HMP Communications, LLC (HMP) is a leader in healthcare communications and education. The company publishes some of the nation's most well respected medical journals across a wide spectrum of medical specialties. Additional core competencies within HMP include more than 20 years of meeting management/production expertise and over a decade producing cutting edge, online educational programs.
HMP Communications is divided into four specialty areas - the Wound Care/Podiatry Division, the Cardiovascular Division, the Managed Care/Long-Term Care Division and the Dermatology Division. Within each of these specialties, HMP provides physicians, nurses, and other allied healthcare professionals valuable scientific research and product information through medical journals, customized reports, conferences, expositions, symposiums, advisory boards, websites, podcasts, webcasts, and teleconferences.
HMP is dedicated to delivering vital information to clinicians that assist them in providing better outcomes to their patients. HMP works closely with thought leaders who are at the forefront of the latest evidence-based treatments, research and therapies in each specialty area it serves.
Publishing:
Wound Care/Podiatry Division - No other medical publishing company has made a greater commitment to the wound care market than HMP Communications. Since the mid-1980's, the Company has been continually identifying key physicians, nurses and therapists who specialize in the treatment of wounds within hospitals, wound clinics, long-term care facilities and home care settings. As the clear market leader, HMP publishes WOUNDS, the most widely read physician journal focusing on wound care and wound research; Ostomy Wound Management (OWM), the only peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary publication specifically dedicated to the advanced practice wound care nurse; Today's Wound Clinic, the only journal for key decision-makers within wound clinics; and Podiatry Today, continually recognized for editorial excellence, earning top honors and awards for its insightful, how-to clinical features and columns targeting podiatrists.
Cardiovascular Division - HMP Communications was on the vanguard of recognizing a paradigm shift within cardiology as new catheter-based technology cost-effectively replaced more invasive surgical procedures. Cath Lab Digest remains the number one publication read by the key administrators, managers, directors, supervisors, nurses and techs within the cardiac catheterization lab; the Journal of Invasive Cardiology (JIC) is read by interventional cardiologists performing the catheter procedures and is the official journal of the International Andreas Grüntzig Society; EP Lab Digest is the respected voice of electrophysiology (EP) professionals, and the journal is avidly read by Electrophysiologists, EP Fellows, EP allied professionals and administrators; and Vascular Disease Management, a peer-reviewed journal for the multi-disciplinary vascular team serves a cross section of the medical community including physicians, surgeons, radiologist, nephrologists and endocrinologists all focused on the peripheral interventional field.
Managed Care/Long-Term Care Division - In the area of managed care, First Report - Managed Care, is the clear preference for more than 21,000 health plan CEOs, hospital formulary committee members, HMO pharmacies, health plan medical directors, pharmacy benefit managers, and several other titles working within the managed care and managed markets space. Clinical Geriatrics is read by over 68,000 geriatric specialized clinicians including Internists, Family Practitioners and General Practitioners; and Annals of Long-Term Care, reaches over 47,000 practitioners within long-term care facilities including medical directors, LTC attending physicians, consultant pharmacists and directors of nursing, both CG and ALTC are peer-reviewed journals, and official journals for the nearly 5,000 members of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS).
Dermatology Division - Skin & Aging is an award-winning journal reaching nearly 12,000 dermatologists, NP's and PA's. Targeted newsletters to key portions of the Skin & Aging readership include Derm Nurse, Derm Resident, Derm PA, Derm Practice, Extensions - an educational newsletter for physician assistants and nurse practitioners in dermatology, and Pathways, which offers practical career advice for dermatology residents.
Meetings:
HMP Communications manages or produces more than 60 medical events throughout the U.S. each year. The Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) is the largest gathering of multidisciplinary wound care clinicians in the US with more than 2,500 physicians, nurses, pharmacists, podiatrists, and physical therapists in attendance each year. In September 2009, the inaugural SAWC Fall meeting was successfully launched with nearly 700 physicians, nurses, pharmacists, podiatrists, and physical therapists attending.
LUMEN: The Symposium on Optimal Treatments for Acute MI hosts the world's top doctors, drawing national and international experts from around the country and the world to discuss issues related to STEMI interventions, key areas of interventional cardiology and vascular interventions that affect the nation's number one killer of men and women.
Online:
HMP Communications is an industry leader in online communication. The company has a robust web presence in each specialty division utilizing webcasts, e-newsletters, e-blasts, banner advertisements, product bulletins, showcase videos, and more, reaching over 75,000 e-subscribers within the HMP online database. HMP launched CardiovascularLIVE.com in 2009, featuring instructional video of cardiology techniques and trends and vascular procedures. The site partners with Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York's Live Coronary Intervention Series.