Welcome to Home/Small Business Online Blog: February 2014

Friday, February 28, 2014

Featured Report: Pinterest Traffic: 3 Fast Tricks You Can Use Today

This Week's Home/Small Business Online News

SocialMediopolis
Pinterest Traffic: 3 Fast Tricks You Can Use Today
Feb,28,2014
by+Angela Booth
Want some Pinterest traffic? Some of my clients still don’t believe that they can get useful traffic from Pinterest. While it’s true that Pinterest won’t send you masses of traffic when your account is new, the traffic you do get pays off. It’s engaged, and responsive – conversion rates for Pinterest are 50 per cent higher than for other sources.
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Site Pro News
Using Hashtags in Social Media Marketing
Feb,28,2014
by:+Adrienne Erin
You don’t have to like it, but hashtags are now a part of our culture. They flash onscreen with alarming regularity during our favorite shows and sporting events and they populate our feeds on just about every social media site. In case you’re somehow not familiar with them by now, hashtags are a way to tag posts in order to essentially hyperlink social media posts to search results. It’s a way for users to indicate that they’re responding, contributing to, or even creating a new conversation or trend. They can be serious or humorous, but one thing is for certain: they’re here to stay.
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Search Engine Journal
A Peek Inside a Social Media Marketer’s Toolbox: The Best Free Apps You Didn’t Know Exist
Feb,26,2014
by:+Lauren Monitz
A magician is only as impressive as their tricks, a wizard is only as magical as their sorcery, and a social media marketer is only as good as their toolbox. Here’s a peek at some of the best free programs I use regularly to track, growth hack, and monitor our social media channels (no affiliation).
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Social Media Examiner
How to Maximize Your LinkedIn Endorsements
Feb,27,2014
by:+Brenda Bernstein
Why Manage LinkedIn Endorsements?
LinkedIn endorsements are meant to provide credibility and networking opportunities. Has LinkedIn ever notified you that someone has endorsed you for skills and expertise that have absolutely nothing to do with your actual skills? Or worse, you don’t know the endorser at all, so how can he or she endorse any skills you have?
Sometimes people are endorsing you so you’ll see the notification and they’ll be on your radar. Other times, people are endorsing you because they’re friends or colleagues and they think they’re helping you.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Featured Report: Not just another health IT term, telecare benefits the elderly

This Week's Healthcare Online News

SF Gate
Walgreens, UCSF to help manage prescriptions
Feb,25,2014
by+Stephanie M. Lee
UCSF and pharmacy chain Walgreens are launching a joint effort to help patients smoothly, safely and accurately fill their prescriptions, the two will announce Tuesday. The most visible aspect of the partnership will take place in a renovated, 1,200-square-foot section of a Walgreens across the street from UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, where pharmacists from both the university and the pharmacy chain will help customers side by side.
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Health Data Management
AMC Health Launches Android-based Mobile Telehealth Platform
Feb,25,2014
by:+Greg Gillespie
AMC Health, a telehealth services and technology provider, has released an Android-based mobile platform designed to provide untethered interactions between patients and providers. The company is beta-testing the platform with clinical trial clients before releasing it to the hospital market. In beta tests, clinical trial patients will be given Samsung Galaxy devices to videoconference with clinicians. AMC Health plans to integrate the video and voice conferencing capabilities into its CareConsole Web portal for physicians.
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Search Health IT
Not just another health IT term, telecare benefits the elderly
Feb,25,2014
by:+Joseph Kim
There is a growing focus on the use of technology to help the older adult population live healthier lives. As the baby boomer generation ages, more adults are living longer with multiple chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, osteoarthritis and heart disease. There are also many older adults who are relatively healthy and do not have any type of active disease. Technology can help both of these groups live healthier, safer lives.
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Health Data Management
With Consumers Facing a ‘Rat Maze,’ Insurer Tries to Create New Set of Norms
Feb,24,2014
by:+Greg Slabodkin
Aetna, one of the nation's largest health insurers, is embracing digital tools built around individuals in order to create a "new set of norms" for the U.S. health care system. Delivering the opening keynote at HIMSS14, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said the new model is about enabling consumers to interact with the system in a way that is simple and enables them to “stay ahead” of their health.
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Featured Report: Physician Compare website adds quality scores

This Week's Healthcare Online News

Modern Healthcare
Physician Compare website adds quality scores
Feb,21,2014
by+Andis Robeznieks
The CMS is working to make its Physician Compare website more relevant to patients by adding quality measures related to the treatment of diabetes and heart disease for 66 group practices and 141 accountable care organizations.
The quality scores were developed from data generated from the groups that participated in the CMS Physician Quality Reporting System's Group Reporting Option and the ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, according to a CMS fact sheet. These groups and ACOs also were given 30 days to review their data for accuracy.
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MobiHealthNews
In-Depth: A brief history of digital patient engagement tools
Feb,21,2014
by:+The MobiHealthNews Team
Without a doubt patient engagement is one of the more important trends in healthcare and health IT right now. Over the past few years the tools that look to enable patient engagement between providers and patients have changed markedly. It is important to note, however, that the tools themselves are just a small part of the story — they can go a long way toward improving patient engagement, though. The drivers of the patient engagement buzz are varied, but one big one is the federal government’s Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) Meaningful Use (MU) program, which is beginning to include requirements for very basic patient engagement services.
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Modern Healthcare
Most employers will keep offering workers health insurance
Feb,19,2014
by:+Paul Demko
The vast majority of employers will continue to offer workers health insurance coverage in the coming years, but many will alter the way they deliver those benefits, according to a new survey by Aon Hewitt (PDF). Of the 1,230 companies surveyed, employing more than 10 million workers, 95% indicated that they expect to continue offering employees health insurance coverage during the next three to five years.
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HealthDataManagement
Too Many Deadlines for eHealth Incentive Programs? Here’s Help
Feb,20,2014
by:+Joseph Goedert
Did you know that there are 36 milestone dates to remember with the electronic health records meaningful use program between January 2014 and December 2016?
How about 22 milestones for the PQRS and IQR quality measurement programs during that same period? There also are five milestones for administrative simplification requirements between January 2014 and November 5, 2015. These milestones cover operating rules for electronic funds transfer and remittance advice, ICD-10 compliance, and deadlines for large and small health plans to obtain a health plan identifier.
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