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News release
10/14/2005
Save On High Fuel Costs: Attend An Ortivus NA Webinar Instead
New technologies continue to change the way we do things - at an increasingly rapid rate. Continuing educations courses, advanced learning opportunities, and software demonstrations can now be accomplished in a more convenient format.
Webinars – or Web-based seminars/presentations – allow people the opportunity to learn from the convenience of their own office or home. With shrinking budgets, rising costs of travel, and the ever increasing busy-ness in schedules, people are looking for better options for gaining information. Webinars offer a forum that eliminates travel costs and consumes only a fraction of the time that an event at a physical location does, therefore, popularizing this method of gaining information.
What is a Webinar?
A webinar (web + seminar) is a great way to learn from others – regardless of what state or county they live in - without having to travel. With just a phone and a computer, anyone can participate in these events. If bandwith allows, the phone can be eliminated and the participant can listen via voice over IP through their computer speakers. The webinars combine several forms of communication and interaction, such as viewing online presentations, instant messaging for question and answer sessions, the ability to 'raise your hand' for a question, voting on issues, drawing on a 'white board,’ sharing out desktops and applications and documents and so forth. More information on this question is found on our website.
Ortivus North America (NA) believes that Web-based delivery of information will continue to increase in popularity and is committed to delivering quality information in the EMS and Public Safety industries. Some of the recent Webinars that Ortivus NA has produced include:
“Documentation Advice to Help Keep You Out of the Courtroom” with J.R. Henry, President of J.R. Henry Consulting, Inc. (August 23, 2005)
“How to Improve Fleet Efficiency with Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) – or GPS” with Dan Voss and Alex Sagala, Ortivus NA Product Managers and case study presentations from two AVL users (September 8, 2005)
“Federal Funding for Public Safety Agencies” with Michael Paddock, Chief Executive Officer with The Grants Office, LLC (September 22, 2005)
“Streamline Your Workflow: Speed Up Your Field Data call Processing” with Steve Johnson, Director of Sweet Billing Service (October 12, 2005)
“New Technologies – How Do Innovations Affect Emergency Services” with Paul Rochon, Ortivus NA Vice President of Advance Engineering (October 13, 2005)
Most of the recordings from these webinars are available for support/maintenance customers behind the support log-in window on the Ortivus NA website. All that is needed to view these recordings is Windows Media Player Version 9 or later (free download). Ortivus NA also welcomes ideas for upcoming webinars; please send your suggestions to editor@ortivusna.com.
Commitment to industry knowledge – commitment to superior customer service – and commitment to the latest advancements in technology are all foundational components of the Ortivus NA vision; and Webinar offerings are just one example of that commitment and vision.
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About Ortivus:
Ortivus offers integrated software solutions for Emergency Medical Services and Public Safety. The North American Subsidiary develops and markets the following pre-hospital applications: EMS billing, patient care reporting, computer-aided dispatch, automatic vehicle location, mobile data application, and patient vital signs monitoring and data transmission.
The Ortivus vision is to be the customer’s preferred provider of integrated information and decision-making software support systems in the Emergency Medical Service, Public Safety and Healthcare industries.
Ortivus operates out of two North American corporate office locations (Decorah, Iowa, US and Montreal, Quebec, Canada), as well as several international locations (Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Great Britain).