The Healthcare Communications Forum 2006
    
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Established in 1988, Boston-based Art Plus Technology (APT), Inc. is the only independent consulting firm that offers both award-winning document design capabilities as well as expertise in automated document production. APT optimizes printed and electronic communications for clients through the combination of knowledge, creativity, and technology. APT sponsors the annual Financial Communications Forum, which focuses on the latest issues and strategies in printed and electronic financial communications. For more information about Art Plus Technology, please visit www.artplustechnology.com.





One of the leading providers of graphic communications solutions worldwide, Kodak offers image capture systems; professional color, copydot, and high-speed document scanning systems; inkjet printing and proofing systems; workflow and color management software; thermal imaging devices for film, plates, and proofs; high-quality proofing media, printing plates, and recording film; on-demand color and black-and-white printing systems; data storage products; and professional services.
For more information, please visit: www.graphics.kodak.com.





OutputLinks, through its web portal, eNewsletters, hardcopy publications, vendor database and major conference partnerships, is recognized as the primary global research and information resource of the high volume transaction output (HVTO) industry. With over 600 links to HVTO solution providers, an industry-specific search engine and a weekly eNewsletter, OutputLinks serves those who buy, sell, use, manage and provide consultation and resources to the global HVTO industry. For more information, visit www.OutputLinks.com or call 800-285-2674.





Personix
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Benefit Express offers Human Resource professionals and employees Internet access to their human resources and benefits information. Customized tools enable employees to enroll in their benefits, check claims status, and access documents, forms and other vendors via the web. The My Benefit Express system has unique user-friendly set-up tools that make this type of technology affordable to all companies.





Elixir builds end-to-end solutions to manage the documents that express your business. Compose documents, manage printer resources, convert printstreams, repurpose datastreams, transforms between a wide range of formats, order programming and consulting, and then archive. Elixir is the proven end-to-end solution provider for documents that mean business. Elixir is a global company headquartered in Ventura, California with thousands of satisfied customers in more than 70 countries. For more information, please visit www.elixir.com





Group 1 Software, a Pitney Bowes company, develops an integrated Customer Communication
Management (CCM) solution, which serves to consolidate, cleanse, and enrich patient and member data, and generate personalized correspondence for physical and electronic delivery, customer care and efficient business processing. Group 1 Software solutions are used by over 3,500 organizations worldwide, including BCBS of Florida, CDC, Delta Dental, First Health, and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. For more information, please visit: www.g1.com to learn more.





ThoughtForm brings value to thoughts, ideas, and knowledge by giving them a visual form with the power to communicate. The firm offers five design solutions—branding, interactive media, print communications, packaging, and environments—to clients around the country in a wide range of industries, including healthcare. From providers to insurers and pharmaceutical companies to medical device manufacturers, ThoughtForm touches all facets of the healthcare industry, always bringing a thorough understanding of business and management issues, user experience, and design. To learn more, visit http://www.ThoughtFormDesign.com.
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Atlantic Information Services Managed Care Week, published by AIS, is an industry-leading newsletter packed with weekly news, data, and strategic information on business and regulatory issues affecting health plans. Managed Care Week includes data on HMOs, PPOs, POS plans, new managed care products and markets, and government initiatives. AIS published 45 issues annually, both in print and e-mail delivery. For more information, please visit www.AISHealth.com/Products/NewsMCW.html





Bowne Marketing & Business Communications (MBC) is a leader in providing digital composition, print, fulfillment, and delivery of personalized communications that enable Healthcare companies to create 1:1 pre- and post-enrollment materials, including ID cards, welcome books, and wellness communications. Bowne MBC has production facilities throughout the United States. For more information, please visit: http://www.bowne.com/MarketingCommunications





Catchpole Corporation, based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, is a leading provider of global speaker program strategies and executive branding services. Catchpole works with technology companies of every size and in every market to secure high-impact speaking engagements. Catchpole provides speaker program management, executive visibility programs, and speakware event reports. For more information, please visit: www.catchpole.com





Healthx researches, selects, and integrates new services into the Healthx OpenPoint technology platform that lower the cost and streamline the delivery of healthcare benefits. Healthx works with hundreds of payers, thousands of providers, and over 15 million members nationwide. By leveraging the collective size of our payers’ member lives, Healthx has developed programs that help our Payer clients gain competitive advantages normally only available to the largest national payers.





Prinova, Inc. provides innovative document design, development and delivery solutions for the large volume document delivery market. Prinova helps companies achieve savings, flexibility and integrity in the document development process through an integrated design development approach that reduces project development and testing efforts up to 30 percent, and mitigates post-production maintenance costs. Post implementation, Prinova offers a specialized client care program for ongoing document evolution and support. Fortune 1000 companies in the financial services, retail and utilities industries that partner with Prinova experience faster time to market, reduced costs and more profitable customer relationships.





Rapid Solutions Group is a leading digital communications company. Serving companies in the Financial Services, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Technology sectors, Rapid Solutions Group designs and delivers powerful, result-based communications. Leveraging advanced digital technology, combined with application development, creative design, digital and offset print and fulfillment expertise, we provide our customers with relevant communication solutions. Strategically located production facilities in New York, California, Chicago and Kansas City provide unparalleled speed of delivery while ensuring real-time disaster recovery. For more information, please visit our website www.rapidsolutionsgroup.com or contact us at 1-877-RAPID-SG.
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Coventry University, situated in the English countryside, has recently been awarded Strategic Development Funding to set up a Health Design and Technology Institute whose remit includes education and applied research in non-clinical healthcare products and patient communication. One of the purposes of the Institute is to develop an MA in Health Communication Design. Current research in health communication at Coventry University includes online communication in the “Healthier Living With Arthritis Workshop” for self-managing arthritis patients, interactivity in health websites, and critical incident plan consultancy for the Department of Health. Coventry University traces its roots as far back as 1843 to the Coventry College of Design For more information on thye Health Design curriculum at Coventry, please visit: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research-and-consultancy/applied-research-centres-and-groups





The Communications Research Institute (CRI) is an independent, not-for-profit membership body with a charter to improve communication between organizations and the public. Since its formation in Australia in 1987, the CRI has earned a global reputation as a think tank and testing laboratory for the latest methods in document design and testing. The CRI has carried out more than 200 client engagements in UK, Europe, North and South America. The CRI publishes case studies and research papers on its Web site. The CRI is represented at this conference by Wes Ervin, who is a member of the CRI Board of Governors










The Center for Writing, Language, and Literacy, with faculty from the Department of English, represents expertise in applied linguistics, technical/professional communication, and second-language acquisition. The objective of the Center is to identify and support research initiatives that can attract federal and private funding and contracts in the areas of writing, language, and literacy. The Center offers expertise on a wide range of communication issues, including Homeland Security, Health Literacy, Language and the Law, Financial Information, and Educational Curriculum and Professional Development and Assessment.
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