AdvaMed member companies produce the medical devices, diagnostic products and health information systems that are transforming health care through earlier disease detection, less invasive procedures and more effective treatments. Our members produce nearly 90 percent of the health care technology purchased annually in the United States and more than 50 percent purchased annually around the world. AdvaMed members range from the largest to the smallest medical technology innovators and companies. For more information, visit www.advamed.org.

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

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) represents multispecialty medical groups and other organized systems of care, including some of the nation's largest, most prestigious integrated healthcare delivery systems. The members of AMGA deliver health care to 80 million patients in 43 states, including 15 million capitated lives. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, AMGA is the strategic partner for medical groups providing a comprehensive package of benefits, including political advocacy, educational and networking programs, publications, benchmarking data services, and financial and operations assistance. Please visit www.amga.org for more information.

ACAP is a national trade association representing "safety net health plans" that are Medicaid-focused (75% of the plans' enrollees have Medicaid, Medicare or SCHIP coverage) and are non-profit or owned by non-profit entities like public hospitals or community health centers. ACAP's mission is to improve the health of vulnerable populations through the support of Medicaid-focused community affiliated health plans committed to these populations and the providers who serve them.
Visit us online at www.communityplans.net.

AMDIS, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, is the premier non profit physician membership organization dedicated to advance the field of applied medical informatics and improve the practice of medicine by the direct physician use of information technology. AMDIS is the home for the "connected" CMIO. Over 1200 AMDIS physician members and 100 non physician associate members participate in the many AMDIS sponsored programs throughout the year. For information visit www.amdis.org or email info@amdis.org.

The 39 local member companies of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association have provided millions of families with top-quality, affordable health insurance for more than 70 years. For the one in three Americans who carry Blue Cross and Blue Shield cards, the Blue Plans symbolize health security. Our member Plans provide the kind of health care coverage Americans will want and need in the 21st century: high quality, customer-focused, innovative, affordable.Visit us online at www.bcbs.com.

The Business Intelligence Network™ delivers industry-based content hosted by domain experts and industry leaders in Business Intelligence, Business Performance Management, Data Warehousing and Information Quality. The Business Intelligence Network serves these communities with unparalleled industry coverage and resources.

The Network consist of four sites – www.BeyeSEARCH.com the only BI and DW specific search engine on the web, www.BeyeBLOGS.com a community blogging site, www.BeyeRESEARCH.com a resource site for industry specific surveys and research, and the flagship site www.BeyeNETWORK.com. All of the sites utilize the most advanced technology available for delivery of content over the web which includes RSS feeds, expert hosted blogs, audio driven interviews and podcasting.

The Center for Health Value Innovation (non profit 501 c 3) was founded in 2007 on the work of Value-Based Architects David Hom and Jack Mahoney MD. Their groundbreaking efforts at Pitney Bowes have been created the tipping point for value-based innovations across employers, health plans, and government health management. The mission of the Center is to provide establish value and produce evidence for sustainable health and financial improvement. The Founders (including Dr. Mahoney and Mr. Hom, Greg Judd, Cyndy Nayer and Randy Vogenberg) have created a "safe haven" for purchasers and providers to consider the tools that drive meaningful return on the investment in workforce health. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.vbhealth.org.

Be part of the solution. Join other "doers" who are coming together to take action about the health care crisis. Whoever you are, whatever your role, ChangeNow4Health is your opportunity to work with other individuals to improve health care by taking achievable first steps. www.changenow4health.com

Chilmark Research is a healthcare industry analyst firm performing research on adoption and use of healthcare technology. While other analyst firms also address this sector, what sets Chilmark Research apart is our strong focus on the rapid evolution in technology, policy and health consumerism that will culminate in the home being the future center of healthcare.

Focusing on personal healthcare technology provides us the opportunity to provide focused, yet comprehensive research on rapid changes occurring in this sector. Topical areas that we are addressing for our clients include among others:
• Social media and the rising impact of Internet-based health communities,
• Adoption trends for Personal Health Records (PHRs),
• Medical tourism's growth and impact on traditional healthcare modalities and
• Leveraging mobile platforms, sensor networks and services for telehealth.

Combining deep expertise in proven market research methodologies, strong analytical skills and domain knowledge, Chilmark Research offers unparalleled quality in the reports it publishes and consulting services it offers to its clients. More information can be found at: www.ChilmarkResearch.com.

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 Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI) is a research and advocacy association of insurers, actuaries, physicians, agents and others which was founded in 1992 as a new voice to advocate market-oriented solutions for the health insurance industry. CAHI members believe that only by embracing principled, free market health care solutions that emphasize choice, competition and consumer control will we ensure quality health care at an affordable price for all Americans.

