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iHealthBeat
Social Media Makes Inroads as a Health Care Delivery Tool
Sept,11,2013
by+Staff
In an iHealthBeat audio report by Rachel Dornhelm, experts discussed the use of social media in health care delivery. While privacy concerns continue to persist, some stakeholders say they have seen progress in using social media tools to encourage behavior changes.
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Med City News
Hospitals step up to provide Obamacare outreach
Sept,13,2013
by:+Jay Hancock
As community groups, brokers and insurers prepare to recruit members for medical plans that go on sale in October under the health law, nobody has a bigger financial stake in their success than hospitals. And few may work harder to sign consumers up for the Obamacare insurance marketplaces than hospitals themselves
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ModernHealthcare.com
Reform Update: Reports say ACA saves consumers billions, but cuts insurers' profits
Sept,12,2013
By:+Beth Kutscher
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act saved consumers $1.7 billion on health insurance premiums last year, an HHS report found. Meanwhile, a separate study found that ACA provisions squeezed insurers' profits.
The HHS report cites two provisions directly affecting health plan premiums—a rate review for premium increases that top 10% and the medical-loss ratio standard that caps how much of premium revenue insurers can use for administration, marketing and profits.
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Fierce Health IT
Telemedicine bill would allow docs to practice across state lines
Sept,12,2013
by:+
Medicare providers would be able to treat patients electronically across state lines without having to obtain multiple state medical licenses, according to new legislation proposed in the House this week.
The TELEmedicine for MEDicare (TELE-MED) Act (H.R. 3077) "updates the law to account for rapid technological advances in medicine," according to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who sponsored the bill. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) co-sponsored the legislation.
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CRM Search.com
How Small Changes in Pipeline Management Make Big Changes in Top Line Revenues
Sept,12,2013
by+Chuck Schaeffer
Sales pipeline management and optimization are tasks that many sales managers have left unchanged for years—which is unfortunate as even small adjustments in pipeline management can yield substantive changes to top line revenues. Here’s some thoughts to revisit this critical business process and some best practices in sales pipeline design, operation and maintenance.
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Business News Daily
8 Free Business Plan Templates for Startups
Sept,10,2013
by:+Sara Angeles
Behind every great business is a well-crafted business plan. Actually sitting down and creating one, however, can be a challenge for any entrepreneur. Not only do you have to take your great ideas and articulate them on paper, you'll also have to set specific goals and come up with effective business strategies, despite all the uncertainties.
To help you tackle this arduous task, we've compiled the best business plan templates available, from simple business plan templates to comprehensive business plan templates, and even a couple that can help you get the funding you need. These tools will provide the guidance you need to make the business plan creation process a little easier, without starting from scratch.
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Social Media Examiner
How to Build a LinkedIn Marketing Plan that Delivers Ongoing Results
Sept,,2013
By:+
Are you happy with how you are using LinkedIn? LinkedIn offers companies multiple marketing opportunities, but which ones are right for your business? In this article I’ll show you five different ways to use LinkedIn to market your business.
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Small Business Trends
5 Small Business Social Media Mistakes
Sept,08,2013
by:+ Timothy Carter
Small businesses can use social media to boost sales and gain attention from potential customers. Unfortunately, a lot of small businesses make mistakes when trying to harness the power of social media. Some of those are rookie mistakes that are easy to avoid, if you just are conscious of them and work to handle them differently. Below are 5 of the biggest small business social media mistakes to avoid.
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Do You Remember When Doctors Made House calls?

Do you remember When you could talk to a doctor Day or Night? There was a time when talking to your doctor was as simple as picking up the phone. Back then your doctor who talk to you about your minor problems and prescribe treatment without a visit to the office. That was then but now even minor problems requires and office visit and a long wait that drives up Your healthcare cost. There must be a better WAY? Well There is, I'd like to take a minute and introduce you to  We believe being healthy should be a natural right that everyone is entitled to, and now, access to physicians is only a mouse click away. We provide our members unlimited real time, immediate interaction with a national network of physicians via web cam, phone or secure email, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Our physicians can consult, diagnose, treat, write prescriptions, and order labs for non-emergency medical conditions.        In addition to immediate access to health professionals, we provide a financial opportunity that is truly life changing for our members. We have created the most lucrative and generous compensation plan in the industry.         "Refer 3 and Yours is FREE"  zero cost profitable business. YOU WILL BE PROFITABLE FROM MONTH ONE...!!! Watch this WebDocsNetwork  4 Minute Overview Video

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This Week's Healthcare Online News
CommonWealth
How Do Doctors Hate Paperwork? Let Us Count The Ways
Sept,09,2013
by+Paul E. Sax, MD
Everyone hates mindless paperwork. But certain types are particularly annoying, seemingly designed to send you screaming into the night, dragging a broken fax machine behind you as your brain explodes. Too strong? Take a look at this fax cover sheet I recently received about a patient who had been receiving IV antibiotics at home:
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Med City News
The future of medicine: Star Trek tricorders and smartphone heart attack alerts
Sept,10,2013
by:+Stolle, Matthew
In the not-too-distant future, physicians will use Star Trek-like tricorders to scan and detect bodies for disease. Smart watches will look for biomarkers and "alert" its wearer to a heart attack weeks before it's supposed to happen.
Have a skin condition? Take a picture with your cellphone camera and send it to the doctor for a diagnosis and treatment.
Those were a few of the not-so-pie-in-the-sky possibilities imagined at a discussion moderated by Maria Bartiromo, anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo," at Transform2013, a symposium sponsored by Mayo Clinic and held at Mayo Civic Center.
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Fierce Health IT
Do patients put too much stock in online research?
Sept,10,2013
By:+Dan Bowman
U.S. consumers spend roughly 52 hours a year--one hour per week--searching online for health information, while in-person doctor visits occur three times annually, according to a new survey conducted by healthcare marketing firm Makovsky Health and research consultancy Kelton
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Med city News
What are the most social media friendly hospitals?
Sept,07,2013
by:+Stephanie Baum
A new ranking evaluating social media use by hospitals reflects a certain comfort level healthcare facilities have reached with social media channels. Indeed, they are beginning to expand beyond the confines of Facebook and YouTube to Google+ and Pinterest. The increased confidence is proportionate with the opportunity hospitals see to increase patient engagement, attract more patients and generate wider good feeling as a more accessible institution both through mobile devices and the social media preferences of their customer base.
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Do You Remember When Doctors Made House calls?

