Featured Report: Health Improvements in U.S. Slow Even as Costs Rise, Study Finds

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iHealthBeat
New CMS Tool Facilitates Users' Access to Federal Health Data
Nov,13,2013
by+Staff
On Tuesday, CMS unveiled an online tool that allows researchers to access and manipulate the agency's health care data from a secure desktop computer, Modern Healthcare's "Vital Signs" reports.
Before the launch of the new online system, CMS would field individual data requests and then prepare and send back large, encrypted files to researchers.
The online system -- called the CMS Virtual Research Data Center -- provides access to a variety of federal data files, including Medicare Part A, B and D claims and the Medicare Provider Analysis and Review file.
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Health Data Management
Health Improvements in U.S. Slow Even as Costs Rise, Study Finds
Nov,12,2013
by:+Shannon Pettypiece
(Bloomberg) -- The $2.7 trillion U.S. health-care system lags behind other nations in improving its citizens’ health even as spending has doubled, increasing faster than any other industry over the past decade, researchers said.
The rise in costs have been driven primarily by the price of services, drugs and devices rather than higher demand from an aging population, according to a report today on U.S. spending trends in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The analysis also found that two-thirds of spending is for people younger than 65 with chronic illness, though most of the focus on cutting costs has been centered on the elderly.
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Med City News
Healthcare.gov fix a make-or-break moment for UnitedHealth’s digital health reputation
Nov,17,2013
by:+Jim Spencer
As a Nov. 30 deadline approaches on a White House promise to fix its floundering health insurance website, UnitedHealth Group Inc. faces a test that some experts believe could make or break its reputation as the premier player in digital health care delivery.
Success for the subsidiary that is the general contractor managing fixes to the troubled computer operation could establish Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth as a model of 21st century technology and digital know-how. Failure could blemish its carefully nurtured cutting-edge image.
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Fierce Health Finance
HealthCare.gov glitches could impact Medicaid enrollment
Nov,14,2013
by:+Ron Shinkman
The 36 states that rely on HealthCare.gov to transmit their residents' applications to Medicaid could wind up delaying their enrollment, Politico reported.
HealthCare.gov has yet to transmit a single Medicaid application to those states for processing, even though enrollment is expected to start on Jan. 1, according to Politico. That could leave an unknown number of applicants eligible for Medicaid without coverage at the start of the year, potentially depriving hospitals of revenue related to their coverage
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Featured Report: 6 Steps to Promoting your Small Business on Facebook

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Business Daily News
6 Steps to Promoting your Small Business on Facebook
Nov,13,2013
by+Brett Nuckles
Small business owners can’t afford to ignore Facebook. Nearly all consumers use the Web to search for local businesses – and most of them are on Facebook. The website is the biggest social networking platform in the world by far, with more than a billion active users. Meanwhile, the social media giant is steadily rolling out features to help users find small businesses, while helping small businesses connect with potential new customers.
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Why Being “Big” On Twitter and Facebook Is Important To Google
Nov,14,2013
by:+Jeff Bullas
The complex algorithms and mathematical calculations that Google applies to its search engine technology are becoming more social as the search giant continues to work hard at being relevant in a fast moving web. It started with Google taking a feed from Twitter so it could start providing Twitter search results as “updates’ on Google and has recently been further refined.
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Social Media Today
5 Ways to Ditch the Press Release and Actually Reach Your Audience
Nov,09,2013
by:+Maggie Patterson
Press releases have been around for over 100 years, so it’s natural that when organizations think of ways to share news, they default to a press release. While press releases can be effective, they are not the only tool available to marketers in an age of social PR. Organizations need to look for other ways to share their their information and realize that poorly executed releases really do more harm than good.
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Mobile Commerce Daily
Will Thanksgiving be the biggest mobile shopping day ever?
Nov,14,2013
by:+Chantal Tode
As retailers and consumers both move toward more shopping on Thanksgiving Day, mobile will be a big driver, with both retail sales and traffic expected to increase significantly on the holiday this year. While a growing number of retailers are opening their bricks-and-mortar stores on Thanksgiving Day, many consumers who are eager to take advantage of the deals are likely to simply pick up their smartphones to browse and make purchases.
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Featured Report: The cable guy delivering…telemedicine? Time Warner Cable tests virtual visits

