WeatherTurndown.com, the award-winning air medical industry reporting site, celebrates its fifth anniversary with more than 500 industry programs as active members on the site. WeatherTurndown.com has also launched a discussion group on the social network site LinkedIn allowing registered air medical programs to further share information and insights on safety issues and concerns to their programs and the industry as a whole.

Weatherturndown.com is a free service allowing medical transport programsboth rotor and fixed wingto share current information regarding delays or cancellations due to weather or, if applicable, other hazards that may affect safe medical transports. The site was the recipient of the Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) award for Excellence in Community Service for its contribution to the entire air medical community.

All registered programs with WeatherTurndown.com will be invited to join the new LinkedIn Discussion Group that will feature polls and topics of interest to the medevac community. Users can also find WeatherTurndown.com information on Twitter @wxtd.

The term weather turndown has long been used in the aviation field as a shorthand term for inclement weather conditions and the subsequent turning down of transport requests within that area as a result of the weather conditions. Having a centralized source for weather issues and other safety concerns related to the air medical industry across the country assists medical transport companies to better serve their patients and keep safety at the forefront of their operations.

The website, http://www.weatherturndown.com, is designed and maintained by fixed-wing air ambulance operator AirMed International of Birmingham, Alabama.

AirMed International is one of an elite number of air medical programs to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) and designed this free service as another way to promote safety and the open sharing of information among air ambulance programs. CAMTS has established standards (19.02.00 20.02.00) used by its accredited programs in the event of weather turndowns. All programs are encouraged to utilize the website.

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Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, taxonomy management software, and developer of the Smart Content Framework, is pleased to announce that the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC), a Ministry of Defence (MOD) think-tank located in the UK, is using Concept Searchings conceptSearch engine and Web-Labs services and software to manage an archive of military and historical documents, images and recordings.

The DCDC is required to provide research and support decisions in operational and strategic military activity. It needed exhaustive and timely access to all relevant documents in the military archive, but the archive was a classic keyword based system and therefore not intelligently searchable.

Concept Searchings conceptSearch delivered the unique industry ability to automatically generate semantic metadata through concept extraction, significantly improving search results. According to T Longland CVO OBE, Brigadier (Retd) DCDC, Our previous system restricted our access to the information by a factor of at least 50%. Something that would have taken weeks is now taking just a few days. Furthermore, the intelligence in the search has meant that sometimes the database will link papers that we wouldnt have linked in a million years. I am confident that we dont skip or ignore important information.

Going beyond a technology solution, Concept Searchings Smart Content Framework for information governance is a toolset based on conceptClassifier for SharePoint and provides the enterprise framework to mitigate risk, automate processes, manage information, protect privacy, and address compliance issues.

Underlying the Smart Content Framework, conceptClassifier for SharePoint provides the ability to transparently tag content, classify it to organizational taxonomies, preserve and protect information through the automatic identification of records and privacy data, and as a migration tool. The result is one set of technologies, running natively in SharePoint, that improves search, provides an enterprise metadata repository, automates records management, ensures compliance, protects and secures data, and facilitates migration.

Using the first two building blocks of the Smart Content Framework, Metadata and Insight, the DCDC benefits from implementing a framework that offers not only a robust search solution but also provides insight and delivery of relevant information to the right people, said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching. We are delighted to have worked with Web-Labs and the DCDC to solve significant search challenges. While not dedicated to the Microsoft platform, Concept Searching is Microsofts only Managed Partner that delivers taxonomy management and auto-classification technology integrated with SharePoint 2010 that is certified for enterprise deployment across the DoD. Clients such as the US Air Force, the US Army, and the US Army Medical Command have all selected Concept Searching as their solution to manage unstructured content, he concluded.

To read the details in the Case Study, Intelligent Search increases Relevant Information Access by 50%, please click here.

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About Concept Searching

Founded in 2002, Concept Searching provides software products that deliver conceptual metadata generation, auto-classification, and powerful taxonomy management from the desktop to the enterprise. Concept Searching, developer of the Smart Content Framework, provides organizations with a method to mitigate risk, automate processes, manage information, protect privacy, and address compliance issues. This information governance framework utilizes a set of technologies that encompasses the entire portfolio of information assets, resulting in increased organizational performance and agility.

Concept Searching is the only platform independent statistical metadata generation and classification software company in the world that uses concept extraction and compound term processing to significantly improve access to unstructured information. The Concept Searching Microsoft suite of technologies runs natively in SharePoint 2010, FAST, Windows Server 2008 R2 FCI, and in Microsoft Office applications.

The building blocks of Concept Searchings Smart Content Framework are being used by organizations from a diverse number of industries including the US Army, the US Air Force, the UK MOD, Baker Hughes, Deloitte, Logica, NASA Safety Center, OppenheimerFunds, Point B, Perkins+Will, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Burns & McDonnell, MarketResearch.com, the US Department of Health & Human Services, Transport for London, the London Fire Brigade, the National Transportation Safety Board, and Xerox.

