Featured Report: Telemedicine gets a commercial payer with Iagnosis, Highmark collaboration

Med City News

Telemedicine gets a commercial payer with Iagnosis, Highmark collaboration

Oct,31,2014

by:  Dan Verel 

One of the biggest barriers to wide-spread adoption of telemedicine is weather it’s covered by insurance, particularly for consumers who might embrace it more readily if it’s not cost prohibitive but also for employers looking to contain health plan costs. So it’s not without warrant that Iagnosis, the parent company of DermatologistOnCall, announced that starting next year, web-based visits will be a covered benefit for some 5.2 million members of Highmark Commercial Insurance, a Blue Cross Blue Shield-affiliated carrier based in Pittsburgh, across Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware. Read More

Fierce Mobile Healthcare

Microsoft debuts mHealth platform, smartband

Oct,30,2014

by: Judy Mottl

Microsoft is officially in the mHealth realm, debuting its Microsoft Health platform complete with a cloud service, app, 10-sensor smartband and industry partnerships with app developers and a national fitness chain."We see an opportunity to bring these devices and services together to allow you to combine the information they collect and use the power of the cloud to turn that data in to something more valuable," writes Microsoft Corporate Vice President Todd Holmdahl in a post on the Microsoft Blog.  Read More

Modern Healthcare

Healthcare prices are up, and patients are buying less

Oct,28,2014

by: Melanie Evans 

 Healthcare spending growth for people who get their health insurance at work remained modest last year. Prices edged upward, but people in employer-based plans made fewer trips to doctors, hospitals and pharmacies. Health spending increased 3.9% in 2013 for roughly 40 million people with health benefits from an employer, according to the latest report from the Health Care Cost Institute. The analysis is based on about 5 billion medical bills submitted to private health plans, offering a snapshot of spending taken from the medical care for nearly 1 in 4 Americans with employer-based health insurance. Read More

MobiHealthNews

Malpractice insurer turns to digital health to reduce claims

Oct,29,2014

by: Jonah Comstock

 MIEC, an Oakland, California-based medical malpractice insurer, has teamed up with HealthLoop to turn the startup’s mobile and web-based communication platform toward a new use-case: decreasing the number of malpractice claims brought against a doctor or hospital.

“It is well known that most litigation cases are not due to actual malpractice or ‘bad surgeons,’ but rather because patients felt that they were not treated fairly as individuals or they didn’t understand the treatment recommendation,” Dr. Wendy Levinson wrote in a JAMA study in 1997. “Patients tend not to sue doctors they like and with whom they feel rapport; they sue doctors who never took the effort to get to know them and understand their beliefs and desires or who treated them without respect.”  Read More

WebDocsNetwork

Do you Know What Telehealth Can Do For You?

The Affordable Care Act know as Obamacare is here and there will be many changes on how you can get healthcare. One of those changes will be how you will get healthcare from your doctor. Now you can go online for a doctor's and get everything from a diagnosis to your medication all without leaving your home. It's call tele-medicine but is it as good as an in person visit? The answer is Yes!! Studies done by iHealthbeat in 2012 70% of patients received the same or better healthcare online as they did with an in person visit. But the surprising fact about this report is cost. The average cost of an in person doctor's visit range from $75.00 to $195.00 per visit. While an online visit cost $35.00 to $50.00 per visit.

That being said I want to introduce you to WebDocs Network. At Web Docs Network we have a group of top Doctors that can see you 24/7 365 days a year. Where you can get a diagnosis from our doctors that can be used anywhere even with your primary care doctor or your insurance company all it the cost of less that $35.00 a visit Only $19.95 per month . So if you want to lower your healthcare cost for you and your family visit our website at www.healthcareonline247.com and see how much Web Docs Network can save you.

Affiliate Program

How would you like to save money on you and your family's Doctor's visit while helping other and make extra income. Then become a Web Docs Network Affiliate.

