Modern Healthcare Launches MP IT Monthly -- An Electronic Magazine Focused On Financial and Clinical Information Technology News

Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician announced today the launch of a new monthly electronic publication for physician executives, leaders and entrepreneurs called MP IT Monthly. This new monthly e-zine will focus on financial and clinical information technology news and information of interest to tech-savvy doctors.

(PRWEB) February 20, 2004 --Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician announced today the launch of a new monthly electronic publication for physician executives, leaders and entrepreneurs called MP IT Monthly. This new monthly e-zine will focus on financial and clinical information technology news and information of interest to tech-savvy doctors.

Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician will unveil a prototype of the publication at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society) Conference on February 23 in Orlando, FL (booth #3038). The first regular edition of MP IT Monthly will be published in April.

MP IT Monthly will be delivered to the nations top physician decision-makers via e-mail. Its cutting-edge, easy-to-read electronic format makes it ideal for busy physician executives who demand to know the latest news and information on financial and clinical information technology quickly and efficiently.

MP IT Monthly is the first new product developed through the merger of Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician, sister publications operated by Crain Communications Inc., the nations leading business-to-business publishing company. The merger brings together (under one editorial umbrella) coordinated coverage for both healthcare executives and physician executives. The merger is the first step toward making Modern Healthcare a total healthcare industry publication, covering all stakeholders in the nations $1.7 trillion healthcare industry.

Physician executives face a huge challenge in selecting, rolling out and using clinical IT and getting it to work with their financial systems. MP/IT Monthly is going to help them along this journey with how-to stories, case studies, columns and news targeted at the needs of physician leaders of medical groups and hospitals," said Joseph Conn, Editor of MP/IT Monthly.

For more information or to subscribe to MP IT Monthly, visit modernhealthcare.com or modernphysician.com or call Joseph Conn, online editor of Modern Physician at 312.649.5395 or David Burda, editor of Modern Healthcare at 312.649.5439. For information on advertising in MP IT Monthly, call Ilana Klein, national advertising sales director at 312.649.5311.