U.S. HealthWorks Names Anthony Belott Vice President of Business Development

Valencia, CA Mar 18, 2010 – U.S. HealthWorks, a leading operator of occupational healthcare and urgent care centers in the nation, announced today that it has appointed Anthony Belott as Vice President of Business Development for the company.
Mr. Belott will lead the Company’s expanded business development function, reporting to CEO Daniel D. Crowley.
Mr. Belott joins U.S. HealthWorks with a 9-year track record of helping healthcare companies grow their businesses, most recently as co-founder and executive vice president of a subsidiary of Liberty Dialysis, LLC, a national provider of kidney dialysis services in the country.
“We welcome Anthony to our team,” Mr. Crowley said. “Our recently completed financing enables the Company to grow more rapidly through strategic acquisitions in key markets around the country. Anthony’s experience is well-suited to leading this effort.”
Mr. Belott earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in finance from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Oasis Outsourcing Earns National Distinction

West Palm Beach, FL Mar 12, 2010 – Oasis Outsourcing, one of the nation’s largest Professional Employer Organizations (Oasis Outsourcing PEO), has become accredited by the Employer Services Assurance Corporation (ESAC) and is participating in its PEO Client Assurance Program.
ESAC is the nationally recognized financial assurance, standard-setting and monitoring entity for the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) industry. Through its voluntary accreditation process, ESAC ensures that participating PEOs adhere to important ethical, financial and operational standards for the purpose of promoting a high level of integrity and responsibility within the PEO industry. As a condition of continued accreditation, Oasis is required to submit quarterly reports to ESAC including financial statements and an independent CPA’s verification of the timely and accurate payment of all payroll taxes, employee benefit contributions and insurance premiums.
“When a client joins Oasis Outsourcing, we assume important employer obligations for their company,” said Mark Perlberg, CEO of Oasis Outsourcing. “Through our participation in ESAC’s PEO Client Assurance Program, these obligations are assured by ongoing ESAC monitoring and the tangible financial protection of surety bonds held on our behalf.” The bonds are held by the Employer Services Trust, with a major national bank serving as Trustee.
This financial protection program from ESAC is similar to the FDIC for the banking industry and provides reimbursement up to $1 million per participating PEO, plus $10 million aggregate for all participating PEOs, for losses to clients, worksite employees, taxing authorities and insurance carriers in the unlikely event that a participating PEO defaults on the payment of wages, taxes, employee benefit contributions or insurance premiums. The PEO Client Assurance Program is designed to provide valuable assurance to Oasis clients without any additional cost

Sparta Systems Readies Leading Organizations for Electronic Medical Device Reporting

Holmdel, NJ Mar 10, 2010 – Sparta Systems, Inc., the maker of TrackWise® software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management solutions, today announced that a significant percentage of medical device companies currently submitting “high–volume” reports, leverage its TrackWise enterprise quality management solution for automated report submission to the FDA. These early adopters have taken proactive steps to comply with the electronic Medical Device Reports (eMDR) guidance, accelerating their realization of significant operational efficiencies and hard dollar savings over the manual, paper-based methods of the past.
The proposed eMDR regulation would require medical device companies to submit adverse event reports to the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) via an electronic gateway. In November of 2009, the agency closed the period for companies to submit comments on the proposed requirement, and industry experts expect the rule to become mandatory within 12 months, leaving little time for device makers to prepare for automated report submission. Many medical device companies have not yet been proactive in implementing an electronic submission system, while those that have done so have already realized demonstrable improvements in operational efficiencies and significant cost savings while preparing for compliance with the looming mandate.
TrackWise software automates the eMDR submission process for device manufacturers in the high-volume category, enabling successful reporting to CDRH in a fraction of the time previously spent on manual, paper-based submissions. Sparta has worked with a large percentage of the companies currently live with eMDR to successfully plan, design, implement and test their TrackWise-enabled eMDR system, helping ensure that reports are submitted and acknowledgements received quickly and efficiently. Alternatively, companies can manually submit these electronic reports – an option that is resource-intensive for large organizations.
“Companies that leverage the TrackWise solution for eMDR compliance have demonstrated that they realize the time-sensitive nature of preparing for electronic submission,” said Mike Jovanis, vice president, product management for Sparta Systems. “With the deadline for compliance approaching and the opportunity for significant ROI apparent, it is crucial that more device makers recognize this need and take the necessary proactive steps to comply with this long-anticipated mandate.”