CDYNE issued a press release on July 1 entitled "CDYNE XML Web Services Help Organizations Comply with FTC Red Flags Rule" detailing how Internet technology can help organizations comply with the Red Flags Rule through fraud prevention tools and access to the Social Security Administration's Death Index. View our latest press release on PRNewswire. Visit www.cdyne.com for more information on individual Web services that can help you with your Identity Theft Prevention Program.
Health care organizations have many issues to consider when choosing technology to streamline operations. HIPAA and the Red Flags Rule are just two of those issues. Privacy and protection from medical identity theft are high on the list of considerations for administrators, and many who are unfamiliar with Web technology may fear that security will suffer when using services over the Internet. Actually, the opposite may be true.
Web services, especially those using XML, use the same open channels that intranets that operate within the organization do, so no security risks are present that are not already present in daily operations. In addition, most Web services, including CDYNE's, use 128 bit SSL encryption. This level of encryption is security of the highest level and will protect patient information and insure against medical identity theft by hackers.
The services themselves are also instrumental in preventing identity theft and protecting patient information. CDYNE Web Services include 411 reverse lookups, for matching address and phone number to name and filling in gaps in patient and business records for billing as well as treatment, and Death Index, which runs patients through the Social Security Administration's Death Index to reduced deceased person identity theft. These two services alone are used by countless health care practices at point of entry to comply with government regulations, including the Red Flags Rule.
In addition to 411 and Death Index, CDYNE provides address and phone verification products as well as text and phone notification services for validating patients, reminding them of appointments, or notifying them of billing questions or payment dates.
And the reporting functions on all the services can bet set up to automatically update the database and return reports based on whatever criteria the organization chooses. CDYNE's fraud prevention Web Services are invaluable tools in the field of health care. Protect your patients, your medical records, and your practice from fraud. contact us today at 1-800-984-3710 or visit www.cdyne.com for more information.
CDYNE Fraud Prevention Web Services as part of your anti-fraud program can help you meet the standards of the new government-mandated Red Flags Rule.
From the Federal Trade Commission’s Web site:
The Red Flags Rule, a law the FTC will begin to enforce on August 1, 2009, requires certain businesses and organizations — including many doctors’ offices, hospitals, and other health care providers — to develop a written program to spot the warning signs — or “red flags” — of identity theft. Is your practice covered by the Red Flags Rule? If so, have you developed your Identity Theft Prevention Program to detect, prevent, and minimize the damage that could result from identity theft?
How can CDYNE Web Services help you prevent identity theft?
CDYNE Fraud Prevention XML Web Services can be implemented into your system to flag bad addresses at point-of-entry, perform reverse lookups with phone numbers and addresses to match with names in your patients’ sign-in forms, and run records against the Social Security Administration’s Death Index to combat deceased person identity theft – all instantaneously at point of entry.
In order to comply with the Red Flags Rule, organizations covered by the rule must draft a plan to combat identity theft in their practices and outline specific actions that will be taken to reduce instances of patient fraud. CDYNE Web Services are specifically designed to work automatically in real time to validate records as they are entered into patient management software, systems, Web site forms, and other applications.
CDYNE is already working with health organizations to provide the data verification necessary to meet Red Flags Rule requirements. Incorporate CDYNE’s Fraud Prevention services into your Identity Theft Prevention Program mandated by the FTC and be confident that you are employing the best methods to save your organization from violations and other consequences of medical identity theft.
Visit www.cdyne.com for more information on CDYNE Postal Address Verification, Demographics, and 411, plus other valuable Web services to help your organization save money and run more effficiently. Or call 1-800-984-3710 to speak to one of our team members about CDYNE Web Services.
To read the rest of the FTC's article on the Red Flags Rule, click here.
Avectra has announced its release of the Spring 2009 NetFORUM Team and NetFORUM Pro association management software, which include real-time integration with CDYNE's Postal Address Verification Web service through an exclusive provider relationship.
CDYNE's Postal Address Verification Web Service standardizes and validates addresses and adds useful member statistics such as congressional district and state representative information. We're very excited about our partnership with Avectra and wish them great success with their latest launch.
