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Friday, April 4, 2014

Featured Report: Eight Secrets of Success With LinkedIn PPC Ads

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Marketing Profs
Eight Secrets of Success With LinkedIn PPC Ads
Apr,02,2014
by+Elaine Marquis
If your B2B marketing department is like most others nowadays, you are engaged in blogging, social media, SEO, email marketing, and much more; the sales department requires an ideal number of quality leads, after all. But limited resources and tight budgets in today's economy can make that a challenge for any marketing department.
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Business News Daily
Understanding Small Business Administration (SBA) Loan Types
Apr,03,2014
by:+Elizabeth Palermo
Considered by many to be the most affordable loan option available to small business owners, loans guaranteed by the Small Business Association (SBA) are in high demand. With reasonable monthly payments and low interest rates, these loans are an excellent choice for small businesses in need of funding.
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Mobile Marketing Watch
5 Tips for Mobile User Acquisition
Apr,03,2014
by:+michael
On Thursday morning, Appia – a leading mobile user acquisition network – shared with Mobile Marketing Watch a new report probing the most effective tactics in mobile user acquisition.
According to the data presented, by 2017, spending on location-targeting for mobile ads will reach $10.8 billion. All told, it’s a lot of money to waste if you’re not getting it right.
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SocialMediolopis
3 Ways Your Mom is Better Than You at Facebook
Apr,01,2014
by:+Evan LePage
In their third quarter report this past October, Facebook admitted that they had seen a decline in daily teenage users in the U.S. This admission confirmed a recent Piper Jaffray report that showed how Twitter had surpassed Facebook as the most important social network among teens. So what happened?
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Featured Report: 7 different federal definitions of telehealth

This Week's Healthcare Online News

Fierce Health IT
7 different federal definitions of telehealth
Apr,02,2014
by+Ashley Gold
Federal efforts to define and advance telehealth are certainly a work in progress as nationwide and state-based laws are developed. A new study in Telemedicine and e-Health explores seven unique definitions of telehealth in current use across the U.S. government.
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Fierce HealthPayer
Consumers usually win when they appeal claim denials
Apr,02,2014
by:+Dina Overland
When consumers challenge a healthcare service their insurer denied, they win about half the time, data from California insurance departments show. The Affordable Care Act allows all consumers to appeal any denied service to a third party, like a state insurance department. Before the reform law, no standard process for appealing an insurer's denial existed, reported Capital Public Radio.
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iHealthBeat
More States Want To Contain Health Costs With Online Tools
Mar,12,2014
by:+Staff
States increasingly are turning to online tools -- such as all-payer claims databases -- to try to curb rising health care costs. However, a report last year gave most states a failing grade for their efforts to make consumer health care cost data transparent. In an iHealthBeat audio report by Rachel Dornhelm, experts discussed the progress and challenges associated with state-based health care cost transparency efforts.
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Modern Healthcare
Community health centers brace for influx of newly insured
Mar,31,2014
by:+Andis Robeznieks
The nation's 9,000 community health center locations, serving some 22 million patients, are bracing for an influx of patients in the 26 states that have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Roughly 10,000 physicians make up about 60% of the community center clinical workforce; their work is supplemented by about 6,000 nurse practitioners and physician assistants, noted Dan Hawkins, policy director for the National Association of Community Health Centers. He is not sure if this will be enough for what he expects will be increased demand for services.
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Featured Report: Illinois hospitals cite impact on jobs, economy

This Week's Healthcare Online News

Modern Healthcare
Illinois hospitals cite impact on jobs, economy
Mar,27,2014
by+Rachel Landen
Illinois' nearly 50 health systems and more than 200 hospitals contribute $83.4 billion annually to the state's economy, according to a report issued this week by the Illinois Hospital Association. Looking at their financial health however, 39% of Illinois hospitals operated in the red over the last two years, the report noted.
Medicare and Medicaid payment cuts have contributed to Illinois hospitals' financial challenges. Since 2011, the state has seen more than $380 million in Medicaid reductions, while in the past decade, Medicare payments have dropped by about $11 billion.
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MobiHealthNews
Facebook CEO sees telemedicine opportunity with $2B Oculus acquisition
Mar,26,2014
by:+Brian Dolan
The multibillion dollar tech news this week is that Facebook is set to acquire virtual reality gaming company Oculus for more than $2 billion. During a call with reporters and analysts following the announcement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that while Oculus will continue to focus on gaming in the short term, the deal was more about placing a bet on the next big computing platform shift.
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Health Insurance Exchange
10 Key Dates in Obamacare
Mar,31,2014
by:+Staff
Open enrollment officially closes, however those who began the process before the deadline will be allowed to enroll until a yet unannounced date in April. Obama administration announces no way to verify when users began enrollment.
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HealthDataManagement
HIT Youngsters Need to Sharpen Focus on Tech for the Elderly
Mar,28,2014
by:+Elizabeth Gardner
There’s plenty of IT around to help the elderly—medical alert devices, medication reminder apps, Wi-Fi enabled scales and blood pressure cuffs, touchscreens with big buttons for Skyping with the grandkids—but one observer thinks there could be much more and better technology with a few commonsense tweaks to the paradigm. One, stop thinking of “the elderly” as a homogeneous and technophobic group, because for every 85-year-old who avoids newfangled gadgets, there are several who won’t go anywhere without their iPad. And second, don’t let young people have a monopoly on designing the products.
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