Featured Report: HHS unveils insurance exchange educational tools

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Fierce Health Payer
Insurers to rebate $500M to consumers under MLR rule
June,21,2013
by+Dina Overland
Insurers will be refunding about $500 million to 8.5 million people this year as a result of the reform law's medical-loss ratio requirements, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services said in a report released Thursday. That amounts to about a $100 refund per family, down from the $152 per family rebates insurers provided consumers in 2011 for a total of $1.1 billion.
"More insurers are meeting this [MLR] standard and spending more of their premium dollars directly toward patient care and quality, and not red tape and bonuses," HHS said in a statement.
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Med City News
In 15 states, officials counting down to ‘biggest open-enrollment we’ve ever seen’
June,23,2013
by:+Phil Galewitz, Jay Hancock
At the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange in Carson City, Nev., workers have been counting down the days until Oct. 1 on an office corkboard. Today is a big milestone --- 100 days to the deadline for opening the online marketplaces that are a linchpin of the federal health law known as Obamacare. "We certainly will need every one of the days that we have left," said Jon Hager, executive director of the Nevada exchange. "But I am confident we will be ready to go."
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Modern Healthcare.com
HHS unveils insurance exchange educational tools
June,24,2013
By:+Jessica Zigmond
HHS on Monday unveiled its new HealthCare.gov website and an around-the-clock call center to educate consumers about the open-enrollment process for the health insurance exchanges that is scheduled to start on Oct. 1.
The announcement was expected, as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner had said for months that HHS would launch a public-outreach campaign this summer. Then sources confirmed on Friday that the CMS had planned demonstrations in three Florida cities this week to showcase the website and call-in center.
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Graphic Medicine
Reflection and Reconstruction
June,13,2013
by:+Comic Nurse
Alert to some online work from Heinz Insu Fenkl, which arrives via Brighton conference organizer Muna Al-Jawad,I teach a course called Visual/Verbal Storytelling at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and I’m an old comics hand from my grad student days. For the past year or so I’ve been working with the artist Kevin Somers and the Psychiatrist Stefan Kruszewski on adapting Stefan’s graphic memoir, which is a combination of self-reflections of childhood and case studies from his professional work (fictionalized a bit to protect privacy).
The childhood memoirs are relevant to graphic medicine because they are a form of self-analysis through the process of reflection and reconstruction, but the case studies are especially interesting because they show a perspective that hardly ever gets represented.
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Featured Report: How To Attract More Clients And Build A Great Reputation

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8 Unbelievable Technologies That Replace Super Powers
June,18,2013 by+ Taylor Casti

Super heroes are the very definition of cool. The secret identities, the triumphant rescues, the skin-tight Lyrca outfits that show off every defined muscle and curve. Yes, super heroism is a lifestyle we could all get used to. Luckily for you, the following eight super powers don't even require mutated genetics or a Kryptonian birth certificate, thanks to modern technology. Read More

Small Business Newz

How To Attract More Clients And Build A Great Reputation
June,18,2013
by:+Jim Connolly
There’s a great opportunity out there, for business owners who want to work with the best clients. There is always a gap in the market, for service providers who deliver on their client’s expectations. This is because the marketplace is already frustrated at being lied to by companies, who fail to deliver on their promises Allow me to explain. The delivery deception
How long will your laptop work on battery power? Far less time than the manufacturer says, unless you set the screen brightness low, disable Bluetooth and avoid processor-intensive tasks like video editing etc.
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Intuit Small Business Blog

How to Identify Your Target Audience
June,18,2013 By:+Lee Polevoi
Attracting customers is critical to the success of your small business. To achieve this goal, you can either throw together a makeshift marketing plan and hope for the best — or you can take time to determine who is most likely to want or need what you have to sell. The analytical approach will always tip the odds in your favor.
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Social Media Examiner

4 Easy Steps to Implement a Facebook Marketing Strategy
June,18,2013
by:+Andrea Vahl
Do you have a Facebook marketing strategy? Is your Facebook marketing is working? If you don’t have a strategy with goals in place for your Facebook Page, you won’t know if you are getting a return on your social media efforts! Your Facebook marketing strategy shouldn’t live in a vacuum—it needs to be integrated with your overall marketing plan.
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Featured Report: Enroll America kicking off its ACA push, but hospitals and insurers have their own campaigns