Do you remember When you could talk to a doctor Day or Night? There was a time when talking to your doctor was as simple as picking up the phone. Back then your doctor who talk to you about your minor problems and prescribe treatment without a visit to the office. That was then but now even minor problems requires and office visit and a long wait that drives up Your healthcare cost. There must be a better WAY? Well There is, I'd like to take a minute and introduce you to  We believe being healthy should be a natural right that everyone is entitled to, and now, access to physicians is only a mouse click away. We provide our members unlimited real time, immediate interaction with a national network of physicians via web cam, phone or secure email, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Our physicians can consult, diagnose, treat, write prescriptions, and order labs for non-emergency medical conditions.        In addition to immediate access to health professionals, we provide a financial opportunity that is truly life changing for our members. We have created the most lucrative and generous compensation plan in the industry.         "Refer 3 and Yours is FREE"  zero cost profitable business. YOU WILL BE PROFITABLE FROM MONTH ONE...!!! Watch this WebDocsNetwork  4 Minute Overview Video

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Featured Report: Health Affairs Blog Offers Guidelines for Physicians' Online Behavior

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Med City News
Business leaders get crash course on Affordable Care Act
Sept,07,2013
by+ Morris, Michaela Gibson
TUPELO -- Nearly 200 business and community leaders from around the region 'woke up' with the Affordable Care Act on Friday morning.
The inaugural Wake Up Tupelo and Lee County event hosted by the Community Development Foundation focused on the impact of the health care reform law on businesses large and small with help from Pepper Crutcher, an attorney specializing in Affordable Care Act compliance, Franklin Corporation chief financial officer Jeff Cox and Congressman Alan Nunnelee, R-Miss.
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iHealthBeat
Health Affairs Blog Offers Guidelines for Physicians' Online Behavior
Sept,04,2013
by:+Staff
Physicians' online comments regarding potentially controversial health posts often are perceived as insensitive or bullying, according to a recent blog post on Health Affairs, Modern Healthcare's "Vital Signs" reports (Selvam, "Vital Signs," Modern Healthcare, 9/3)
The blog post was written by: Matthew Freeman, a nurse practitioner and epidemiologist serving as a director of health and counseling services for a university;
Anna Reisman, a primary care physician and associate professor at Yale School of Medicine;
John Henning Schumann, program director of internal medicine residency at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine in Tulsa (Schumann et al., Health Affairs blog, 8/29).
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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
Scripps' Steven Steinhubl: Success in mHealth requires 'hard evidence'
Sept,06,2013
By:+Dan Bowman
While the growing use of mobile technology in clinical settings represents a promising future for the healthcare industry, according to Steven Steinhubl, M.D.--director of digital medicine for the La Jolla, Calif.-based Scripps Translational Science Institute--its integration, he says, is a process that cannot be rushed.
"The whole medical field is full of examples of therapeutic interventions that everyone just assumes make so much sense that they have to be good for you, but a lot [of] times, those interventions turn out to be dangerous," Steinhubl (pictured) says." We [at Scripps] feel it's really important to have the highest potential level data available to show how different technologies fit in."
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Med City News
Teladoc’s telehealth acquisition adds small, medium-sized employer plans
Sept,04,2013
by:+Stephanie Baum
Despite the concerns over limited or no reimbursement by payers, telemedicine shows signs of growing. The latest acquisition in the sector seems to underline that trend. In a move to widen its audience Teladoc has acquired Consult-a-Doctor for an undisclosed amount, according to a company statement.
Teladoc, which claims to have an audience of 6 million users, provides access to physicians by video or phone for non emergencies such as bronchitis, sinus problems and allergies. Consult-a-Doctor works with small- and medium-sized employer health plans. By increasing access to physicians for minor conditions using email, phone and video, the idea is that employees will be healthier and spend less time out of the office.
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Do You Remember When Doctors Made House calls?

Do you remember When you could talk to a doctor Day or Night? There was a time when talking to your doctor was as simple as picking up the phone. Back then your doctor who talk to you about your minor problems and prescribe treatment without a visit to the office. That was then but now even minor problems requires and office visit and a long wait that drives up Your healthcare cost. There must be a better WAY? Well There is, I'd like to take a minute and introduce you to  We believe being healthy should be a natural right that everyone is entitled to, and now, access to physicians is only a mouse click away. We provide our members unlimited real time, immediate interaction with a national network of physicians via web cam, phone or secure email, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Our physicians can consult, diagnose, treat, write prescriptions, and order labs for non-emergency medical conditions.        In addition to immediate access to health professionals, we provide a financial opportunity that is truly life changing for our members. We have created the most lucrative and generous compensation plan in the industry.         "Refer 3 and Yours is FREE"  zero cost profitable business. YOU WILL BE PROFITABLE FROM MONTH ONE...!!! Watch this WebDocsNetwork  4 Minute Overview Video

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As an affiliate once you sign up three people your services are FREE
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Tel: 773-758-0007
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