You can view their latest press release on Avectra's Web site.
CDYNE has been featured on a major financial industry Web site after an interview this morning with the site's Associate Editor. The post describes CDYNE's XML-based technology as used in debt collection, as well as the new subsidiary CKS Financial that CDYNE recently launched. You can see the full post by clicking here.
The Internet was always hailed as the new democracy, a way for the masses (us) to have some influence in the world, a voice to contribute to the global dynamics of change. At first, many of us were worried that as a society we had overestimated the power of the Internet for social change, as it became more of an e-commerce medium than anything else.
But things are changing with Web 2.0, and individuals are banding together through networking forums to make their voices louder and more powerful. Mashups and custom Web applications make it possible for technology to join forces and become more powerful as well. This is where XML Web services come in.
No longer do businesses, small or large, have to invest in heavy equipment and major software programs. No business is an island, and almost like the communes purported to be the utopian solution to isolated living in the 60s, this new technology allows those businesses with certain skills to offer those skills to the world to be used only when needed. As more and more businesses make the move toward specialization over the Web, more skills and technologies are available on a pay-as-you go platform. This new wave of business dealings allows companies to focus on what they do best, while borrowing the rest. The icommune is a success because it’s efficient. And everyone can benefit.
From online CRMs to built-in data enhancement and fraud prevention, Web services provide the organizational tools and protection essential to today’s businesses. And we still get to preserve the capitalist system and free trade. The commune without the communism. Leave it to programmers to come up with the next great democracy.
Do what you do best. Borrow the rest.
Chesapeake, VA (May 27, 2009) – CDYNE Corporation, a leading provider of data enhancement, verification, and communication Web services since 1999, announced today that it has launched a consumer debt collection arm operating under the name CKS Financial, LLC, and it will be combining the expertise of the two companies to introduce tailored XML Web services to the collections industry.
CDYNE acquired Sanders & Associates, a collection agency based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in April 2009, in order to form the new subsidiary. CKS Financial is a full-service debt recovery agency that purchases consumer debt portfolios from and offers contingency collections to merchants, service providers, government entities, and other organizations that extend credit. CKS Financial is committed to highly ethical and professional standards, practicing the most advanced methods for effective portfolio management.
In creating CKS Financial, CDYNE is able to use its 30 years of experience in the fields of debt recovery and IT to generate new opportunities, by combining consumer debt collection with cutting-edge Web technology in the form of SAAS (software as a service), or tech industry trend “cloud computing”. Specific CDYNE XML Web services used in financial applications include 411 lookup, email, phone, and address verification; all of which can be utilized to skip trace debtors.
“The acquisition of Sanders & Associates and outgrowth of CKS Financial provide us with an excellent platform to expand our current and future product offerings into the financial services industry,” says Jim Keown, President and CEO of CDYNE Corporation. “Our experience in debt acquisitions and collection operations and systems makes this a natural fit. We are very pleased that John Sanders has agreed to our offer and will stay on to assist us in developing our software as a service (SAAS) products for the collections industry. Our wide range of data enhancement, correction, fraud screening and communications services are easily consumed in nearly any collection software suite. We will be evolving these products using our own collections department and bringing them to market at our traditional pay-as-you-go pricing.”
About CDYNE Corporation
Since 1999, CDYNE has been a leading provider of Web service solutions encompassing a range of data enhancement, data verification, and communications tools and using XML-based technologies to ensure cross-platform compatibility. CDYNE Web Services include Phone and SMS (text) Notify!; Postal Address, Phone and Email Verification; Demographics; 411; Death Index; and IP2Geo – which pinpoints geographic location by IP address. These services help prevent fraud in real-time during the application or transaction process, append information to customer records, enable targeted marketing, and allow fast and easy contact of staff, students, customers, and others in any situation. Programmed into client systems (including POS), applications, and Web sites to enhance their operations, CDYNE Web Services process information from CDYNE’s vast databases in fractions of a second. The Company’s transaction-based billing model allows clients to save money by purchasing only what is consumed. CDYNE provides its services to numerous industries, including E-Commerce, Sales and Marketing, Insurance, Retail/Service Industry, Utilities, Government, Healthcare, and Banking/Finance. For more information, visit www.cdyne.com or call 1-800-984-3710. For more information on CKS Financial, please visit www.cksfin.com or call 1-800-984-3711.
