Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Featured Report: Hospitals Tap Social Media To Seek Feedback From Patients, Families



This Week's Healthcare Online News
iHealthBeat
Hospitals Tap Social Media To Seek Feedback From Patients, Families
Aug,20,2013
by+Staff

Hospitals increasingly are turning to Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites to recruit patients and families as advisers on health care improvements, the Wall Street Journal reports. Details of Trend
Some hospitals are seeking to engage patients and families via social media tools as Medicare begins basing certain payments on patient satisfaction.The facilities are using social media sites to ask patients and families about various topics, such as:
Improvements in care
New services
New facility names.
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HealthDataManagement
CMS Grants to Fund Consumer Assistance Services When Buying Insurance
Aug,19,2013
by:+Joseph Goedert

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded grants totaling $67 million to fund “Navigator” positions in state health insurance exchanges.
The grants, to 105 applying entities in 34 states, are to hire and train Navigators, who will aid consumers applying for and selecting insurance through federally-facilitated insurance (built and operated by the feds) and exchanges that states are building in partnership with the federal government. The remaining states are building exchanges on their own with federal funds.
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Med City News
Older patients don’t always understand hospital discharge information
Aug,20,2013
By:+ANDREW M. SEAMAN,

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older patients may think they understand everything doctors tell them when they are released from the hospital, but a new U.S. study found several gaps in what they remember and areas where instructions could be clearer.
Out of nearly 400 patients discharged from a large academic medical center, 96 percent reported knowing why they had been hospitalized, but only about 60 percent could accurately describe their diagnoses, for instance.
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ModernHealthcare.com
Debate centers on whether exchanges should offer voter registration
Aug,20,2013
by:+ Jessica Zigmond

Policy and election experts are debating whether the new public insurance exchanges should offer voter registration as well as enrollment in health insurance plans. Some say the exchanges are required by federal law to offer voter registration, while others say the law is unclear and that combining voter registration with insurance sign-ups would add major political difficulties to implementing the already-controversial healthcare reform law. The issue could wind up in court.
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Featured Report: Altarum Institute: Higher healthcare prices unlikely


This Week's Healthcare Online News
iHealthBeat
Studies: Tools Can Help Predict Readmission, Complication Risks
Aug,15,2013
by+Staff

Two recent studies found that online tools that calculate personalized health risks can be used to predict unplanned hospital readmissions and estimate patient-specific postoperative surgical complication risks.
Study on Readmissions
The Rothman Index -- a calculator that uses electronic health record data to determine health risks -- can predict the probability of unplanned hospital readmissions, according to a study in the journal Medical Care, Orthopedics Today reports.
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Most exchange plans limit member choices
Aug,16,2013
by:+Julie Bird

Health insurance plans sold through state health insurance exchanges are likely to include limited choices of doctors and hospitals and require referrals for specialists and pre-authorization before expensive procedures, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The paper cited a McKinsey & Co. analysis that found 47 percent of 955 plans proposed for the insurance marketplaces early in the filing period were for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) or plans with similar designs. Other plans classified as preferred provider organizations (PPOs) also would restrict patient choice of doctors and hospitals.
Insurers interviewed for the article said they believe cost-conscious consumers shopping in the online marketplace will accept the tradeoff of less choice for lower premiums.
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Med City News
Understudied and underserved: Medical devices for women are a big unmet need
Aug,18,2013
By:+Nancy Lynch MD

Last month, the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) launched an ambitious and important initiative focused on improving women’s access to and outcomes from treatments using medical devices. This follows the publication of its 2011 draft guidance on the subject. The Health of Women Program commenced with an impressive two-day public workshop and included participants from all stakeholder groups.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Altarum Institute: Higher healthcare prices unlikely
Aug,17,2013
by:+Jaimy Lee

Healthcare prices are growing at historically low rates, according to new estimates from the Altarum Institute. And because of a revision to federal benchmark data, researchers estimate that the portion of the economy consumed by healthcare is less than previously thought. The percentage of the gross domestic product has averaged about 17.5% (rather than 18%) since the end of the recession, they now believe.
Spending on healthcare rose 4.3% from June 2012 to June 2013, about 0.8% faster than the pace of GDP growth. The institute's monthly briefs on health sector economic indicators suggest that weak growth in the industry is exerting pressure on prices even as economic growth has started to accelerate. Prices for hospitals and physician and clinical services each rose less than 2% over the 12 months through June, and prescription drug prices reported a year-over-year price drop of 0.1%.
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Featured Report: How to Use Social Strategies to Drive Business Goals


