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Top 1997 Video News Releases Announced

March 9th, 1998 by

Medialink, New York, which specializes in VNRs and other related corporate communications productions worldwide, ranked its top VNRs for last year. Its in-house monitoring division based its list on the top 20 releases according to… Continued

Calendar

March 5th, 1998 by

March 12-14 TIPAAA’s Third Annual Meeting: The IPA Entering the Next Milllenium. Orlando, Fla. 510/569-6561. March 15-19 American Association of Health Plans’s 1998 Marketing and Customer Service Conferences and Best Practices in Health Plan Marketing… Continued

Allowing Low-Income Hospital Patients To Work Off Their Hospital Bills

March 5th, 1998 by

Healthcare organizations saddled with unrecoverable debt should take note of a new payment program at Franklin Memorial Hospital, a 70-bed hospital in Farmington, Maine, that instills dignity in resolving hospital debt for low-income patients. Last… Continued

News Monitor

March 5th, 1998 by

Fundraising Hospital Campaign Gets $1M Boost from Chairman Setting the fundraising tone for a multi-million-dollar new hospital project for Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., the hospital’s foundation chairman, Hillard Donner, donated the first… Continued

Download, Purchase Medical Images From New Web Site In Minutes

March 5th, 1998 by

In a matter of minutes, healthcare communicators can now download high-resolution medical images from the Internet for publishing projects via two new Web sites, MediClip (http://www.mediclip.com) and LifeART (http://www.lifeart.com). The sites contain thousands of human… Continued

Healthcare Info Directory

March 5th, 1998 by

This July, Faulkner & Gray, Inc. and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives will make available The Health Care Information Technology Directory. The Directory will offer comprehensive technology-based trends and benchmarking standards for the… Continued

Advertising Abstract: Catholic Hospital Carves Out ‘Spiritual’ Niche

March 5th, 1998 by

To rise above its for-profit rivals in Boston, the Caritas Christi Health Care System (CCHCS) used a value-based advertising strategy that stressed "people ahead of profits." Launched last June, the image-building campaign – created by… Continued

Opportunity Or Challenge? DTC Programs Mean Both for PR

March 5th, 1998 by

In 1987, U.S. consumers became aware of the growing health threat of hepatitis B – and a newly approved treatment – because of a nationwide patient screening program that featured a dialogue with key prescribers.… Continued

Startup Company Uses PR (Not IR) to Grab Investor Interest

March 5th, 1998 by

To attract investor attention for its innovative compact disc-based technology, Gamera Bioscience Corp. took the promotions road less traveled – relying on a highly targeted PR campaign instead of a traditional investor relations effort. LMInformation,… Continued

Trends & Surveys In The Healthcare Industry

March 5th, 1998 by

Managed Care Creates Barriers For Low-Income Women Medicaid managed care health plans neglect the needs of low-income women, especially those with chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, according to a new study by the Center for… Continued