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A breakthrough has happened for the pharmaceutical industry. A proposal to make it easier for smaller-scale pharmacies to obtain low cost loans to install health information technology was endorsed by the independent industry’s chief lobbying group in US Congress on Monday Oct. 26^th, 2009.

The bill, which has already passed the House Small Business Committee, allows state-licensed pharmacists and other health care providers to use a lending program for HIT through reduced-cost loans. The loans would be guaranteed up to 90% and borrowers could take advantage of a subsidized deferment period of up to 3 years.

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Here is part two of Tim's series on staying Connected 4 REAL. You can find part one here.

How does something that piques your interest on a web site get answered by the company behind that site? The sad truth is that most answers from business are too late, too hard to find, or are never answered. Even worse, most businesses don’t even know what revenues bounced away to a competitor.

There are the three basic principles that are driving consumer and business connected sites like Facebook and Linked-in. These sites serve as a beginning, but they don’t help in the transactional arena – where vendors and consumers actually do business. They also do nothing to help a business define its ongoing marketing or the processes behind how they interact and do business.

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Through travel, I’ve had the rare opportunity to view businesses, entrepreneurs and work forces from many different industries to watch how things are shaping up and changing. From E-Health in Pharmacies, to RealEstate, Mortgage Banking and Wealth Management -every industry is shifting to become more closely connected. As our world continues to connect, pushing the envelope for change and challenges; there is little question that we continue to push the boundaries of how we become connected. Each of us is driving this change every day when we set up or manage our Linked-In or Facebook pages. Or when we create a membership on the Realestock.com portal or run searches for the tools for the businesses we run, represent, or are thinking of starting.

This begs the questions, How connected are you really? How do you get and stay connected 4 real?

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We are thrilled to announce that Tim Vasko will be the keynote speaker for the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Business Banquet for students, faculty and the business community on November 26th, 2009.

His speech, “Let’s Face It: Tough Markets, Broken Models, You Can Make a Difference” will focus on how changes affect us and our perspectives and how it gives us the opportunity to reach for new horizons.

“Let’s face it - it is a fact of life that the world changes; business changes and the economy changes. But rarely do we see an impact on society like we’re experiencing today. Not in an entire generation has the world been so impacted. And it has never been due to such a ubiquitous, interconnected event as the recent financial meltdown.”

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