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Managed Healthcare Executive (MHE) is the number 1 read business journal serving senior-level decision makers (non-clinical and clinical) in health plan, payor, provider, employer groups, and government organizations who make purchasing and policy decisions about products, services and technologies for large member/patient populations. Specifically, MHE's 41,000+ targeted readers include; CEO, COO, CFO, VPs, Medical Directors, and Pharmacy Directors.
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AIS's Inside Consumer - Directed Care provides timely news and insightful analysis on how the trend toward consumer-directed health plans will affect utilization of medical services, insurance premiums, and your bottom line. Get reliable intelligence on what's working and what's not and why. 24 issues annually. For more information call AIS at 800-521-4323 or visit the web site at www.AISHealth.com.

AIS's Inside Disease Management gives biweekly news and analysis of new programs, contracts, financial results, outcomes (and methodologies), funding and more in the disease management business. Get the information you need to take advantage of the terrific opportunities for better health outcomes and lower costs. For more information call AIS at 800-521-4323 or visit the web site at www.AISHealth.com/Products/NewsNDM.html

AIS's MANAGED CARE WEEK - this industry-leading newsletter is packed with weekly news, data and strategic information on business and regulatory issues affecting health plans. It includes data on HMOs, PPOs, POS plans new managed care products and markets, and government initiatives. 45 issues annually, print copy and e-mail delivery. For more information call AIS at 800-521-4323 or visit www.AISHealth.com/Products/NewsMCW.html

Subscribe to Briefings on Quality Improvement and Data Reporting: Strategies to improve patient outcomes and compliance to receive all the hands-on advice, tools (including data collection forms), and best practices you need to make sure your hospital achieves high scores on its quality measures and receives every penny of the Medicare reimbursement it deserves. It takes just 30 minutes to read this quality resource, while the rewards last all month. We've priced this monthly resource with your budget in mind - about $100 less than other quality newsletters! Go to www.hcmarketplace.com or call 800/650-6787 to start your subscription or request a free sample.

Consumer Driven Healthcare is the monthly newsletter designed to help healthcare organizations respond effectively to the shift in market power, become consumer-centric, and position themselves to become market leaders in the new consumer-driven market. You'll find the key marketing, planning, business development, contracting, and operations strategies that will ensure long-term success in this rapidly evolving market. For more information go to www.hcmarketplace.com or to request a free sample call 800/650-6787.

With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. To accomplish this mission, HCPro provides this specialized information in a variety of products, including newsletters, books, videos, audioconferences, training handbooks, e-mail newsletters, and online courses. www.hcpro.com

For over 25 years, Health Affairs has been providing business and healthcare executives, government leaders, researchers, students and academia with insightful, thought-provoking analysis on health policy. Written by authorities in the field, Health Affairs publishes only original, peer-reviewed papers, giving readers the most up-to-date, in-depth understanding of healthcare industry trends. Ranked as one of the top cited journals in health policy and health sciences. Published bimonthly, with weekly online-only articles -- individual and institutional subscriptions offered - visit www.healthaffairs.org.

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.

This conference is supported by Hospitalist & Inpatient Management Report, a must have for any organization striving to achieve the maximum potential for both clinical improvements and dramatic cost savings with a successful hospitalist program. For a free trial subscription or for more information, call toll-free 1-800-597-6300 or visit www.nhionline.net.

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.

The Massachusetts Medical Society, with some 18,600 physicians and student members, is dedicated to educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of Massachusetts. The Society publishes The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the world's leading medical journals; the Journal Watch family of professional newsletters covering 11 specialties; and AIDS Clinical Care. The Society is also a leader in continuing medical education for health care professionals throughout Massachusetts. Founded in 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country. For information, visit www.massmed.org.

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.

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.

NCQA is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. NCQA accredits and certifies a wide range of health care organizations and manages the evolution of HEDIS®, the performance measurement tool used by more than 90 percent of the nation's health plans. NCQA is committed to providing health care quality information through the Web and the media in order to help consumers, employers and others make more informed health care choices.

Performance Improvement Advisor is a must-have monthly tool guaranteed to help healthcare organizations like yours boost performance and enhance quality. Each month you'll uncover real-life case studies, data gathering and analysis strategies, physician profiling and performance enhancement methods, and specific critical paths, care plans, clinical algorithms, performance benchmarks, and other QI tools that you can adapt and use in your organization immediately. Simply put, our experts provide a detailed roadmap leading you toward higher quality and a healthier balance sheet. To request a free trial, order online at www.nhionline.net/products/pia.htm or call 800-597-6300. 12 monthly issues, 12 pages each: $399

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 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.