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The 8th Annual World Health Care Congress (WHCC) is World Congress' flagship event in which over 1,800 health care, government and corporate leaders formulate solutions to the challenges of health care cost, quality and delivery. In response to demands from the nation's largest providers, payers, employers and purchasers for affordability and transparency in health care quality, the 8th Annual WHCC convenes the major sectors in health care to determine actionable goals and implementation strategies to demonstrate quality, consumer choice, cost-effectiveness and transparency. Thought leaders engage in debates, present case studies and share best practices from all industry sectors including leading employers, CMS officials, insurers/payers, health system and hospital providers, pharmaceutical and biotech executives, academics, analysts and government officials.
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The driving force behind Loma Linda University's eight schools, five hospitals, numerous local and international outreach programs, and countless physician offices is the goal to help people become whole-sound in body, mind, and spirit. The university teaches students to do this throughout their future careers in medicine, dentistry, public health, pharmacy, science and technology, nursing, religion, and the allied health professions. In patient care, in addition to Loma Linda University Medical Center, the network of Loma Linda hospitals includes a behavioral health center, a rehabilitation hospital, a specialty heart and surgical hospital, and a children's hospital that is an international leader in infant heart transplantation. Loma Linda University also goes to the community with medical services and outreach programs that help children and adults in need in California's Inland Empire.
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Health Care Executives of Southern California (HCE) is an independent, local chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). HCE represents ACHE's professional and student members in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. ACHE members are automatically enrolled as HCE members. Our mission is three-fold: to increase knowledge and professional competency of members by providing a rich variety of educational opportunities, to enhance member's career growth and satisfaction by providing opportunities and stimulus for networking and sharing, and to contribute to the health industry as a whole through the development and promotion of future leaders. hcesocal.ache.org
When nursing and allied healthcare professionals want to improve their careers, they trust Merion Matters, parent company of ADVANCE. We keep them connected to their profession with our family of free magazines, websites, e-newsletters, job fairs and events. Using the helpful resources we provide, millions of healthcare professionals: stay up-to-date on the latest industry news, trends and products; find the hottest job openings; track down continuing education opportunities; network with colleagues and much more. Our ADVANCE Custom Promotions division allows them to customize unforgettable promotional giveaways and the ADVANCE Healthcare Shop offers them exclusive gifts, apparel and professional products.
American Health & Drug Benefits is a peer-reviewed journal for payers, purchasers, policymakers and other stakeholders influencing benefit design. The journal is founded on the concept that health and drugs benefits have undergone a transformation: the econometric value of a drug is of equal importance to clinical outcomes as it is to serving as the basis for securing coverage in formularies and benefit designs. Because benefit designs are greatly affected by clinical, business and policy conditions, this journal offers a forum for stakeholder integration and collaboration towards the improvement of healthcare. www.AHDBonline.com
BenefitsLink.com -- on the web since 1995 -- supplies employee benefits plan practitioners and sponsors with comprehensive news and information about plan compliance, administration, policy and design. Email newsletters with the latest developments are sent to 25,000 subscibers every day. Also online are an industry webcast calendar and message boards for practitioners to exchange questions and answers. Our affiliated site is EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com -- named one of the 100 best job boards on the web -- where employers reach our niche audience of potential job candidates on the web and via prominent links in our daily newsletters.BenefitsLink.com
The California Association of Health Plans (CAHP) is a statewide trade association representing 39 public and private health care plans that provide coverage to more than 21 million Californians. Through legislative advocacy, education, and collaboration with other member organizations, CAHP works to sustain a strong environment in which our member plans can provide access to products that offer choice and flexibility to the Californians they serve.
CMIOs and related C-suite, physician and clinical executives in IT hold substantial authority and accountability for the continuing life-cycle management and broad-based achievement of organizational impact from information technology based applications and systems. CMIO provides a forum for healthcare and clinical IT studies in excellence, leading-edge research, peer-to-peer advice, news, and proven strategies for better patient care. CMIO's tagline "Information, Evidence & Effectiveness in Medicine" underscores the ongoing drive towards innovation through leveraging information technologies for better patient outcomes.
eHealth SmartBrief is the industry's go-to source for the most important news and information 3 times a week. Read by more than 16,000 HIT/HIM professionals, eHealth SmartBrief hand-selects the news from hundreds of global publications, summarizes the articles for you, and presents them in an easy to read format to save you time and keep you smart. eHealth SmartBrief is an official SmartBrief Branded publication, assuring you the highest quality standards. Subscriptions are FREE at www.smartbrief.com/ehealth
EHRoutlook.com, an Access Intelligence company, is an online community dedicated to linking all facets of the private practice physician's EHR needs through one resource. Users are provided with a platform to interact with other physicians; vendors explain solutions in easy-to-understand language; and professionals come for straightforward, useful tips on how to navigate the EHR world. Health care professionals rely on EHRoutlook.com for helpful tools and knowledge about important EHR issues - it's your source for the most up-to-date strategies and critical industry developments. Plus, as an independent source of information and insight, EHRoutlook.com can be counted on as a trustworthy partner that provides unbiased, accurate information. Ways to stay connected: · Sign up for our eLetter · Follow us on Twitter at @Sign up for our eLetter
Employee Benefits Planner is an independent business journal published quarterly and contains reports on the business of benefit planning. It is written by health care professionals from the human resource management industry. Physicians, Attorneys, CPA's, PhD's and respected industry consultants all lend their expertise to analyzing the issues and writing articles. We are dedicated to maintaining the highest possible standards of editorial quality and integrity.
