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Monday, February 3, 2014

Featured Report: Telehealth continues to surge in popularity despite flaws

This Week's Healthcare Online News

Med City News
Here are the 10 most expensive insurance markets in the U.S.
Feb,03,2014
by+Jordan Rau
These are the 10 regions of the country with the highest premiums for people buying insurance on the health law’s new marketplaces. The ranking is based on the lowest price “silver” plan, which is the mid-level plan that the majority of consumers are selecting. The listed monthly premiums are for a 40-year-old person and are based on rates listed on the federal and state insurance marketplaces and data collected by the Kaiser Family Foundation. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)
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Crain's
How Chicago's top hospitals really make money
Feb,03,2014
by:+Andrew L. Wang
Thanks to 2013's sizzling stock market, Chicago-area hospitals are reaping outsize investment returns, providing a crucial source of income as health care's tough economics make it harder for them to turn a profit. Among the biggest winners: Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University HealthSystem. Each took home nine-figure gains last year, empowering them to afford expansions and acquisitions. In fact, Northwestern's $309.1 million haul from investments nearly matched the $312.4 million in operating income that the Streeterville-based organization generated from running its two hospitals and other facilities in the year ended Aug. 31.
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HealthDataManagement
CMS: Medicare & Medicaid ACOs are Saving Money
Jan31,2014
by:+Joseph Goedert
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says its Medicare and Pioneer accountable care organization initiatives have saved more than $380 million. However, participants doing well are a distinct minority.
In the first 12 months of the Medicare Shared Savings Program, 54 of 114 ACOs had lower expenditures than anticipated. Twenty-nine of the 54 ACOs generated shared savings of more than $126 million while generating $128 million in net savings to Medicare Trust Funds, based on interim results, with final results expected later in 2014. Interim results are currently within the range projected for the first year, according to CMS.
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Fierce Health IT
Telehealth continues to surge in popularity despite flaws
Jan31,2014
by:+Ashley Gold
Telehealth saves money and trips to the doctor's office, but can it also be a case of "too many chefs in the kitchen?"That's what Chetan Mukudan, M.D., of Nashville's Heritage Pediatrics, says, according to an article in The Tenessean. Telehealth services can result in a fragmentation of care where one medical professional is unaware what the other is doing, he says, especially in cases where telehealth replaces a trip to the pediatrician.
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Friday, January 31, 2014

Featured Report: How To Get What You Want From Your Business

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Intuit Small Business Blog
Surprise! A Desktop PC May Be a Better Investment Than a Laptop
Jan,29,2014
by+Bill Snyder
Here’s a product you don’t hear much about anymore: the desktop PC. Yawn, right? Although the big, boring, and boxy device may seem as dead as the VCR, don’t be so quick to give it a thumbs-down. Any technology you buy for your small business should be justified by its potential return on investment and not its “coolness” factor.
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B2B Marketing
B2B experiences mobile growth
Jan,29,2014
by:+Staff
US B2B mobile click share growth has outpaced healthcare, retail, travel, real estate and consumer services in the last quarter, increasing by 178.4 per cent on smartphones and by 30.9 per cent on tablets quarter over quarter(QoQ), according to the State of Paid Search Report for Q4 2013 published by The Search Agency.
The report also revealed that mobile has continued to gain market share over desktop in the quarter, with one-fifth of all clicks coming from smartphones, and one-eighth coming from tablet devices. Overall impressions increased 28.3 per cent year over year (YoY), but decreased by 5.2 per cent QoQ.
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Small Business Newz
How To Get What You Want From Your Business
Jan,30,2014
by:+Jim Connolly
If you have been struggling to get the results you want from your business, this marketing tip could be just what you’re looking for. As you may have already discovered, the marketplace doesn’t really care about what you want.Your family cares. Your friends care. I care… however, the marketplace cares about what it wants — not what you want. So, how do you get what you want from your business?
It works like this: You can get whatever it is you want, providing you look at things a little differently. Instead of focusing on how your business will generate the revenues or profits you want, you need to focus on what the marketplace wants. You then align what the marketplace wants, with what you want.
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Social Mediolopis
Search Engine Marketing Guide: 9 Steps to Grow Your Business
Jan,30,2014
by:+Juan Pablo Castro
If you followed our blog throughout the last year you probably noticed that we had placed a lot of emphasis on one huge and important topic: Search Engine Marketing. We created 9 different chapters that explains step by step how to run and set up a successful Pay-Per-Click Campaign whether you’re a Small Businesses, or even if you don’t have any experience on the SEM field at all.
So we’ve decided to compile all of these posts into one simple Ebook so you can download it and keep it handy for whenever you may decide to launch a PPC campaign. Is it time to step out and bring some real growth to your business? Well, if so, grab your free copy here!
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Featured Report: Illinois seeks waiver to use Medicaid funding on housing services for some enrollees

This Week's Healthcare Online News

Modern Healthcare
Reform Update: Analysis finds disparities in success of states' exchange signups
Jan,27,2014
by+ Paul Demko
Significant disparities are developing in states' success at signing up individuals for coverage through the state and federal exchanges, according to a new analysis, and the gaps don't consistently reflect which states have embraced or opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
During the initial 15 weeks of the open-enrollment period, just 3% of those eligible to purchase coverage in Mississippi signed up for a plan. By contrast, 54% of those eligible to buy private coverage in Vermont purchased insurance, according to a new analysis of enrollments by the McKinsey Center for U.S. Health System Reform.
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MobiHealthNews
Survey: Doctors prefer tablets for journal articles, smartphones for most other tasks
Jan,27,2014
by:+Jonah Comstock
When it comes to reading articles in medical journals, 28 percent of physicians use tablets and 21 percent use smartphones according to a recently published study by ad agency WPP’s Kantar Media. That’s still much lower than the 74 percent that use a desktop or laptop computer or the 55 percent still reading paper journals.
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Health Insurance Exchange
Will State SHOPs Regain Footing After Stumbles?
Jan,29,2014
by:+ BRUCE SHUTAN
The Small Business Health Options Program is still very much a work in progress – or widely expected disappointment, depending on who is commenting. Such is the case even on a state level where operations enjoy a competitive leg up on the federally facilitated model.
Several state-run exchanges have faced their own share of travails, with The New York Times recently citing trouble in California, Idaho, Maryland, Mississippi, Oregon and Washington State. Moreover, paltry enrollment numbers have been reported among small businesses since Jan. 1 in New Mexico (44), Colorado (101), Kentucky (14) and Connecticut (106).
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Modern Healthcare
Illinois seeks waiver to use Medicaid funding on housing services for some enrollees
Jan,25,2014
by:+Melanie Evans
Illinois plans to ask the CMS for permission to spend $60 million in Medicaid funding to help vulnerable enrollees find and maintain stable housing.
With the waiver, Illinois would join New York and counties in Minnesota and California in recent efforts to add housing to the list of healthcare services offered to chronically ill Medicaid patients.
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