The American Telemedicine Association is the leading resource and advocate promoting access to medical care for consumers and health professionals via telecommunications technology. ATA seeks to bring together diverse groups from traditional medicine, academic medical centers, technology and telecommunications companies, e-health, medical societies, government and others to overcome barriers to the advancement of telemedicine through the professional, ethical and equitable improvement in health care delivery.

Established in 1993 as a non-profit organization and headquartered in Washington, DC, membership in the Association is open to individuals, companies and other organizations with an interest in promoting the deployment of telemedicine throughout the world. www.atmeda.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.

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 [email protected].

Digital Healthcare & Productivity is the premier source of news on technology for healthcare. Published weekly, Digital Healthcare & Productivity, and its accompanying web site, www.DigitalHCP.com delivers authoritative information on the adoption of digital technology in healthcare and how digital technologies can boost productivity.

Eli Research is a research and information company with more than 120 print and on-line publications, teleconferences and audio learning products for our core markets of healthcare, law and litigation, financial services, education, travel, human services, sales and customer service, technology and the internet. www.elihealthcare.com/hc_publications.htm

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

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.

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.

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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Inside Healthcare Computing is a biweekly newsletter offering trends, intelligence, peer advice and experts' insights on health care information technology. With your full-year subscription, you'll get 25 issues packed full of award-winning news, insights, analyses, and best practices you won't find anywhere else.

In addition, you'll receive twice-weekly news updates to keep you on top of what's happening in the industry; weekly commentary from blogger MrHISTalk; and a library of back issues you can access at any time

You get the real deal from us -- experienced reporting and editing that makes us unique in the field.

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In today's information economy, trust is the necessary foundation for secure interoperability, and central to the successful realization of what's possible on the Web. From the user perspective as well as that of the deploying organization, it's an issue of who is trusted with what… and that requires policy, business and technology understanding and infrastructure. Thus the Liberty Alliance emerged: a first-of-its-kind standards organization with a global membership that provides a holistic approach to identity. www.projectliberty.org

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.

Published in seven editions with a unique, contemporary voice, style, and look that are in sync with the technology-driven evolution of medicine itself, MDNG explores technology, computers, and the Internet, from the very practical to the most sophisticated, and the impact they have on the professional and personal life of the physician. Connecting more than 200,000 physicians and specialists to current and emerging healthcare technology trends, hundreds of online resources, and the latest breakthroughs affecting their medical practice, the MDNG series of publications and custom products have continually profiled the best online content for physicians, patients, and their caregivers.

MDNG.com leverages medical publishing, education, and research channels to create a content-rich, dynamic online presence that will continually attract, engage, retain, analyze, and adapt to the interests and expertise of a critical mass of healthcare professionals.

The Medical Records Institute's (MRI) Mission is to promote and enhance the journey towards electronic medical records, e-health, mobile health, and related applications of information technologies (IT). MRI does this by:

• Serving as an international forum for sharing knowledge, experience, and solutions with the healthcare community at large, but especially with healthcare practitioners, as well as professionals in information technology (HIT) and health information management (HIM), vendors and vendor executives in regard to market strategies and technologies, an patient advocates and agents and the general public, regarding the management of personal health information.
• Conducting international conferences, seminars, and other events, including TEPR, the EMR Road Show™, National Conference on Information Capture, Health IT Trends & Marketing Conference, and EMR Seminars.
• Conducting surveys and other studies related to EMR adoption nationally and internationally.
• Supporting, coordinating, and leading the process of creating healthcare information standards.
• Acting as a voice of conscience on aspects of confidentiality, security, and social impact.

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.

Pay for Performance Reporter is a monthly management briefing covering the news and key developments in P4P. It will provide you with answers to questions you may have, with facts, news, insight and emerging P4P developments. Discover how early adopters achieved physician "buy in," the importance of leverage, how to choose your performance incentive measures wisely and choose measures that are defensible, and why provider feedback is so important. Every month you'll receive an objective, balanced report with current news and findings surrounding P4P.

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SI is a not-for-profit association that supports collaboration and networking among leading healthcare organizations regarding IT strategy, deployment, adoption, and benefits realization.

We feature the important role of business and clinical process owners of IT investments and the related process redesign and culture changes. Benefits of membership include sharing successes and lessons learned via teleconferences, conferences, monthly executive summaries, collaborative projects and virtual collaboration support.

More information can be found at www.scottsdaleinstitute.org.

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