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.

The American Health Quality Association is dedicated to improving the safety and effectiveness of American health care. AHQA represents the national network of Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) that work with hospitals, medical practices, long-term care facilities, home health agencies, health plans, pharmacists, and employers to encourage the spread of best clinical practices and improve systems of care. QIOs are working in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S. territories. Find your local QIO at: www.ahqa.org

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'Benefits and Compensation Solutions' and 'CDHC Solutions' magazines are leading business magazines serving more than 46,000 Benefit Brokers and 'Benefits and Compensation' decision makers at companies with 500 or more employees.

'CDHC Solutions' is the industry's first magazine about consumer-driven health care. Benefits and Compensation Solutions' magazine is one of the leading resources for CFO's, COO's, HR and Benefits VP's, Benefits Directors, Compensation Managers and Consultants, who work to create successful B&C; solutions. Visit our Web site, www.bcsolutionsmag.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 Only Business Magazine Serving Consumer-Directed Health Care: CDHC Solutions magazine, enewsletter, and www.cdhcsolutionsmag.com cover consumer-directed health care innovation and solutions for more than 46,000 employers, TPAs, benefit brokers and health plans. CDHC Solutions is the first and only magazine exclusively focusing on the changing landscape of health care benefits. CDHCS advertisers benefit from the focus on employers, brokers, TPAs, health plans and the compatibility of the editorial environment for their advertising.

ClinicaHealth powers online support communities for voluntary health associations, hospital groups, payor/provider organizations and other providers of medical information online. The company currently works with dozens of leading health websites, including those of US News & World Report, Discovery Health, the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), the Lung Cancer Alliance, the Christopher Reeve Foundation, WomenHeart, and Inova Hospitals. ClinicaHealth communities are safe places for patients, their families, and caregivers to find and support one another, sharing stories, conversations, and as much or as little personal information as they wish. A full list of ClinicaHealth partner websites can be found at www.clinicahealth.com/communities.

The Convenient Care Association is the trade association of Convenient Care industry stakeholders in the United States. Our mission is to strengthen and advance the Convenient Care model of health care. This model is driven by a desire to offer the public high quality, easily accessible, affordable care that is uniquely tailored to meet their needs. The CCA was founded following an unprecedented national summit between nurse practitioner organizations and other health care leaders. The CCA operates as a non-profit organization, dedicated to providing the Convenient Care industry with a common voice and encouraging the placement of nurse practitioners in leadership positions throughout the industry. CCA is responsible for the development of the Convenient Care Industry Quality and Standards of Practice, and serves as a resource for CCA members in the areas of legislative advocacy, business development, data research and analysis, media representation, and industry leadership.

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.

Hospitalmanagement.net, in conjunction with its sister publications Medical Imaging Technology and Practical Patient Care, enables easy and thorough communication between buyers and sellers through multiple, fully optimised channels.

Our online service brings together a global community of industry professionals and a wealth of market knowledge based around extensive experience.

Medical Imaging Technology has been developed to satisfy the huge demand for information on medical imaging, a demand made not only by radiologists but also by cardiologists, physicians and senior healthcare managers.

Practical Patient Care is published specifically to provide medical practitioners and senior managers with the information they need to formulate and deliver successful wound management and infection control strategies, strategies that will allow them to achieve their objective of improving patient care at a reduced cost.

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HSA Market News promises to get behind the press releases to provide you with real data on HSA adoption, plan design, membership growth and pricing. We will keep you in the loop on the latest partnerships and competitive threats. We will also address critical customer service and technology issues – all in one easy-to-access format. With weekly email updates and monthly printed newsletters, HSA Market News offers exclusive coverage that quickly alerts you on: the enrollment of HSAs and HRAs, its adoption trends, product launches and competitive efforts among health plans, interest rates and fees among banks and financial institutions, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and employer views and initiatives around HSAs, HRAs and HDHPs. HSA Market News provides you with a first-hand take on marketplace developments.
To subscribe: www.corporateresearchgroup.com/hsa.html

Four pillars underpin the movement to improve the health care system: Affordability, Quality, Usability and Access. Chief executives and corporate benefits purchasers, consultants/brokers, physicians and other health care professionals all play critical roles in making this transformation a reality. hub magazine's mission is to bring these audiences together and provide readers with a forum to share best practices and effective solutions that will help drive this change to our nation's health care system. hub is published three times a year and is the exclusive magazine of UnitedHealth Group. It can be accessed at www.hubmagazine.net.

Currently in Beta, icyou.com is the "online gateway" to watch and share healthcare videos.

icyou.com invites patients, caregivers, doctors, media outlets, medical facilities and websites to upload and share their healthcare stories- for free. Since launching in September, it has quickly become home to the most diverse collection of healthcare videos on the Web. This includes video coverage of nationwide healthcare events produced by the icyou.com team.

Funded by parent company Benefitfocus, the vision has been to build a resource community, which aggregates healthcare videos while making information easier to find. www.icyou.com

Managed Care Report is a hard-hitting package that will set you on the course to a more profitable future in managed care for less than a third of the cost of competing publications. Health plans, health care providers, policy makers, consultants, and attorneys turn to our editorial team for insight and analysis in the fast-changing world of managed care. Each issue of Managed Care Report is filled with must read information on federal and state regulatory updates, cutting edge business strategies, legal-roundups of managed care legislation, and earnings reports as well as analysis of the managed care market.

