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Monday, January 6, 2014

Featured Report: Telehealth Program Allows Users To Pay With A Tweet

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iHealthBeat
Telehealth Program Allows Users To Pay With A Tweet
Jan,03,2014
by+Staff
A California-based telehealth program has begun waiving the $25 fee for patients who share their experiences on Twitter or Facebook, mHealth News reports. The service, called Pay-With-A-Tweet, was launched by Telecure, a virtual branch of Action Urgent Care in California, to raise awareness for the telehealth program. The telehealth program helps connect state residents with an urgent care provider who can offer health advice and write prescriptions within 15 minutes by phone or video.
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Modern Healthcare
Outlook 2014: The year ahead in healthcare business
Jan,04,2014
by:+Harris Meyer and Melanie Evans
While the coming year in healthcare will be strongly shaped by the sweeping provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 2014 also will be notable for a continuation of trends that predated President Barack Obama's landmark law. Providers will continue to confront cost containment and consolidation, new information technology challenges and the need to constantly redesign care processes to improve quality.
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Happy EMR Doctor
Electronic medical records with community health and the environment in mind
Jan,05,2014
by:+Dr. Michael West
My thought for today focuses on how using electronic medical records helps us maintain the health of our communities by keeping the environment in mind, which ultimately promotes health for all. Contrary to what some might think, you don’t have to write a prescription or perform a medical procedure to help keep patients healthy.
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HealthDataManagement
Providers, Payers Get Appy
Jan,01,2014
by:+Elizabeth Gardner
When Kaiser Permanente does open enrollment presentations at Silicon Valley employers these days, it takes more than great doctors and convenient locations to get the attention of potential enrollees. Now consumers want to know what apps Kaiser offers to help them track and improve their health. (Answer: a growing number. See below.)
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Friday, January 3, 2014

Featured Report: 3 Social Media Trends You Should Know About

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Mashable
3 Social Media Trends You Should Know About
Jan,02,2014
by+ALEX HONEYSETT
It's the beginning of a new year, and chances are you're resolving to do several (hundred?) things for the first time, differently, or better. But before you start listing out your new and improved social media plans for 2014, I've scoured the Internet to give you a head start.
To find out what the experts are saying will be big in social media this year, read on. Their predictions will help you nail those resolutions — and maybe even keep a few of them.
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Small Business Trends
2014 WordPress Website Trends: What’s Hot and What’s Not
Dec,31,2013
by:+Megan Totka
The popularity of CMS-based websites has been growing constantly, and WordPress is the most used platform by far. At least 19 percent of the entire Internet is powered by the WordPress platform. This number includes nearly half (48 percent) of the top 100 Technorati blogs, as well as some of the largest websites in the world – Ford Motor Company and NASA, to name a few. In 2014, that number is expected to increase.
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Social Mediaopolis
Get Your Social Accounts Ready for the New Year
Dec,30,2013
by:+ Janet Fouts
As we look forward to 2014 it’s a good time to think about how you’ve spent your time on social media. Which sites really had a good return on your investment in time and energy? Which ones had the best engagement with your fans and followers? Which ones turned out to be less worthy of your time? Here are some ways to evaluate your social strategy and streamline to make 2014 more productive and engaging for you and your social business.
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USA Today
Refocus on customer for small business success
Jan,01,2014
by:+Gladys Edmunds
A New Year always makes us feel like we can start things all over or improve things to get more out of life. And as small business entrepreneurs we want to improve the bottom line. I have several ideas that might help your business earn more profits in the New Year. And my ideas are wrapped around the same subject that I consider to be the root of business success: Customers! Customers! Customers!
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Featured Report: We’d all be better off with our health records on Facebook

