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Monday, July 22, 2013

Featured Report: HCSC's 'social marketing marathon' educates consumers about exchanges


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iHealthbeat
Remote Patient Monitoring To Save $36B Worldwide, Report Predicts
July,22,2013
by+Staff

Remote patient monitoring will save $36 billion globally by 2018, according to a report by Juniper Research, MobiHealthNews reports.
Report Details
According to the report, North America will account for slightly more than three-quarters of the savings, with Western Europe realizing the second largest amount of savings from remote patient monitoring (Comstock, MobiHealthNews, 7/17).
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Fierce Health IT
Social media, web queries not ready as disease surveillance tools
Jult,22,2013
by:+Ashley Gold

A new study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research chronicles the evolution of using social media/Internet queries for disease surveillance, finding that "while their accuracy, speed, and cost compare favorably with existing surveillance systems, the primary challenge is to refine the data signal by reducing surrounding noise." The study calls for further developments in digital disease surveillance, which will have the potential to improve "sensitivity and specificity."
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Fierce Health Payer
HCSC's 'social marketing marathon' educates consumers about exchanges
July,21,2013
By:+Dina Overland

Health Care Services Corporation (HCSC) is taking matters into its own hands. Deciding not to rely on federal or state governments to inform and educate the public about the health insurance exchanges, it launched its own advertising campaign particularly aimed at the uninsured population in the four states where it operates Blue Cross Blue Shield plans--Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
At the core of the "Be Covered" campaign, which began in March, is almost 200 partner organizations enabling HCSC to have its finger on the pulse of the uninsured community.
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Featured Report: Why young social media workers are all tactics, no strategy



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Smart Brief on Social Media
Why young social media workers are all tactics, no strategy
July,19,2013
by+Gerald C. Kane

Many companies turn to interns or freshly-minted college students to staff their social media efforts. But that’s a risk: because these inexperienced employees are not well versed in their new company’s organizational culture or strategy, it is often difficult for them to meet organizational objectives with social media initiatives.
More dangerous, younger employees don’t know what they don’t know, which can be a recipe for disaster when companies hand these rookies a social media megaphone to speak on behalf of their company.
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Small Business Trends
The 5 Essential Elements of an Optimized and Useful LinkedIn Profile
July,18,2013
by:+Margie Zable Fisher

If you’re in business, chances are you’re on LinkedIn, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in May, 2013, and now has over 225 million members worldwide. Known as the most “business-y” of social media sites, LinkedIn is considered a critical place to connect with others in business. And while it’s likely that you already have a LinkedIn Profile, it’s unlikely that it’s optimized to provide the best business opportunities for you.
An important reason to review your profile now is the fact that, in late 2012, LinkedIn began rolling out new features and functionality within LinkedIn Profiles.
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Convince and Convert
4 Tips to Fuel Your Instagram Campaign to Success
July,19,2013
By:+Brian Zuercher

Sometimes deepening the relationship between your brand and your fans is as simple as giving people a way to engage on a new level. Instagram is a great tool for capturing fan and customer excitement in the moment, but in order to understand the magnitude of the effectiveness of visual marketing, it helps to take a look at the numbers:
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Inc.
How to Get a Customer Referral
July,16,2013
by:+Geoffrey James

To get referrals that turn into new customers you've got ask the right way at the right time. Hundreds of "how to" sales books (and the sales trainers who write them) advise sellers to always ask for a referral after you close a sale, like so:
"Thank you for buying! Do you know anyone else who can use our product?" Unfortunately, this type of request almost never results in a useful referral because it's asking for the wrong thing, in the wrong way, and at the wrong time. Here's a better way:
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Featured Report: After simple surgeries, post-op checkups by phone save time and travel



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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
mHealth seen as solution to medical malpractice epidemic
July,15,2013
by+Greg Slabodkin

One can add reduced medical malpractice cases to the list of potential benefits to society from widespread mHealth adoption, so says Zachary Landman, MD, chief medical officer for Doctorbase, a developer of mobile health solutions, patient portals and patient engagement software. Landman believes that mHealth can reduce the "suffocating" costs of malpractice that plague our healthcare and legal systems. He argues that "whereas email and 'EHR messaging' feels and acts impersonal, takes considerable time and forces physicians to be stationary (more difficult than it sounds), mobile messaging is in real-time and emulates a conversation." In addition, "mobile messages tend to be sent quicker and are less proofread, less polished and more personal," according to Landman.
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Med City News
After simple surgeries, post-op checkups by phone save time and travel
July,16,2013
by:+Doyle, Kathryn

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a preliminary study of patients who had simple surgeries, most did well and seemed satisfied with post-operative checkups by telephone instead of seeing their surgeon in a clinic visit.
The phone follow-up saved doctors and patients the time and effort involved in clinic visits without compromising patient care, according to the study of California patients.
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New York Times Health
Health Plan Cost for New Yorkers Set to Fall 50%
July,16,2013
By:+ RONI CARYN RABIN and REED ABELSON