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The cable guy delivering…telemedicine? Time Warner Cable tests virtual visits
Nov,11,2013
by+Deanna Pogorelc
Time Warner Cable Business Class apparently wants to take a bigger bite out of the healthcare market, announcing today it’s trying a new “virtual visit” telemedicine solution with Cleveland Clinic.
The offering is part of TWC’s Home Health Monitoring strategy designed to connect healthcare providers to patients in their homes. It will provide infrastructure for secure, encrypted, two-way video conferencing between patients and Cleveland Clinic providers.
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Fierce Health Payer
Insurers seek expanded role in reform enrollment
Nov,12,2013
by:+Jane Antonio
With a perfect fix of HealthCare.gov nowhere in sight, some insurers are pushing for a shortcut to help them enroll people in health plans directly by accessing a federal platform that determines subsidy eligibility, according to The New York Times.
The government may reject this idea based on concerns about protecting the privacy and security of citizens' personal data, including financial and tax information and immigration status. A more likely workaround is for insurers to estimate qualifications for subsidies with later verification of the estimates by the federal government, the Times noted.
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Fierce Health IT
4 innovation trends shaping healthcare's future
Nov,12,2013
by:+Susan D. Hall
Meaningful Use, the switch to ICD-10, security and interoperability issues are consuming many healthcare IT leaders' attention, but they mustn't overlook trends that will shape healthcare in the future, according to an article at CIO.com.
The article examines four trends that will shape future advances in healthcare, based on discussion from last month's Center for Connected Health Symposium in Boston.
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Med City News
Telemedicine, here we come! Meet Google Helpouts: HIPAA-compliant Hangouts
Nov,06,2103
by:+Lindsey Alexander
Mix an mhealth service and telemedicine breakthrough with a dash of sci-fi dystopian transparency and fluidity (a la The Circle) and you get Google Helpouts: a HIPAA-compliant, secure, pay-per-use version of Google Hangouts (i.e. fancy video chats). According to Venture Beat, “This service marries the video chat features of Hangouts with the payment processing of Google Wallet, the identity management of Google+, and a slew of other Google service features. The end result is a gorgeous Frankenstein monster that lets you find expert help instantly via video.”
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Featured Report: What doctor shortage?

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Study: Most Hospital Residents See Limited Value in iPads
Nov,09,2013
by+Staff
Hospital residents do not consider Apple's iPad to be a valuable clinical rounding or educational tool, according to a study published in this month's Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine, FierceMobileHealthcare reports.
Details of Study
During the 2011-2012 academic year, 102 medical and surgical residents at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Ohio were equipped with a 16 GB iPad 2 with wireless Internet capabilities.
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Modern Healthcare
What doctor shortage?
Nov,09,2013
by:+Andis Robeznieks
You've heard the grim prognosis many times before. Unless immediate action is taken, the U.S. supply of doctors will be 91,500 short of the number needed by 2020 and 130,600 physicians short by 2025, according to an Association of American Medical Colleges estimate.
Dr. Atul Grover, chief public policy officer at the AAMC, projects that the U.S. needs to train an additional 4,000 doctors a year to avoid a shortage, given the Obamacare insurance expansion, an aging physician workforce, shorter hours worked by younger physicians, and an aging population.
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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
Payers invest in mHealth: 7 mobile health and wellness apps
Nov,05,2013
by:+Staff
Payers have a real financial stake in keeping members healthy as the industry shifts from a fee-for-service to outcomes-based reimbursement models. More and more health plans are turning to mobile apps to achieve that goal, by engaging patients in their own care with an eye toward lowering costs and improving health outcomes.
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Fierce Health Payer
Navigator requirements threaten reform enrollment
Nov,08,2013
by:+Dina Overland
Insurers could potentially see fewer enrollments if they sell plans on health insurance exchanges in certain states that are working to prevent consumers from learning about and accessing the marketplace.
Although the reform law established the new role of navigators to assist consumers with signing up for exchange plans, many states are blocking navigator efforts, reported The Atlantic. For example, Florida won't allow navigators to work in county health departments, while Texas mandated additional requirements for navigators, including that they must be fingerprinted, pay a state licensing fee and take extra coursework.
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