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	Western Midrange Corporation's primary focus on supporting the information technology and information management needs of the healthcare industry, the company is now providing consulting and programming services, and licensed software to hospital organizations with over 80 facilities in 39 states.
	The next generation outsource vendor for printing and mailing services. PRINTBILLdotCOM uses industry standard transaction formats and Internet access for all statement printing and mailing functions. Digital Laser printing and next day mailing is also available. Choose from a catalog of standard statement formats and reduce your statement processing cost while increasing your payment response times.

	THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. THE DEPARTMENT INCLUDES MORE THAN 300 PROGRAMS, covering a wide spectrum of activities.
HIPAA REGULATIONS	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, (HIPAA). One part of this law, labeled Administrative Simplification, is intended to reduce the costs and administrative burdens of health care by making possible the standardized, electronic transmission of certain administrative and financial transactions which are currently carried out manually on paper. To accomplish this goal, the law requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to adopt national uniform standards for these transactions. The law does not require the collection or electronic transmission of any health information. It does require that the standards be followed anytime the transactions are conducted electronically.
HIPAA Universal Identifiers	The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires HHS to adopt standards to support the electronic exchange of a variety of administrative and financial health care transactions, including a unique identifier for individuals.
	The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HCFA runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs — two national health care programs that benefit about 75 million Americans. And with the Health Resources and Services Administration, HCFA runs the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a program that is expected to cover many of the approximately 10 million uninsured children in the United States.


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	The AMA is much more than a voluntary membership organization of physicians. It is the patient's advocate and the physician's voice. It sets standards for the profession of medicine. The American Medical Association represents the best of each and every one of its members men and women who have chosen a caring profession, a profession whose everyday task is healing patients and saving lives. By choosing AMA membership, they have expressed their commitment to medicine and professionalism.
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	The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) was established in December 1989 under Public Law 101-239 (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989). AHCPR, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services. AHCPR's broad programs of research bring practical, science-based information to medical practitioners and to consumers and other health care purchasers.
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	Health On the Net Foundation (HON) is a non-profit organisation, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The Foundation is dedicated to realising the benefits of the Internet and related technologies in the fields of medicine and healthcare. The purpose of the Foundation is to advance the development and application of new information technologies, notably in the fields of health and medicine.
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	The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC), consistently recognized as one of the best hospitals in the United States, is Iowa's only comprehensive, tertiary-level health care center. Patients receive personalized health care provided by highly trained specialists using the most sophisticated medical technology available. As one of the largest university-owned teaching hospitals in the country, the UIHC annually records more than a half million ambulatory clinic visits and patient admissions.
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	The University of Utah Health Sciences Center is the major educational, research and referral facility serving the medical needs of Utah and the Intermountain West. Located in the foothills of Salt Lake City's Wasatch Mountains on the 1,500 acre University of Utah campus, the center includes University Hospitals & Clinics, the School of Medicine, the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, and the colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing and Health. Other buildings on the health sciences campus include: The George and Dolores Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, the Biomedical Polymers Research Building, the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, the John A. Moran Eye Center, the University's Animal Resources Center and the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
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	The University of Chicago was founded in 1891 by John D. Rockefeller as a privately endowed university to serve as a national center for teaching and research. The University remained true to its aims throughout the years and since its founding, the University Has consistently maintained a low ratio of students to faculty. Students are selected from across the nation and around the world. The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science includes the Visual Science Center, University Hospitals and Clinics. The Visual Sciences Center is located on the University Campus at the north end of the Scientific Quadrangle adjacent to the John Crerar Library. The latter contains approximately 1,000,000 volumes and receives over 6,700 serials and periodicals and is one of the finest medical libraries in the world. The University Clinics and Hospitals are located on the University Campus a block from the Visual Sciences Center. The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science is an integral part of The University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Hospitals. The Hospitals include out-patient clinics in Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine, outpatient and inpatient facilities in the University of Chicago Children's Hospital, the Bernard Mitchell Hospital, Chicago Lying-in Hospital and the Arthur Rubloff Intensive Care Tower. The total bed capacity of the University of Chicago Medical Center is 630, and provision is made for some 23,000 in-patient admissions and 450,000 out-patient and emergency room visits each year. 16,000 patient visits are expected at the Bergman Family Eye Center during its first year of operation.
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	Founded in 1948, the World Health Organization leads the world alliance for Health for All. A specialized agency of the United Nations with 191 Member States, WHO promotes technical cooperation for health among nations, carries out programmes to control and eradicate disease and strives to improve the quality of human life. The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health, as defined in the WHO Constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

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