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Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) April 26, 2012

Total Beauty Media Group, a leader in online beauty and wellness publishing, today announced the launch of Total Beauty Collection, a curated collection of beauty samples.

Each Total Beauty Collection includes four to six hand-picked, deluxe-sized beauty samples across skin care, hair care, cosmetics, and fragrance, giving consumers the opportunity to try a range of top-rated products. Brands including Pixi, Alterna, Blinc, and Murad have already signed on. Consumers will be encouraged to rate and review products at TotalBeauty.com to drive further brand engagement, and through this they will receive incentives and offers for full-sized product.

“Total Beauty Media Group has an active community with 160 million visits annually. We know consumers come to us to learn about and try new products. With Total Beauty Collection, we’re offering brands the opportunity to reach our loyal community in a risk-free way,” said Emrah Kovacoglu, Founder and CEO, Total Beauty Media Group.

A recent Total Beauty Media Group study shows the influence of sampling on product purchase:

Product samples impact consumer opinions and conversation about a brand: After sampling,

84 percent of consumers will recommend the brand
80 percent will talk about the brand online
76 percent have an improved perception of the brand
60 percent planned to purchase the brand

“Our research shows that sampling can propel consumers through the buying cycle, bringing them from brand awareness straight to purchase intent. Total Beauty Collection provides brands with this opportunity to reach new consumers in an impactful way,” said Ethelbert Williams, Head of Marketing, Total Beauty Media Group.

A limited quantity of the first Total Beauty Collection will go on sale May 7 for $ 15 at TotalBeauty.com/Collection. Consumers can sign-up now for email reminders about the sale. Brands can inquire about upcoming Total Beauty Collections by emailing Ethelbert Williams at ewilliams(at)totalbeauty.com.

About Total Beauty Media Group

Founded in 2007, Total Beauty Media Group operates TotalBeauty.com, home of the largest database of independent, unbiased beauty product reviews for women. TotalBeauty.com features hundreds of thousands of user-generated reviews, spanning more than 45,000 products, including most known prestige, mass-market, salon, and spa products. In addition, the site publishes daily editorial coverage of beauty news and trends, including TotalBeauty.com TV, an immense library of beauty how-to videos.

Total Beauty Media Group?s portfolio of digital beauty, health, and lifestyle media properties include: TotalBeauty.com, BeautyRiot.com, LimeLife.com, and ModernMan.com. Total Beauty Media Group is backed by USVP and Wallington Investments and based in Santa Monica, Calif. For more information about Total Beauty Media Group, visit TotalBeautyMedia.com.

Birmingham, AL (PRWEB) January 31, 2012

MEDSEEK, the provider of the healthcare industry?s only enterprise strategic patient engagement and management solutions, today announced its engagement with Banner Health to deliver a fully integrated patient, consumer, physician and employee experience, enabling Banner to strategically attract and engage patients and facilitate communication between physicians and patients. The commitment, which also includes the development of an enterprise-wide employee experience, provides a unified, online view of secure, clinical data for Banner?s 7,000 physicians, and their patients, across a network of 23 hospitals in 7 Western states.

The project will see Banner deploying MEDSEEK solutions to enhance the consumer experience and deliver strategic and highly valued patient engagement functionality, including patient enrollment, secure patient/physician messaging and the ability for patients to access test results and health records online.

Banner will also implement MEDSEEK?s strategic physician engagement technologies to enhance its accountable care and population health management programs. Banner emphasizes its commitment to improving the patient?s healthcare experience through greater care coordination and engagement, and the use of information technology to improve population health and reduce costs by managing quality and patient outcomes.

?The partnership with MEDSEEK helps Banner to strategically invest in technology that will provide our patients and their families the best possible experience and care,? said Ron Bunnell, executive vice president and chief administrative officer for Banner Health. ?MEDSEEK?s solutions will provide a platform to connect all caregivers in the Banner family of hospitals and allow us to make the patient experience more meaningful, usable and engaging,? he continued.

