Featured Report:What are the most social media friendly hospitals?

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CommonWealth
How Do Doctors Hate Paperwork? Let Us Count The Ways
Sept,09,2013
by+Paul E. Sax, MD
Everyone hates mindless paperwork. But certain types are particularly annoying, seemingly designed to send you screaming into the night, dragging a broken fax machine behind you as your brain explodes. Too strong? Take a look at this fax cover sheet I recently received about a patient who had been receiving IV antibiotics at home:
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Med City News
The future of medicine: Star Trek tricorders and smartphone heart attack alerts
Sept,10,2013
by:+Stolle, Matthew
In the not-too-distant future, physicians will use Star Trek-like tricorders to scan and detect bodies for disease. Smart watches will look for biomarkers and "alert" its wearer to a heart attack weeks before it's supposed to happen.
Have a skin condition? Take a picture with your cellphone camera and send it to the doctor for a diagnosis and treatment.
Those were a few of the not-so-pie-in-the-sky possibilities imagined at a discussion moderated by Maria Bartiromo, anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo," at Transform2013, a symposium sponsored by Mayo Clinic and held at Mayo Civic Center.
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Fierce Health IT
Do patients put too much stock in online research?
Sept,10,2013
By:+Dan Bowman
U.S. consumers spend roughly 52 hours a year--one hour per week--searching online for health information, while in-person doctor visits occur three times annually, according to a new survey conducted by healthcare marketing firm Makovsky Health and research consultancy Kelton
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Med city News
What are the most social media friendly hospitals?
Sept,07,2013
by:+Stephanie Baum
A new ranking evaluating social media use by hospitals reflects a certain comfort level healthcare facilities have reached with social media channels. Indeed, they are beginning to expand beyond the confines of Facebook and YouTube to Google+ and Pinterest. The increased confidence is proportionate with the opportunity hospitals see to increase patient engagement, attract more patients and generate wider good feeling as a more accessible institution both through mobile devices and the social media preferences of their customer base.
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Featured Report: Health Affairs Blog Offers Guidelines for Physicians' Online Behavior

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Med City News
Business leaders get crash course on Affordable Care Act
Sept,07,2013
by+ Morris, Michaela Gibson
TUPELO -- Nearly 200 business and community leaders from around the region 'woke up' with the Affordable Care Act on Friday morning.
The inaugural Wake Up Tupelo and Lee County event hosted by the Community Development Foundation focused on the impact of the health care reform law on businesses large and small with help from Pepper Crutcher, an attorney specializing in Affordable Care Act compliance, Franklin Corporation chief financial officer Jeff Cox and Congressman Alan Nunnelee, R-Miss.
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iHealthBeat
Health Affairs Blog Offers Guidelines for Physicians' Online Behavior
Sept,04,2013
by:+Staff
Physicians' online comments regarding potentially controversial health posts often are perceived as insensitive or bullying, according to a recent blog post on Health Affairs, Modern Healthcare's "Vital Signs" reports (Selvam, "Vital Signs," Modern Healthcare, 9/3)
The blog post was written by: Matthew Freeman, a nurse practitioner and epidemiologist serving as a director of health and counseling services for a university;
Anna Reisman, a primary care physician and associate professor at Yale School of Medicine;
John Henning Schumann, program director of internal medicine residency at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine in Tulsa (Schumann et al., Health Affairs blog, 8/29).
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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
Scripps' Steven Steinhubl: Success in mHealth requires 'hard evidence'
Sept,06,2013
By:+Dan Bowman
While the growing use of mobile technology in clinical settings represents a promising future for the healthcare industry, according to Steven Steinhubl, M.D.--director of digital medicine for the La Jolla, Calif.-based Scripps Translational Science Institute--its integration, he says, is a process that cannot be rushed.
"The whole medical field is full of examples of therapeutic interventions that everyone just assumes make so much sense that they have to be good for you, but a lot [of] times, those interventions turn out to be dangerous," Steinhubl (pictured) says." We [at Scripps] feel it's really important to have the highest potential level data available to show how different technologies fit in."
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Med City News
Teladoc’s telehealth acquisition adds small, medium-sized employer plans
Sept,04,2013
by:+Stephanie Baum
Despite the concerns over limited or no reimbursement by payers, telemedicine shows signs of growing. The latest acquisition in the sector seems to underline that trend. In a move to widen its audience Teladoc has acquired Consult-a-Doctor for an undisclosed amount, according to a company statement.
Teladoc, which claims to have an audience of 6 million users, provides access to physicians by video or phone for non emergencies such as bronchitis, sinus problems and allergies. Consult-a-Doctor works with small- and medium-sized employer health plans. By increasing access to physicians for minor conditions using email, phone and video, the idea is that employees will be healthier and spend less time out of the office.
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Featured Report: Marketers are focusing more on mobile search and display ads