If you believe that too, then we need you to join with us in the fight for affordable health insurance. Contact us at 703-836-6200 or mail@cahi.org to find out how.

DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance convenes all stakeholders providing services along the care continuum toward the goal of population health improvement. These care continuum services include strategies such as health and wellness promotion, disease management and care coordination. DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance promotes the role of population health improvement in raising the quality of care, improving health outcomes and reducing preventable health care costs for people with chronic conditions and those at risk for developing chronic conditions. DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance represents more than 200 corporate and individual stakeholders, including health plans, disease management organizations, health information technology innovators, employers, physicians, nurses and other health care professionals and researchers and academicians. Learn more by visiting DMAA online at www.dmaa.org.

The Disease Management Purchasing Consortium (& Advisory Council) is by far the largest source of contracting assistance in disease and population management today:

• By dollar volume, Consortium member payors account for approximately 70% of all contracted or implemented outsourced disease and population management programs in place today; 
• 86 health plans plus 18 private and public sector employers/retirement systems, 2 unions, and 12 state Medicaid programs, covering 80,000,000 lives in total, belong as "full" members, for whom all services are offered, with the emphasis on representation in and assistance with disease and population management strategy and outsourcing. View our full listing of members.
• 67 organizations with an interest in disease management - vendors, pharmaceutical companies, venture capital firms, regulatory and governmental bodies and trade associations, periodicals, consulting firms, academic medical centers, and executive recruiters—have joined as associate members, with the emphasis on education about the disease and population management industry and strategy. View our listing of Associate Members EXCLUDING vendors and venture capitalists (whose names are kept confidential).

The Galen Institute, Inc., is a not-for-profit, free-market research organization devoted exclusively to health policy. It was founded in 1995 by Grace-Marie Turner to promote a more informed public debate over individual freedom, consumer choice, competition, and diversity in the health sector.

The Galen Institute believes that:

• Patients and their physicians should have authority and responsibility over their own health care decisions.
• A vibrant and consumer-driven free market will lower costs, promote innovation, expand choice, and increase access to better medical care.
• Policy changes must reinforce innovation that leads to improved quality and that can lead to greater access to more affordable care.

Health On the Net Foundation is the leading organization promoting and guiding the deployment of useful and reliable online medical and health information, and its appropriate and efficient use. Created in 1995, HON is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. www.hon.ch

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.

Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven (HL7) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services. HL7's 2,300+ members include approximately 500 corporate members who represent more than 90% of the information systems vendors serving healthcare.

HL7 provides standards for interoperability that improve care delivery, optimize workflow, reduce ambiguity, and enhance knowledge transfer among all of our stakeholders, including healthcare providers, government agencies, the vendor community, fellow SDOs and patients. In all of our transactions we exhibit timeliness, scientific rigor and technical expertise without compromising transparency, accountability, practicality, or our willingness to put the needs of our stakeholders first.

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).

The International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) is a non-profit organization fostering the creation and innovation, dissemination and application of medical, clinical and biological engineering knowledge and the management of technology for improved health and quality of life. Its activities include participation in the formulation of public policy and the dissemination of information through publications and forums.

The IFMBE as the only international organization covering the full range of biomedical and clinical engineering, healthcare, health technologies and management, is representing through its 58 national and international constituent societies some 130.000 professionals involved in the issues of health technologies and health care delivery, a unique pool of expertise on healthcare innovation and technology. The Federation as an NGO in official relations with the World Health Organization is closely cooperating with WHO in the areas of health technologies, specifically policy and planning, quality and safety, norms and standards, technology assessment and management, ethics, education and capacity building. Together with WHO and within the broad context of improving health service delivery and health systems performance, the Federation supports countries in the area of health technology policy, planning and management, education and capacity building. www.ifmbe.org

The ISfTeH is the umbrella Society for National Telemedicine/eHealth societies/associations and exists to facilitate the international dissemination of knowledge and experience in Telemedicine & eHealth and to provide access to recognized experts in the field worldwide. It also counts Institutional, Corporate, Individual, Student and Nurses members. Currently more than 50 countries worldwide are already represented in ISfTeH. It is also an NGO in Official Relation with WHO.

MassPRO (www.masspro.org) is a health care performance improvement company. We develop innovative, impactful solutions that transform patient care. Our approach is unique because we work across the full continuum of patients, health care providers, purchasers, and payers to improve the care delivery system as a whole, not just its individual components.

Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) is the leading trade association solely focused on representing Medicaid health plans. MHPA provides advocacy, research and organized forums that support the development of policy solutions to enhance the delivery of quality health care. For more information, visit Medicaid Health Plans of America at www.mhpa.org or email at info@mhpa.org.

