Supporting Organizations and Publications

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Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, works in collaboration with clients to leverage visionary innovation that addresses the global challenges and related growth opportunities that will make or break today's market participants. For more than 50 years, we have been developing growth strategies for the global 1000, emerging businesses, the public sector and the investment community. Is your organization prepared for the next profound wave of industry convergence, disruptive technologies, increasing competitive intensity, Mega Trends, breakthrough best practices, changing customer dynamics and emerging economies? Contact us: Start the discussion

AAHAM is the premier association for patient accounting and administrative management professionals. AAHAM offers certification, education, networking and government relations to over 2500 members and 38 chapters. AAHAM is renowned for its certification programs; the Certified Patient Account Manager (CPAM), The Certified Clinic Account Manager (CCAM), The Certified Patient Account Technician (CPAT) and The Certified Clinic Account Technician (CCAT). Visit our website at www.aaham.org or call 703/281-4043 for additional information.

Anadach Group is a global healthcare strategic firm focusing on providing innovative advice and services to clients and partners interested in transforming healthcare systems in emerging markets and developing economies. The mission of Anadach is to dramatically improve access to quality healthcare services and products in emerging countries by enhancing the solutions to major challenges facing healthcare organizations. Anadach is operational in both emerging and developed economies.

Berg Insight offers premier business intelligence to the telecom industry. We produce concise reports providing key facts and strategic insights about pivotal developments in our focus areas. Our vision is to be the most valuable source of intelligence for our customers. To date we have provided analytical services to hundreds of clients in 66 countries on six continents. Our customers range from many of the world's largest mobile operators, IT companies and telecom vendors, to venture capitalists, technology start-ups and specialist consultants. Our present focus areas are wireless M2M, Location-Based Services, mobile Value-Added Services and Next Generation Technologies. Find out more at www.berginsight.com

Boston User Groups is a non-profit service organization established by community leaders for community leaders. Geographic location of user groups does not matter but we are focused for now on the New England market (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT). We are committed to the success of the leaders and their groups. We are mostly a collaboration mechanism to help user group leaders meet and exceed their group objectives. We are an agnostic umbrella organization. Our groups include Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows, Device, Gaming, Developers, IT Pro's, End User, and many more.

Boston Media Technologies LLC (BMT) publishes the #1 Event Listing Site in Boston called the "Boston Events List", with over 200,000 hits and hundreds of event postings a month. BMT developed the Eventztoday platform to provide efficient aggregation and delivery of event information to the local community. Currently BMT provides services in Boston, New York, San Francisco and in the states of Maine and New Hampshire. BMT is expanding into other cities, states and countries. http://bostoneventslist.com/us/bo

BROADBAND COMMUNITIES is the leading source of information on digital and broadband technologies for buildings and communities. Our editorial aims to accelerate the deployment of Fiber-To-The-Home and Fiber-To-The-Premises while keeping readers up to date on the available solutions capable of serving their practical needs.
BC offers in-depth news, expert insights, and practical know-how on the technical, business, financial, and legal aspects of outfitting properties and communities with broadband solutions. With a focus on residential buildings, developments, and municipalities, BC helps the large-scale and wholesale buyers and users of broadband technologies, equipment, and services competitively distinguish their properties and communities in a rapidly changing marketplace. www.broadbandcommunities.com

The Games for Health Project, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, announces the 9th Annual Games for Health Conference to be held on June 26-28, 2013 at the Back Bay Events Center, Boston.

Videogame-based solutions are providing compelling approaches to increase physical activity, advance personal health, improve hospital operations, train healthcare providers, and impart important public health information.

The Games for Health Conference is the largest, longest running event devoted to the exciting emergent field of health innovation. Schedule and details can be found at www.gamesforhealth.org.