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Contact: Elizabeth Rack
Tel: (757) 544-9510 x3108
Email: ecr@cdyne.com
www.cdyne.com
According to the Kroll Global Fraud Report (2009), in the current economic climate, people who are used to a certain level of comfort – and credit – may resort to fraud to continue in the style to which they have become accustomed.
With layoffs at record highs and creditors vying to recover debts, people can't continue to live as they have on borrowed money, maintaining expensive cars, large mortgages, and private school fees, among other commitments.
So what's a business to do? You're probably not gaining new customers as quickly as before the recession, so you have to make concessions. Maybe you've lowered prices. Maybe you extend credit to people you might not have before. Maybe you give people more time to pay or waive penalties. These are all acceptable methods of keeping business going in tough times.
But what happens when desperate people resort to fraud and identity theft and involve your business?
CDYNE XML Web Services can help. Our Fraud Prevention Services catch customer fraud at point of entry.
- You can validate a customer in milliseconds by postal address, email, phone number, or IP address.
- If you deliver your product, you can set up automatic phone calls to verify the person ordering is the person whose credit card is being entered.
- You can even run people's information through the Social Security Administration's Death Index to make sure a deceased person's identity isn't being stolen.
Check out www.cdyne.com to learn more about individual XML Web Services that can be programmed into your system to help you avoid fraud by verifying customers at lightning speeds.
The Kroll Global Fraud Report 2009 can be found at www.kroll.com.
Phone Notify! from CDYNE is an invaluable service useful in many very different industries - large and small organizations, nonprofits, privately and publicly held companies, universities, and more. Here are some of the innovative ways the service is used:
- It's great for schools to keep in touch with parents about truancy, weather emergencies and other school closings, PTA meetings and school events, fundraisers, and more.
- Businesses can maintain adequate staffing by notifying employees of open shifts or shift changes and emergencies and contact customers with updates.
- Sports organizations can keep players informed of practice times, game schedules, and cancellations.
- Doctor's offices use phone notification for appointment reminders and billing inquiries.
- Retail companies or other organizations using online registration or purchase forms can use the service to verify customers prior to acceptance.
Virtually any organization can use Phone Notify! to improve communications and stay informed. One of CDYNE's current clients is the State of Ohio, which uses the service to keep the Police Department connected. Some communities use phone notification to send descriptions of police suspects to their citizens to improve public safety.
The possibilities are endless. What would you do with phone notification?
The best part? CDYNE's Phone Notify! is an XML-based Web service that can be integrated with your contact database and can be programmed to automatically make calls and return reports. It's also interactive, so contacts can respond with the push of a button. Record your own sound files or use text-to-speech. Save money on large volume calling equipment: phone lines, computers, servers, etc.
And if you are not a programmer or don't have access to one, you can still use the service in the form of cdynenotify.com, available entirely online. You can upload your sound files and lists and have the system make as many simultaneous calls as you like. Visit CDYNE.com for more information on Phone Notify! and other Web services.
New Apatar data quality connector for CDYNE Demographics Web service enriches customer database by integrating contacts with their statistical socio-economic data
May 8, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, today officially announced the CDYNE Demographics connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. The new connector delivers statistical data about customers and allows organizations to identify the ethnic and socio-economic makeup of their current customer base or purchased marketing lists. Apatar’s CDYNE Demographics connector can be used with any contacts database to determine the age, race, income, as well as type of residence, median income, median house value, or median number of vehicles, all without coding.
Ideal for data modeling and marketing
Over half of B2B marketers plan to put more resources against creating marketing databases, cleaning up customer data, and improving sales force automation and CRM integration, according to Forrester Research in its "B2B CMO Investment Priorities for 2008" report. Whether you need to build customized marketing campaigns and determine ethnic or socio-economic information, this new data quality service from Apatar and CDYNE can be used to tweak your product offerings or advertising messages to reach your desired target market. Non-profit organizations or companies relying on donor support can use this data to match other groups or geographic areas to these traits in order to expand membership base and increase donations and support.
