Featured Report: SWELLING DEMAND FROM PATIENTS FOR ONLINE ACCESS

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6 digital health companies reimagine their telemedicine, mobile health tools with Watson technology
Med City News
May,07,2014
by+Stephanie Baum
An innovation throwdown by IBM asked companies to devise mobile applications tapping Watson’s cognitive computing technology. After the finalists submit prototypes for judging, only five teams will present proposals to IBM. The three winners are awarded 90 days of access to the Watson APIs and consulting from IBM Interactive design services.
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Fierce Health IT
Do patients with chronic diseases want telehealth solutions?
May,07,2014
by:+Mark Terry
Several recent studies addressed the link between mobile health and individuals with chronic conditions, such as asthma, arthritis, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), depression, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, clinically diagnosed obesity, osteoporosis and stroke. As these conditions represent long-term care challenges, telehealth and its convenience would seem to make it a desirable approach. But is it?
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Fierce Health Payer
10 must-follow Twitter accounts for payers
May,06,2014
by:+Dori Zweig
Healthcare tweeters and lovers of social media, this one's for you. The editors at FierceHealthPayer have rounded up 10 Twitter accounts with payers in mind, for you to follow. In an ever-advancing world of technology, social media continues to influence how we communicate and learn about the changing health insurance landscape.
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HIE Watch
SWELLING DEMAND FROM PATIENTS FOR ONLINE ACCESS
May,07,2014
by:+MIKE MILLIARD
More than half of people with chronic conditions say the ability to get their electronic medical records online outweighs the potential privacy risks, according to a new survey by Accenture. Two-thirds, meanwhile, believe patients should have the right to access all of their healthcare information. The results of the poll suggest a public increasingly frustrated by lack of sovereignty over their own health data.
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Featured Report: Why shady tactics won't yield results on social media

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Entrepreneur Online
Why shady tactics won't yield results on social media
May,08,2014
by+COURTNEY SPRITZER AND STEPHANIE ABRAMS
American society is obsessed with image. After all, perception is reality, right? Well, not necessarily when it relates to your company’s presence on social media. When businesses, celebrities and the neighbor down the street are all in a competitive fight for internet attention, it’s tough to separate the truly popular from the seriously “followed.” While social media can be a blessing for many companies when it comes to online branding and marketing, it can bring the curse of inauthenticity. Read More

Wall Street Journal
How Small-Business Owners Are Coping With the Health Law (So Far)
May,07,2014
by:+Staff
The health-care law is changing the way many small employers run their businesses, for better or worse. Some are curbing hiring plans or making staff cuts, while others are revamping benefit plans. As part of its "Face of the Affordable Care Act" multimedia feature, the Wall Street Journal in April asked small-business owners to share how they're coping with the law. Below, excerpts from some of the responses:
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HubSpot
4 Simple Metrics That'll Help You Assess Your Facebook Marketing Performance
May,08,2014
by:+Lisa Toner
As an industry, we’re quite rightly under pressure to report and measure the impact of our activity in order to justify our campaigns and headcount. Calculating return on investment (ROI) on social media activity, in particular, is an extremely complex metric to track, and something that marketers all over the world are struggling with. (So take heart in knowing you're not alone!)
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Site Pro News
5 Powerful Ways to Repurpose Great Content
May,09,2014
by:+Tina Courtney-Brown
Content creation has literally become the belle of the web-based ball. With content marketing all the rage, and web users consistently wooed by viral creations, companies are scrambling more than ever to produce the next big article or video. Yet as everyone who has ever attempted to write a viral blog post or shoot a must-see video knows, the process is challenging, time-consuming, and often expensive. Because of this barrier, many continue to try to garner online success through the old methods of advertising and “if you build it, they will come” sentiments.
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Featured Report: University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital offers parents video visits with NICU

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Modern Healthcare
Doc employment won't lead to lower healthcare spending, research shows
May,05,2014
by+ Melanie Evans
Market share and prices tend to climb among hospitals that employ doctors but not for hospitals with looser contracts with independent physicians, according to newly published research. The findings, the authors say, suggest that integration itself does not produce the savings that many health system executives and policymakers promise from closer coordination between hospitals and doctors.
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MobiHealthNews
University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital offers parents video visits with NICU
May,05,2014
by:+Aditi Pai
University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital has launched a digital system that allows parents to keep an eye on their newborns who are in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), according to a news segment aired on CBS Minneapolis.
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Med City News
Customized mobile health platform acts like a “Swiss Army Knife of apps” for hospital communication
May,07,2014
by:+Stephanie Baum
There is a sense of urgency in responding to calls and text alerts on mobile devices that make them both especially useful for contacting others faster and attention diverting. It has spurred mobile health startups and growth stage companies from Seratis and Cureatr to Voalte to help medical staff ditch their pagers to make communication faster and more efficient. Mobile health company, Practice Unite, has developed several different applications within one app platform.
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Physician Practice
Retail-based Health Clinics and Patient Care: Nuisance or Necessity
May,02,2014
by:+Matt Dallmann
As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) falls into place, the healthcare industry continues to look for solutions to anticipated problems. One potential problem is the projected disparity between patients who will use their benefits under the ACA and the limited pool of primary-care doctors who will treat them. The growing shortage of primary-care doctors, expected to reach 45,000 by 2020, may cause longer wait times or discourage care altogether.
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