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Exciting collaborations between banks and healthcare are rapidly gaining ground. Scalable, efficient, data-rich, cross-industry processing platforms are rationalizing run-away administrative costs in healthcare and taming the paper chase. A new medical banking ecosystem is aligning transaction-driven models for banks with exceptional ROI

THE INSTITUTE BUZZ...

>> New initiatives to be launched 2006: E/PHR Position Paper; The ROI Project; CCN Pilot in Dade County, FL; Real-time settlement Use Case; MBProject Capital Raising Forum.

>> We want thank our attendees for their work to help us create V2 of A Medical Banking Road Map for America.

>> Congratulations to John Hardin, CTO, MAPHIN.net and David Harris, Partner, PwC, for receiving MBProject's Person of the Year Award!

>> 2006 MBProject joins Eclipse Foundation to build out its C.O.M.B.A.T. platform...more

>> New President's Council formed for National Medical Banking Institute:

President, BP Fulmer, Executive Director of Commercial EDI, ACS

Subcommittee Chairs:

Health Futures, Vince Marzula, VP, Product Group Manager, Treasury Management eHealthcare, PNC Bank

Programming, Maureen Turo, Healthcare Market Specialist, Mellon Financial Corp.

Standards, Doug Spence, COO, Foresight Corporation

Advisory:

George Floyd, President & CEO, HealthLogic Systems Corp.

>> Wendy Borow-Johnson, President of Healthy Living Channel to co-moderate Dr. HSA's National Town Meeting.

>> Remettra announces new software license with Personix.

>> New Membership Portal will be unveiled

>> 2006 Leadership Forums. MBProject is organizing two Leadership Forums this year in June and October. Featuring: best practices review, face-to-face meetings for President's Council and COMBAT Updates.

for healthcare. Medical banking is poised to revolutionize healthcare.just like SABRE revolutionized the airline industry.

Looking around the corner, we find online banking portals that offer a direct link between consumer demand and healthcare IT adoption by providers. Banks will drive this new dynamic, best classified as "consumer-driven healthcare IT". Consumers will drive healthcare providers to adopt healthcare IT and banks will provide the community platform to make this happen.

The 4th National Medical Banking Institute will explore this rapidly emerging area. Expert talks, panels, visioning sessions and high-impact executive workgroup sessions facilitated by Vanderbilt Center for Better Health will get executives up to speed quickly, facilitate cross-industry networking and provide unique insight that can be immediately put to practical use by commerce.

[Factoid: Did you know that the most important aftermath of our previous institute was the facilitation of cross-industry alliances? Alliances were created in the space of two days that would normally take months, if not years, according to attendees.]

We will provide a road map of new alliance models, isolate best practices in infrastructure, cross-industry compliance and community healthcare patterns. We'll also explore how banks are uniquely empowering the consumer using formats conceptualized in MBProject's C.O.M.B.A.T. Initiative. New strategies are delivering consumer/HIPAA-driven efficiencies all the way to solo practitioners in rural America. Come to our Institute, and find out from real world examples how this is happening today!

In our previous Institute we laid the groundwork for transformation in our "A Medical Banking Road Map for America,Version 1". Our 4th Institute will expand this work. Attendees will become part of fast-track executive working sessions, un-tapping cross-industry insight and making informed recommendations that will be taken to heads of government agencies in healthcare and banking. Our sessions provide an unparalleled learning experience for industry, government and academia.

The Institute provides a facilitated educational environment that helps workgroups to drive to final observations and industry recommendations. Leading up to the Institute, workgroups are focused on drafting Working Papers that outline key opportunities and critical path issues. Workgroups are focused on six key tracts:

Following our breakout sessions, Workgroup leaders will present final recommendations to the audience. These will be incorporated into Version 2 of our Road Map and sent to policy agencies. The document will highlight how banks can become significant stakeholders in our healthcare system.

The Institute is the only venue that is 100% focused on medical banking issues, including cash management and lockbox specialization, consumer-directed healthcare technologies and banking partnerships, card/ATM technologies, biometrics, critical infrastructure, branch specialization and other areas that are unique to the medical banking industry. We provide a world-class executive forum to:

Technology executives, compliance officers, senior healthcare and banking management, policymakers, investment bankers, researchers and educators, lockbox and patient accounting executives, IT managers and others. Please note: The Institute is limited to 200 attendees.

We hope that you devote a little time to discover the sights and sounds of Nashville, the home of the Medical Banking Project. From world-class art museums to honky tonks, Nashville has more to offer than you might expect. Located in naturally scenic middle Tennessee, this vibrant metropolitan city of 1.4 million people is surrounded by lush, rolling hills, while the tranquil Cumberland River winds throughout the city. Please visit the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau website to learn more about Music City, USA.

Disclaimer: The Medical Banking Project does not endorse the products and services of speakers and organizations who are participating in this event.

4th NATIONAL MEDICAL BANKING INSTITUTE