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"By appending demographic information to contact lists, you can determine when and where advertising should be placed to achieve maximum results," said William Chenoweth, VP Director of Marketing CDYNE Corporation. "Using Apatar’s new data quality service, statistical data from CDYNE Demographics can be integrated with your customer database to determine the statistical characteristics of your contacts. It is imperative that an advertiser has the tools to get the most results for their money.”
“For a business, efficient and profitable marketing campaigns are determined by the quality of customer data,” said Renat Khasanshyn, CEO and founder of Apatar. “The CDYNE Demographics Web service can help companies better select target groups and learn more about their customers. With Apatar’s visual drag-and-drop interface, this source of useful socio-economic information can be integrated with your database or CRM system in minutes.”
CDYNE Demographics features and benefits:
- Delivers statistical data about customers and target groups
- Accelerates data modeling and marketing
- Helps non-profit organizations or any company that relies on donor support expand their membership base
- Maximizes collection efforts and determines those debtors displaying the highest probability to pay
- Enables batch processing
Apatar Open Source Data Integration features and benefits:
- Improve data quality
- Reduce integration and maintenance costs, shorten implementation time
- No coding! Visual job designer and mapping enable non-developers to design and perform transformations
- Users have the ability to create, publish, share, and re-use data transformations and output to RSS feeds by monitoring keywords and URLs for both internal and external systems
- Connectivity to SalesForce.com, SugarCRM, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft Excel, MS SQL, Microsoft Access, GoldMine, Sybase, PostgreSQL, InstantDB, BorlandJDataStore, CSV, Qed, HSQL, Compiere ERP, XML, RSS, ATOM, FTP, POP3, LDAP, WebDav, Autodesk Buzzsaw, any JDBC data sources, Amazon S3, Flickr, and more
- Job scheduler and synchronization
- Platform-independent, runs from Windows and Linux; 100% Java-based
Related links
CDYNE Demographics connector user guide: http://apatarforge.org/wiki/display/DQS/CDYNE+Demographics
Pre-built integration mappings: http://www.apatarforge.org/datamaps/search-for-datamaps-45.html
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Apatar Open Source is available for free download at www.apatar.com. Commercial support and maintenance subscription packages start at $1,900 per year. The CDYNE Demographics Web service is available for subscription from CDYNE.
About Apatar
Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market. With powerful Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities, Apatar enables its users to easily link information between databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3). Apatar provides support, training, and consulting services for its integration solutions. Headquartered in Western Massachusetts, Apatar operates a development center in Minsk, Belarus. Apatar is currently used by 3000 organizations and individuals worldwide. For more on Apatar, please visit www.apatar.com and www.apatarforge.org. More information is available at Apatar's Online Press Room, found at http://www.apatar.com/newsroom/.
About CDYNE
CDYNE Corporation is a leading provider of Web service solutions, which encompass a wide range of data enhancement, data verification, and communications tools. CDYNE has been developing and marketing Web services since 1999. CDYNE's first products were developed using XML-based languages to ensure cross-platform compatibility, which is the essence of true Web services. CDYNE's Postal Address Verification and Correction service was developed to solve the need for real-time address data cleansing without the need to have clients buy, store, program, and maintain the enormous United States Postal Service database. CDYNE Corporation's transaction-based billing model was developed with that product to allow clients to buy only what is consumed affording them further savings. CDYNE Corporation continued to develop and release Web services products, such as Email Verification, Phone Verification, and IP2Geo during the following years. This wide range of products allowed the company to expand its client base across numerous industries such as E-Commerce, Sales and Marketing, Insurance, Retail, Utilities, Healthcare, and Banking and Finance. For more: http://www.cdyne.com.
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Media Contacts:
William Chenoweth
VP Director of Marketing
CDYNE Corporation
(757) 544-9515
wc@cdyne.com