Special Report: The State of Telemedicine in the U.S.

This Week's Healthcare Online News
FierceHealthIT
UCLA telemedicine program helps rebuild wounded warrior's bodies--and lives
Oct,25,2013
by+Annette M. Boyle
For the last six years, military personnel who have sustained severe facial and other injuries have had access to some of the nation's best plastic and reconstructive surgeons while receiving ongoing care at home through telemedicine. The program, called Operation Mend, initially focused on secondary facial reconstruction of severely burned soldiers, who often must undergo dozens of surgeries.
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Med City News
The after-hours doctor visit of the future arrives in Ohio via telemedicine kiosks
Oct,24,2013
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
Step right up and take a look at a 5-by-8-foot device Ohio healthcare providers are hoping will keep non-urgent patients from clogging up emergency rooms and urgent care centers. University Hospitals is one of three health systems in Cleveland working with telemedicine company HealthSpot to expand the system’s reach and give patients better, cheaper access to medical care after hours.
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Health Data Management
Verizon Mobile Health Platform Links Docs with Patients
Oct,25,2013
by:+Joseph Goedert
The Enterprise Solutions unit of Verizon Communications has introduced a remote patient-monitoring platform to enable collaboration among physicians and patients between office visits.
Called Converged Health Management, the platform enables patients to use biometric devices to collect various health status indicators, such as weight, blood pressure and oxygen saturation and glucose levels, and wirelessly transmit the data to a Version server that clinicians can access.
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iHealthBeat
Maryland Expands Medicaid Reimbursement for Telehealth Services
Oct,25,2013
by:+Staff
Maryland's Medicaid program is expanding its coverage of telehealth services, the Baltimore Sun's "Picture of Health" reports. Previously, the state reimbursed only for mental health care services provided through telehealth technology (Walker, "Picture of Health," Baltimore Sun, 10/23).
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is expanding its Telemental Health Program, which was implemented in 2010, to boost Medicaid beneficiaries' access to specialists.
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Featured Report: Consumers Click on Marketing Emails Most on Friday

This Week's Home/Small Business Online News
Bloomberg
LinkedIn Says Half of Users to Come Via Mobile Next Year
Oct,23,2013
by+Mark Milian
LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), the professional-networking site with more than 238 million members, expects half its users to access the service from mobile devices next year, up from 38 percent today. To increase the mobile-user base, the company updated the design of its applications and added a feature that integrates LinkedIn with Apple’s mobile e-mail program, the company said at a press conference today.
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Social Media Examiner
How to Get Employees to Embrace Social Media
Oct,24,2013
by:+Stephanie Shkolnik
Are you struggling to get your social media activities off the ground? Do you want to get more people inside your organization to support your social media activities? If so, you’re not alone. Small businesses to Fortune 500 companies find themselves facing these challenges. In this article, I’ll show you how to create an internal social media structure that will help you develop an effective long-term social media presence.
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e-Marketers
Consumers Click on Marketing Emails Most on Friday
Oct,,2013
by:+Staff
Friday’s worldwide marketing email click rate is 4.9% Email inboxes worldwide receive the largest influx of email marketing material on Tuesdays, according to an October 2013 study by GetResponse. The email marketing software company found that 17.9% of a week’s worldwide marketing emails were sent on Tuesday, followed by 17.3% on Thursday and 16.6% on Monday.
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Small Business Newz
How Can I Get My Local Business to Rank Higher in Search?
Oct,24,2013
by:+John Jantsch
It’s “Question of the Week” day at Duct Tape Marketing. I’ll now tackle a specific question I received via readers or in places where I’m speaking. For today’s answer I wish I could say there was some magic pixie dust, but the fact is getting your local business to show up high in the search results takes some work. For the local business the goal must be to move into what is referred to as the Google Local Pack – those 6-8 listing that show up for a local search. This is particularly important on mobile devices that are often pinpointing local only.
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Featured Report: Former lawmaker lobbies for bill to let docs practice telemedicine across state lines

