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2009 Editorial Calendar and Industry Events

News is unpredictable... which is why last-minute reporting is front-and-center at Healthcare IT News. The core of our publication is coverage of news in four sections: Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers and Vendors. In order to delve deeper into specific areas of interest, we pre-plan some topic areas to cover through research and investigative reporting. This editorial calendar shows these topic areas, and the months in which they’ll be covered, as well as important industry events.

Issue Month In Every Issue Clinical Toolkit Management Solutions HIMSS Yellow Pages Advertising Section Major Industry Events
January
Reservations Due: 12/5/08
Materials Due: 12/12/08
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Speech Recognition Telehealth/telemedicine Voice/Speech Recognition World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Supply Chain Management
Las Vegas 1/21 - 1/22
February
Reservations Due: 1/2/09
Materials Due: 1/9/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Emergency Department RHIO/HIE Connectors ED/Critical Care Information Systems TEPR 2009
Palm Springs 2/1 - 2/5
FEBRUARY SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: Exclusive HIMSS09 Preview
March
Reservations Due: 1/30/09
Materials Due: 2/6/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Pharmacy Systems Wireless networks Wireless Networking  
MARCH SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: HIMSS09 Expo Yellow Pages
April
Reservations Due: 3/6/09
Materials Due: 3/13/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Hospital/IDN Electronic health records Quality measurements (P4P) HIMSS Exhibitor Profile HIMSS09 Annual Conference
Chicago 4/4 - 4/8
APRIL SPECIAL EDITION: HIMSS Show ExtraShow Daily Distributed on the first day of HIMSS09
May
Reservations Due: 4/3/09
Materials Due: 4/10/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Real Time Positioning and Location Tracking Business intelligence/analytics Business Intelligence  
June
Reservations Due: 5/1/09
Materials Due: 5/8/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: CPOE Single Sign On and Password Management Single Sign On Solutions AHIP Annual: Institute 2009
San Diego 6/3 - 6/5
HFMA ANI Conference
Seattle 6/14 - 6/17
July
Reservations Due: 6/5/09
Materials Due: 6/12/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Smart Pumps Practice Management Patient Safety  
August
Reservations Due: 7/3/09
Materials Due: 7/10/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Mobile computing devices (tablets, PDAs, smart phones) Computers - desktops and laptops Mobile Devices  
September
Reservations Due: 7/31/09
Materials Due: 8/7/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Nursing (Clinical documentation) Claims processing Nursing Informatics  
October
Reservations Due: 9/4/09
Materials Due: 9/11/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Ambulatory EHRs Data Storage EMRs/EHRs AHIMA Annual Convention
Grapevine, TX 10/3 - 10/8
MGMA Annual
Denver 10/11 - 10/14
November
Reservations Due: 10/2/09
Materials Due: 10/9/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning IT consulting IT Consulting  
December
Reservations Due: 10/30/09
Materials Due: 11/6/09
Hospitals & IDNs, Physicians & Ambulatory Care, Payers, Vendors PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: PACS - Picture archiving and communication systems Information security PACS/RIS RSNA 2009 Chicago 11/29 - 12/4
DECEMBER SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: 2009 NewsMakers Issue