As an affiliate once you sign up three people your services are FREE

Contact:

Keith Berggren

Tel: 773-758-0007

http://www.healthcareonline247.com

Featured Report: 7 Steps To Overcome A Social Media Crisis

Forbes

How To Reach 4 Different Kinds Of Thinkers With Your Content

Oct,24,2014,
by: Mary Ellen Slayter

This year, I’ve been lucky enough to be participate in a leadership program run by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber. We’re only two sessions in, but the experience is already changing my perspective about my role in our community. It has also changed the way I think about how to best create content that resonates with a variety of business leaders. In one session, we took an Emergenetics assessment, which gave us insight into our preferred modes of thinking: conceptual, analytical, social and structural. As my classmates and I discussed our profiles, it occurred to me that the same structure could be applied to create more effective content marketing.   Read More

Social Media Examiner

Facebook Reviews: What Marketers Need to Know

Oct,27,2014by: Kandice Linwright

Does your business get Facebook reviews? Are you concerned about the effect of poor reviews on your business? Facebook has a star rating system that lets your customers share their experience (whether positive or negative) with others. In this article I’ll share everything you need to know about Facebook star reviews, including what they are and how to shut them off. Read More

B2B Marketing

7 Steps To Overcome A Social Media Crisis

Oct,22,2014

by: Peter LaMotte

Social media is a powerful tool for businesses of any size. But it’s also a tool used by hackers, unhappy customers and disgruntled employees — and in their hands, it can wreak havoc with your brand. Then there’s the danger of self-inflicted social media wounds. An employee’s poorly conceived Tweet or Facebook posting can cause offense where none was intended. The next thing you know, the blogosphere is up in arms and it feels like the sky is falling. Either way, you have a social media crisis on your hands and it’s not going to go away. In these situations, the best defense is thorough preparation and planning, along with a few other critically important steps for addressing such a crisis. Read More

Dex Media

Top Tips for Better Business Blogging

Oct,08,2014

by: Jonathan Jeter

While many businesses take on the personality of their owners, business blogging and personal blogging usually require different strategies because of the difference in topic, audience and visibility. Business blogging can have personality, but to be effective, it must also employ a strategy. On your personal blog, the audience may or may not have a vested interest in the topics you present, but there is usually no expectation of consistency or quality. For your business blog on the other hand, your audience is your customers, potential customers, competitors and other experts in your field. As such, there are expectations of the type, quality and consistency of the content you will publish on your business blog or website. Read More 

WebDocsNetwork

Do you Know What Telehealth Can Do For You?

The Affordable Care Act know as Obamacare is here and there will be many changes on how you can get healthcare. One of those changes will be how you will get healthcare from your doctor. Now you can go online for a doctor's and get everything from a diagnosis to your medication all without leaving your home. It's call tele-medicine but is it as good as an in person visit? The answer is Yes!! Studies done by iHealthbeat in 2012 70% of patients received the same or better healthcare online as they did with an in person visit. But the surprising fact about this report is cost. The average cost of an in person doctor's visit range from $75.00 to $195.00 per visit. While an online visit cost $35.00 to $50.00 per visit.

That being said I want to introduce you to WebDocs Network. At Web Docs Network we have a group of top Doctors that can see you 24/7 365 days a year. Where you can get a diagnosis from our doctors that can be used anywhere even with your primary care doctor or your insurance company all it the cost of less that $35.00 a visit Only $19.95 per month . So if you want to lower your healthcare cost for you and your family visit our website at www.healthcareonline247.com and see how much Web Docs Network can save you.

Affiliate Program

How would you like to save money on you and your family's Doctor's visit while helping other and make extra income. Then become a Web Docs Network Affiliate.

As an affiliate once you sign up three people your services are FREE

Contact:

Keith Berggren

Tel: 773-758-0007

http://www.healthcareonline247.com

Featured Report: Global telemedicine technology market to hit $43 billion by 2019

Fierce Health IT

Global telemedicine technology market to hit $43 billion by 2019

Oct,17,2014

by: Dan Bowman

Spurred by drastic growth in "telehome" technology adoption, the global telemedicine tools market will likely reach $43.4 billion within five years, according to a new reportpublished by Wellesley, Massachusetts-based BCC Research. The market for telehome technologies, or tools that enable outpatients to receive telehealth services, is predicted by BCC to grow from $6.5 billion in 2013 to $24 billion by 2019. To that end, telehome technologies are expected to make up 55 percent of the overall telehealth market by 2019, up from 40 percent in 2013. Read More

WPTZ.com

What is telestroke?

