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The Wall Street Journal is the leading business newspaper, providing in-depth national and international coverage of the markets, the economy, industries, politics and regulation. And because business doesn't only influence one's career, the consumer-focused Personal Journal section analyzes how the day's news affects the business of time-pressed readers' lives. Just as it has for over 110 years, The Wall Street Journal continues to publish respected and useful news, making it the most influential and trusted newspaper in the nation. www.wsj.com

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Strategic Insights on the Future of the Health Insurance Industry www.corporateresearchgroup.com/MarketTrends

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MyPRGenie is the only Do-It-Yourself PR platform for the healthcare industry. Using MyPRGenie's web platform, you can create an online business profile, upload your press release and significantly increase your exposure online. Connect to over 8,000+ healthcare journalists and post on 28 social media sites. For more information, please visit www.myprgenie.com

Official Publication

Managed Healthcare Executive (MHE) is the number 1 read business journal serving senior-level decision makers (non-clinical and clinical) in health plan, payor, provider, employer groups, and government organizations who make purchasing and policy decisions about products, services and technologies for large member/patient populations. Specifically, MHE's 41,000+ targeted readers include; CEO, COO, CFO, VPs, Medical Directors, and Pharmacy Directors.
http://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/mhe

ABILITY Magazine is an award-winning publication distributed by Time Warner with a combined online and print readership of more than one million. For over 15 years, our mission has been to provide new insights into our individual levels of ability. From Diabetes to Spinal Cord Injury and celebrity interviews to CEO profiles, ABILITY covers the latest on Health, Environmental Protection, Assistive Technology, Employment, Travel, Universal Design, Mental Health, and much more. Our writers include MDs, PhDs, JDs, best-selling authors, and U.S. Senators, to name a few. Cover interviews consist of Movie Stars, TV Celebrities, U.S. Presidents, First Ladies, and more. www.abilitymagazine.com

Founded in 1990, the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) has grown to be the leading non-profit association dedicated to the support and development of the profession of case management. It is based in Little Rock, AR, and serves more than 11,000 members, 20,000 subscribers, and 70+ chapters through educational forums, networking opportunities, legislative advocacy and establishing standards to advance the profession.

Its leadership programs, educational forums, and breadth of tools and resources enable case management professionals to ensure more positive outcomes for individual patients' healthcare needs. Case management professionals help patients get healthier, faster; and help curtail the exorbitant costs that too often afflict the nation's health care system. To further the professional knowledge and career opportunities of its members, CMSA also offers a number of education programs. www.cmsa.org

Found in 1987, OPEN MINDS is the premier industry research and management consulting firm for the behavioral health and social service field. It is our mission to provide behavioral health and social service payers and service providers, and the vendors that serve them, with the market and management knowledge needed to improve their organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Services include consultation, technical assistance, workforce development, executive education, and subscription information services. For more information, visit www.openminds.com.

PharmaVOICE is the executive forum that allows business leaders to engage in a candid dialogue on the myriad challenges and trends impacting the life-sciences industry. PharmaVOICE reaches more than 17,000 U.S.-based executives who influence business strategies and affect change. Published monthly, PharmaVOICE provides readers with insightful and thought-provoking commentary in a multiple-perspective format through its forums, topics, and articles that cover a range of issues from molecule through market. To Raise Your VOICE, contact feedback@pharmavoice.com.

The Consumer-Driven Health Care Institute (CDHCI) is a not-for-profit organization representing the leaders in consumer-driven health care. CDHCI's goal is to be the prime source for education, research and information about consumer-driven health care. The Institute actively promotes the shift to the Consumer-Driven Health paradigm. The Member Companies have created health care models and technologies that empower individuals to make informed health care choices.

Disease Management & Health Outcomes provides you with timely peer reviewed information on 'total disease management.' It covers the scientific basis of this important discipline as well as practical applications such as disease management programs and tools, and outcomes measurement. For more information please visit http://pt.wkhealth.com/pt/re/dmo/home.htm. Scientific Citation Index Factor: 0.356

Disease Management Advisor features insightful coverage and practical tools that you can put to work immediately in your disease management program. This monthly newsletter includes the latest program ideas and strategies, straight from the providers and health plans that are making them work. For more information go to www.hcmarketplace.com or to request a free sample call 800-650-6787

Disease Management News is the twice-monthly newsletter that's devoted exclusively to competitive business intelligence on the entire disease management field. It provides instant, in-depth coverage of DM startups, shutdowns, acquisitions, partnerships, contracting, clinical and cost outcomes, new disease and geographic markets, technology, names/number of contacts. For more information go to www.hcmarketplace.com or to request a free sample call 800-650-6787

The Executive Health & Wealth Institute, Inc. is an international consulting firm based in Miami, Florida. Our MISSION is to promote integrated Health, Performance and Productivity, thus advancing individual & organizational Wellbeing for the benefit of Society. Our consultants provide expert consulting services, executive coaching, corporate advice, training workshops, seminars and consensus building meetings, assisting executives and corporations in Organizational Health & Wealth.

