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Monday, April 21, 2014

Featured Report: Internet Search Yields Mixed Health Results

This Week's Healthcare Online News

HealthDataManagement
Internet Search Yields Mixed Health Results
Apr,17,2014
by+Greg Goth
Research from the University of Florida found stark differences in the quality of Web-based health information provided by search engines for different health issues.
The researchers discovered that searches related to the diagnosis and treatment of physical disease or injuries tend to yield higher-quality information than online searches for preventive health and social health information. The findings, based on queries of Google’s general search engine using more than 2,000 different health-related terms, appeared in the January 2014 issue of the journal Decision Support Systems.
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Kaiser Health News
Hospitals Get Into Doctor Rating Business
Apr,,17,2014
by:+Phil Galewitz
After some doctors at University of Utah Health Care noticed scathing online reviews about themselves in 2012, the hospital system decided the best way to respond was by posting its patients’ ratings of physicians on the hospital’s own website.
The hospital was already randomly surveying patients about their experiences with physicians. Now, when potential patients use online search engines to look for a University of Utah Health Care doctor, the hospital’s reviews pop up first
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Modern Healthcare
Practice Makes Perfect: Collaborating with insurers to implement new payment models
Apr,18,2014
by:+Jeffrey Milburn
Last June, MGMA released the results of a questionnaire that ranked members' most pressing practice management challenges. In this edition of “Practice Makes Perfect,” we address No. 8 on that list: collaborating with payers to implement new payment models.
Payment mechanisms are changing as healthcare moves to value-based reimbursement. Multiple programs from both government and commercial payers involve a plethora of reimbursement plans that include varying metrics, benchmarks and incentives for physician practices
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WP Politics
Google faces new pressure from states to crack down on illegal online drug sales
Apr,,15,2014
by:+Matea Gold and Tom Hamburger
Several state attorneys general are pressing Google to make it harder for its users to find counterfeit prescription medicine and illegal drugs online, marking the second time in the past three years that the firm has drawn government scrutiny for its policies on rogue Internet pharmacies.
Their complaints, conveyed in a letter signed by 24 top state prosecutors, led to private meetings with Google executives earlier this year in Denver and Washington, producing contentious exchanges about the company’s practices. Now, while some of the attorneys general are pleased with Google’s response to their concerns, others want the tech giant to go further.
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Featured Report: A Handy Guide to Optimizing Your Social Media Channels

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HubSpot
A Handy Guide to Optimizing Your Social Media Channels
Apr,17,2014
by+Erik Devaney
For some, the word “optimization” conjures up thoughts of complicated mathematics and data analysis. It can seem like one of those things that only a true “data geek” could ever hope to understand.
At its core, however, the science of optimization is really quite simple: It's all about making improvements. It's about taking what you already have and then -- through experimenting and measuring -- figuring out ways to make it even better.
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TNW
Why entrepreneurs shouldn’t shoot down ‘bad’ ideas
Apr,15,2014
by:+RAHUL VARSHNEYA
Ever noticed that whenever Facebook implements a new design change on their website, just how many people crib and rant about the change? Most people are habituated in the way they use products and services and any change, even the slightest brings about a sudden reaction of resistance.
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Small Business Newz
How to build brand trust – 4 essential steps
Apr,17,2014
by:+Jay Gronlund
What?? You’re kidding!! You just can’t trust anyone anymore!! Too often we hear this reaction these days. Sadly the level of trust around the world has declined dramatically over the past few years – just look at the way people see the government, CEO’s, foreign countries with corruption, our Congress, and many brands (company and product/service).
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Knowledge
The Future of Social Media ROI: From Likes to Relational Metrics
Apr,14,2014
by:+David Dubois
Last year’s record haze that blanketed Singapore and surrounding countries caused enormous social media chatter. Singaporeans turned to Twitter and Facebook to voice their concerns, fears and complaints about the smog emanating from burning Indonesian farmland across the Malacca Strait in nearby Sumatra. Many were worried that respirator masks were in short supply as citizens descended on pharmacies to stock up.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Featured Report: ACA cost estimate cut by $104B over next decade

This Week's Healthcare Online News

MobiHealthNews
Hubbub health uses gamification, friends and family in employee wellness offering
Apr,14,2014
by+Jonah Comstock
When Virgin Pulse (then Virgin HealthMiles) opened its services to (up to three) family members for free last fall, execs from the company told MobiHealthNews they predicted other employee wellness companies would follow suit. But hubbub health, a spin-off of Portland, Oregon-based Cambia Health Solutions, is doing one better, offering its gamified employee wellness offering to any number of friends and family members of employees.
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Modern Healthcare
ACA cost estimate cut by $104B over next decade
Apr,14,2014
by:+Paul Demko
Obamacare is expected to cost $104 billion less than previously anticipated for the period 2015-24, according to a new analysis (PDF) by the Congressional Budget Office. That's in part because premiums on plans purchased through the state and federal exchanges are expected to be lower than prior estimates. That spells lower federal subsidies for individual who make up to 400% of the federal poverty threshold.
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Health Insurance Exchange
A Private Exchange For ‘Every Agent?
Apr,15,2014
by:+GILLIAN ROBERTS
Imagine a world where people can buy all types of insurance without placing a phone call. Perhaps it’s on a Sunday afternoon just after paying the bills, with feet up, relaxing on the couch, computer in hand. Brian Harrigan of Group Benefit Options says this is possible, and he wants brokers to make it happen for American consumers.
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Government Health IT
Is US on the verge of a new health economy?
Apr,14,2014
by:+Mike Miliard
With consumers entranced by fast-evolving technologies and accustomed to price competition, healthcare is set to be transformed by innovations from other sectors of the economy such as retail and telecommunications, according to a new study by PwC's Health Research Institute. In Healthcare's New Entrants: Who will be the industry's Amazon.com?, PwC suggests that "market disruptors" -- new industries, new technologies -- will soon make a big mark on the $2.8 trillion healthcare sector.
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