Sept,23,2014

by: Mayo Clinic News Network

In stroke telemedicine, also called telestroke, doctors who have advanced training in the nervous system (neurologists) remotely evaluate people who've had acute strokes and make diagnoses and treatment recommendations to emergency medicine doctors at other sites. Doctors communicate using digital video cameras, Internet telecommunications, robotic telepresence, smartphones and other technology. Having a prompt neurological evaluation increases the possibility that you may receive clot-dissolving therapies (thrombolytics) or other clot-retrieving procedures in time to reduce disability and death resulting from stroke.  Read More

MobiHealthNews

What’s holding telemedicine adoption back?

Oct,23,2014

by: Jonah Comstock 

Telemedicine has been around for a number of years, but it’s not yet an everyday channel for patients to receive care. A panel of providers and vendors sat down at the Partners HealthCare Connected Health Symposium to discuss the question of what it would take to get telemedicine into the mainstream. The panel, moderated by Harvard heart surgeon Lawrence Cohn, included American Well CEO Dr. Roy Schoenberg, Mercy Health CFO Shannon Sock, Wellpoint Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Martin Silverstein, and Dr. Neil Evans, Co-Director of Connected Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs.  Read More

Modern Healthcare

CMS launches $840 million initiative to accelerate care transformation

Oct,23,2014

by:  Melanie Evans 

The CMS Innovation Center will spend $840 million in coming years to help doctors and hospitals do more to teach each other how to improve quality and cut wasteful practices. The four-year effort is expected to include 150,000 clinicians working in networks where they will swap ideas, trade information and learn from others' mistakes and successes. The investment is a gamble that sharing care-improvement experiences among medical groups, health systems and others will push the industry more rapidly toward more efficient models of care. Read More

WebDocsNetwork

Do you Know What Telehealth Can Do For You?

The Affordable Care Act know as Obamacare is here and there will be many changes on how you can get healthcare. One of those changes will be how you will get healthcare from your doctor. Now you can go online for a doctor's and get everything from a diagnosis to your medication all without leaving your home. It's call tele-medicine but is it as good as an in person visit? The answer is Yes!! Studies done by iHealthbeat in 2012 70% of patients received the same or better healthcare online as they did with an in person visit. But the surprising fact about this report is cost. The average cost of an in person doctor's visit range from $75.00 to $195.00 per visit. While an online visit cost $35.00 to $50.00 per visit.

That being said I want to introduce you to WebDocs Network. At Web Docs Network we have a group of top Doctors that can see you 24/7 365 days a year. Where you can get a diagnosis from our doctors that can be used anywhere even with your primary care doctor or your insurance company all it the cost of less that $35.00 a visit Only $19.95 per month . So if you want to lower your healthcare cost for you and your family visit our website at www.healthcareonline247.com and see how much Web Docs Network can save you.

Affiliate Program

How would you like to save money on you and your family's Doctor's visit while helping other and make extra income. Then become a Web Docs Network Affiliate.

As an affiliate once you sign up three people your services are FREE

Contact:

Keith Berggren

Tel: 773-758-0007

http://www.healthcareonline247.com

Featured Report: The Future of Business Starts with Us

Small Business Newz

The Future of Business Starts with Us

Oct,18,2014
by: Brian Solis 

I often share a quote by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”And that’s where are in business. We all talk of change but very few of us start with changing the very things that will help us more effectively compete for the future.It’s changing or it should change. Read More

Marketing Sherpa Blog

How to Craft a Viral Campaign in 3 Steps

Oct,21,2014

by: Daniel Beulah

In 2012, only half of Americans knew of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, named after one of its most famous victims. The ALS Association, a nonprofit committed to raise money for research and patient services, raised a combined total of $19.4 million for that year. Fast forward to today, and the ALS has raised over $100 million this year alone, most of which has been raised in the two month period of July and August. Read More

