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Social Media Today
Why Your Social Strategy Is Not One Size Fits All
Dec,03,2013
by+Mike Volpe
Marketers, we have a problem. We’ve reached a true turning point in our social media marketing. We’re at the apex of the perfect storm: We’re strapped for time, with more content than ever to promote on more social networks than ever before. When faced with this challenge, we can easily forget the golden rule of social media marketing: One size doesn’t fit all.
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CNET
Facebook dominates mobile apps, survey says
Dec,04,2013
by:+ Lance Whitney
In a report released Wednesday, research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners asked mobile phone users for the names of the three apps they use most frequently. Facebook scored the top spot, ranked by 45 percent of those polled. Twitter came in second at 13 percent, followed by Candy Crush at 11 percent.
"Facebook just dominates mobile phones, in terms of most frequent use, not just downloads," CIRP partner and co-founder Mike Levin said in a statement. "For most other apps, including some well-known ones like YouTube and Pandora, fewer than 10 percent of phone buyers included them among the most frequently used."
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Bloomberg
Black Friday Online Spending Reached Record $1.2 Billion
Dec,01,2013
by:+Danielle Kucera
Online spending on Black Friday increased 15 percent to a record $1.20 billion as more consumers opted to shop from their couches rather than battling long lines at stores. Enlarge image Online Black Friday Shopping Total e-commerce sales reached $20.6 billion in the first 29 days of this holiday season, according to ComScore Inc. That’s about a 3.1 percent increase from Nov. 1 to Black Friday last year, the research firm’s data showed, noting that 2013 numbers include a few more shopping days because Thanksgiving fell on a later date this year.
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Small Business Newz
15 Reasons To Start Blogging In 2014
Dec,05,2013
by:+Jim Connolly
Here are just 15 reasons, why I recommend you add a business blog to your 2014 marketing mix:
1. Blogging is the most powerful marketing tool I have ever seen, used or studied. Period.
2. Considering all the benefits of blogging, the financial cost is tiny. A self-hosted WordPress site can cost less per week, than a latte at your local coffee shop.
3.If you turn up and blog regularly, you will also show prospective clients that you are reliable. If you show up regularly for years, it shows you’re durable too. Think about that… before these people even speak with you, they will already know you’re reliable and durable. That’s a huge commercial advantage.
4. Blogging makes you a better communicator. It causes you to think, really think, about your message. Through repeat practice, you learn how to get your message across with greater clarity too
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Med City News
JAMA study: What’s the difference between ECGs and hospital parking? Transparency
Dec,03,2013
by+ Stephanie Baum
As out-of-pocket costs increase for consumers, there’s a big push for hospitals to improve price transparency. Although the demand represents a trend in healthcare, particularly among startups, it could be part of the future of healthcare once providers and payers and groups can untangle the complexities. A study published in the Journal of American Medical Association took on the issue by calling 20 hospitals in Philadelphia. It wanted to compare the ease of getting the price of parking over the phone compared with getting the cost of a medical procedure — in this case electrocardiograms.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Reform Update: Delay Medicaid DSH cuts, hospitals ask lawmakers
Dec,03,2013
by:+Virgil Dickson
Hundreds of hospitals around the country have signed a letter to congressional leaders (PDF) asking them to delay cuts to Medicaid supplemental funding for the care of the uninsured and low-income patients.
More than $18 billion in cuts for the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital funding are expected to take effect between 2014 and 2019. Those cuts were mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was passed with the expectation hospitals would deliver less uncompensated care because all states would expand Medicaid eligibility to adults earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level. But the U.S. Supreme Court last year made Medicaid expansion optional for the states, and about half the states have not expanded their programs.
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Health Data Management
Chicagoland’s HIE Gets Ready to Roll
Dec,03,2013
by:+Staff
Four years after legislation paved the way for a massive health information exchange serving up to 89 hospitals in the greater Chicago region, the first wave of facilities will start hooking up in January.
Thirty-four hospitals are preparing to go live on the MetroChicago HIE with the first ones on board during the first quarter of 2014, says Daniel Yunker, CEO of Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company and senior vice president of the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, which leads the HIE effort. Initial services, live by the end of the quarter, will include admissions/discharge/transfer document exchange, Direct Project secure messaging, a master patient index and record locator. These initial services are achievable for the first 34 hospitals and are sufficient to provide value in the first phase of the HIE, Yunker adds.
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Fierce Health IT
For HIEs, shared patients and social networks matter more than location
Dec,03,2013
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It's not all about location for health information exchange networks--physicians are influenced by other physicians with whom they interact with and have common patients with more than geographical location in HIEs, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
For the study, network effects among clusters of physicians based on their professional and geographical proximities were examined. A diffusion model was used to capture both indirect and direct network effects among groups, studied over a three-year period, for an HIE in Western New York by researchers from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Modern Healthcare.com
White House hears earful from doc groups about narrow provider networks
Nov,26,2013
by+Jessica Zigmond
Representatives of major physician groups met with White House officials Tuesday and talked about the increasingly contentious issue of insurers offering health plans on the public exchanges that feature narrow provider networks.
The hour-long White House meeting gave provider organizations the chance to tell administration officials what they're hearing about the on-the-ground implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from their members and patients, said Don Fisher, president and CEO of the American Medical Group Association, who was there. The discussion was led by Chris Jennings, a former top Clinton administration healthcare adviser who now serves as deputy assistant to the president for health reform.
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Med City News
The race is on: Uninsured people have three weeks to meet Obamacare deadline
Dec,02,2013
by:+ Jordan Rau
Tambra Momi has been eagerly awaiting the promise of guaranteed health insurance. Since 2011, she has battled Dercum's disease, a rare and painful condition in which non-cancerous tumors sprout throughout her body, pressing against nerves. Jobless and in a wheelchair, Momi needs nine different drugs, including one costing $380 a month, to control the pain and side effects. No insurer has been willing to cover her, she says, except a few that have taken her money and then refused to pay for her medications.
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Health Data Management
Congress Pushed for Stage 3 Criteria for Telehealth
Nov,25,2013
by:+ Joseph Goedert
Four industry organizations are asking Congress to push for Stage 3 requirements for expanding interoperability of electronic health records, including data generated from remote patient monitoring systems.
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Med City News
5 lessons health entrepreneurs can learn from Obamacare’s first month
Nov,29,2013
by:+Christina Lamontagne
Last week, the government released figures for the first month of health insurance open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. The initial results of the marketplace launch offer digital health entrepreneurs new insights into managing their businesses.
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