The emergence of managed care organizations, the graying of America, and the trend toward preventive health care practices have all contributed to significantly increasing demands upon productivity in the healthcare industry.  Physicians, allied healthcare practitioners, and providers of HME and DME confront the necessity to manage mushrooming inventory control, billing, medical claims analysis and settlement, […]

Like many college musician wannabes, the band destined to be known as Bobby dreamed of getting their music out there beyond the frat houses of Vermont’s Bennington College.  Unlike many a college musician wannabe, Bobby the band did just that.  The Brooklyn, New York based indy label, Partisan Records, signed the group after fellow alum, […]

When man first inhabited the earth, he felt that there was more safety in numbers when dealing with the elements and the predators that threatened his existence.  It was survival of the fittest.  Toward that survival, he looked to the strongest members of his tribes to serve as leaders.  These leaders controlled the tribes and, […]

Your company recycles paper, plastic, and aluminum products.  It has long abandoned hazardous chemical cleansers for environmentally friendly solutions.   However, there is one major source of pollution that you have overlooked in your efforts to help keep the Earth as green as possible.   That source consists of e-waste: the broad range of electronic devices whose […]

The Internet has made a brave new world of the one we once knew.  While it has greatly facilitated the flow and exchange of information and ushered in numerous conveniences previously unimagined, the Worldwide Web has also become a tool for the unscrupulous.  Perhaps no one knows this best than the consumers who enjoy casino […]

As I listen to the nightly news, I note that the phrase “Exit Strategy” is becoming more commonplace.  Should we take this to mean that our leaders want to exit from something, perhaps our current economic woes? The emergence of the latest unrest in the Middle East must have generated new ideas for America’s global […]

Listen to the mandolin rain, Listen to the music on the range, Listen to my heart break Every time it runs away. (“Mandolin Rain” by Bruce Hornsby and John Hornsby) Taking a very small liberty with the lyrics of this beautiful song transforms it from one in which a man laments the loss of a […]

When you stop to think about all the small but essential elements in your life, your mailbox may not come immediately to mind.  But if you do think about it, a well-designed and well-built mailbox protects your important mail from the elements and adds a handsome, individualized accent to the exterior of your home.  Gaines […]

Ideas are infectious.  The source of any particular idea is often unknown.  Yet, when an idea grows in the public consciousness, it takes on a life of its own spreading among people and across geographical boundaries.  Its applications and products, however, can be starkly different. In the mid and late-18th Century, ideals like equality, democracy […]

The expression, credited to the English poet Robert Browning but known in various forms from writings as early as the eighth century B.C., conveys the message that all things are more elegant, meaningful, and effective when reduced to their most essential forms. And, in the realms of oral, written, and visual communications media, the validity […]