Site Pro News

The Benefits of Google+ for Your Website and Blog

Oct,22,2014

by: Julia Spence-McCoy 

Is G+ worth using for business? It’s the question every serious content marketer and business owner has asked. It’s no secret that Google controls the largest search engine on the World Wide Web. Not only does the cyber giant set the standards, guidelines and rules for search engine optimization, but it also enforces them. So why does the titan’s social network, G+, actually look like a ghost town? For starters, appearances can be deceiving. Read More

Smart Blog on Social Media

4 smart social investments for the holiday season

Oct,21,2014

by: Mairead Ridge

Social media has matured into a mandatory marketing channel for brands. Today’s leading social networks have advanced advertising tools, social commerce features and mobile capabilities. The channel has come a long way toward proving ROI for businesses — and it still has plenty of untapped potential. With all the shiny new tools and platforms digital marketers can use to maximize brand social efforts, the holiday shopping season will be a test of their ability to influence consumers and score a slice of the estimated $650 billion spent before the year’s end. Read More

KaratBars International

Attention Fund-raisers

Have you tried to raise funds for your church, school, or volunteer group using the traditional fundraising methods like, bake sales, car washes, or selling products like healthcare supplements that requires you to sign up more and more members just to selling products that many of them don't want. 

If the answer to this question is YES! Then what if I told you 
that Your group can now raise funds for your group while creating 
a saving plan that will help all of your members. Best of all you 
don't have to selling anything. I know that this might sound like 
other plans but this one is truly different WHY? In one word GOLD. 
that's right gold. We will show your Non-profit group how to 
acquire gold at a price that all of your members can afford. 

How? By becoming a members of KaratBars the only gold saving system that allows their members to by gold in grams not ounces making acquiring gold affordable to all your members. Best of all gold is the one currency that never goes down and that can be used all over the world. This makes Karatbars one of the ways for your 
Non-profit group raise funds without having to buy another 
product again. To learn more about how Karatbars can help your 
Non-profit group please watch this video then visit our website 
and get back to the person who send you this information to get 
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Featured Report: How to Create a Content Marketing Strategy

Convince and Convert

How to Create a Content Marketing Strategy

Oct,17,2014

by: Jay Baer

Content marketing strategy isn’t a nice to have, it’s a requirement. Recent research from the Content Marketing Institute found that more than 80% of B2B marketers say they have a content marketing strategy, but only a third have documented that very same content marketing strategy. Let’s fix that. This presentation is drawn from our work here at Convince & Convert,where we create content marketing strategy for some of the best-known brands in the world. (if we can help you, please let us know). In practice, of course, creating a fully functional content marketing plan requires meaningful time and effort (usually 60 days or so for us), but I sincerely hope that this presentation and the seven steps it outlines for how to do this kind of work, will help you take your own content marketing plan to the next level of success. Read More

Social Media Examiner

How to Use Google+ Profiles and Pages for Better Visibility

Oct,20,2014

by: Megan Conley

Are you using Google+? Have you optimized your profile and page so your message reaches the most people? It’s more important than ever to make sure your Google+ profile and page are optimized to support your business goals so you can extend your marketing reach.In this article I’ll share three tips for optimizing your Google+ profile and business page to make your business more visible. Read More

Inc.com

How to Keep Your Seasonal Business Flourishing Year-Round

Oct,20,2014
by: BRANDON STEPHENS
In a perfect world, customers utilize products and services at evenly spaced intervals throughout the year, precisely timed to make the best use of employees and other resources. In reality, however, as the owner of a seasonal business--whether an ice cream shop, a pop-up Halloween outlet or a landscaping company--you'll experience the challenges of the dreaded off-season. After your peak season ends, what usually follows is a frustrating lull during which workers and equipment sit idle, costs mount and profits shrivel. Read More

