Featured Report: Telehealth improves home management of chronic disease

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iHealthBeat
Public Health Departments Use Social Media for Education and Monitoring
Dec,09,2013
by+Lisa Zamosky
Social media platforms have garnered growing interest as a tool for public health communications. Increasingly, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and other platforms are being incorporated into public health campaigns to increase health awareness, encourage behavior change and inform the public about medical outbreaks and natural disasters.
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Fierce Health IT
Telehealth improves home management of chronic disease
Dec,10,2013
by:+Julie Bird
A pair of separate studies recently published out of northern Canada and Taiwan indicate that telehealth is an effective tool in self-management of chronic disease, including diabetes.
The study from Taiwan, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, focused on diabetes self-management. Results indicated "sophisticated technological design" improved five of seven self-care behaviors, resulting in better blood glucose control and glycemic control. While improved self-care resulted in better outcomes, the "changes in behavior required time to show effects," researchers found.
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Fierce Health Payer
Uninsured still uninformed, unprepared for individual mandate
Dec,10,2013
by:+Dina Overland
Uninsured consumers, who will be most affected by the healthcare reform law, are still not informed or prepared for the law's individual mandate requiring them to obtain insurance by next year, according to a new survey from the Transamerica Center for Health Studies (TCHS).
Questioning about 1,000 consumers in November, TCHS found 31 percent of uninsured consumers haven't even heard of health insurance exchanges. What's more, only 7 percent of the uninsured population feels "very" prepared for the reform law and only 35 percent feel at least "somewhat" prepared.
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Modern Healthcare
Transparency is key to free-market cost control
Dec,,2013
by:+Merrill Goozner
Competition over healthcare prices and quality is coming. Transparency and the radical redesign of health insurance benefits will be its handmaiden. Companies such as General Electric are leading the way. The conglomerate, after years of experimenting with wellness programs to reduce healthcare costs, has moved its 500,000 employees, future retirees and their dependents into a high-deductible healthcare plan.
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Featured Report: Medicare Expands Service Areas for Telemedicine

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HealthData Management
Medicare Expands Service Areas for Telemedicine
Dec,05,2013
by+Joseph Goedert
The American Telemedicine Association is applauding a decision from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to expand rural coverage of telemedicine services, which CMS calls telehealth, reimbursable by Medicare.
CMS in a final rule setting the physician and clinical laboratory fee schedules for CY 2014 modifies its definition of Health Professional Shortage Areas to “allow for the appropriate inclusion of additional HPSAs as areas for telehealth originating sites,” according to the final rule, with comment period, available here and being published on Dec. 10.
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Modern Healthcare
Hospital groups unhappy about new Medicare flat rate for clinic visits
Dec,07,2013
by:+Maureen McKinney
Hospital groups generally are not pleased with the new CMS rule converting the current five-level, intensity-based payment system for clinic visits into a single outpatient visit code. But at least one hospital official isn't too worried.
Ken Fisher, chief financial officer of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, said the Iowa City-based 692-bed hospital, which averages more than 800,000 outpatient visits a year, did its own assessment and found it would fare the same or even a little better financially under the flat payment rate.
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iHealthBeat
New Possibilities, New Problems With Wider Use of EHRs
Dec,04,2013
by:+Fred Bazzoli
Progress by our nation's hospitals in adopting electronic health records is yielding new possibilities and advancements, but it also brings new challenges for IT executives in health care organizations.
The federal HITECH program has served as an effective stimulus to get thousands of hospitals into digital recordkeeping. As of Oct. 1, CMS said that 71% of hospitals have attested to achieving Stage 1 meaningful use of EHRs, up by nearly 83% from a year ago.
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Modern Healthcare
Bane or boon? GOP, Dems spar over Medicare Advantage cuts at hearing
Dec,,2013
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Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday offered starkly divergent views about the effects of cuts to the Medicare Advantage program that were part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
During a hearing held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee, Republicans portrayed the reductions to the program—which were designed to bring per-beneficiary costs in line with traditional Medicare—as evidence of harm caused by the federal healthcare overhaul. In particular, they seized on the narrowing of Advantage provider networks as proof that President Barack Obama misled the country when he promised that everyone would be able to continue seeing their doctor—even though these decisions to narrow the networks are being made by private insurers for financial reasons, not by the government.
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Featured Report: Why Your Social Strategy Is Not One Size Fits All

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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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