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 data on HMOs, PPOs, POS plans, new managed care products and markets, and government initiatives that are changing the face of health insurance. Get the inside news, targeted data and expert analysis that will help improve your organization's bottom line. Visit www.aishealth.com/Products/NewsMCW.html to order your No-Risk Subscription 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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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