This Week's Healthcare Online News
Fierce Health IT
Former lawmaker lobbies for bill to let docs practice telemedicine across state lines
Oct,22,2013
by+Susan D. Hall
Former Rep. Bill Gradison (R-Ohio) advocates for a telemedicine bill in the House that would allow doctors to treat Medicare patients across state lines in a post on The Hill's Healthwatch.
The TELEmedicine for MEDicare (TELE-MED) Act (H.R. 3077) would allow a doctor who has an established relationship with a patient to offer treatment to that patient anywhere in the United States without having to obtain multiple state medical licenses. Gradison calls the current medical licensure laws an example of policy not keeping up with advances in technology.
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Med City News
Let them speak! Obama missed golden opportunity to kill ACA urban legend
Oct,21,2013
by:+Veronica Combs
President Obama and the administration could have proved that there are real live people who have successfully purchased a health insurance policy through healthcare.gov. As he always does, the President had a lovely backdrop of smiling people standing behind him today when he spoke for the first time about the launch of the health insurance exchanges.
The session opened with a small business owner from Delaware who got insurance through the federal exchange. She said she was not old enough for Medicare but old enough to have a few health problems. Obama later said that previously the woman had been turned down for coverage three times due to pre-existing conditions. So, hooray for that one woman from Delaware.
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HIE Watch
Bringing data back to the patient
Oct,17,2013
by:+ David Lareau
As the data tsunami continues with states well underway with HIE development and more ACOs coming online, we still have to bring it back to the patient and ask what will it take to make the millions of gigs of information out there make a real difference to the guy in the hospital gown? Or, to the grandmother rehabilitating from hip surgery at home?
Fortunately, the government’s investment in health information technology sharing has resulted in faster adaptation of EHRs and information sharing. Still, many clinicians don’t have convenient access to usable data for a specific patient encounter at the point of care. And this can only happen when all of this big data coming into the HIE and ACOs can be accessed and is usable by all users and in all settings.
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Fierce Health Payer
Experts fear exchange glitches will worsen
Oct,16,2013
by:+Dina Overland
We all know the launch of health insurance exchanges have been inundated with technical glitches and other problems that hindered the enrollment process. Industry experts now are worried those hitches may not only continue but also may worsen.
"If we are already running into issues at the user account stage, we're going to run into a lot more issues when we get to the more complex operations at the [subsidy] eligibility determination," Dan Schuyler, senior technology expert at Leavitt Partners, told Politico. "That's the reality. It's a very complex process, and I think it's going to get worse before it gets better."
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Featured Report: Health Care Market Holds Opportunities for IT Entrepreneurs

This Week's Healthcare Online News
iHealthBeat
Report: Health Care Market Holds Opportunities for IT Entrepreneurs
Oct,18,2013
by+Staff
The health care market has many openings for IT entrepreneurs with innovative ideas that would benefit health care providers, according to a trend report from Berkery Noyes, Healthcare IT News reports.
Report Details
For the report, researchers analyzed the merger and acquisition activity in the health care market during the first three quarters of 2013 and compared the data with information from 2012. The market includes IT vendors
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National Journal
New Technology Lets Doctors Watch Patients From Afar
Oct,16,2013
by:+Darius Tahir
ou may be weary of pundits bearing buzzwords about "data" and "big data" and proclaiming the geeky good news that the solutions to your problems are merely a set of numbers and a good algorithm away. But the proposition is being taken seriously by the health care industry. Providers are inspired by the convergence of two separate trends: the proliferation of ever-cheaper sensors and the Obamacare-inspired need to make more-informed decisions in order to deliver good care for less money.
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Fierce Health Payer
Analysis: Most consumers don't complete exchange applications
Oct,18,2013
by:+ Dina Overland
The Obama administration touts a higher-than-expected interest in the initial rollout of the federal health insurance exchange but few of the millions of people accessing the website actually complete applications, according to a new analysis from consulting firm Kantar US Insights.
Using data from research firm Millward Brown Digital, Kantar found about 9.5 million unique people visited the federal exchange site in the first week. But less than half of 1 percent of those consumers, about 1 million people, actually completed the registration process. And only 271,000 people could successfully log into their accounts, while only 196,000 consumers could enter the enrollment stage.
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Med City News
Health insurance buyers are urged to beware
Oct,19,2013
by:+ROBIN ERB
With Michiganders still confused about health care reform and the Michigan Health Insurance Marketplace a technical mess, consumers trying to buy health coverage may be turning to others for help sorting it out.That has consumer advocates reminding people to understand where they're getting their information.
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