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The Health Forum was founded in 1998 through the merger between the American Hospital Association's publishing and data and information subsidiaries. The Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products to various health care providers, suppliers, payers and consumers. It features an online store that offers a range of data, food service and nursing products. The firm also specializes in facilities and risk management. The Health Forum works in the areas of organizational, market, clinical and medical leaderships. Headquartered in Chicago, it offers various code and billing products. The Health Forum is an affiliate of the American Hospital Association, which is a nonprofit association that provides education for health care leaders.

American College of Healthcare Executives is an international professional society of more than 30,000 health care executives who lead hospitals, health care systems and other health care organizations. It has partnerships with the Cardinal Health, GE Healthcare, HCA Management Services, Johnson Controls, Philips Medical Systems, RehabCare Group and Roche Diagnostics. It also has a publishing division, which publishes books and journals on all aspects of health services management for colleges and university courses. Additionally, it offers distance learning options with audio and Web conferences, online seminars and also offers self-study courses, audio conference CDs. The college also conducts research on a number of health care management areas, including factors affecting the career attainments of health care executives. American College of Healthcare Executives located in Chicago.