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Friday, March 7, 2014

Featured Report: Women Log More Time Than Men On Mobile Apps, Web

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Social Media Examiner
Visual Storytelling: How to Use Visuals, Videos and Social Media to Market Your Business
Mar,07,2014
by+Michael Stelzner
Do you use visuals to market your business?
Are you wondering how you can tell a story with visuals? To learn how your business can benefit from visual storytelling, I interview Ekaterina Walter for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast.
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Mobile Marketing Watch
Infographic: How to Make Boring Brands Come Alive on Social Media
Mar,06,2014
by:+ChristaH
You want to know the most beautiful thing about social media marketing? It has the potential to make even the most boring, non-sexy brands a hot commodity in digital marketing.
Of course, social networks don’t do all the heavy lifting. But with with some creative thinking and planning, social media can be effectively harnessed to bounce the boring right off of your brand.
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Business News Daily
How to Use Google Analytics
Mar,06,2014
by:+Sara Angeles
Google Analytics is one of the best website management tools a small business can have in its arsenal. It's a robust Web analytics and reporting tool that can provide key insights into how your website is performing and what you can do to meet your goals. You can track everything from how much traffic your website is getting to where that traffic is coming from and how visitors are behaving.
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Search Marketing Daily
Women Log More Time Than Men On Mobile Apps, Web
Mar,06,2014
by:+ Laurie Sullivan
Smartphone users spent 89% of the time spend on media through a mobile app in Q4 2013, but women spent nearly an hour-and-a-half more -- 30 hours and 58 minutes -- compared with men at 29 hours and 32 minutes, per Nielsen research released Wednesday.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Featured Report: In the U.S. last year, some 95 million Americans were using mHealth technologies

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Healthcare IT News
In the U.S. last year, some 95 million Americans were using mHealth technologies
Mar,04,2014
by+Erin McCann
Over the next six years, the global mHealth market will continue to make a mark in a serious way, with the industry poised to exceed $49.1 billion by 2020, according to a new market report. According to research conducted by San Francisco-based market analysis and consulting firm Grand View Research, monitoring services are projected to remain the dominant and most rapidly growing market segment, with revenue topping $1.2 billion in 2012, and seeing a nearly 50 percent CAGR from 2014 to 2020.
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Modern Healthcare
Reform Update: Exchange enrollees confused over when their coverage starts
Mar,04,2014
by:+Sabriya Rice
Some physicians and other healthcare providers are experiencing new challenges associated with enrollees of the new health plans sold on the Obamacare insurance exchanges. Management groups working with providers are offering suggestions on how to be prepared, as HHS expects another enrollment surge ahead of the March 31 open enrollment deadline. One of the key issues is misunderstanding about enrollment versus actually being covered. It's confusing for both patients and providers, experts say.
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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
Kaiser docs use video to take a step forward into patients' homes
Mar,03,2014
by:+Judy Mottl,
Two Kaiser Permanente doctors are treating patients via video conferencing as part of a new free telemedicine program aimed at reducing costs, boosting improving patient care and luring new clients. The program--dubbed HouseCalls--is available in Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland. Kaiser physicians are treating about 15 video-based patients daily, according to a Washington Post report. The goal is to provide the 20-minute telemedicine appointments to about 30 patients each day
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The Fiscal Times
Can ‘Docs in a Box’ Save the Health Care System?
Mar,05,2014
by:+BRIANNA EHLEY
Can long-distance virtual doctors stop U.S. healthcare costs from spiraling out of control? Better still, can these camera-ready physicians deliver an even better quality of care? Lawmakers in Washington think so, and they are pushing to expand the use of telemedicine and other technologies that will cut costs, ease doctor shortages and improve healthcare outcomes. Telemedicine--the technology allowing doctors to visit patients via a Skype-like program—is already being used widely across the country.
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Monday, March 3, 2014

Featured Report: Insurance enrollment expected to surge on exchanges

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Search Health IT
Insurance exchanges' IRS Publication 1075 data compliance new to many
Mar,03,2014
by+Don Fluckinger
Affordable Care Act implementation continues, despite some major obstacles: a government shutdown, deep political opposition to the ACA, and a rocky start to the first week of enrollment for its health insurance exchanges (because of initial crashes of the main federal website and ongoing technical glitches causing delays and user-authentication problems).
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Modern Healthcare
Reform Update: Insurance enrollment expected to surge on exchanges
Feb,28,2014
by:+ Jessica Zigmond
HHS and consumer groups are preparing for a very busy final month of Americans signing up for insurance on the federal, state and private health insurance exchanges. With March 31 the last day for consumers to enroll, HHS announced Thursday that it anticipates a “surge in activity” before the deadline. To ready itself, this weekend HHS will transition 1,500 customer service representatives from web chat to direct telephone service so they can help consumers with open enrollment 24 hours a day,
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Health Data Management
Spotting Incompetence Shouldn’t be This Easy
Feb,28,2014
by:+Joseph Goedert
How does one identify an incompetent government administration? When it consistently is the last entity to spot the obvious--time and time again--that is the measure of incompetence. If you just take its missteps and propensity for denial in the health care industry and not count anything else during the past five years, the Obama Administration still proudly yet without a clue wears the crown of incompetence.
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Med City News
Google Glass startup expecting third healthcare client in less than 6 months
Feb,27,2014
by:+Neil Versel
It’s been more than 10 months since Google released an application provider interface for its Google Glass wearable device, and though Glass effectively remains in beta, healthcare apps are starting to pop up. Pristine co-founder and CEO Kyle Samani says the company is actually generating revenue from its Glass offerings.
In October, the University of California, Irvine, began piloting Pristine’s EyeSight videoconferencing app for remote consultations with anesthesiologists, as well as the CheckLists for surgeries. A few weeks ago, company announced a partnership with Wound Care Advantage, a company that manages hospital wound centers. Another related deal is in the works with a university hospital in southern California.
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