AIS’s Health Plan Week, formerly Managed Care Week, provides hard-hitting business and financial news of the health insurance industry that gives you a competitive edge. This weekly newsletter includes information on HMOs, PPOs, POS plans, new products and markets, as well as government initiatives that are changing the face of health insurance. Get the inside news, targeted data and expert analysis that will help improve your bottom line. Visit http://www.aishealth.com/Products/NewsMCW.html to learn more.

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 Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) is a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors established for the purpose of achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and nationwide health information network. The HITSP is sponsored by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in cooperation with strategic partners such as the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) and Booz Allen Hamilton.

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