Medical Device Developments serves a growing international device industry now valued at over $160bn. Each edition boasts a line-up of leading industry professionals covering the major themes and addressing the key issues currently shaping the market.

By combining expert opinion with case studies and technical papers relating to every sector within the device industry, Medical Device Developments is designed to provide senior personnel within the major medical OEMs with the overview they need to lead the development of their organisation.

The publication is supported online by medicaldevice-network.com, a site used by the industry as a daily reference point covering current opinion and the latest developments as well providing a platform from which manufacturers can source suppliers and establish long-term supply partnerships.

For more details please visit medicaldevice-network.com

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 clarson@mbgh.org and visit our website at www.mbgh.org www.mbgh.org .

The National Association of Healthcare Access Management provides quality educational programming and interaction for professionals engaged in the management of patient access services in healthcare delivery.

Patient access services professionals provide quality services in registration and all of its support processes to patients, providers and payers into, through and out of their health care experience. Patient access services include: admissions, registration, patient finance, guest relations, and other related services. NAHAM has been a leader in defining and promoting best practices in healthcare access services through education and public advocacy initiatives for more than 30 years. www.naham.org

The National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH) has a membership of nearly 60 employer-led coalitions across the United States, representing over 10,000 employers and approximately 34 million employees and their dependents. These business coalitions are composed of mostly mid- and large-sized employers in both the private and public sectors in a particular city, county, or region. NBCH member coalitions are committed to Community Health Reform, including an improvement in the value of health care provided through employer-sponsored health plans and to the entire community. Learn more at www.nbch.org.

NIHCM Foundation is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of America's health care system. The Foundation conducts research, policy analysis and educational activities on a range of health care issues. It fosters dialog between the private health care industry and the public sector to find workable solutions to health system problems. Through a grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NIHCM is studying the role of the private sector in the national battle against obesity. NIHCM's current work also includes research in the areas of health information technology and maternal and child health. Detailed information about the Foundation's projects and publications is available on our newly designed web site at www.nihcm.org.

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

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;
• solutions that help consumers manage chronic disease;
• 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.

Partnership for Prevention was founded in 1991 by leaders dedicated to making disease prevention and health promotion a national priority and America a healthier nation. Partnership seeks to increase understanding and use of clinical preventive services and population-based prevention to improve health.

We seek to create a "prevention culture" in America, where the prevention of disease and the promotion of health, based on the best scientific evidence, is the first priority for policy makers, decision-makers and practitioners who can make a difference in this area.

Partnership's unique blend of members and leaders helps unite diverse interests in support of strong prevention policies. Partnership's members include corporations, trade associations, non-governmental organizations, patient groups, associations of health professionals, healthcare delivery organizations, and government agencies. www.prevent.org

The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) is a national coalition of patients, providers, community organizations, business and labor groups and health policy experts, committed to raising awareness of policies and practices that save lives and reduce health costs through more effective prevention and management of chronic disease. For more information, please visit www.fightchronicdisease.org.

The Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC), was launched in 2004 to educate the public and policymakers, and to promote new ways of thinking about health care. Today, PMC represents a broad spectrum of more than 200 academic, industry, patient, provider and payer communities, as we seek to advance the understanding and adoption of personalized medicine concepts, services and products to benefit patients and the health system.

Physician Hospitals of America, or PHA, offers support, advocacy and educational services to the physician owned hospital industry, reflecting at all times the best interests of the patients, physicians, and other specialty providers who play an inextricable and essential role in the provision of healthcare services.
www.physicianhospitals.org/home.php.

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

The Smart Card Alliance is a not-for-profit, multi-industry association working to stimulate the understanding, adoption, use and widespread application of smart card technology. Through specific projects such as education programs, market research, advocacy, industry relations and open forums, the Alliance keeps its members connected to industry leaders and innovative thought. The Alliance is the single industry voice for smart cards, leading industry discussion on the impact and value of smart cards in the U.S. and Latin America. For more information please visit www.smartcardalliance.org.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation representing more than 3 million businesses and organizations of every size, sector, and region. www.uschamber.com

Founded in 1944, the World Bank's mission is to fight poverty and help the poor in developing countries by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity, and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors. It is the largest source of development assistance, providing about US $20 billion in assistance for the 4.7 billion poor who live in the Bank's 100 client countries, bringing a mix of finance and ideas to developing countries. The Bank is the largest source external finance for development assistance in the health sector. Annual lending to the Health, Nutrition and Population sector ranges from US $1-2 billion, with a total portfolio valuation between US $12-15 billion. www.worldbank.org

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