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Quartz
We’d all be better off with our health records on Facebook
Dec,27,2013
by+Melissa McCormack
A Facebook user’s timeline provides both a snapshot of who that user is and a historical record of the user’s activity on Facebook. My Facebook timeline is about me, and fittingly, I control it. It’s also one, single profile. Anyone I allow to view my timeline views my timeline—they don’t each create their own copies of it.
Intuitive, right? So why don’t medical records work that way? There is no unified, single patient record—every doctor I’ve ever visited has his or her own separate copy of my records. And in an age where we can conduct banking transactions on my smartphone, many patients still can’t access or contribute to the medical records their doctors keep for them.
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Modern healthcare
2013 brought reform, gridlock, glitches and accountable care
Dec,21,2013
by:+Harris Meyer
Healthcare reform moved from talking point to reality in 2013, but its messy rollout provided a new stage for the American public, elected officials and all sectors of the healthcare industry to confront head-on their deep divisions over its sweeping ramifications.
Nowhere did that confrontation play out with greater drama than in the nation's capital, where the continued political gridlock brought financial pain and uncertainty to healthcare providers. While the White House, the Republican-led House, and the Democratic-led Senate reached a budget compromise after a government shutdown and near-default on the national debt, they socked hospitals with continued budget sequestration cuts.
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Happy EMR Doctor
FCC highlights ONC Office for Consumer e-Health plans for 2014
Dec,29,2013
by:+Dr. Michael West
One of the things I would like to get back in the habit of in the new year is to contribute more again to this blog, which I started in 2009 with help from John Lynn at Healthcarescene.com. Part of the challenge of keeping an ongoing stream of thoughts here has been both my busy life as an active provider of subspecialty healthcare, the growth of my practice as a business, and most importantly the emergence of new ideas for consideration and writing
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HealthDataManagement
Mobile Health Gets Political
Oct,09,2013
by:+ Zachary Landman, M.D.
The FDA’s recent release of its guidance on mobile medical applications met generally widespread support among those in industry and medical practice alike. With the clarification of regulatory guidelines, industry experts predicted a surge of new mobile applications and physicians welcomed better understanding of the role of their existing mobile devices.
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Friday, December 27, 2013

Featured Report: The business owners who will succeed in 2014 are…

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Mobile Marketing Watch
How Digital Content Marketing Evolved in 2013
Dec,26,2013
by+MikeR
Just in time for the new year, a detailed reflection on the ways in which content marketing grew and evolved in 2013 is front and center today. Taylon Chandler shared with readers of B2C on Thursday a new infographic that presents 13 telling facts about content marketing for the year that’s now quickly winding to a close.
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Site Pro News
Seven Things to Know When Measuring Social Media ROI
Dec,23,2013
by:+Dawn Pigoni
Most businesses today are involved in social media, either relying on a single platform or juggling multiple accounts. But not every one of those businesses actually measures the results from using social media marketing. Without knowing the numbers that your efforts are producing, how do you know that it is even working for you? Measuring your metrics is what gives you insight into what your marketing efforts are doing for your bottom line. If you are just randomly posting to your business’ Facebook account every week, then you don’t really know how you are benefiting from that interaction.
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iMedia Connection
The secret word in social marketing
Dec,23,2013
by:+David Shing
"Mocal"
What is mocal? Simply put, mocal is what your brand needs to be if it wants to remain relevant in the social space. David Shing, AOL's digital prophet, uses the term to describe slamming your social strategy and mobile strategy together. Most brands keep them separate and operate as if they have little to do with each other. Social is seen as something that happens on mobile but not as a part of that strategy.
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Small Business Newz
The business owners who will succeed in 2014 are…
Dec,22,2013
by:+Jim Connolly
The business owners who succeed in 2014 will be a lot like those who succeeded in 2013. They will provide a service or product, which is hard to get elsewhere. Here’s why: The transaction of acquiring a new client, means YOU need to have something of value to trade. The easier it is to find a service just like yours, the less interest you will attract and the lower your price or fee will need to be.
A question worth pondering
How easy is it for a potential client, to find providers offering a similar service to yours, with the same kind of promises you offer? If you’re not sure, Google the name of your industry. Check out some of the millions of results. Look at a handful of websites and see if you are truly offering something different. If not, now would be a great time to get thinking about the changes you will need to make.
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