For over a decade, eHealth Initiative has served as a neutral, multi-stakeholder organization that helps connect the dots in healthcare and technology. eHealth Initiative's mission is to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and technology. eHealth Initiative is the only national organization that represents all of the stakeholders in the healthcare industry and counts 200 of the most prestigious and influential organizations amongst its members. Our membership is comprised of clinicians, consumers, health plans, health information technology (HIT) suppliers, hospitals and other providers, laboratories, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, pharmacies, public health agencies, quality improvement organizations, standards groups, and health information exchanges.

EHRintelligence.com is the source for all news and information for health IT professionals researching, implementing or maintaining EHR systems. Our editors offer real world advice on EHR best practices, incentive requirements, meaningful use, implementation, training and maintenance. Sign up to receive our free newsletter to get the latest EHR news delivered right to your inbox. Visit www.EHRintelligence.com

Every business day, FierceHealthcare briefs healthcare executives and hospital administrators on healthcare organizations & providers, Medicare/Medicaid/CMS, policies & regulations, healthcare reform, and more. Beyond the news of the day, our editors produce in-depth features on the state of the industry and conduct exclusive interviews with those at the forefront of the U.S. healthcare system. As a member of our community, you will receive an exclusive invitation to each of our webinars and gain full access to our entire whitepaper and eBook library. Advance your career by attending our networking parties and taking full advantage of our job board. Join today! www.FierceHealthcare.com

FierceHealthIT updates healthcare executives, CIOs and IT managers on the latest market trends and developments concerning CPOE, EMRs, HIE, e-prescribing, and other health IT industry news. Our editors supplement the news of the day with in-depth features on industry-shaping technologies. In addition to our free, weekly email newsletter, you can keep track of market trends through our exclusive webinars and benefit from our vast whitepaper and eBook library. As a FierceHealthIT subscriber, you will have full access to our job boards and networking parties. Join the FierceHealthIT community today! www.FierceHealthIT.com

FierceMobileHealthcare gives hospital administrators, IT executives, and program managers the must-know news, market trends, and insights about implementing wireless solutions in the healthcare industry. Get updated on mobile health records, remote patient monitoring, tablet and phone devices, telemedicine, and more. Our free, weekly email newsletter is not limited to the news of the day - our editors produce comprehensive features on leading market innovators. As part of our community, get insights on cutting-edge technologies through our webinars, whitepapers, and eBooks. Join today! www.FierceMobileHealthcare.com

Every business day, FiercePharma updates pharmaceutical executives on company news & earnings, FDA regulations, drug safety, generic drug companies, and more. Beyond the news of the day, our editors produce in-depth features on industry leaders and market trends. As a member of our community, you will receive an exclusive invitation to each of our webinars and gain full access to our entire whitepaper and eBook library. Advance your career by attending our networking parties and taking full advantage of our job board. Visit our website and start receiving our free FiercePharma email newsletter! www.FiercePharma.com

Global Partnership for Telehealth's mission is to deliver worldwide access to healthcare. Georgia Partnership for Telehealth's unparalleled success in applied telehealth programs and services has assisted agencies in providing cost effective, efficient, and high quality healthcare to hundreds of thousands. GPT now Global is reaching beyond our borders into Florida, Alabama, and other areas of the United States, to bring access to healthcare around the world. 866-754-4325 | www.gatelehealth.org

Since 2006, GigaOM has grown into the leading independent voice on emerging technologies and the disruption of media. The GigaOM news network's online audience of 5.5 million monthly unique readers relies on its definitive coverage of cloud, mobile, cleantech, consumer web and media. GigaOM Events bring together the people innovating, shaping and defining the ongoing evolution of the technology industry. GigaOM Pro offers the highest quality research and analysis of emerging technology markets and the companies making a difference in those sectors. www.gigaom.com

Hands OnTelehealth, founded by Nirav Desai, is a media company and consultancy thathelps telehealth providers and vendors to fast-track their success throughmarketing and strategy. The company

• hosts a web-based videointerview show where industry pioneers and executives share their insights andexpertise on telehealth success.
• provides a freetelehealth strategy eBook "The 10 Secrets of Telehealth Success" (http://www.handsontelehealth.com/freebook)
• publishes a weeklydigital newsletter focused on overcoming practical challenges in telehealth.
• consults with healthcareproviders and telehealth companies to grow their telehealth solutions quicklyand profitably.

