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Friday, February 7, 2014

Featured Report: Are You Developing Your Product Or Your Customers?

This Week's Home/Small Business Online News

Small Business Newz
Are You Developing Your Product Or Your Customers?
Feb,06,2014
by+Mike Moran
I frequently see new products. Companies ask me about their new product all the time. They are all very happy about what it does. They are enthralled with their vision for where it is going. They are a bit concerned about how much money it is costing to build the product. They are a little worried about how long it will take before they start making money. Sometimes, in dark moments, they will admit to feeling some pressure over all the stress. There’s a reason that they feel that way.
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Duct Tape Marketing
How Should Business Adapt to the Facebook Paper App?
Feb,04,2014
by:+ JOHN JANTSCH
By now you’ve probably at least read about Facebook’s newest app called Paper. If you own an iPhone and live in the US it’s also possible that you’ve downloaded and experienced the new app. (Really silly name and too bad because there’s a totally awesome iPad app already called Paper)
The first thing you must understand is that this is not the new Facebook app, it’s a new way to experience Facebook. The Facebook app remains as do Facebook Messenger and Pages apps. Paper is a decidedly visual way to view your news stream as well as aggregate content from other categorized content areas such as tech and sports.
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ClickZ
Mobile Devices Lead Online Video Views, Adobe Says
Feb,04,2014
by:+Susan Kuchinskas
Sports videos are contributing to huge growth in online video consumption, with smartphone growing fastest when it comes to premium video views, according to Adobe's Digital Video Index for Q4 2013.
Sports viewing increased 640 percent year-over-year, compared to 440 percent growth in all streamed video content. One quarter of all sports content is now viewed on mobile devices, according to Adobe, which based its report on aggregated and anonymous data from more than 600 media and entertainment sites, 22.5 billion online video starts, half a billion video starts from mobile devices, and 574 million TV Everywhere streams.
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Ad Week
The Branding Potential Behind Some of Mobile Messaging's Big Players
Feb,02,2014
by:+Staff
There are currently about 1.3 billion smartphones in use globally. By 2017, it’s expected that 2.5 billion users will connect through messaging-based apps. Snapchat. Line. Whisper. Tango. These are just some of the call names of a new messaging code that advertisers are trying to understand and speak themselves. They are the new social platforms—entirely mobile and thoroughly engaging, particularly for youth.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

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

This Week's Healthcare Online News

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

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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