterprise-grade, health data fabric and exchange platform fuels healthcare's digital transformation and accelerates value creation across all patient journeys at scale. Powered by our HL7® FHIR® standard-based clinical data repository (#SmileInside), our platform enables collaboration and allows organizations to ingest, transform, store, enrich, analyze, aggregate, and meaningfully share health information to power digital transformation. We prepare healthcare providers, payers, researchers, and life sciences organizations for a connected future beyond legacy systems, adding new value through intelligent use of information and ultimately delivering better patient outcomes. We help healthcare organizations confidently #ChooseOpenStandards with the goal of #BetterGlobalHealth. For more information, visit SmileDigitalHealth.com.

TEC Mailing Solutions, LLC, launches new service to improve the deliverability of life saving, direct-to-consumer pharmaceuticals to track the changes of new mover data.

Just like the waves of an ocean, the population continues to ebb and flow nationally at the rate of thousands of people per day. The migration has been steadily building in Fort Myers for the last decade and now the flow is retracting, as thousands of misplaced households are on the move in a small region. 

No matter how or which way the population flows, it is creating new challenges for cadence-based shippers, those fulfilling subscriptions and more importantly life-saving prescriptions. Residents of Fort Myers who were receiving their medications through the mail will be unable to obtain vital packages. 

The best data source to track new residences and address changes is the USPS National Change of Address database, which maintains move update information for the prior 48 months. Providers like TEC Mailing Solutions have unique features for the pharmaceutical industry that apply to anyone who has moved and filed a change of address with the postal service.

"We've been tracking live return data from our Pharmaceutical clients and effectively implementing safeguards to ensure our clients enjoy the best deliverability," explains President Brian Euclide, President of TEC Mailing Solutions. "Returns due to change of address is a billion-dollar problem. This is a challenge we're honored to solve."

There will be lessons learned from IAN. Data will reveal the scale of devastation. Thankfully, there is new thinking and technology from private industry taking these challenges head-on. TEC Mailing's Verify & Confirm™ product stops orders and packages from going to vacant or abandoned homes, buildings and people who have recently moved. Verify & Confirm™ also finds the current address of those who have filed a change of address. TEC Mailing ensures that each address is not only correct and complete but also current, in a first-of-its-kind implementation, specifically for direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical fulfillment.

About: TEC Mailing Solutions LLC is a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider of name, address hygiene, bulk mail and parcel sortation services for web-to-print, CRM, OEM, ERP, and variable digital printing solutions. TEC Mailing's services are embedded functions in applications to improve workflow or standalone web portals: MailListCleaner®, MailPreparer™, MailPieceTracker™, ParcelPrep™, and Verify & Confirm are available direct or through a network of resell/referral partners and VARs. Privately held, the corporate office is in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Find more information at http://www.tecmailing.com or call 866-379-9437.

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Apgar & Associates, LLC today announced that it is designated as a HITRUST Readiness Licensee. With this achievement, Apgar & Associates is approved by HITRUST to perform consulting and readiness work for organizations looking to adopt the HITRUST CSF or prepare for their first assessment. For over a decade, the consultancy has provided information security and privacy services that encompass strategic planning for risk management and compliance programs, as well as consulting on security incidence response, risk analysis, and policy and procedures. 

HITRUST Readiness Licensees help uphold information security and privacy standards for various industries of varying size and complexity by assisting clients with the adoption of the HITRUST CSF framework, implementation, and remediation efforts following adoption, and facilitated self-assessments.

"We're very pleased to receive the HITRUST Readiness designation. It feels like a natural progression in our firm's commitment to furthering excellence in the healthcare sector's information security and privacy programs," stated Julia Huddleston, CIPP/US, CIPM, CCSFP, and Principal Consultant at Apgar & Associates, LLC. "We look forward to helping guide healthcare providers and their business associates through the what and how of readying for the HITRUST assessment."

"Readiness Licensees meet the criteria to become trusted and independent resources for clients needing to improve their security posture," said Matthew Datel, Director, Education & Strategic Initiatives at HITRUST. "Readiness Licensees are helpful in providing qualified third-party reviews for clients preparing for or seeking HITRUST CSF Certification."

About Apgar & Associates

The consultancy's information security and privacy services encompass strategic planning for risk management and compliance programs, as well as consulting on security incidence response, risk analysis, and policy and procedures.

The team also helps organizations decide which of the various industry certifications aligns best with the business' privacy and information security strategy. For more information about Apgar & Associates' consulting services, such as HITRUST Readiness, please contact the company at 503-384-2538 or visit its website at https://apgarandassoc.com/.