PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: “Going Out To Face The Giant” Haiti Mission One of Many for Surgeon Mac Baxter After watching his family-practitioner father care for the residents of tiny Hernando, Miss., for 40 years, Malcom E. “Mac” Baxter decided healing was in his blood. That’s probably never been more evident than when Baxter and his surgical assistant Rick Hayes boarded a small plane in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 20 and landed later that day on the 3,300-foot airstrip in Jacmel, Haiti, which was devastated by an earthquake nine days earlier. SHARON H. FITZGERALD

HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE: Health Management Systems: an HIT Leader Embracing Clinical Technology Solutions What began as a small health information technology company, founded to provide affordable financial systems to community hospitals, is today one of the region’s largest HIT providers. Health Management Systems, Inc. launched in 1984, is the provider of financial and now clinical solutions to about 600 hospitals nationwide. SHARON H. FITZGERALD