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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Featured Report: RAND study cites telemedicine benefits: lowers costs, expands access

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Modern Healthcare
RAND study cites telemedicine benefits: lowers costs, expands access
Feb,03,2014
by+Steven Ross Johnson
The first assessment of a wide-scale deployment of telemedicine suggests the technology shows promise as a means of addressing an expected shortage of physicians in some areas as millions of Americans gain health coverage.
The study, conducted by the RAND Corp. and published Monday in the journal Health Affairs, found that using telecommunication services to provide clinical care from a distance were used mostly by younger, more affluent patients who were more tech savvy. Researchers found no increase in clinical misdiagnosis or errors in treatment among those using the service.
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Washington Post ON I.T.
Walgreens to use software to help clinicians assess patients
Feb,01,2014
by:+Mohana Ravindranath
The next time a patient walks into a Walgreens clinic, the clinician may not be the only one assessing patients. Soon, hundreds of Walgreens clinics will be equipped with new software that guides health-care providers through checkups — requiring them to ask certain questions or request particular lab tests depending on the patient’s history. The software, called ePASS, was developed by Inovalon, a Bowie-based health IT firm with about 3,000 employees worldwide.
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Fierce Health Payer
Consumers use Twitter to reach out to insurers
Feb,04,2014
by:+Dina Overland
Many consumers can't get through to insurers due to long customer service wait times, so they're turning to social media--Twitter in particular--to express their complaints and criticisms. And insurers are listening, often responding directly to consumers with ways to immediately rectify the problems.
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Health Data Management
Consumer Input Sought on Stage 2 Patient Data Access Issues
Fe,03,2014
by:+Staff
Deven McGraw and Micky Tripathi, leaders of the Health IT Policy Committee’s Tiger Team on privacy and security issues, are seeking quick input from health consumers as the industry prepares to make patient information readily available to the patient and others designated to see it under the EHR meaningful use program. The question: Are there enough safeguards in place when family or friends access the data? Here is a blog they posted on Feb. 3 on the HealthIT.gov Web site
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Monday, February 3, 2014

Featured Report: Telehealth continues to surge in popularity despite flaws

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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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