?MEDSEEK is excited be a part of Banner Health?s strategic physician and patient engagement plans,? said Peter Kuhn, MEDSEEK CEO. ?In extremely competitive healthcare markets, and with Meaningful Use and accountable care critical to continued success, Banner and other leading healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to reduce costs and raise revenues by engaging patients, managing health conditions and improving quality of care. We?re proud that Banner has selected MEDSEEK to deliver on these strategic goals.?

Healthcare reform, accountable care and Meaningful Use, and the shifting emphasis from episodic treatment towards health management, present greater challenges to large, geographically distributed healthcare systems to provide highly coordinated care at lower cost. Banner selected MEDSEEK?s strategic engagement and health management solutions to help meet these challenges by facilitating care coordination through improved communications between physicians and their patients, and between hospital staff, case managers and care teams, in order to deliver the best health outcomes for patients across the continuum of care.

Banner recently announced the creation of an accountable care organization consisting of Banner- employed and affiliated physicians and hospitals in Arizona utilizing information technology and a team-based approach to providing care for patients. The Banner Health Network model focuses on wellness and improving patient care outcomes through better coordination and access to patient information.

Through the deployment of MEDSEEK?s enterprise digital health solutions, Banner will continue to provide a rich, personalized patient experience and broaden its health management initiatives through features such as home care through continuation of care documents, remote physician visits (or eVisits) and enhanced physician-patient communication.

To learn more about how MEDSEEK is helping Banner Health and other healthcare organizations meet the demands of healthcare reform, visit us in Las Vegas at HIMSS 2012, exhibit # 1345 or visit http://www.medseek.com/HIMSS.

ABOUT Banner Health

Based in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country. Banner has 23 facilities that offer an array of services including hospital care, home care, hospice care, nursing registries, surgery centers, laboratories, rehabilitation services. These facilities are located in seven states–Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, and Wyoming. Banner Health was recently recognized as a Top 5 Large Health System in the nation for clinical excellence by Thomson Reuters.

About MEDSEEK

Since 1996, MEDSEEK has focused exclusively on creating a 360-degree optimal eHealth experience for patients, clinicians and administrative staff by removing traditional integration and communication barriers, workflow roadblocks and redundant processes. MEDSEEK solutions and predictive analytics from REACH3, a MEDSEEK company, enable hospitals to execute enterprise-wide strategic objectives by improving quality of care, uncovering new sources of revenue and generating meaningful loyalty among physicians and patients with a low-risk, high-return investment that leverages existing IT investments and infrastructure. For more information, visit http://www.medseek.com or call 1.888.MEDSEEK.

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Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) January 16, 2012

Never a company to get stuck in a rut or fall behind the times, Pittsburgh-based Automated Security Alert has a finger on the pulse of public preference: social networking. Although most people view popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter as a fun way to keep up with friends, Automated Security Alert sees the potential of social networking as way to educate the public about the options and benefits of medical alarms and monitored medication dispensers.

Jason Seyler, the company?s Director of Life Safety, commented, ?Social media is a great place to find news, information, and reviews on healthcare professionals and similar providers of healthcare related services. With over 175 million Twitter accounts and 800 million active Facebook users it?s imperative to educate people with these platforms . . . Many are unaware of our technologies.? Automated Security Alert is using Facebook, Twitter, and blogging to reach thousands of people to make them aware of how simple precautions such as medical alarms and monitored medication dispensers can save lives, provide immediate intervention during a health crisis, and prevent serious medication errors. By using social networking to expand their reach, the company wants to further its mission to keep people out of nursing homes and in the comfort of their own homes for as long as possible.

Automated Security Alert can be found online at the following places: on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, and on ASA’s Blog.

Automated Security Alert, Inc., has provided freedom and security since 1988 to over 60,000 consumers through the use of technology and services that enable seniors, physically-challenged persons and recovering patients to maintain an independent lifestyle in their homes. ASA?s creative, dependable solutions include medical alert systems (?personal emergency response systems?); fall detection systems; and medication management systems, including electronic pill dispensers and monitored automated medication dispensers.

For further information, please contact Matthew Couillard at 1.800.338.7114.

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