Individuals buying health insurance on their own will see their premiums tumble next year in New York State as changes under the federal health care law take effect, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Wednesday
State insurance regulators say they have approved rates for 2014 that are at least 50 percent lower on average than those currently available in New York. Beginning in October, individuals in New York City who now pay $1,000 a month or more for coverage will be able to shop for health insurance for as little as $308 monthly. With federal subsidies, the cost will be even lower
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Fierce Health IT
Insurer slow to close debate on masking personal health info
July,16,2013
by:+Ashley Gold

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina periodically does something that just may be concerning to its customers: it shares their personal health information with a third-party company employed to design the company's software, according to documents and interviews compiled by the Charlotte News-Observer.
In the article, it is explained how the internal documents show a discussion within the 3.7 million member Blue Cross of NC, deciding whether to scramble or mask the data--which includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers and medical information--before it goes to the third party. So far, the payer is not doing that.
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Featured Report:Will community health centers keep new Obamacare patients as repeat customers?


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Fierce Health Payer
Blues plans, Walgreens launch educational campaign about exchanges
July,12,2013
by+Dina Overland

One of the nation's largest health insurers has partnered with the largest pharmacy chain to educate the public about healthcare reform and help consumers shop for coverage through the new health insurance exchanges.
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and Walgreens together launched the educational campaign Wednesday with a new website, and said they would distribute brochures that answer basic questions like what the law does, when it takes effect and who is eligible for benefits at most of Walgreens' 8,500 stores across the country. It also will include in-store advertising about the healthcare overhaul, reported the Chicago Tribune.
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MedCity News
Will community health centers keep new Obamacare patients as repeat customers?
July,14,2013
by:+Abutaleb, Yasmeen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Community health centers expect to sign up millions of newly insured patients under President Barack Obama's health reform law, but U.S. budget cuts just as they need to beef up services may make it hard to keep the newcomers.
The federally funded centers have been a safety net in the nation's poorest areas since 1965, offering primary care and mental health services to 22 million people, more than a third of them without insurance.
When the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, takes full effect on January 1, the 1,200 clinics plan to help enroll many of the newly insured. That campaign is expected to bring 10 million new patients within a year.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Primary-care docs see promise in CMS' proposed pay for non face-to-face work
July,13,2013
By:+Andis Robeznieks

Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions generate a set fee for each visit to the Center for Primary Care in Augusta, Ga. Yet that visit will generate numerous tasks—including making referrals to calling in prescriptions to answering questions over the telephone from the patient's spouse. None is reimbursed by the CMS.
“For every E&M visit we get reimbursed for, there are seven other items of work that we don't get reimbursed for,” said Dr Paul Fischer, founder of the Center for Primary Care. “The vast majority of our work gets done outside of the 15 minutes you spend in the exam room.
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ONC took 'inspiration' from Internet for Health IT
July,12,2013
by:+Greg Slabodkin

Electronic health records and the Affordable Care Act should be accessed like today's Internet and not like enterprise resource planning (ERP) or traditional IT systems, says the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT's Doug Fridsma in an InfoWorld interview.
Fridsma,who is chief science officer (CSO) and director of ONC's Office of Science and Technology, is spearheading federal efforts to make the HITECH requirements "happen" at a technical and medical level.
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Monday, July 8, 2013

Featured Report: Going private Employers see benefits in choice of insurance exchanges


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Healthcare Info Security
Can Social Media Detect Suicide Risk?
July,05,2013
by+Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

Can real-time analysis of social media and mobile device text data help detect suicide risk among U.S. service veterans? That's what a new research collaboration involving Facebook is trying to figure out.
But some privacy experts raise concerns about whether individuals will be accurately informed about how their data will be collected, used, and safeguarded.
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HIE WATCH
ACA employer mandate, reporting voluntary until 2015
July,03,2013
by:+Mary Mosquera

The Obama administration announced late Tuesday that it has delayed until 2015 the healthcare reform law's requirement that businesses with more than 50 employees must offer them insurance, bending to criticism that requirements were burdensome and complex.
“We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively,” Mark Mazur, the treasury department’s assistant secretary for tax policy, explained in a blog. “We recognize that the vast majority of businesses that will need to do this reporting already provide health insurance to their workers, and we want to make sure it is easy for others to do so.”
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Fierce Health IT
Patient portals not quite ready for med adherence
July,05,2013
By:+Ashley Gold

Patients are enthusiastic about using online portals to manage their medications, but more features and functionality are necessary to maximize medication management and adherence, according to a study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. The study's authors point out that no data exist about the potential and real uses of patient portals for medication adherence to improve outcomes.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Going private Employers see benefits in choice of insurance exchanges
June,29,2013
by:+ Jonathan Block

Carl Cudworth, director of benefits at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing in Austin, Texas, was facing steeply rising health insurance costs for his company's 700 retirees. In 2010, he shifted away from offering them a menu of several health plans chosen by the company, with the company paying a fixed percentage of the premium for each plan. Instead, Houghton Mifflin gave them a fixed dollar amount and referred them to a private health insurance exchange operated by San Mateo, Calif.-based Extend Health, which subsequently was acquired by consulting firm Towers Watson.
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