Featured Report: On a quest for price transparency, drop confidentiality clauses

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Government Health IT
How social network analytics can combat fraud
May,28,2013
by+Clint Fuhrman
Government health care fraud is big business. According to the federal website, PaymentAccuracy, the government distributed nearly $65 billion in improper health care-related payments, and government agencies have been hard at work trying to put a stop to it — but with limited results.
Even though $1.7 billion was spent to combat fraud, waste and abuse in 2010, less than 10 percent of fraudulent dollars were recovered. This shouldn’t be surprising. Once the money is out the door and in the hands of criminals, it’s almost impossible to get back.
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Fierce Health Payer
On a quest for price transparency, drop confidentiality clauses
May,24,2013
by:+Dina Overland
There's a growing trend in the healthcare industry--disclosing costs for services. In any other industry, that's a no-brainer necessity for a consumer to make an informed decision about what to purchase. But when it comes to health insurance, consumers often must determine whether to undergo a test, procedure or exam without knowing those services' accompanying price tags.
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Med City News
Doctor/patient communication: Who’s doing the talking?
May,27,2013
By:+ANDREW M. SEAMAN,
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There's room - and need - for improvement in the discussions between doctor and patient that go into medical decision-making, according to research out on Monday.
In four studies and a commentary published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the authors look at various aspects of doctors' dialogue with patients about prognoses, options and treatment preferences and find little consistency.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Shared decision-making may spur higher costs, longer hospital stays: researchers
May,27,2013
by:+Maureen McKinney
Engaging patients in their care is often touted as a surefire way to control costs and reduce utilization of services, but new research calls that assumption into question.
Armed with eight years of survey data from more than 20,000 patients, researchers from the University of Chicago argue that shared decisionmaking may actually result in increased inpatient spending and longer lengths of stay.
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Featured Report: PatientsLikeMe Platform Aims To Assess Patient Outcome Measurements

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PatientsLikeMe Platform Aims To Assess Patient Outcome Measurements
May,23,2013
by+ Staff
PatientsLikeMe, a social networking website, has announced that it is piloting a medical research platform that aims to assess new ways of measuring patient outcomes, InformationWeek reports.
About PatientsLikeMe
The social media site allows patients to share health information with one another. It currently has more than 200,000 members. The site uses online questionnaires and has a database that includes information on symptoms and treatments for about 1,500 conditions.
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Fierce Health IT
For accurate heart attack detection, linked EHRs are key
May,24,2013
by:+Ashley Gold
Failure to use patients' linked electronic health records may lead to biased estimates of heart attack incidence and outcome, a new study published in the British Medical Journal finds.
In the study, 21,482 patients with acute mycocardial infarction were identified in four linked EHRs. The researchers found that the crude incidence of acute myocardial infarction was underestimated by 25-50 percent when one source was used rather than three
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Modern Healthcare.com
States delaying, dropping controversial dual-eligible pilot program
May,23,2013
By:+Rich Daly
More than half of the states that applied to participate in a controversial CMS pilot for dual-eligible beneficiaries have either dropped out or delayed implementation of their programs, according to health policy experts.
Among the 26 states that applied to participate in the CMS Financial Alignment Initiative, which stems from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, six have dropped out or opted for different “customized” plans and nine have delayed their start dates
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Fierce Health IT
Content on health websites often too complex for patients
May,23,2013
by:+Ashley Gold
If you feel like you're lost in a sea of jargon when navigating healthcare-related websites, you're not alone. A new research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine assesses readability of patient education resources found online, determining that such materials often are too complex for their intended audience
For the research, resources from 16 medical specialties were examined with software called Readability Studio, where readability was assessed using different formulas and indexes. All assessments showed that materials were too complex for the sixth-grade reading level; the average American adult reads at approximately a seventh- to eighth-grade level, according to the authors.
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Featured Report: 3 Benefits of a Social Media Following

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Intuit Small Business Blog
How to Make an Impact With Your LinkedIn Company Page
May,22,2013
by+ Michael Ansaldo
Need another reason to use LinkedIn company pages to promote your business? Here you go: A recent LinkedIn study found that half of its members are more likely to purchase from a business that they engage with on the site.
Company pages offer a wealth of free and premium tools to help businesses market themselves to potential employees, customers, and partners. Here are five tips for getting the most out of these features — and making an impact with your page.
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Business2Comunity
3 Benefits of a Social Media Following
May,21,2013
by:+Marv Dumon
According to a recent study, 34 percent of business owners say they have no desire to use social media in the future. However, they’re missing an important opportunity to connect with people and tell them what makes their businesses unique, differentiated, and special. Through social sites, businesses can let prospects know why they care about their customers.
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Washington Post Small Business
Small business advice: How to land (and rock) meetings with potential big business partners
May,20,2013
By:+ Kelli Richards
Small business owners are often focused on adding customers, providing better service, and improving their products — all in an effort to grow. But sometimes, growth is less about expanding internally and more about forming connections with big business partners.
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INC
3 Reasons Most Presentations Fail
May,15,2013
by:+ Geoffrey James
When sales presentations and pitches fail, it's almost always because the presenter made one of these three basic (and fortunately correctable) mistakes, according to Dean Schantz, CEO of DNA Field Branding:
1. Presenting Too Much Information
Presenting features and functions is like describing plastics used to make a telephone, rather than what that phone can mean to your life. What your solution IS and DOES has much less emotional impact than what it MEANS to them. Do this instead:
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How will people with no bank accounts buy insurance on the exchanges?

