Zigron Healthcare Earns MAINSTAGE Placement at Health Datapalooza IV

May 17th, 2013

May 17, 2013- Zigron triumphs its nomination at Health Datapalooza IV (HDP IV)- A health data consortium event. On Tuesday May 14, 2013, Zigron Healthcare being chosen as the Mainstage position holder was officially divulged.

“Calling all innovators, data scientists, designers, visualizers, and big thinkers in health and open data – come to Health Datapalooza IV to join the community!” Says Jen van der Meer, Adviser, Luminary Labs

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The unprecedented event believed by many is a great platform leveraging the power, progress and potential of big data from both government and private sectors extended to improve health systems. Health Datapalooza that originally arose as part of The Health Data Initiative (HDI) is celebrating its successful consecutive fourth year. The events were previously organized in Washington, D.C. June 2, 2010, Bethesda, MD June 9, 2011 and Washington, D.C. June 5-6, 2012. The astounding forum proclaims to feature the most innovative, modern and effective uses of health data by companies small and large, the education sector, the government agencies and individuals.

From among more than 175 submissions and more than 65 virtual auditions, Zigron Healthcare is finally declared to be among one of the best six apps that have been conferred with the opportunity to be featured on MAINSTAGE at Health Datapalooza IV. The process was the most competitive since Health Datapalooza began in 2010, and Zigron Healthcare’s placement in the event particularly on Mainstage is a testament to the high-quality product Zigron has created thus making meaningful use of health data that has a real impact on healthcare.

The two day event will commence on June 3-4, 2013 in Washington, DC and Zigron will be presenting on Tuesday June 4, 2013. In late April this year, Zigron Healthcare was also showcased as a TechBuzz presenting company. For more details on the event visit

http://www.zigron.com/blog/2013/04/09/zigron-healthcare-celebrates-its-nomination-as-a-techbuzz-presenting-company/

About Zigron Healthcare

Zigron Healthcare is a spin-off of Zigron-a product development and modernization company that has the honor to develop and modernize 40+ products in the last 6 years for startups and medium/large size enterprises. Zigron Healthcare makes use of intelligent data analytics tools to detect and help prevent fraudulent activities in the Healthcare IT sector.

Contacts

DC Area Office:

6579 Grange Ln.
Suite# 404
Alexandria, VA 22315

Phone: +1.703.536.8351

Pittsburgh Office:

3013 Seneca Ct

Cheswick, PA 15024
USA

Phone: +1.412.478.6588

South Asia Office:

H. # 838, St. # 85,
Sector I-8/4,
Islamabad, PAKISTAN (Map)

Phone: +92.51.4861487

Email:

Information: info@zigron.com

Human Resources: hr@zigron.com

Support: support@zigron.com

Zigron Healthcare Celebrates Its Nomination as a TechBuzz Presenting Company

April 9th, 2013

April 9, 2013- Zigron is proud to announce being in spotlight on the “TechBuzz Spring 2013” for its Healthcare IT solutions. The news has been officially affirmed on April 8, 2013 by MAVA- Mid Atlantic Venture Association greeting Zigron Healthcare aboard in its celebrations of April 23rd start-up enterprises.
TechBuzz that was launched in May 2011 by MAVA endeavors featuring start-up companies from early to later stages has aimed at providing a rich platform to connect upcoming enterprises, corporate business partners and investors giving them a greater exposure across the Greater Mid-Atlantic region and beyond. It aims at bringing in limelight a wide range of technology sectors with the aid of MAVA’s community partners for TechBUZZ Spring 2013 encompassing a wide regional geography from Hatch in Norfolk, VA and Fishbowl in Loudoun County, VA to Washington, DC’s 1776, ETC in Baltimore, MD and sector-focused Bethesda Green in Bethesda, MD.
MAVA advisory group of technology has chosen Zigron Healthcare from among more than 125 diverse companies recommending a handful of only 16 start-ups. The Healthcare solution by Zigron will be delivering the event with its smart business intelligence and data analytics tools that help detect fraudulent activities in the Healthcare IT sector thus reducing fraud and abuse from healthcare data.
The MAVA’s spring 2013 TechBUZZ is going to commence on April 23rd at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club and Zigron Healthcare is preparing arms to be the center stage at the event as the countdown has begun.

About Zigron

Zigron is a product development/modernization company and worked with more than 40 startups in last 6 years in addition to medium/large size enterprises. The company combines its expertise of technology, data and art to build highly innovative and creative products. That resulted in 4 acquisitions and 1 IPO. The company’s major domain areas are Wireless/Satellite/Telecom, Healthcare IT, IPTV and Education.

Contacts

DC Area Office:

6579 Grange Ln.
Suite# 404
Alexandria, VA 22315

Phone: +1.703.536.8351

Pittsburgh Office:

3013 Seneca Ct

Cheswick, PA 15024
USA

Phone: +1.412.478.6588

South Asia Office:

H. # 838, St. # 85,
Sector I-8/4,
Islamabad, PAKISTAN (Map)

Phone: +92.51.4861487

Email:

Information: info@zigron.com

Human Resources: hr@zigron.com

Support: support@zigron.com

Symfony application with UI and development code under same structure

August 5th, 2010

I have been thinking,for quite a long time, of some technique by which one can share the same view files between the developer and the designer inside a symfony based application.