Happtique is a mobile health solutions company whose mission is to integrate mHealth into patient care and daily life. Happtique's products and services include app prescribing, app marketplaces, and app certification.

Health IT NEWS.Direct! is a global Healthcare Information Technology (Health IT) portal providing research, news, and business intelligence services.Health IT NEWS.Direct! publishes several market research and strategic industry reports with key information for top management and decision makers in the healthcare technology industry. Health IT NEWS.Direct! is used by leading healthcare technology companies, hospitals, insurance companies, and media houses from around the globe.

HealthITSecurity.com (published by Xtelligent Media) is the leading online resource for the latest news and product information on all Health IT Security topics. Main topics we cover are: HIPAA and Compliance-Cloud Security in the healthcare setting; -HIE security; -EHR security; and -privacy. Over 10,000 IT professionals rely on HealthITSecurity.com to stay up to date on the ever changing IT Security landscape. http://healthitsecurity.com/

HIT Consultant is a healthcare technology focused digital media outlet providing engaging interviews, videos, and in-depth commentary shaping the landscape of the health technology industry.

iMedicalApps is the leading online publication for mobile medical app reviews and commentary and the only online publication exclusively written by physicians and medical professionals. Our rapidly growing audience consists primarily of physicians and other clinicians who check in regularly to learn about new apps and medical uses of Apple iOS, Android, Windows and Blackberry devices. In addition, we provide commentary, news and interviews with physician & industry leaders on mobile medical technology. www.imedicalapps.com/

The Indian Association for Medical Informatics (IAMI) is a professional society that plays a role in promoting and furthering the application of informatics in the fields of healthcare, bioscience and medicine in India. It was established in 1993. The objectives of the IAMI are to sensitize the Indian medical community to the benefits of Information Technology (IT), bring about awareness and ensure greater utilization of IT in healthcare facilities across the length and breadth of India. The IAMI also aims to provide necessary assistance and guidance to other organizations to implement and reap the benefits of IT for health care. http://www.iami.org.in/

The Digital Health group has been featured in the Huffington Post, iMedicalApps, MobiHealthNews, MedCity News, Medical Electronics Design, and FierceMobileHealthcare. By advancing knowledge and building relationships between professionals interested in the super-convergence taking place between the digital revolution and health, writ large, the group serves as the nexus for the global digital health ecosystem. In addition to medicine and healthcare, the group's purview encompasses consumer-focused sports, fitness, and wellness solutions, which can be considered preventive medicine. https://www.wirelesshealthstrategies.com/about.html

The Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI) is a statewide, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1997 that serves as a partner and convener to improve population-level health outcomes. We are part of a growing movement of public health institutes across the country.

Our mission is to promote and improve health and quality of life through diverse public-private partnerships with government, foundations, academia, community groups and private businesses at the community, parish and state levels.

LPHI coordinates and manages public health programs and initiatives in the areas of health systems development and health promotion/disease prevention and provides an array of services to help meet the needs of local and national partner organizations.

Managed Care delivers high-interest articles and features developed through original research and writing. Its editorial mission is to advise managed markets physicians, pharmacists, and executives on the integration of the business and medical aspects of the rapidly changing managed care market. A strict fact-checking and peer-review process assures the accuracy and relevance of editorial content.

MedCity Media is the publisher of one of the fastest growing industry news sites covering healthcare innovation, MedCityNews.com, and provider of custom marketing solutions to healthcare industry clients across the U.S. Reaching more than 150,000 unique visitors per month, MedCityNews.com provides news, opinion and analysis from today's medical cities. With bureaus in Cleveland, Twin Cities, Research Triangle Park and Philadelphia, MedCity covers innovation and technology from across the healthcare ecosystem. MedCity's custom marketing division services clients of all sizes utilizing a network of 70+ writers to provide content of all types for all mediums - web copy, social media content and more. www.medcitynews.com

CONVERGE is a two-day, executive summit that will debate and discuss the leading trends, showcase the hottest startups and share best practices among some of the industry's most innovative hospital systems and leading medical device, digital health, pharmaceutical and information technology companies. The event will take place July 9-10 at the Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia.

