Featured Report: Patients want more services, online outreach from pharma

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MobiHealthNews
Patients want more services, online outreach from pharma
Apr,07,2014
by+ Jonah Comstock
Patients want pharmaceutical companies to reach out to them through more digital channels, and to offer more value-add services, according to a new survey from Accenture of 2,000 American adults who are taking one or more medications and have a household income of $25,000 or more.
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Modern Healthcare
Hospital prices unchanged in March, but physician office prices rise
Apr,11,2014
by:+Melanie Evans
The Producer Price Index for acute-care hospitals was flat in March, preliminary federal data show. That's in line with the same month last year, when acute-care hospital prices showed no change, but slower than the preliminary 0.3% increase reported for February, new Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. For the year that ended in March, the hospital price index increased 1.1%, the preliminary figures show, reflecting a slowdown compared with 3.1% the prior year, and an average of 2.1% for the 12-month windows ending in March each of the last 10 years.
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Med City News
Healthcare is still a people-first (not technology-first) business, says Verizon mHealth leader
Apr,14,2014
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
As a former registered nurse and diabetes nurse educator, Julie Kling saw first-hand that patients weren’t always receiving the kind of care they deserved. That’s what drove her to the business side of healthcare as director of mHealth product management at Verizon Wireless.
Kling will share her insights as part of a discussion on the opportunities and challenges in digital health at the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum, to take place April 22-23 in Chicago.
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Fierce Health IT
Nurses often view teleheath as threatening, disruptive
Apr,11,2014
by:+Ilene MacDonald
Some healthcare professionals may view telehealth as threatening and as a result, organizations should work to minimize potential disruptions, according to a new study published in BMC Health Services Research.
Researchers Urvashi Sharma and Malcolm Clarke, who both work at the department of computer science, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, U.K., interviewed community support workers and clinicians--including nurses who specialize in congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)--and conducted focus groups after the introduction of telehealth in Nottingham, U.K. to find out what they thought before and after the implementation.
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Featured Report: Is Your Small Business Maximizing Its Use of Email Marketing Software?

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Small Business Trends
Is Your Small Business Maximizing Its Use of Email Marketing Software?
Apr,10,2014
by+Drew Hendricks
Email marketing software can be a powerful tool for small businesses. It can drive traffic to your website, increase sales, build brand loyalty, and more. And the software is even more powerful if you take full advantage of the tools available to you.
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App Developer Magazine
Study Finds 80% Of Mobile Content Reads Never Leave The Landing Page
Apr,09,2014
by:+RICHARD HARRIS
Rumble, the smart mobile publishing platform, has announced the findings of its latest quarterly mobile study which identifies how users interact with content and how this affects their likelihood to share articles. This follows on from their first study, which showed that mobile readers have unique engagement habits when it comes to mobile content apps.
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Duct Tape Marketing
How to Get Past Cold Calling
Apr,10,2014
by:+Staff
Cold calling is proven to lead to high levels of anxiety for at least 40 percent of sales people during their careers. That’s why every company should strive to get to the point where they can stop relying completely on cold calling and finally see hot leads coming down the pipeline.
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Marketing Profs
Native Advertising Won't Boost Sales, Influencers Will
Apr,08,2014
by:+Susan Frech
According to a survey (PDF) by the Online Publishers Association, 90% of all online publishers said they expected to be featuring so-called native advertising this year.
We should take note of native advertising then—not only because it's a fresh vehicle for brands to propagate content but because of what it is to the consumer. It's another advertising channel to become desensitized to and requires consumers to work to differentiate between what content to trust and not trust.
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Featured Report: A new idea for extending the reach of a care team: Hiring & training ‘grandparents’

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Reuters
Doctor appointment availability varies by insurance type
Apr,07,2014
by+ANDREW M. SEAMAN
(Reuters Health) - People's chances of getting a new primary care doctor vary depending on their insurance, according to a new study. Researchers calling doctors' offices and claiming to be a patient with private insurance had about an 85 percent success rate for getting appointments. Their success rate was about 58 percent when they claimed to have Medicaid, the government insurance for the poor.
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HealthDataManagent
Patient Collections: How I.T. Helps Sort Out the Mess
Apr,08,2014
by:+Gary Baldwin
In the era of high-deductible plans, managing patient collections is sure to become one of the biggest revenue cycle challenges. Now, providers must do far more than establish insurance eligibility or qualify patients for charity care. Below, two providers describe their use of niche revenue cycle applications and how they plan to address these challenges.
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Med City News
A new idea for extending the reach of a care team: Hiring & training ‘grandparents’
Apr,08,2014
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
A colleague’s comment some 15 years ago sparked Dr. Tim Garson’s grand idea for a way to expand access to affordable healthcare while lowering costs to the system. “He came up to me and said, you know, 50 percent of my patients could be taken care of by a good grandmother,” recalled Garson, now the director of the Center for Health Policy at University of Virginia.
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HealthDataManagement
10 Top Drugs Now or Soon With Generic Equivalents
Apr,09,2014
by:+Staff
Overall spending on traditional prescription drugs -- mostly pills used to treat common conditions such as high cholesterol and depression -- will decline 4% by the end of 2015, largely because of the availability of generic medications, according Express Scripts. Here are 10 of the top brand-name drugs that had generic equivalents become available in 2013 or are expected to have generics available this year, courtesy of Express Scripts.
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