Articles for this issue of The International Journal of Medical Banking were selected from those submitted as a response to a Call for Papers announced by the Medical Banking Project in preparation for the Eighth National Banking Institute, held on February 28-March 2, 2010, held in conjunction with the 2010 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia. Articles have been selected and reviewed by the peer review board cited below.

Editor-in-Chief / John Casillas

Associate Editor / David J. Dausey
Senior Director of Health Care Programs and Initiatives
Distinguished Service Professor of Health Care Policy and Management

Vice President, Communications / Fran Perveiler

Vice President, Marketing / Tom Sharpe

Director, Web Services / Resa Hoeller

Website Specialist/Administrative Assistant / Maria Moody

Communication Strategist and MBlog Editor / Ed Dodds (Conmergence.com)

Designer / Andy Mangrum (andymanagrumdesign.com)

Peer Review Board

Paul Witman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Information Technology Management-School of Business, California Lutheran University, Simi Valley, CA

Maureen Turo, Vice President & Healthcare Market Specialist, The Bank of New York Mellon Treasury Services Division, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

B.P. Fulmer, President & CEO, Thelma-US, Cartersville, Georgia

Patricia Alafaireet, Director of Applied Health Informatics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

June St. John, Senior Vice Present, Healthcare Product Manager, Wachovia Treasury Services

Louis Galterio, Director, C Vision, North Port, Florida

Submissions

We encourage prospective authors to respond during the Medical Banking Project’s Call for Articles for the Ninth National Medical Banking Institute. Authors may have consulting or other business relationships with the companies they discuss as long as these are fully disclosed.

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