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Small Business Trends
Study Shows One “Like” Leads to Others in Social Media
Aug,15,2013
by+Joshua Sophy

If you want your content to be “liked” by others on social media, get a friend to “like” it first. Believe it or not, there is some scientific basis for this.In fact, researchers who recently published their findings in the journal of Science say giving your content a positive vote immediately after publication makes it 32 percent more likely others will do the same.Researchers also found this content scored 25 percent higher when calculating the total amount of positive votes than content that received no votes at all when it was first published.
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Convince and Convert
How to Use Social Strategies to Drive Business Goals
Aug,16,2013
by:+Jay Baer

Brian Solis, principal analyst at Altimeter Group, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the biggest challenge most businesses face when integrating social media and social business, plus his views on narcissism and how it affects businesses’ abilities to reach people.Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast.
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SCORE Small Business Blog
Why Every Startup Needs a Business Concept Statement
Aug,14,2013
By:+Bryan Janeczko

There is a lot of talk in entrepreneurial circles about the need to develop a business plan. And while I agree that a business plan is important for defining your strategy and the key deliverables for all stakeholders – including staff, investors, and strategic partners, I believe that way before you delve into the data, projections, and planning required of a full-blown business plan, it is important to crystallize your business idea. The best way to do that is to create a Business Concept Statement — a one-page document that defines the great idea that you’re turning into a business.
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Business News Daily
How Your Website Can Keep 'Em Coming Back
Aug,13,2013
by:+David Mielach

Nothing makes people leave your website faster than getting there and finding out you don't have relevant information to offer. Website visitors also say they are frustrated by slow load times of websites, the quality of the content on those sites and the trustworthiness of those sites. Visual appeal, ease of use and search ability are also important website features.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Featured Report: Patients skipping waiting room in favor of visiting doctor online


This Week's Healthcare Online News
23 ABC News
Patients skipping waiting room in favor of visiting doctor online
Aug,03,2013
by+Liz Freeman

The prevalence of telemedicine interaction between medical providers, or between doctors and patients in remote settings, is expected to move into the mainstream. It could include using Skype or some other video system between doctors and patients for a new generation of house calls.
"Most office visits don't need to be face to face," said Dr. Allen Weiss, president and chief executive officer of the NCH Healthcare System in Florida. "Instead of someone running for an office visit, a quick electronic visit can take less time."
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Half who now buy own health coverage to get aid, study finds
Aug,14,2013
by:+Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

About half the people who now buy their own health insurance—and potentially would face higher premiums next year under President Barack Obama's healthcare law—would qualify for federal tax credits to offset rate shock, according to a new private study.Many other people, however, earn too much money to be eligible for help, and could end up paying more
The estimate, released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, tries to answer one of the biggest remaining questions about the impact of Obama's law on American families: Will consumers wince — or even balk — when they see the premiums for the new plans?
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Med City News
Counting sheep doesn’t cut it any more: 1 in 3 Americans not getting a full night’s rest
Aug,12,2013
By:+ Shah, Allie

Most nights, Thomas Copenhaver finds himself sleepless in Richfield. So, he used a sleep-monitoring device to find out how bad it was: While he was in bed for six hours and 42 minutes one night, he woke up 14 times, and slept only two hours and 46 minutes.
"It's kind of like the night before a vacation -- you don't sleep because you worry that you'll oversleep and miss your flight," he said. "That's just me in a nutshell every day."
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New York Times
A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law
Aug,12,2013
by:+ROBERT PEAR

WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama’s health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care. The limit on out-of-pocket costs, including deductibles and co-payments, was not supposed to exceed $6,350 for an individual and $12,700 for a family. But under a little-noticed ruling, federal officials have granted a one-year grace period to some insurers, allowing them to set higher limits, or no limit at all on some costs, in 2014.
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