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Health insurance companies are critical to mHealth adoption
June,18,2013
by:+Greg Slabodkin
The potential benefits of mobile healthcare from the perspective of patients, physicians, and providers is often touted. Perhaps less amplified is the payers' financial interest in minimizing their risk by actively promoting the health of their policyholders. In fact, insurers are among the healthcare industry's most important stakeholders in keeping members healthy. The goal is to improve people's overall health through behavioral change.
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Enroll America kicking off its ACA push, but hospitals and insurers have their own campaigns
June,18,2013
by:+Jessica Zigmond and Rachel Landen
Hospitals and health insurers that will benefit from the new paying customers generated by next year's expansion of insurance coverage under the health reform law have moved quietly on their own to promote consumers' new options.
The moves come after HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius came under fire from Republicans in Congress, who have questioned whether she solicited firms and institutions regulated by her department to contribute money to Enroll America, the privately organized not-for-profit that is working to build public awareness about the new law. Congress has not appropriated funds to educate the uninsured about their coverage options under the new law, which will be offered to the public starting Oct. 1 when open enrollment begins for the insurance exchanges.
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Telemedicine patients more likely urban, educated
June,18,2013
by:+Susan D. Hall
Urbanites are twice as likely as those in rural areas to take part in telemedicine, though participation rates for both remain low, according to a report on broadband use released by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Based on data from 53,000 households collected by the Census Bureau in July 2011, the report found 8 percent of urban Internet users took part in telemedicine initiatives, compared with 4 percent in rural areas. That stands in contrast to telemedicine's common selling point that it can more effectively and conveniently provide services to people in remote locations.
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Med City News
Healthcare leaders to Senate finance committee: “Transparency can only go so far”
June,18,2013
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
“CMS is sitting on so much data; it’s a goldmine,” said Giovanni Colella, CEO and co-founder of Castlight Health, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance on Tuesday. “Making that data accessible will help everyone better understand quality of care and cost of care.”
But data alone won’t drive down healthcare costs. Colella joined TIME contributing editor Steven Brill and two other healthcare transparency leaders in testifying before the committee on high prices and low transparency in healthcare.
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Featured Report: Strong evidence that hospital CEOs’ bonuses are standing in the way of healthcare

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Strong evidence that hospital CEOs’ bonuses are standing in the way of healthcare
June,17,2013 by+Jay Hancock
Like hospital leaders everywhere, the people running Valley Medical Center in Renton, Wash., talk frequently about the need to control soaring medical costs.
"We are working to reduce the overall cost of health care and to transform health care delivery," Lisa Jensen, chairwoman of the hospital's board of trustees, said last year.
Experts believe that's a good prescription for the entire U.S. health industry, which costs the economy far more than systems in other developed countries, delivers mediocre results and is widely seen as unsustainable at its current growth rate.
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SearchHealthIT original infographic: Federal health IT activity
June,14,2013 by:+Emily Huizenga
From electronic health records (EHRs), health information exchange, ICD-10 conversion, meaningful use mandates to data privacy and security regulations, healthcare organizations are slowly, but surely, making headway in implementing many different initiatives. The opening months of 2013 saw the federal government offer providers a number of resources to ease the strain of new technology and workflow adoption, as well as implementing legislative measures to keep IT leaders accountable to policy
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Fierce Health IT

State-level data governance efforts 'shaky at best'
June,13,2013 By:+Dan Bowman
State level governance efforts for storing and exchanging citizen data--including health information--are "shaky at best," according to Chad Grant, a senior policy analyst with the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.
Grant (pictured), who spoke at the Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, was touting the results of a collaborative study published this week by NASCIO and HIMSS on the health IT landscape in the states. Overall, 80 percent of responding state CIOs said they had no data governance structure in place at all.
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Study details patients' financial burden from unexpected out-of-network costs
June,14,2013 by:+Beth Kutscher
Patients shoulder a significant financial impact when they unwittingly go out of network for care—which can happen during inpatient stays when they discover that not every member of their medical team takes their insurance.
As the CMS releases more data about what hospitals charge for common procedures—and hospital retort that the charges are only list prices—a new study attempts to answer the question of what patients actually pay.
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Featured Report: Yet Another Reason to Embrace Mobile Marketing

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Small Business Newz
Solving the Most Frustrating Part of Marketing
June,13,2013 by+John Jantsch
I’ve spent the better part of the last 10 years telling any small business owner that would listen that marketing isn’t really that complicated.
What’s complicated and frustrating about marketing perhaps is how small business owners and those that work in the field of marketing think about it.
The Marketing Hourglass Marketing is just a system and, operated as such, it isn’t any different from many of the other systems needed to run a business. A system creates control, a system guides priorities, a system creates process, a system generates accountability and a way to measure and win the game.
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Entrepreneur.com
4 Ways to Turn Online Relationships Into Valuable Business Contacts
June,11,2013
by:+Lewis Howes
It can be easy to become "friends" or "connected" with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships. As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren't able to turn them into paying customers? Here are five steps to turning your online relationships into real world success:
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Mobile Marketing Watch

Yet Another Reason to Embrace Mobile Marketing
June,12,2013 By:+Michael
While the rate of engagement with mobile ads grows stronger with each passing year, online display ads are having an opposite experience, according to a new report from comScore.
The latest data shows that 54% of online display ads shown in thousands of campaigns measured by comScore between May 2012 and February of 2013 “weren’t seen by anyone.”
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Intuit Small Business Blog

How to Accelerate Cash Inflows and Delay Outflows
June,10,2013 by:+Robert Moskowitz
With lesser reserves and fewer financial alternatives than corporate competitors, small businesses should prepare for the kinds of fluctuations in revenue that could prompt cash crises.
It’s wise to put together a set of policies that can help you cope with any cash shortages and keep your company afloat long enough for sales and profits to ramp back up.
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