Atlantic Information Services, Inc. (AIS) is a specialized publisher and information provider that serves health care executives and managers in hospitals, health plans, medical group practices, pharmaceutical companies, and other health care organizations. Visit http://www.aishealth.com to view AIS's extensive line of industry news and guidance tools, including print and electronic newsletters, looseleafs, books, reports, and audioconferences.

Health Plan Week, formerly Managed Care Week, provides business, financial and regulatory news of the health insurance industry. Each week, this newsletter covers new benefit designs and underwriting practices, new products and marketing strategies, mergers and alliances and more. Annual subscriptions include access to free quarterly data - Key Financial Indicators for Leading Health Plans.

Medicare Advantage News (aishealth.com/marketplace/medicare-advantage-news) provides analysis of changes to and company activity in the Medicare Advantage and managed Medicaid programs, plus intelligence on strategies to retain enrollees and reduce costs. This biweekly newsletter covers enrollment trends and market expansions; bids, proposals and contract details; mergers, acquisitions and business deals; oversight issues and legislative mandates; marketing strategies and more.

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

Drug Benefit Trends, published by Cliggott Publishing Group, a division of CMP Medica, is a monthly journal that reaches more than 28,000 drug benefit decision makers, primarily medical directors and pharmacy directors of managed care organizations, who control or direct the pharmacy service, administer the drug benefit, and have an impact on formulary decisions. The circulation also includes major employers and PBMs.

Drug Benefit Trends presents research findings and other information and analyses to guide readers in making best possible decisions affecting patient health using the tools of managed care. Articles are peer-reviewed for accuracy, objectivity, and sound methodology. Regular features include “Trend of the Month,” a graphic and descriptive analysis of a major trend affecting the drug benefit, and regular columns authored by well regarded managed care experts on drug benefit management, specialty pharmacy, and behavioral health issues.

Drug Benefit Trends also publishes a variety of issue-oriented single-sponsored supplements and multi-sponsored supplements focusing on specific disease categories.

The Harvard Health Policy Review is a nonpartisan, semiannual journal, edited by Harvard College students dedicated to addressing health policy issues. Our publication aims to capture insights from undergraduate, graduate, and professional authors to heighten the role of health policy discourse.

Get a fast, reliable overview of healthcare M&A;, IPOs, venture capital and private placements news and trends with Healthcare Corporate Finance News. In just 20 minutes a month you can stay completely abreast of every important health care company transaction in biotech, hospitals, medical devices, managed care and more. You get objective research to help you identify trends, make projections, stay ahead of the latest dealmaking, compare and contrast what's happening in your segment of the business, and much more. A one-year subscription includes 12 monthly issues plus 12 mid-month e-lerts to the latest venture capital deals. Visit www.hcfnews.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

HealthEconomics.Com is the premier website for health economics and outcomes research resources as well as jobs on the Internet. Continuously updated by experienced health economists, HealthEconomics.Com is organized by user-friendly categories such as Associations, Consulting Companies, Conferences, Databases, Education, Employment, Government, Humor, Journals, Libraries, News, Pharma/Biotech companies, Pharmacy, and Questionnaires/Performance Assessment. This easy-to-navigate web site is searchable by key word and provides visitors the ability to recommend new sites of potential interest. Scientific forums provide an opportunity for idea exchange. The Employment Center is the place to find a new employee or look for a new position in the field. Visit www.healtheconomics.com soon.

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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The Managed Care Information Center (MCIC) gathers, compiles, analyzes, studies and distributes business information on the managed care industry. The MCIC delivers this strategic business information to its clients via executive newsletters, yearbooks, leading industry databases and directories, management reports, and client research studies. The information is available in print, on CD-ROM and via the Internet at www.themcic.com.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., recognized as a Certified Woman-Owned Business, is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in new and promising areas of science and biomedical research. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's over sixty journals, books, and newsletters is available at www.liebertpub.com.

Medical News Today is updated with more than 150 articles on weekdays and over 40 articles at weekends - more than any other health news website. The website is divided into 117 medical categories/specialties, allowing you to browse only the news relevant to you. Advanced news archive searches allow you to quickly find the news you are interested in, from over 200,000 archived articles. www.medicalnewstoday.com.

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

BUILDING TRUST AND SAFETY WORLDWIDE

The Pharmaceutical Safety Institute (the Institute) was established in 2006 with a vision to build public trust internationally by providing forums and developing initiatives to advance an overall "Culture of Safety" throughout the life sciences sector.

As a nonprofit, independent, academically affiliated entity, our mission is to promote safety principles best practices, and organizational cultures of safety including evaluating and improving the understanding of each individual's role in implementing the "Culture of Safety".

Quality & Safety in Health Care (QSHC) is a leading international peer review journal providing information to improve patient safety and quality of care. It is an essential forum for researchers, clinical professionals, managers as well as experts in organisational development and behaviour.

QSHC aims to contribute actively to the debate about the quality and safety of health care by exploring subjects and ideas, from both routine clinical and managerial practice and research, which concern and inform this debate and which focus on real benefits to patients.

Visit www.qshc.bmj.com for FREE Editor's choice articles, online archive, blogs, details for submitting a paper, subscription details and more.

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