Forbes

Inside Pinterest: The Coming Ad Colossus That Could Dwarf Twitter And Facebook

Oct,15,2014
by: Jeff Bercovici

The Cannes Lions advertising festival has become as big among the Madison Avenue crowd as the Riviera town’s iconic film event is for Hollywood. So as Steve Stoute nursed a drink with a friend at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the balmy June evening that opened this year’s boozing and schmoozing, the Cannes Lions veteran braced himself for an onslaught of media and technology executives. Stoute’s ad agency, Translation LLC, has clients like Anheuser-Busch, State Farm and McDonald’s – the kinds of whales that would have him fending off supplicants left and right.  Read More

KaratBars International

Attention Fund-raisers

Have you tried to raise funds for your church, school, or volunteer group using the traditional fundraising methods like, bake sales, car washes, or selling products like healthcare supplements that requires you to sign up more and more members just to selling products that many of them don't want. 

If the answer to this question is YES! Then what if I told you 
that Your group can now raise funds for your group while creating 
a saving plan that will help all of your members. Best of all you 
don't have to selling anything. I know that this might sound like 
other plans but this one is truly different WHY? In one word GOLD. 
that's right gold. We will show your Non-profit group how to 
acquire gold at a price that all of your members can afford. 

How? By becoming a members of KaratBars the only gold saving system that allows their members to by gold in grams not ounces making acquiring gold affordable to all your members. Best of all gold is the one currency that never goes down and that can be used all over the world. This makes Karatbars one of the ways for your 
Non-profit group raise funds without having to buy another 
product again. To learn more about how Karatbars can help your 
Non-profit group please watch this video then visit our website 
and get back to the person who send you this information to get 
your group started raising funds with KaratBars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qElDnNw5eLQ

Featured Report: Home-based connected health to overtake hospital-based by 2019

Fierce Health IT

VA treated 690K veterans through telemedicine in fiscal year 2014

Oct,15,2014

by; Susan B. Hall

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) says it provided remote care to more than 690,000 veterans during fiscal year 2014.About 55 percent of those veterans live in rural areas with limited access to VA facilities. "A brick-and-mortar facility is not the only option for healthcare," VA Secretary Robert A. McDonald said in an  announcement. "We are exploring how we can more efficiently and effectively deliver health care services to better serve our veterans and improve their lives. Telehealth is one of those areas we have identified for growth."   Read More

Fierce Health Payer

Bundled payments can be gateway to payment reform

Oct,16,2014

by: Dina Overland

When insurers implement bundled payment projects, they're transforming care by focusing on quality and lowering costs, making it a strong gateway to propel payment reform, according to a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Institute. In fact, the "most attractive element" of a bundled payment pilot is often the opportunity to prepare for "future demands of healthcare transformation," the report's authors wrote. Read More

Modern Healthcare

Video | Debating the value of innovation

Oct,10,2014

by: Staff

The medical device industry argues that risk-based payment models are pushing providers out of their traditional roles as advocates on behalf of patients for access to new technology and aligning them with insurers as gatekeepers on cost. Hear from Covidien CEO Jose Almeida, AdvaMed CEO Stephen Ubl, Cigna National Medical Officer Dr. Scott Josephs, Premier CEO Susan DeVore and NorthShore University HealthSystem CEO Mark Neaman. Watch Video

MobiHealthNews

Home-based connected health to overtake hospital-based by 2019

Oct,14,2014

by: Aditi Pai 

The telemedicine market, which according to BCC Research is comprised of “telehospital” and “telehome” technologies, is expected to reach $43.4 billion by 2019 with a compound annual growth rate of 17.7 percent, according to a recent report from the firm. According to BCC, the telehospital market refers to “services that are provided within or between hospitals, clinics or other healthcare providers”, while the telehome market consists of remote monitoring devices for out patients.  Read More

WebDocsNetwork

Do you Know What Telehealth Can Do For You?

The Affordable Care Act know as Obamacare is here and there will be many changes on how you can get healthcare. One of those changes will be how you will get healthcare from your doctor. Now you can go online for a doctor's and get everything from a diagnosis to your medication all without leaving your home. It's call tele-medicine but is it as good as an in person visit? The answer is Yes!! Studies done by iHealthbeat in 2012 70% of patients received the same or better healthcare online as they did with an in person visit. But the surprising fact about this report is cost. The average cost of an in person doctor's visit range from $75.00 to $195.00 per visit. While an online visit cost $35.00 to $50.00 per visit.