ENGAGE is a premier forum for the leading strategies and innovations to advance patient engagement with care providers and the healthcare ecosystem. The event is hosted by the Foundation for Healthcare Innovation and will take place on June 5-6 at the Westin Washington D.C. City Center.

Mind Commerce focuses on telecommunications (fixed and wireless) and various ICT areas including Internet based infrastructure, commerce, content, and applications. We have been a leading provider of research, consulting, and subscription services within our practice areas for over ten years.

Mind Commerce provides both off-the-shelf and customized research, as well as related consulting and training. Our clients include manufacturers, developers, service providers, industry organizations, and government. Our partners include various leading firms in the telecommunications industry.

The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge is an innovation-focused, volunteer-driven community that:

• Inspires innovation by highlighting company and founder successes
• Educates entrepreneurs and company founders about how to form and grow promising startups
• Creates communities that build and strengthen a market sector's ecosystem
• Connects entrepreneurs with the rich resources of MIT

Check out the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Video Portal

Our programs include mentoring sessions, large theater-style events, weekly classes, seminars, business plan clinics, office hours, intimate panel discussions, fireside chats and just plain networking. Thousands of individuals and hundreds of companies utilize these services each year.

Enterprise Forum volunteers play a significant role in working with entrepreneurs by organizing programs, planning events, and sharing their knowledge, experience and connections with each other. Our member volunteers also gain access to special events and content.

National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private partnership focused on accelerating progress toward widespread, secure and interoperable nationwide health information exchange to improve health and healthcare. NeHC's neutrality and diverse multi-stakeholder participation provides a unique platform for collaboration. NeHC educates, connects, and encourages healthcare stakeholders to advance health information technology and health information exchange nationwide through its NeHC University web-based education program, its Consumer Consortium on eHealth, its support of the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange, its collaborative online community and its ongoing study of leading health information exchanges.

National eHealth Collaborative is a cooperative agreement partner of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

The O'Reilly Strata Rx conference, happening September 25-27, 2013 in Boston, MA, brings together the diverse communities driving innovations in big data analytics for health care. At Strata Rx you'll discover how data experts are successfully using big data to advance personalized and predictive medicine; realize significant cost savings; and conduct research that points to entirely new products and markets. This is a rare opportunity to take a fresh and deep look at how to acquire, analyze, and use big data in your own organization. http://strataconf.com/rx

The RFID in Healthcare Consortium (RHCC) is a not-for-profit, global organization founded to elevate awareness and to educate the Life Sciences community on the adoption of new technologies. The RHCC is an educationally focused, vendor neutral, technology and frequency agnostic, association dedicated to promoting the use and adoption of auto-ID, NFC, RFID, RTLS, sensors and wireless technologies in the healthcare, assisted and independent living and nursing home industries. http://www.rfidba.org/rhcc/rfid-healthcare

Telemedicine and e-Health is the leading international peer-reviewed publication covering the full spectrum of advances and clinical applications of telemedicine and management of electronic health records. It places special emphasis on the outcome and impact of telemedicine on the quality, cost effectiveness, and access to healthcare. Telemedicine applications play an increasingly important role in health care. They offer indispensable tools for home healthcare, remote patient monitoring, and disease management, not only for rural health and battlefield care, but also for nursing home, assisted living facilities, and maritime and aviation settings.

Telemedicine and e-Health offers timely coverage of the advances in technology that offer practitioners, medical centers, and hospitals new and innovative options for managing patient care, electronic records, and medical billing.

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

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The WHCC Affordable Health Innovations Site seeks and promotes health care innovations that can reduce the cost of quality care. Visit the site to learn how the share your innovation.