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Classified: Health Support Systems 

Health Support Systems offers disease management tools, personal health records, health risk
assessment tools, group health reports, remote monitoring solutions,
patient alerts and more – through web and mobile phones. Become a
channel partner and offer our products; support services to your
customers – with your branding. Contact sales@healthsupportsystems.com
for more information.

Calendar: Fourth National Pay For Performance Summit

Sponsored by the Integrated Healthcare Association. Co
sponsored by Bridges to Excellence, Leapfrog Group, the National
Business Coalition on Health, the National Committee of Quality
Assurance and the National Quality Forum. March 9 – 11, 2009 San
Francisco, CA. .www.PFPSummit.com

Classified: Fair Managed Care

What's fair in managed care? Get involved. Join the conversation. FAIR
is an emerging national grassroots movement focused on changing the
debate about health care costs and holding managed care companies
responsible for their behavior.  Supported by patients, hospitals,
physicians, business owners and policy makers, FAIR brings a unified
voice to the table at the peak of a national discussion on health care
reform.

Classified: Leadership Summit on Member Retention for Health Plans

According to ConnextionsHealth, growing losses of
individual and group plan members are eroding acquisition costs,
profitability and competitive advantage at all major health plans,
making member retention a strategic priority for 2009. At some health
insurers, member turnover is running as high as 40%. Further, McKinsey
& Co. found that health plans capture less than 10% of members lost
through job termination, early retirement and elimination of
employer-funded coverage. This “employee transition” market segment
alone is estimated at $40 billion annually. To address this
emerging market need, ConnextionsHealth and World Health Care Congress
are hosting a first-of-its-kind Leadership Summit on Member Retention
for Health Plans scheduled for March 18-19, 2009 in Orlando, FL. 
Designed for health plan senior executives, the Summit will provide an
insider’s look into the underlying issues and successful strategies for
retaining individual and small group plan members and building brand
loyalty. More information is available at www.worldcongress.com/retention.

Consumers
spent $6.7 billion dollars on video Gaming4Health in 2007. iConecto
is the expert in applying health e-games, social media, virtual worlds and
immersive simulations for better health and performance.  The “Health eGames Market Report” is available now… contact
info@iConecto.com.  Visit www.Gaming4Health.com for news and
insights.

CASTING CALL: The Future Role of the Doctor

Health 2.0 is working on a new documentary focusing on the next generation of physicians and healthcare professionals. We
are looking to cast 3-5 medical students who are willing to share their
perspectives on how the field of medicine is changing, how they expect
to be practicing when they're out in the world, and how Health 2.0
technologies factor into their lives.

Are you (or can you
recommend) a dynamic and engaging medical student or health
professional in training who is currently working to bring the medical
profession/healthcare system into the 21st century?  Are you working on
projects that relate to social media/the web/mobile/ changing the world
with technology?  Then we want to talk to you!

The short film
will debut at the Health 2.0 conference in Boston in April and be
distributed online through various partner organizations.  Please send all recommendations and references to Lizzie Dunklee, Executive
Producer at Health 2.0 at lizzie@health2con.com.

Job Post: Causality Inc.

We are seeking a full-time partner/investor to build a new company
that
dramatically improves the way millions of patients learn and shop
online. We address a $70 billion market. Our current team consists of
seasoned entrepreneurs, technologists and physicians from Google
(Teams: Health, Search & Foundation), Stanford Graduate School of
Business, UCSF Medical School and former high-ranking government
officials from CDC/HHS. As a founding CTO, will initially assist with
VC presentations, partner meetings, technical collateral creation and
overall technical direction. With funding, you will hire the
engineering team. If you are an investor, we currently accrue
consistent technical progress and have our first hires (and other
investors) on standby.

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Announcements: Nudging people to better health with innovation

Are you helping people make better health choices?

If you care about encouraging choices that promote healthy living, we want to hear from you. Ashoka’s Changemakers is collaborating with the Pioneer Portfolio of
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to launch a global search for
“nudges” – innovative little pushes—that help people make better
decisions regarding their own health and the health of others.

Do you know innovators who work to help people make choices that
improve their health? By nominating them, you will provide them the
opportunity to promote their projects on a global platform and get
connected with potential funding. To learn more visit here.