That being said I want to introduce you to WebDocs Network. At Web Docs Network we have a group of top Doctors that can see you 24/7 365 days a year. Where you can get a diagnosis from our doctors that can be used anywhere even with your primary care doctor or your insurance company all it the cost of less that $35.00 a visit Only $19.95 per month . So if you want to lower your healthcare cost for you and your family visit our website at www.healthcareonline247.com and see how much Web Docs Network can save you.

Affiliate Program

How would you like to save money on you and your family's Doctor's visit while helping other and make extra income. Then become a Web Docs Network Affiliate.

As an affiliate once you sign up three people your services are FREE

Contact:

Keith Berggren

Tel: 773-758-0007

http://www.healthcareonline247.com

Featured Report:10 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

The Wall Street Journal

Ryan Holmes: 3 Lessons I Learned from Raising $250 Million

Oct,15,2014

by: Staff

RYAN HOLMES: In September, my company closed $60 million in financing for a total of $250 million raised to date. That’s a sum I couldn’t have imagined when I started out. It has radically changed the course of my business, and it’s an opportunity I almost missed out on. I’ve been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. I started my first business — a paintball field — when I was still in high school using savings and love money from family and friends. In my 20s I financed a restaurant on my credit card and later opened a digital media agency that was always cash-flow positive. All along I was convinced that bootstrapping was the only way to go. Taking on debt or pursuing financing just weren’t options on my radar. Read More

QuickSprout

10 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Oct,15,2014

by: NEIL PATEL

Looking for ways to improve your content marketing?  Are you wondering what resources you should be reading to boost your content marketing efforts? I’ve compiled a list of 10 articles you should read that will not only teach you how to improve your content marketing but will also show you how to generate more traffic and sales. Here it is:  Read More

Marketing Profs

Six Ways to Uncover What's Confusing Your Website Visitors and Dragging Conversions Down

Oct,14,2014
by:  Morgan Brown 

If you're responsible for generating sales and leads from your company's website, you probably spend a ton of time deep in analytics reports and spreadsheets looking for insights and ways to optimize your site to improve your conversion rates. One of the biggest culprits hurting conversion rates is visitor confusion. Visitors arrive on your site with a specific job to be done, and depending on the information, usability, utility, and persuasiveness of the site, they are either successful or unsuccessful. This article will show you six ways you can uncover visitor confusion and improve your website performance. Read More

Reuters

U.S. small business confidence declines in September: NFIB

Oct,14,2014

by: ELVINA NAWAGUNA

(Reuters) - U.S. small business optimism fell in September as more owners said they expected a slowdown in profits and sales, tightening credit conditions and a harder time filling job openings, according to a survey released on Tuesday. The National Federation of Independent Business said its Small Business Optimism Index fell 0.8 point to 95.3. The index is now five points below where it was before the start of the 2007-2009 financial crisis and recession.  Read More

KaratBars International

Attention Fund-raisers

Have you tried to raise funds for your church, school, or volunteer group using the traditional fundraising methods like, bake sales, car washes, or selling products like healthcare supplements that requires you to sign up more and more members just to selling products that many of them don't want. 

If the answer to this question is YES! Then what if I told you 
that Your group can now raise funds for your group while creating 
a saving plan that will help all of your members. Best of all you 
don't have to selling anything. I know that this might sound like 
other plans but this one is truly different WHY? In one word GOLD. 
that's right gold. We will show your Non-profit group how to 
acquire gold at a price that all of your members can afford. 

How? By becoming a members of KaratBars the only gold saving system that allows their members to by gold in grams not ounces making acquiring gold affordable to all your members. Best of all gold is the one currency that never goes down and that can be used all over the world. This makes Karatbars one of the ways for your 
Non-profit group raise funds without having to buy another 
product again. To learn more about how Karatbars can help your 
Non-profit group please watch this video then visit our website 
and get back to the person who send you this information to get 
your group started raising funds with KaratBars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qElDnNw5eLQ