So lets try to do something interesting with symfony and make this possible.
The basic idea behind it is to devise a method that can make it possible to share the assets (JS files, CSS files, Images etc etc) between the two key persons involved, the developer and the designer so that if any change is made by the guy who is designing something, it automatically gets visible in the application( without the need for the developer to implement it ).

Let’s say the designer is working on the theme of the application, which includes changes in images, CSS and JS files while keeping the structure of pages intact. What happens in routine practice is, the designer makes the changes and hands the updated files over to the developer who embeds the modifications into the CSS and images. The separation of two tasks requires more time and it becomes somewhat difficult for the two people to work on the same view file(s).

For a symfony project the directory structure looks like this:

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Now inside the ‘web’ folder, there are ‘Images, CSS and JS’ folders which contain the Images, CSS and JS files by default.

Let’s play a little with symfony configuration and create a theme structure!

Create a ‘theme’ folder and within this, create ‘frontend’ and ‘backend’ sub folders. Each of these sub folders will contain themes for the frontend and backend separately, so that we can switch between themes easily in case the need arises.
Having accomplished this, we will have a directory structure which will look somewhat like this:

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Notice that we have moved the ‘images, css and js’ folders from main ‘web’ folder to their respective UI folders. We get two advantages by doing so: separation of assets of different applications (Layouts) and managing them inside different themes.

Now lets change the application configuration classes so that the default directories for frontend and backend are changed and symfony knows where to look for the required files.

You can make following changes in ‘apps/frontend/config/frontendConfiguration.class.php

Notice that we are changing only the configure() function.

public function configure()
     {
       $current_theme = 'first_ui';
       sfConfig::add (
                      array (
                               'sf_web_images_dir_name' = 'themes' . '/' . 'frontend' . '/' . $current_theme . '/' . 'images',
                               'sf_web_css_dir_name' = 'themes' . '/' . 'frontend' . '/' . $current_theme . '/' . 'css',
                               'sf_web_js_dir_name' = 'themes' . '/' . 'frontend' . '/' . $current_theme . '/' . 'js'
                             )
                      );
     }

This is the time to move all of your images, css anf js files to the respective folders inside the theme folder and symfony will automatically load them from this location.
Now for the last point, in order for the designers to use the same css,js and images lets create a folder ‘xhtml’ inside the main project directory. For this the directory structure will be as follows:

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Put the html files inside frontend and backend ‘first_ui’ folder and use relative paths for images,css and js files.
To summarize, the benefits which can be obtained by using the above mentioned technique, are:

  1. No need of the developers to implement minor changes given by designers, designers can directly edit design changes right into the application.
  2. No need to manage separate svn for application code and application Ui, each UI change will be there side by side the application code inside the same svn repository.

Thinkfinity.org wins “Best in Tech” award

July 24th, 2010

The official website of Thinkfinity, an organization founded by Verizon Inc has won the the ‘Best in Tech’ website award for 2010 by Scholastic Administrator magazine in International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE 2010) conference. To read the story behind the success of http://www.thinkfinity.org please download our casestudy pdf.

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Zigron has a new facelift..

July 22nd, 2010

We recently updated our homepage to make the information more relevant and quickly accessible. One of the main idea was to highlight our newly added case studies and white-papers for our visitors.

We would love to hear your feedback on our new facelift.

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Wireframes library and templates

July 16th, 2009

Our motto for ultimate User Experience is to make every application Simple, Beautiful and Usable. Beautiful part can be achieved by some Photoshop magic and creative instincts. To achieve simplicity and usability one has to have very good overview of the entire application to make sure that the information architecture caters to easy access of information and also has the intuitiveness to make its adoption easier.

One of the key stages of any good design is its wire-framing stage. This is the stage which really helps you think through the entire application and come up with creative ideas. Recently in one of the Refresh DC’s events I came to know about a library of readily available wireframe templates and libraries named Unify. I encourage you all to explore its videos and try to use it in your design practices.

Few other resources: I Love Wireframes

If you know any good resources on wireframes then please do share them in comments section.

Zigron launches its new website

June 23rd, 2009

Zigron has grown tremendously over the last two years and during this time we have tried our level best to keep our website up-to-date. Keeping the iterative approach in combination with “market driven design” philosophy,we are now launching Zigron’s new website and brand identity.

Zigron has used its successful approach of “Simple , Beautiful and Usable” methodology to design and develop our new website which will cater to a wider range of our ever growing client base and industry verticals.

I will truly appreciate your feedback or suggestions for our new site.

 

Google’s Data Center Tour Video

April 7th, 2009

Enjoy the video of Google’s Data Center tour.

Zigron at NVTC’s Emerging Business and Entrepreneur Event

March 18th, 2009

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On March 17th 2009 Zigron Inc exhibited its services and products at Norther Virginia Technology Council’s Emerging Business and Entrepreneur Event.

The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the membership association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. NVTC has about 1100 member companies representing more than 200,000 employees and Zigron is its memeber.

DareMyCompany At Mashable.com

January 1st, 2009

“I absolutely love the idea of DareMyCompany”, says Jennifer Van Grove here on Mashable. She wrote a detailed review of the web app Zigron lately developed after the success of PingMyCompany.

DareMyCompany is a simple tool that lets companies find other companies for different sports and other challenges/competitions. It’s one of it’s kind and has been developed by keeping in mind the importance of entertainment for working people.

Currently the challenges on the site fall under sports category only, but the criteria will be expanded with a lot more locations, and some new features laters.

If you’re also tired of working and or want to show other companies in your area that you’re best at something, just give them a call at DareMyCopmany and prove yourself!