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Founded in 1990, the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) has grown to be the leading non-profit association dedicated to the support and development of the profession of case management. It is based in Little Rock, AR, and serves more than 11,000 members, 20,000 subscribers, and 70+ chapters through educational forums, networking opportunities, legislative advocacy and establishing standards to advance the profession.

Its leadership programs, educational forums, and breadth of tools and resources enable case management professionals to ensure more positive outcomes for individual patients' healthcare needs. Case management professionals help patients get healthier, faster; and help curtail the exorbitant costs that too often afflict the nation's health care system. To further the professional knowledge and career opportunities of its members, CMSA also offers a number of education programs. www.cmsa.org

Rely on Drug Benefit News, a biweekly newsletter from AIS, for timely news and data on the business of pharmaceuticals and receive: practical cost-management strategies, details of PBM arrangements, regulatory updates, prescribing trends in different drug categories, and expert coverage of issues and events that have a big impact on pharmacy benefits and drug costs. Visit www.aishealth.com/Products/NewsDBN.html to learn more today!

Get inside news and tactics to help you succeed in the consumer-directed health plan and HSA markets from Inside Consumer-Directed Care. Every other week, receive strategic analysis on: plan design innovations, contract terms between vendors and employers, market strategies, and financial results. Visit www.aishealth.com/Products/NewsICD.html for your free issue.

Specialty Pharmacy News is a monthly newsletter to help health plans, PBMs, providers, and employers manage costs more aggressively and deliver biotechs, injectables, and infusibles more effectively. Focusing on formulary strategies, benefit designs, and market analysis, SPN's business stories help you meet the complicated challenges of reducing costs while improving outcomes. Visit http://www.aishealth.com/Products/NewsSPN.html to learn more today!

Published 10 times per year by 1105 Government Information Group, Defense Systems provides the most comprehensive, integrated coverage of defense information technology, C4ISR and net-centric warfare. It is the magazine of NCW and the knowledge technologies that enable it. From enterprise systems to tactical IT, from satellites and geospatial to networks, sensors and combat communications, Defense Systems has a truly net-centric focus. Every issue serves the information needs of 32,000 senior IT professionals across the armed forces, defense and intelligence agencies. www.DefenseSystems.com

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.

Every business day, FierceHealthcare briefs healthcare executives and hospital administrators on healthcare organizations & providers, Medicare/Medicaid/CMS, policies & regulations, healthcare reform, and more. Beyond the news of the day, our editors produce in-depth features on the state of the industry and conduct exclusive interviews with those at the forefront of the U.S. healthcare system. As a member of our community, you will receive an exclusive invitation to each of our webinars and gain full access to our entire whitepaper and eBook library. Advance your career by attending our networking parties and taking full advantage of our job board. Join today! http://www.FierceHealthcare.com

FierceHealthIT updates healthcare executives, CIOs and IT managers on the latest market trends and developments concerning CPOE, EMRs, HIE, e-prescribing, and other health IT industry news. Our editors supplement the news of the day with in-depth features on industry-shaping technologies. In addition to our free, weekly email newsletter, you can keep track of market trends through our exclusive webinars and benefit from our vast whitepaper and eBook library. As a FierceHealthIT subscriber, you will have full access to our job boards and networking parties. Join the FierceHealthIT community today! http://www.FierceHealthIT.com

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.

No other publication knows HIPAA and patient data issues better than Health Information Privacy/Security Alert. With more than a decade of coverage under its belt, this concise monthly provides healthcare executives with the information they need to adapt to the shifting health data landscape. This "must read" newsletter" goes well beyond HIPAA, providing timely coverage of the broad range of state and federal confidentiality issues, including EHR systems, access to government data and employee relations. And its free HIPAA Enforcement Statistics Service is a requirement for anyone in the field. For a free trial subscription, send an email to dmelamed@hipalert.com

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.

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

Healthcare Informatics is the only publication focused solely on servicing the acute-care C-suite IT leaders. It covers best practices for system selection, contract negotiation, implementation and integration, as well as strategic management issues, such as governance, staffing, budgeting and change management. To ensure consistent coverage of important issues, Healthcare Informatics and its Web site are divided into six areas of content - clinical, financial, administrative, wireless, imaging, and policy. For more information, visit www.healthcare-informatics.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

HealthLeaders Media is the premier publisher of information resources for senior healthcare executives, reaching more than 100,000 healthcare decision-makers nationwide every month. In addition to our flagship monthly journal, HealthLeaders magazine, we distribute relevant industry information, practical advice, case study solutions, and innovative strategies through newsletters, e-mail publications, live events, and state-specific healthcare business news services. For more information, please visit www.healthleadersmedia.com

Hospitals & Health Networks is published by Health Forum, an American Hospital Association company. It is the leading industry management journal, according to a national tracking survey of 3,800 health care executives. H&HN; enjoys high readership among the senior executives in the 4,600-plus AHA member hospitals and health systems, and in the thousands of provider and payer organizations that collaborate with them. www.hhnmag.com

The Journal of Medical Device Regulation is intended to educate, provide professional guidance, develop core competence of regulatory professionals, and promote debate on fundamental and topical matters within the medical device industry. In addition to publishing review and discussion articles by opinion leaders from the device community, it summarizes the international news headlines and provides useful reference information. www.globalregulatorypress.com

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.