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GOP fears about IRS access to medical records disputed
May,20,2013
by+ Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org
Listening to recent statements from some congressional Republicans, you might think that the 2010 health law allows the Internal Revenue Service to have access to your medical records.
Not so, says the Department of Health and Human Services. “The Affordable Care Act maintains strict privacy controls to safeguard personal information. The IRS will not have access to personal health information,” said agency spokeswoman Erin Shields Britt.
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Med City News
How will people with no bank accounts buy insurance on the exchanges?
May,20,2013
by:+Sarah Varney
When movie stars become unbankable, they’re no longer a slam dunk at the box office. When investments become unbankable, they’re relegated to the junk pile. For ordinary Americans deemed unbankable, those who don’t have a traditional checking or savings account, it can be hard to simply pay bills. And that is about to become a big problem for those who also lack health coverage -- and for the health insurance companies trying to sell them coverage. After all, how do you sell a product to a customer who has no way to pay you?
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Modern Healthcare.com
Senators seek overhaul of hospital payment system
May,16,2013
By:+ Rich Daly
When it comes to Medicare hospital payment systems, the exceptions are the rule. Congress' nonpartisan investigative arm reported Thursday that 91% of hospitals paid by Medicare receive some dispensation or add-on to the program's standard payment system.
The Inpatient Prospective Payment System was designed to maximize “cost-control, efficiency and access” when it was launched 30 years ago, according to the Government Accountability Office report. But Congress has piled an accumulating number of exemptions and carve-outs for various types of hospitals.
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Fierce Health IT
Hospital workers spending too much time on Facebook
May,20,2013
by:+Ashley Gold
No one is immune to spending too much time on Facebook, not even hospital workers in the emergency department.
In a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, researchers who set out to determine the impact personal Internet use has on acute clinical settings discovered that Facebook took up a substantial amount of staff time in an observation period.
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Featured Report: States' exchange outreach, education budgets differ greatly

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States' exchange outreach, education budgets differ greatly
May,17,2013
by+Dina Overland
Insurers should keep a watchful eye on their states' financial expenditures, as this may be the best indicator of whether they will enroll large amounts of new consumers shopping on the health insurance exchanges.
States are spending vastly different amounts of money to educate and promote the exchanges to their uninsured residents, many of whom are eligible to shop and sign up for health plans through the online marketplaces, according to a Kaiser Health News/Washington Post article
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Wall Street Journal
Employers Eye Bare-Bones Health Plans Under New Law
May,19,2013
by:+CHRISTOPHER WEAVER and ANNA WILDE MATHEWS

Employers are increasingly recognizing they may be able to avoid certain penalties under the federal health law by offering very limited plans that can lack key benefits such as hospital coverage.
Benefits advisers and insurance brokers—bucking a commonly held expectation that the law would broadly enrich benefits—are pitching these low-benefit plans around the country. They cover minimal requirements such as preventive services, but often little more. Some of the plans wouldn't cover surgery, X-rays or prenatal care at all. Others will be paired with limited packages to cover additional services, for instance, $100 a day for a hospital
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Med City News
Preventive health company bringing physicals on-site works toward a $1.5M raise
Mar,11,2013
By:+ Deanna Pogorelc
While many large employers are going the route of on-site health clinics to save on health costs and encourage employees to become more engaged in their health, there are options for companies that can’t commit to a full, on-site clinic. One of those options is providing on-site preventive exams to their employees, and one company facilitating that, Pathfinder Health, is apparently looking to grow as it’s well on its way to completing a $1.5 million equity offering, according to a recent regulatory filing.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Again, House votes to repeal reform law
May,16,2013
by:+Jessica Zigmond
For the third time since early 2011, the House of Representatives approved legislation to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In a vote of 229 to 195, the lower chamber approved the bill from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), which has no chance of passing in the Senate. "Today is a sham. It's a waste of time," Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) told Modern Healthcare moments after the vote. "If we're to do something, we ought to be doing jobs. But this is a Circus here. This is Groundhog Day what happened here today."
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