Headquartered in the US with offices in the UK, South Africa and Canada, Concept Searching solves the problem of finding, organizing, and managing information capital far beyond search and retrieval. The technologies are being used to drive intelligent migration, enable effective records management, identify and lock down sensitive information and enhance governance. For more information about Concept Searchings solutions and technologies please visit http://www.conceptsearching.com

About Web-Labs

Web-Labs Ltd is a British software house specializing in the development of system software products for the internet, intranet and bespoke application development. It delivers value for money, style, usability and innovation for its clients in the field of internet technology, and its mission is to be the preferred supplier of IT software and services for organizations seeking improvement through the effective use of internet/intranet technology.

About DCDC

The Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) is a Ministry of Defence think-tank, collocated with the Defence Academy at Shrivenham, UK. The DCDC will: Produce concepts and doctrine – underpinned by thorough research and experimentation – to help inform decisions in Defence strategy, capability development and operations, and to provide the foundation for joint education, both now and into the future.

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Kurt Papenfus, MD, medical director for Safety Management Systems Colorado operations, recently co-authored a safety article in Drilling Contractor, the official magazine of the International Association of Drilling Contractors and the only magazine exclusively covering the global drilling and completion industry both on land and offshore.

Dr. Papenfus and other members of the National Occupational Research Agenda Oil and Gas Extraction Council each presented case studies that were compiled into an article entitled Good Safety is Good Business, which discusses how investing in proper safety and health practices for workers financially makes the best business sense.

Papenfus contributed the third case study in the article, Mismanagement of injuries may cause injury costs to skyrocket, in which he chronicles the hand injury of a rig worker. Due to delayed examination and treatment the employee had to have surgery and healing time was significantly more extensive than if it was handled properly. Because of this the costs to the drilling contractor, the insurance provider, and the employee were substantial; also, the lost time incident (LTI) could have potentially cost the remainder of the rig contract which was valued at $ 16 million in revenues.

States Papenfus: Effective case management is critical to preventing workplace injuries from requiring hospitalization, reaching the LTI classification and containing medical costs. The utilization of safety/medics in remote operating areas is a proven benefit in ensuring timely treatment, mitigating injury severity and containing medical costs.

Papenfus specializes in Emergency Medicine and has been a medical director for EMS in Colorado for almost 20 years. He first joined SMS in 2007 for a drilling project in the Piceance Basin in 2007 and has remained with SMS ever since, making himself invaluable to the company with his immense understanding of OSHA incident classification and their effects on the oil and gas industry. He makes himself available 24 hours a day for physician consultations with SMS paramedics.

Safety Management Systems, part of Acadian companies, is one of one of the largest providers of health, safety, environmental, medical and training services in the United States with an expanding international presence.

Since 1971, Acadian has been committed to providing the highest level of emergency medical care and transportation possible. In the past decade they have expanded to include a diverse suite of services designed to offer the very best support and education in health, safety, and transportation. Acadians six divisions are Acadian Ambulance Service, Acadian Monitoring Services, Air Med, Executive Aircraft Charter Service, National EMS Academy and Safety Management Systems.

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The Southwest Chapter of the ESOP Association, a regional organization of companies in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico in which employees are owners through Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP), has selected Acadian for the second time as its Company of the Year. Acadian first received Company of the Year in 2005.

The award was presented at the Southwest Chapter Awards Banquet on March 29, 2012, in Irving, Texas. Chance Louviere was in attendance to accept the honor and was delighted to have won the award in his first year as chairman of the ESOP Committee. “Being recognized for this award is proof that Acadian and its ESOP message are moving in the right direction, said Louviere. This shows that the employees are engaged in the ESOP culture.

Also in attendance were Acadian ESOP Committee members Hunter Pinion, Shawn Legendre, Troy Guidry, Brandi Anderson and Brandy Trahan, as well as facilitator Marleen Hollier, Secretary Mark Brown and Vice Chair Laura Logan.

Acadians ESOP committee is comprised of a diverse group of employees from all divisions of Acadian Companies. They serve on a volunteer basis. The purpose of the Committee is to communicate and promote the benefits of employee ownership and ESOP among the Companys 3,600 employees.

CFO David Kelly is Acadians principal officer regarding direction for the ESOP, vice chairman of the Board of Directors of the National ESOP Association, and a member of the board of trustees of the National Employee Ownership Foundation. Kelly said, Any successes that we achieve are directly related to the people we employ. Our employees epitomize what it means to be an employee owner. They take a pride and interest in the company that is truly inspirational.

As the regional winner, Acadian will compete against a field of ESOP Companies of the Year from The ESOP Associations 17 other state and regional chapters for the title National ESOP Company of the Year.” The winner of this prestigious award will be announced at the ESOP Associations 35th Annual Conference in Washington, DC, in May. Acadian has already been informed that it will receive another national award at the Annual Conference. This award is for communication excellence in the category Special Events & Promotions” in recognition of the Companys 2011 Employee Owner Annual Meeting, a day-long celebration of employee ownership attended by over 1,000 of the Companys employees.

The core vision of The ESOP Association is a nation where the majority of employees own stock in the companies where they work, resulting in improved American competitiveness, increased productivity through greater employee participation, and a strengthening of our free enterprise economy.