For more than 25 years, Med Ad News has provided the busy pharmaceutical executive with need-to-know business information. Each issue delivers broad coverage and penetrating analysis of issues, events, trends, and strategies shaping the pharmaceutical industry. Published monthly, Med Ad News provides exclusive content examining historical trends pertaining to and current events affecting the sales and marketing of medicines and the companies that manufacture them. To learn more about Med Ad News and other products from Canon Communications Pharmaceutical Media Group visit www.pharmalive.com or call 215-944-9800.

Physicians belonging to medical societies traditionally met on Tuesday evenings to discuss current health care issues. Our research indicates that more than 90 percent of all medical societies met at this time - a time during the week that most physicians were free. Over the last two decades, however, physician practices have changed dramatically. Medical society meetings on Tuesdays, as well as their monthly magazines and bulletins, have become less frequent and in many instances have disappeared. Medical Tuesday brings the latest private practice issues to a network of physicians and health care professionals on alternate Tuesdays via electronic mail. To learn more, go to www.MedicalTuesday.net where you too may subscribe.

Medicare Patient Management (MPM) is the first and only journal focused on enhanced care for Medicare beneficiaries. As Medicare evolves, the focus shifts from an acute care, volume-based paper system to an integrated digital system of enhanced preventive care. Quality of care issues become more important and directly impacts pay for performance. MPM offers practical approaches to enhancing care of Medicare beneficiaries by offering: tools for the implementation of evidence based medicine, helping providers improve clinical outcomes, evidence based prescribing models, insight on integrating information systems. http://www.MedicarePatientManagement.com

MobiHealthNews chronicles the healthcare sector's adoption of mobile technology: A convergence of two industries that is shaping the future of how healthcare is delivered to the patient on-the-go, at home and at their place of care.

MobiHealthNews offers a combination of breaking news, exclusive interviews, live event coverage and industry commentary to its growing readership of hospital administrators, healthcare service providers, physicians, nurses and the industry players designing, developing and deploying the wireless services that are transforming healthcare today. Healthcare executives rely on daily reports from MobiHealthNews to track innovations and to define sustainable business models for this emerging wireless health industry.

MobiHealthNews is both a daily, online news portal and free, weekly newsletter. Subscribe Today!

Modern Healthcare is the industry's only healthcare business news weekly, providing healthcare executives the most reliable, up-to-date and comprehensive business news and information. We also provide news online at www.modernhealthcare.com and via our daily e-newsletter, the Daily Dose. With this three-tiered approach, our award-winning editorial staff delivers information that enables healthcare leaders to take constructive action and improve performance.

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.

Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Insight is internationally recognised as providing essential information for anyone doing business in, or with, the pharmaceuticals & healthcare industries. The publication provides subscribers with analysis, forecasts and company profiles on a country-by-country basis, covering the key trends impacting on global pharmaceuticals & healthcare markets.

Published by Business Monitor International, the emerging market specialists, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Insight is broken down into five regional publications, Asia, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East & Africa and the Americas. The Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Insight website www.pharmaceuticalsinsight.com includes ALL the content from the publications and gives the added flexibility of exploring that content by country, topic or keyword.

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PharmaVOICE is the executive forum that allows business leaders to engage in a candid dialogue on the myriad challenges and trends impacting the life-sciences industry. PharmaVOICE reaches more than 17,000 U.S.-based executives who influence business strategies and affect change. Published monthly, PharmaVOICE provides readers with insightful and thought-provoking commentary in a multiple-perspective format through its forums, topics, and articles that cover a range of issues from molecule through market. To Raise Your VOICE, contact feedback@pharmavoice.com.

TeleHealth World is the new magazine serving the rapidly expanding fields of telehealth, telemedicine, and connected healthcare. It is a comprehensive news and analysis resource for healthcare providers and technology providers who are leading today's revolution in remotely monitored and administered healthcare, medical treatment and fitness/wellness enhancement. To learn more and to subscribe visit: www.telehealthworld.com

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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.