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Internet Retailer
Marketers are focusing more on mobile search and display ads
Sept,05,2013
by+Paul Demery
Marketers are getting more bullish on mobile ads, particularly with mobile search marketing and banner display ads, according to a new report from marketing research and advisory firm Econsultancy and e-mail marketing services provider Responsys Inc.
The survey, conducted earlier this year of 890 businesses, including marketing agencies as well as retailers and other marketers, also found that 60% of companies said they had a strategy in place to integrate mobile marketing into overall marketing efforts. That includes 15% who described that strategy as a strong one, with the remaining 45% describing it as basic.
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Media Post Blog
10% of Consumer Ecommerce Spending On Smartphone or Tablet
Sept,05,2013
by:+Jack Loechner
comScore chairman, Gian Fulgoni, reports that “… one out of every ten consumer e-commerce dollars is now spent using either a smartphone or a tablet… growth in this segment of the market is outpacing that of traditional e-commerce by a factor of 2x… which itself is growing at rates in the mid-teens"
Measuring M-Commerce with new functionality providing greater detail at the platform level (i.e. smartphones vs. tablets), Fulgoni suggests that m-commerce spending has reached enough of a critical mass that key stakeholders must begin to address this new market dynamic today or risk losing competitive advantage.
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Mobile Marketing
mCommerce Sales Double in a Year
Sept,03,2013
By:+Alex Spencer
23.2 per cent of online sales came from mobile devices in Q2, 2013, according to figures from IMRG and Capgemini. That's up from 11.6 per cent in Q2, 2012 – exactly double. That figure lags slightly behind the 34 per cent of visits to online retailers which come from mobile, though IMRG and Capgemini note that desktop bounce rates are on the rise, up to 26 per cent for the year so far, compared to 21.7 per cent in 2010.
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Duct Tape Marketing
Why Landing Pages Are a Must
Aug,30,2013
by:+ John Jantsch
Prospects today are abused, confused and rarely amused by the shear amount of options they turn up when searching for a solution to a challenge. I know that rhyme was corny, but that’s how bad it’s gotten. If you want to be part of the solution think about employing a landing page the next time you want a prospect to take action.
Online marketers have used the term “landing page” for many years to describe a sales tactic focused on getting people to take one, specific action. Today, landing pages have simply become a required element in the marketing toolbox for every imaginable business, including local brick and mortar types.
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Featured Report: Unprecedented Demand For Family Docs, Nurse Practitioners As Obamacare Emerges

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This Week's Healthcare Online News
HIE Watch
Patient-based HIE: Preparing for portals
Aug,29,2013
by+Anthony Brino
The approaches of two providers, one large health system and one small hospital, show the natural demand for patient portals ahead of meaningful use.
For Catholic Health Partners, interoperability and interfacing may the largest Meaningful Use challenge, CMIO Stephen Beck, MD, told Healthcare IT News’ Erin McCann last fall, as the provider was halfway through the implementation of an inpatient EHR platform, following the rollout to ambulatory practices.
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Forbes
Unprecedented Demand For Family Docs, Nurse Practitioners As Obamacare Emerges
Aug,29,2013
by:+Bruce Japsen
The family physician is the most highly recruited doctor as the Affordable Care Act and trends in medical economics move more health care service to less expensive outpatient settings, according to a national doctor recruitment firm.
Primary care professions, led by family physicians and the up and coming professions of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, are in high demand, according to physician staffing firm Merritt Hawkins HWKN -0.56%, a subsidiary of AMN Healthcare (AHS).
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Fierce Health Payer
Survey: Big employers may shift workers to private exchanges
Aug,30,2013
By:+Dina Overland
Insurers might see even more consumers enrolling in plans sold through health insurance exchanges based on new survey findings that some large employers may switch their workers to the online marketplaces.
The country's largest employers could see the cost of offering healthcare coverage rise by 7 percent next year, according to a new survey from the National Business Group on Health. To offset those costs, some companies are considering moving their employees to exchanges while offering only consumer-directed health plans (CDHP).
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ModernHealthcare.com
Selling health exchanges States launch ad campaigns to promote online marketplace
Aug,31,2013
by:+Rachel Landen
The 17 states running their own health insurance exchanges are taking widely different approaches to advertising the new online marketplaces to the public.
Some are using funny ads, some serious and some don't even mention insurance. They have polled state residents to see what approach will work best and have designed the ads accordingly. The ads try to remedy the widespread ignorance about the exchange plans and federal subsidies to buy coverage, while also trying to convince people, particularly younger, healthier people, that they need insurance. Whenever possible, they're using real people's stories to show why exchange coverage could be a godsend.
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