Acadian ranks among the top 100 employee-owned companies in the U.S., according to a list compiled by the National Center for Employee Ownership. The men and women of Acadian became employee-owners of the largest privately owned ambulance service in the U.S. in 1993, with the adoption of an Employee Stock Ownership Program. Under the plan, 80 percent of the company value in stock is available to employees. The plan involves placing the stock in trust, with those shares acquired by employees redeemable in cash at the time of retirement.

Since 1971, Acadian has been committed to providing the highest level of emergency medical care and transportation possible. In the past decade they have expanded to include a diverse suite of services designed to offer the very best support and education in health, safety, and transportation. Acadians six divisions are Acadian Ambulance Service, Acadian Monitoring Services, Air Med, Executive Aircraft Charter Service, National EMS Academy and Safety Management Systems.

Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, taxonomy management software, and developer of the Smart Content Framework, is pleased to announce that the US Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) has selected Concept Searchings technologies. The multi-year multi-million dollar contract will underpin MEDCOMs Enterprise Collaboration Initiative (ECI).

MEDCOM will be using the Smart Content Framework to deliver improved data transparency, automated application of records retention codes for records management, and the automated application of access and information rights management policies in SharePoint 2010. In an effort to modernize its IT portfolio to meet existing and future demands, MEDCOM is standardizing on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and last summer made a strategic decision to fully leverage SharePoints Managed Metadata Services, as opposed to using third-party propriety products that mimic existing SharePoint capabilities while devaluing investment in the SharePoint platform and putting the organization at future financial and operational risk as SharePoint continues to evolve.

Unlike any other IT acquisition process, MEDCOM viewed their ECI as a weapon system and utilized Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) analysis guidelines in evaluating the use of metadata as the ammunition that is used to achieve desired mission outcomes. After a lengthy evaluation process, Concept Searching was selected as the ammunition manufacturer and maintainer because of its ability to meet all of MEDCOMs requirements, as well as its expertise within the DoD healthcare sector stretching back to 2004.

We are delighted that the US Army Medical Command has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint. They were very thorough in the selection process, and their requirements were very explicit and well thought out, said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching. This enterprise-wide multi-year agreement further emphasizes our leadership in the defense, healthcare, and public sectors. We are excited about having MEDCOM as another client for whom we have been able to solve information, knowledge, and records management challenges.

Going beyond a technology solution, Concept Searchings Smart Content Framework for information governance is a toolset based on conceptClassifier for SharePoint and provides the enterprise framework to mitigate risk, automate processes, manage information, protect privacy, and address compliance issues.

Underlying the Smart Content Framework, conceptClassifier for SharePoint provides the ability to transparently tag content with semantic, security and records retention code metadata, auto-classify content to organizational taxonomies, automate the migration of content from multiple sources into SharePoint, and automate the native application of SharePoint Records Management and Information Rights Management policies. The result – one set of technologies, running natively in SharePoint that improves search, provides an enterprise metadata repository, automates records management, ensures compliance, protects and secures data, and facilitates migration.

The uniqueness of our Smart Content Framework coupled with our technology, allows clients to address specific challenges they are trying to solve. In the case of MEDCOM, they are implementing five of the initial Building Blocks of the framework for information governance including metadata management and insight for search transparency, governance, policy and privacy for the management of records the lock down of sensitive information, and secure collaboration at all levels, said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching. The Smart Content Framework is unique in the industry, addressing this wide range of challenges facing both federal and commercial organizations.

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About Concept Searching

Founded in 2002, Concept Searching provides software products that deliver conceptual metadata generation, auto-classification, and powerful taxonomy management from the desktop to the enterprise. Concept Searching, developer of the Smart Content Framework, provides organizations with a method to mitigate risk, automate processes, manage information, protect privacy, and address compliance issues. This information governance framework utilizes a set of technologies that encompasses the entire portfolio of information assets, resulting in increased organizational performance and agility.

Concept Searching is the only platform independent statistical metadata generation and classification software company in the world that uses concept extraction and compound term processing to significantly improve access to unstructured information. The Concept Searching Microsoft suite of technologies runs natively in SharePoint 2010, FAST, Windows Server 2008 R2 FCI, and in Microsoft Office applications.

The building blocks of Concept Searchings Smart Content Framework are being used by organizations from a diverse number of industries including the US Army, the US Air Force, the UK MOD, Baker Hughes, Deloitte, Logica, NASA Safety Center, OppenheimerFunds, Point B, Perkins+Will, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Burns & McDonnell, MarketResearch.com, the US Department of Health & Human Services, Transport for London, the London Fire Brigade, the National Transportation Safety Board, and Xerox.

Headquartered in the US with offices in the UK, South Africa and Canada, Concept Searching solves the problem of finding, organizing, and managing information capital far beyond search and retrieval. The technologies are being used to drive intelligent migration, enable effective records management, identify and lock down sensitive information and enhance governance. For more information about Concept Searchings solutions and technologies please visit http://www.conceptsearching.com

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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