Global Information, Inc. offers comprehensive information services, from providing market research reports, individual surveys and customized research which meet your research needs accurately.
To achieve this service, we cover 30,000 market research reports from over 250 well-selected market research companies and publishers world wide.
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Created as a service to the government community, GovEvents is the premiere online resource for all government events. Now, government and military personnel, vendors, contractors, and event producers have one location on the web to find and post government-related events. The site provides in-depth information on hundreds of events, from major industry tradeshows, to government conferences, to agency-sponsored roundtables, and webcasts (on-demand & live). GovEvents is a free, member-based site. www.govevents.com
Health 2.0 Europe 2nd Annual Conference in Berlin on October 27-28, 2011: Following the success of our first event in Paris in April 2010, we are thrilled to announce the 2nd annual Health 2.0 Europe. The 2010 event gathered over 500 delegates in its first year and showcased the best of Europe's Health 2.0 offerings with some American input too. Co-hosted with our partner the K.I.T. Group, this event will reconvene all the leaders and stakeholders in web 2.0 for health: IT solution providers, health professionals, patient organizations, health authorities, public and private insurance organizations, medical devices and pharmaceutical companies, telecom groups, VC and financiers, policy makers, academics and more.
Health 2.0 5th Annual Fall Conference in San Francisco on September 25-27, 2011: This is our biggest and best conference of the year! More than 1,000 people will gather to see the cutting edge of innovation in health technology, with several major product launches, ground breaking announcements and more than 100 live technology demos - including the best new health care technology startups at Launch!At the event we expect the major players from the worlds of: technology, health plans, providers, pharma, government, health plans, finance & more. We'll continue the Health 2.0 tradition of bringing together decision makers and leading thinkers to have meaningful conversations, in the place where networking and business gets done!
Health Affairs, published monthly, is ranked as one of the top-cited, peer-reviewed journals in health care policy and health care sciences. For 30 years, Health Affairs has provided timely nonpartisan health policy research, analysis and commentary to inform and guide policy makers, healthcare executives, industry leaders, academics, opinion leaders, and the public. Its policy impact reaches around the globe as Health Affairs articles are cited by US administration officials and ministry of health leaders. Health Affairs content is available through multiple channels including the Journal in print and online, Web First articles, Health Affairs Blog, Health Policy Briefs, Issue and Media Briefings, Event Videos, and Podcasts. Individual and institutional subscriptions are available at www.healthaffairs.org.
Healthcare Finance News is the industry’s business newspaper, offering healthcare financial managers comprehensive coverage of today’s unprecedented financial challenges faced by healthcare providers and payers. Reaching more financial management than any other healthcare publication, Healthcare Finance News reaches more than 32,000 subscribers, including CFOs, VPs Finance, CEOs and other financial management at hospitals, multi-hospital systems, medical/surgical clinics and group practices, ambulatory care facilities, nursing homes, extended care facilities, as well as healthcare payers. HealthcareFinanceNews.com
Published in partnership with HIMSS, Healthcare IT News reports on events that affect those working in the healthcare information technology industry. Our more than 50,000 readers include IT professionals employed in physician practices, hospitals, integrated delivery networks and payer organizations, as well as members of the C-suite in those entities. Ranked #1 by hospital CIOs two years in a row (PERQ/HCI study 2005, 2006), Healthcare IT News offers timely, relevant news on new technologies; on IT strategies and tactics; on statutory and regulatory issues decided in Washington, D.C. (as well as state policies); and on news about their colleagues and competitors. www.healthcareitnews.com
HealthcarePayerNews.com provides health insurance executives and other decision-makers in affiliated professions with the most relevant original news coverage in both the public and private reimbursement arenas. With a focus on healthcare finance and how IT can be leveraged to improve accuracy and efficiency in payer networks, areas of coverage include government regulations and policy; CMS; medical banking; public and private reimbursement; public and private contracts; as well as other topics including but not limited to outcomes research, prescription reimbursement plans and supplemental insurance. www.HealthcarePayerNews.com
ICMCC (International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics) is an international foundation operating as the knowledge center for medical and care compunetics (COMPUting & Networking, its EThICs and Social/societal implications), making information on medicine and care available to patients using compunetics as well as distributing information on the use of compunetics in medicine and care to patients and professionals. ICMCC has its own proceedings series with IOSPress and a book series with Springer Verlag (Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics) and hosts on the internet the leading HIT news and science pages (articles.icmcc.org; science.icmcc.org). In 2011 ICMC will organize the first global HIT awareness conference ( ghita.icmcc.org).
www.PharmCast.com is the world leading website designed specifically for pharmaceutical, clinical and biotechnology professionals. www.PharmCast.com brings up-to-date information on pharmaceutical patents, FDA, news, jobs and Buyer's Guide to our visitors. It was created and is maintained by pharmaceutical and biotechnology professionals. Visit www.PharmCast.com and discover for yourself why it is so popular among professionals.
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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.
