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Diversified Business Communications Announces Health IC Summit.


PORTLAND, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a 2004 population of 63,882. Portland is Maine's cultural, social and economic capital. Tourists are drawn to Portland's historic Old Port district along Portland Harbor, which is at the mouth of the Fore River and part  -- Diversified Business Communications announces the launch of Health IC: The Summit for Innovation and Convergence in Healthcare, January 23-25th 2006 at the Roosevelt Hotel
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. The Health IC Summit focuses on the most significant innovations occurring in healthcare today Healthcare Today is a monthly newsmagazine published in the United Kingdom by Mayden Publishing. The style and layout of the magazine is similar to that of The Week but its focus is purely on health-related news. , showcases the business and convergence opportunities, presents a roadmap for the future and provides a forum specifically geared toward matching today's most innovative new companies with investors.

The Health IC Summit will focus on four key areas: REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, MEDICAL INFORMATICS medical informatics,
n the field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine.
, INNOVATIVE PATIENT CARE, and an INVESTOR FORUM.

Health IC partners and collaborators include: Lab to Wallstreet, Life Sciences Group International, and the International Informatics Institute.

"With the healthcare industry reaching $1.7 trillion and comprising 15% if the U.S. GDP GDP (guanosine diphosphate): see guanine. , we have identified new and emerging market categories in which to expand our growing healthcare portfolio," commented Megan Forrester, Managing Director, Health IC Summit. "The Health IC Summit serves the information needs of senior executives, policy leaders and investors by focusing on what is new, what is hot, and which healthcare innovations will have the greatest long term impact."

Diversified has several events serving the complementary and natural health care industries and a portfolio of Canadian events in the primary care market.

"The convergence of relentlessly rising healthcare costs, groundbreaking advances in life sciences, and increasingly sophisticated consumer access to electronic medical information sets the stage for disruptive innovation that will displace traditional providers and enable a new generation of healthcare applications," said conference chairman, Jack Powers. "The Health IC Summit examines these opportunities in the short, middle, and long term for investors, managers, and policy makers."

Leading up to the event, the Health IC Summit includes the conference chairman's web blog "HealthcareNBIC.org" with industry experts, keynote speakers, and thought leaders as guest bloggers. NBIC NBIC National Board Inspection Code (American National Standard)
NBIC National Biosurveillance Integration Center (US DTRA & HLD)
NBIC National Bank of Industry and Commerce
 is scientific shorthand for the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive sciences cognitive sciences The areas of medicine that study the nature and processes of mental activity–eg, neurology, psychiatry, psychology .

For complete information visit: www.healthicsummit.com

Diversified Business Communications, based in Portland, Maine, provides information and market access through trade exhibitions, magazine publishing, and online resources on four continents. Other products in the healthcare portfolio include the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Expo and Primary Care Today. Diversified serves a number of other industries including the ethnic food, seafood, commercial marine, and organic markets. For more information, visit: www.divbusiness.com
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