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.

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.

Clinical Equipment & Supplies Review magazine presents a wide variety of products that are of interest to those professionals working in hospitals, labs and clinics. Editorially, we present certain product features on a problem/solution basis and individual product reviews throughout the magazine.

CESreview is of special interest to those involved in the purchasing process.

Being an on-line magazine, we benefit from the ability to utilize a variety of electronic features including videos, 3D animations and so on. Our new resource section - available to subscribers only - will feature a company and product search, a features section and forum.

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.

Future Healthcare magazine provides an invaluable service to physicians and health care professionals, by evaluating new and emerging technologies , whilst examining how these innovations will impact the end-users who are committed to increasing levels of patient care. The tri-annual magazine combines leading medical associations and world-class editorial from key opinion leaders who are shaping the future of the medical industry, to deliver an informed and concise guide on purchasing choices to the healthcare decision-maker. www.futurehealthcareus.com

The Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium brings together organizations to conduct research on topics related to strategic management of the supply chain. The goals are to:

• understand the healthcare supply chain in-depth
• optimize the clinical-management interface
• understand relevant models utilized in non-healthcare supply chains
• develop solutions that lead to optimization of clinical performance, patient outcomes, and cost effectiveness
• develop metrics to measure the merge of clinical performance and cost effectiveness surrounding patient care

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

Since 1977, Healthcare Purchasing News magazine remains the only comprehensive healthcare business news magazine dedicated to reporting the information, solutions and stories about medical products and systems that affect healthcare supply chain management, monthly in-print and daily online. Our readership includes the healthcare executives, and professionals from materials and supply chain management, surgical services, infection control, central service and sterile processing as well as clinical members of the product evaluation committees at healthcare facilities. www.hpnonline.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.

Found in 1987, OPEN MINDS is the premier industry research and management consulting firm for the behavioral health and social service field. It is our mission to provide behavioral health and social service payers and service providers, and the vendors that serve them, with the market and management knowledge needed to improve their organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Services include consultation, technical assistance, workforce development, executive education, and subscription information services. For more information, visit www.openminds.com.

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 [email protected].

The RFID in Healthcare Consortium advocates the safe and effective use of wireless based technologies in healthcare. Our members are concerned with issues and solutions that pertain to the successful use wireless technologies for patient care and safety. Consortium efforts include delivering educational programs, support for standards, development of benchmark specifications, best practices, and sponsorship of educational events for all interested parties in the healthcare industry. We are part of the non-profit, charitable educational institution The RFID Educational Foundation, Inc.

For those planning to implement RFID and related technologies, www.RFIDswitchboard.com is dedicated to making their lives easier. This free, industry-sponsored portal organizes real world, no-nonsense content in logical, easy-to-follow sections. Leading experts share engineering tips, data strategies, implementation techniques, shortcuts, even step-by-step guidance to solve problems you may face. www.RFIDswitchboard.com

Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the executive's user manual for successful supply chain transformation, utilizing hard-hitting analysis, viewpoints and unbiased case studies to steer executives and supply management professionals through the complicated, yet critical, world of supply and demand chain enablement to gain competitive advantage. On the Web at www.SDCExec.com.

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (CCH & Aspen) publishes over 20 health care related print and electronic products, including Medicare and Medicaid Guide, Healthcare Compliance Portfolio, Home Health Medicare and Medicaid Payment Library, State Healthcare Law Library, Physicians' Medicare Guide, ChargeMaster Comply, and Health Law Treatises and Analysis Series www.wolters-kluwer.com

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