Featured Report: Back to the future: Ford, Sprint & KU students bring the house call to the 21st century

This Week's Healthcare Online News

iHealthBeat
The Wild West Becomes Less Wild: States Fill Privacy Gap Left by Congress
Nov,13,2013
by+Alice Leiter
Every day, consumers introduce more and more personal health data into the commercial space -- through mobile applications, social networking sites and personal health records. Yet the U.S. does not have a comprehensive, baseline privacy law that protects such data. As a result, states are increasingly taking matters into their own hands, passing laws that both provide important protections for consumers and exacerbate the problematic patchwork of sometimes conflicting state laws that hamper easy, secure data sharing on a nationwide
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HIX
Hospital Chains Eagerly Await Exchange Patients
Nov,21,2013
by:+Bruce Shutan
The new HIX marketplaces, along with Medicaid expansion, offers hospitals an opportunity to mine new revenue streams and reduce bad debts in the face of declining admissions tied to unaffordable insurance and high deductibles. But it remains to be seen whether they’ll be able to achieve those objectives.
Two of the nation’s largest hospital operators, Tenet Healthcare Corp. and HCA Holdings Inc., recently reported they’re moving forward with plans to care for HIX enrollees, despite a rough start to Healthcare.gov’s online enrollment.
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Med City News
Back to the future: Ford, Sprint & KU students bring the house call to the 21st century
Nov,23,2013
by:+Lindsey Alexander
t’s Back to the Future, telemedicine style. The doctor with his black bag of remedies and devices knocking at your door for a house call is an old idea. But a tricked-out, high-tech ride brings a fresh, 21st century twist to that form of healthcare. Add the brains of University of Kansas students to resources and technology from Ford, Sprint and others: You get one very promising (and literal) mobile health solution for rural medicine. WellCar combines telemedicine, miniaturization and the concept of the country doctor’s house call to get underserved patient populations high-quality and timely healthcare.
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Fierce Health Payer
HealthCare.gov direct enrollment could send numbers soaring
Nov,21,2013
by:+
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has fixed the malfunctioning direct enrollment process on HealthCare.gov, thereby allowing insurers to directly enroll consumers into plans they're selling on the federal health insurance exchange.
Consumers can go directly to an insurer's website to learn about their exchange plans, where they would then get referred to HealthCare.gov to determine whether they're eligible for federal subsidies. Then consumers would be directed back to the insurer to purchase a plan, CNN reported.
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Featured Report: How to Make the Most of Your Content Marketing this Holiday Season

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SCORE Small Business Blog
Increased Client Retention Practices for Web Based Small Businesses
Nov,21,2013
by+Denise Graziano
Let’s face it, online businesses live in an environment that does not encourage customer relationships, or build loyalty as easily as a brick and mortar store can. However, it can be done. Look to the online success stories to model what they have done. (Amazon and L.L. Bean created a fan base one satisfied customer at a time). Technology gives web based small businesses advantages that can level the playing field with their larger competitors. Giving sufficient attention to customer profiles and delivering what they need is an equally important component for continued online sales success.
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SocialMediopolis
How to Make the Most of Your Content Marketing this Holiday Season
Nov,21,2013
by:+Alesia Krush
The holidays are usually a make-hay time for marketers. One simply can't miss the opportunity of catering to the shoppers' inflated appetites (not to mention that salespeople often whet those appetites themselves).
So, what does your marketing plan include this season - another boring sale? If you are up for something different this year, here are a few ideas for flavoring your festive content with holiday cheer the right way!
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Mobile Marketing Watch
comScore: mCommerce will Make History on Cyber Monday
Nov,21,2013
by:+Michael
comScore has gazed once again into its crystal ball and the future looks bright for mobile commerce this holiday shopping season. Although the six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year compared to last year will likely result in a “slight decline” in the overall spending growth rate compared to a typical year, it won’t be noticeable against the backdrop of strong sales across all mCommerce and eCommerce channels.
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Google Think
How Search Influences Holiday Shopping
Nov,22,2013
by:+Nina Thatcher
Holiday shopping is already in full swing, and people are increasingly turning to the internet to get advice on what’s hot, who they should buy from and where they should purchase their gifts. In our study conducted with Millward Brown Digital, we found that searchers are 1.5x more likely to buy than those who don’t use search, making them a particularly valuable audience for marketers. Here’s what you need to know about the search habits of 2013’s holiday shoppers.
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Feature Report: Reference pricing saves insurers, patients money

This Week's Healthcare Online News

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Telemedicine Groups Suggest Adding Patient-Generated Data to EHRs
Nov,18,2013
by+ Staff
Last week, a group of telemedicine advocates sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to address the inclusion of patient-generated health data in electronic health record systems, FierceHealthIT reports (Bowman, FierceHealthIT, 11/15). Letter Details The letter was sent to Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), as well as to Reps. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
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Fierce Health Payer
Reference pricing saves insurers, patients money
Nov,19,2013
by:+Katie Sullivan
Michael Belman, M.D., has witnessed firsthand the benefits of reference pricing. When he had cataract surgery in Los Angeles he found a variation in prices ranging from $3,500 to $11,000.
By taking the time to learn about prices, Belman was able to save himself out-of-pocket costs and provide savings to his insurance provider. Those savings will mean members will spend less money in the future through the trickle-down effect.
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Fierce Health IT
Legislation expands telehealth coverage for military, retired veterans
Nov,19,2013
by:+Dan Bowman
New legislation introduced in the House last week aims to improve access to telehealth services for active-duty military, retired veterans and their dependents by expanding reimbursement for such care. The bill--the 21st Century Care for Military & Veterans Act (H.R. 3507)--which initially was co-sponsored by California Democratic Reps. Mike Thompson and Scott Peters, now also is sponsored by Reps. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and has earned an endorsement from the American Telemedicine Association.
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Government Health IT
Ditching state Medicaid fee-for-service for a better health ecosystem
Nov,19,2013
by:+Anthony Brino,
Many state Medicaid programs suffer awful reputations: outrageously high per capita spending, mediocre care quality, coverage for medically dubious procedures, and widespread fraud, to name just a few problems. The upside is that for states that can move beyond the politics of Medicaid, or at least head down that path, the opportunities to simultaneously reduce costs and improve patient care and population health are enormous – including some non-traditional services that are already demonstrating tangible results.
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