The HERO Forum Think Tank is a national coalition of employers and stakeholders (providers) members, who have a common interest in making employee health management a widely accepted and accurately measured strategy to optimize the health of employees and their dependents, and there by, control health care costs. The Think Tank meets twice annually to create and develop tactics that convert this strategy into reality. www.the-hero.org

Information Therapy (Ix)® is the timely prescription and access to evidence-based health information to meet individuals specific needs. The Center for Information Therapy (IxCenter) is a 501c3, not-for-profit organization that advances the practice and science of information therapy to improve consumer health, consumer decision making and healthy behaviors. Launched in 2001, the IxCenter acts as a catalyst for health care delivery innovation by diffusing Ix strategies through research, education and collaboration. The IxCenter engages Ix proponents and industry leaders through an IxAction Alliance membership program and at the Seventh Annual Ix Conference: Wired: Next Generation Patient-Centered Care, June 12 & 13, The Newseum, Washington DC. More information at www.IxCenter.org.

The Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) is one of the nation's leading coalitions of private and public employers. MBGH's 85+ members provide coverage for over 2 million lives, spending more than $2.3 billion on health care benefits on an annual basis. MBGH offers employers a variety of health benefit educational seminars, networking opportunities, quality and community initiatives, demonstration projects and group purchasing programs. Through these programs, MBGH helps employers and their employees obtain more value from their health care benefit dollars and improve the health status of the community. For more information, contact Cheryl Larson at 312-372-9090 or clarson@mbgh.org and visit our website at www.mbgh.org www.mbgh.org .

Pacific Business Group on Health is one of the nation's top business coalitions focused on health care. Our 50 large purchaser members spend billions of dollars annually to provide health care coverage to more than 3 million employees, retirees and dependents. PBGH is a respected voice in the state and national dialogue on how to improve the quality and effectiveness of health care while moderating costs. Partnering with the state's leading health plans, provider organizations, consumer groups and other stakeholders, PBGH works on many fronts to promote value-based purchasing in health care. www.pbgh.org

PACE programs coordinate and provide all needed preventive, primary, acute and long term care services so that older individuals can continue living in the community. PACE is an innovative model that enables individuals who are 55 years old or older and certified by their state to need nursing home care to live as independently as possible. Through PACE, today's fragmented health care financing and delivery system comes together to serve the unique needs of each individual in a way that makes sense to the frail elderly, their informal caregivers, health care providers and policy makers.

NIHCM Foundation is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of America's health care system. The Foundation conducts research, policy analysis and educational activities on a range of health care issues. It fosters dialog between the private health care industry and the public sector to find workable solutions to health system problems. Through a grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NIHCM is studying the role of the private sector in the national battle against obesity. NIHCM's current work also includes research in the areas of health information technology and maternal and child health. Detailed information about the Foundation's projects and publications is available on our newly designed web site at www.nihcm.org.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world's largest association devoted to human resource management, represents more than 210,000 members and serves the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive resources available. The Society's mission is also to advance the profession to ensure that HR is recognized as an essential partner in developing and executing organizational strategy. www.shrm.org

The Case Manager is targeted to medical case managers and other related professionals who coordinate and manage patient care in hospital, home, long-term care, rehabilitation, mental health, and managed care settings. Articles, columns, and departments in The Case Manager provide the latest news and information in the field. The magazine brings readers thorough and insightful coverage of the profession's hottest topics, including outcomes management, guidelines and standards of practice, reimbursement, trends in managed care, and ethical/legal issues. Readers can earn CCM, CRC, and/or CDMS education credits through the magazine's CEU articles. The Case Manager is a membership benefit of the Case Management Society of America.

The Executive Report on Managed Care provides twice-monthly news and information on issues affecting the managed care industry, legislation and regulations, real-life examples of how managed care organizations are benefiting from innovative programs and cost saving initiatives.

URAC, an independent, nonprofit organization, is well-known as a leader in promoting health care quality through its accreditation and certification programs. URAC offers a wide range of quality benchmarking programs and provides a symbol of excellence for organizations to validate their commitment to quality and accountability. For more information, visit www.urac.org

Start at WellnessJunction.com on your search for wellness, fitness, and health promotion information. Our mission is to assist you in seeking the right information from reliable sources on the Internet. This is where good health and fitness, health education and disease prevention comes together for consumers and health promotion and wellness professionals. Here you'll get current health and wellness news, information designed to help you live well, and details on new developments.

The American Journal of Cancer is specifically designed as a forum for discussing, evaluating and disseminating the latest information on rational therapy and effective patient management within the discipline of oncology. The journal publishes up to date, critical and comprehensive reviews relating to the use of drugs, devices, diagnostics and other interventions. For more information please visit http://pt.wkhealth.com/pt/re/onc/home.htm

The American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs promotes rational therapy and disease management within the discipline of cardiology, by providing you with a regular program of independent review articles covering all aspects of the management of cardiovascular disorders, in particular the place in therapy of newer and established agents and procedures. For more information please visit http://pt.wkhealth.com/pt/re/cvd/home.htm