Featured Report: Few African American parents share health info via texting

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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
Few African American parents share health info via texting
Jan,13,2013
by+Greg Slabodkin
Though mobile technology has the potential to bridge the digital divide and reduce health disparities among racial/ethnic groups, a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research has found that African American parents are less likely to use mHealth for accessing or communicating health information.
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Modern Healthcare
AMA fears privacy loss as Medicare moves to reveal doc pay
Jan,14,2014
by:+Joe Carlson
The American Medical Association is warning that the Obama administration could violate physicians' privacy rights if it poorly implements its new policy for informing the public how much money Medicare pays to individual doctors. But other groups say the administration did not go far enough in making payment data broadly accessible.
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HealthdataManagement
Obamacare Customers Skew Older as Young Wait for Shakeout
Jan,14,2014
by:+Alex Wayne
(Bloomberg) — About 70% of Obamacare’s customers are 35 years of age or older, indicating that U.S. health care overhaul is initially attracting a less healthy population that may drive up insurance premiums.
The federal- and state-run insurance exchanges signed up 2.2 million people for private health plans in the three months ended Dec. 28, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a report released on January 13. About 24% were 18- to 34-year-olds, and about one-third were 55 or older.
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Government Health IT
Preparing for patient portals
Jan,10,2014
by:+Anthony Brino
In this podcast, two CIOs from pretty different provider organizations talk about their strategies setting up patient portals ahead of Meaningful Use Stage 2 — along with other digital and clinical challenges they’re facing.
Editor Bernie Monegain talks with Bill McQuaid, the CIO at Parkview Adventist Memorial Hospital, in Brunswick, Maine, about patient portal decisions the IT staff made with clinicians, and the story of becoming the 26th hospital to reach HIMSS Analytics stage 6.
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