For more than 50 years, health care leaders and executives have turned to Medicine & Health for insight and analysis on the world of health care policy. These are turbulent times for health policy, with budgets tight at the federal, state and local levels. Health insurance costs are rising, medical errors are in the spotlight, and an aging baby boom generation is destined to strain, and ultimately transform, the health care system in this country. As policymakers wrangle with these long-simmering crises, they must also confront bioterrorism response plans and the dangerously withering public health infrastructure.

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 [email protected] and visit our website at www.mbgh.org www.mbgh.org .

The Midwives Alliance of North America was formed in 1982 as a professional organization for all midwives. It's goals are to unify, support and strengthen the profession of midwifery in order to improve the quality of health care for women, babies and communities; to represent the profession of midwifery on a regional, national and international basis; to promote guidelines for the education of midwives and to assist in the development of midwifery programs; to promote research in the field of midwifery care; to provide public education regarding normal pregnancy and childbirth; to promote a woman's right to choose her care provider and place of birth. www.mana.org

The National Association of Health Underwriters represents more than 20,000 licensed health insurance agents, brokers, consultants and benefit professionals through more than 200 chapters across America. NAHU members service the health insurance needs of large and small employers as well as people seeking individual health insurance coverage. Every day, NAHU members work to obtain insurance for clients who are struggling to balance their desire to purchase high-quality and comprehensive health coverage with the reality of rapidly escalating medical care costs. As such, one of NAHU's primary goals is to do everything we can to promote access to affordable health insurance coverage.

The National Center for Policy Analysis is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research institute. Its mission is to seek innovative private sector solutions to public policy problems. The center examines domestic public policy issues ranging from elderly entitlements to tax policy. The center is probably best known for developing the concept of Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs), now known as Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and developing and promoting the movement of consumer-directed health reforms.

NCPA studies, ideas and experts are quoted frequently in news stories nationwide. Columns written by NCPA scholars appear regularly in national publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, USA Today, as well as on radio talk shows and television public affairs programs. www.ncpa.org

Natural Standard is an integrative medicine database that provides high quality, evidence-based, professional and consumer information to some of the world's most eminent institutions, such as the Mayo Clinic, the National Institutes of Health, and Harvard Medical School. The information included on the Natural Standard website is clinically relevant and undergoes multi-disciplinary review at academic centers across the country in order to promote unbiased and well-informed healthcare decisions. Individual databases include Herbs and Supplements, Health and Wellness, Comparative Effectiveness, Medical Conditions, Brand Names, Practitioners, Nutrition, and an Advanced Interactions Checker. www.naturalstandard.com

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

Founded in 1979, PRI's mission is to champion freedom, opportunity, and private initiative by advancing free-market policy solutions. www.pacificresearch.org

The future home care delivery model includes in-home health monitoring applications, innovative geriatric care monitoring tools, and ubiquitous e-health services, all integrated with care providers' informatics infrastructure to provide a high quality continuum of care at a lower cost.
Parks Associates' Digital Health Research includes analysis of:

• emerging technologies and applications;
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• advanced communication tools, self-diagnostic devices, and home-monitoring appliances;
• incentives, regulatory and reimbursement issues; and,
• the drivers and barriers for the implementation of home-based care services.

Pay for Performance Reporter is a monthly management briefing covering the news and key developments in P4P. It will provide you with answers to questions you may have, with facts, news, insight and emerging P4P developments. Discover how early adopters achieved physician "buy in," the importance of leverage, how to choose your performance incentive measures wisely and choose measures that are defensible, and why provider feedback is so important. Every month you'll receive an objective, balanced report with current news and findings surrounding P4P.

When you subscribe today, save $50 and receive FREE our special bonus report "New Initiatives, Trends, and Results in Provider Pay-for-Performance," valued at $99.

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Physician's EHR, LLC, advises physicians on planning for consumer driven health care, patient communication strategies, electronic medical records, electronic health records and personal health records, along with Privacy and Security implementation strategies. Physicians are turning to us again and again for advice on strategic and layered adoption of electronic health records. Our opinions and survey results are sought by national HIT and compliance organizations as well as numerous medical societies. Physicians EHR is the content developer, team leader and co-author of more than 10 books, video courses and booklets for the American Medical Association's line of HIPAA books and co-authored the HIPAA Security Kit for the American Dental Association. www.physiciansehr.com

In a quick-access, Q&A; format, the Health Savings Account Answer Book covers HSAs comprehensively and in depth, cutting through the hype and current confusion surrounding HSAs; helps you accurately weigh all their pros and cons; and gives you the facts you need to make sound decisions...avoid pitfalls...answer employee challenges...and deal effectively with healthcare vendors. It answers well over 400 key questions on all aspects of HSA establishment, administration, and compliance-including rules and penalties, medical coverage, contributions and deductions, distributions, rollovers and transfers, fiduciaries, filing requirements, and more.
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