Featured Report: Not just another health IT term, telecare benefits the elderly

This Week's Healthcare Online News

SF Gate
Walgreens, UCSF to help manage prescriptions
Feb,25,2014
by+Stephanie M. Lee
UCSF and pharmacy chain Walgreens are launching a joint effort to help patients smoothly, safely and accurately fill their prescriptions, the two will announce Tuesday. The most visible aspect of the partnership will take place in a renovated, 1,200-square-foot section of a Walgreens across the street from UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, where pharmacists from both the university and the pharmacy chain will help customers side by side.
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Health Data Management
AMC Health Launches Android-based Mobile Telehealth Platform
Feb,25,2014
by:+Greg Gillespie
AMC Health, a telehealth services and technology provider, has released an Android-based mobile platform designed to provide untethered interactions between patients and providers. The company is beta-testing the platform with clinical trial clients before releasing it to the hospital market. In beta tests, clinical trial patients will be given Samsung Galaxy devices to videoconference with clinicians. AMC Health plans to integrate the video and voice conferencing capabilities into its CareConsole Web portal for physicians.
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Not just another health IT term, telecare benefits the elderly
Feb,25,2014
by:+Joseph Kim
There is a growing focus on the use of technology to help the older adult population live healthier lives. As the baby boomer generation ages, more adults are living longer with multiple chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, osteoarthritis and heart disease. There are also many older adults who are relatively healthy and do not have any type of active disease. Technology can help both of these groups live healthier, safer lives.
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Health Data Management
With Consumers Facing a ‘Rat Maze,’ Insurer Tries to Create New Set of Norms
Feb,24,2014
by:+Greg Slabodkin
Aetna, one of the nation's largest health insurers, is embracing digital tools built around individuals in order to create a "new set of norms" for the U.S. health care system. Delivering the opening keynote at HIMSS14, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said the new model is about enabling consumers to interact with the system in a way that is simple and enables them to “stay ahead” of their health.
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Featured Report: Physician Compare website adds quality scores

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Modern Healthcare
Physician Compare website adds quality scores
Feb,21,2014
by+Andis Robeznieks
The CMS is working to make its Physician Compare website more relevant to patients by adding quality measures related to the treatment of diabetes and heart disease for 66 group practices and 141 accountable care organizations.
The quality scores were developed from data generated from the groups that participated in the CMS Physician Quality Reporting System's Group Reporting Option and the ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, according to a CMS fact sheet. These groups and ACOs also were given 30 days to review their data for accuracy.
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MobiHealthNews
In-Depth: A brief history of digital patient engagement tools
Feb,21,2014
by:+The MobiHealthNews Team
Without a doubt patient engagement is one of the more important trends in healthcare and health IT right now. Over the past few years the tools that look to enable patient engagement between providers and patients have changed markedly. It is important to note, however, that the tools themselves are just a small part of the story — they can go a long way toward improving patient engagement, though. The drivers of the patient engagement buzz are varied, but one big one is the federal government’s Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) Meaningful Use (MU) program, which is beginning to include requirements for very basic patient engagement services.
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Modern Healthcare
Most employers will keep offering workers health insurance
Feb,19,2014
by:+Paul Demko
The vast majority of employers will continue to offer workers health insurance coverage in the coming years, but many will alter the way they deliver those benefits, according to a new survey by Aon Hewitt (PDF). Of the 1,230 companies surveyed, employing more than 10 million workers, 95% indicated that they expect to continue offering employees health insurance coverage during the next three to five years.
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HealthDataManagement
Too Many Deadlines for eHealth Incentive Programs? Here’s Help
Feb,20,2014
by:+Joseph Goedert
Did you know that there are 36 milestone dates to remember with the electronic health records meaningful use program between January 2014 and December 2016?
How about 22 milestones for the PQRS and IQR quality measurement programs during that same period? There also are five milestones for administrative simplification requirements between January 2014 and November 5, 2015. These milestones cover operating rules for electronic funds transfer and remittance advice, ICD-10 compliance, and deadlines for large and small health plans to obtain a health plan identifier.
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Featured Report: Abrams: 5 ways to make business more mobile

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Wall Street Journal
Facebook Narrows the Target for Advertisers
Feb,20,2014
by+YOREE KOH
Facebook Thursday rolled out an improved set of capabilities that will make it much easier for advertisers to home in on the desired consumer.Overall, the new options allow advertisers more flexibility in who they want to target by location, demographic, interests and behavior. Facebook knows a lot about its 1.2 billion users. Thursday’s changes put that information to even better use for advertisers than before, a key interest for Facebook as it looks to woo more ad dollars into its coffers.
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USA Today
Abrams: 5 ways to make business more mobile
Feb,21,2014
by:+Rhonda Abrams
If I asked you whether your small business was ready for the mobile world in which entrepreneurs now operate, would you pick up your cell phone, show it to me, and say, "Sure, Rhonda, I use a smart phone to check e-mail when I'm out and about."Well, that's not good enough, not by a long shot. Today, entrepreneurs must understand that business — even small business — needs mobile consciousness at its core. Let me share a few statistics that will knock your socks off if you haven't changed your website or your business practices since 1999 or even 2010:
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Marketing Profs
Avoid an Online Crisis: Four Key Tips to Prevent Social Media Mistakes
Feb,19,2014
by:+Amy Neeley
If the phrase "social media mishap" were a listing in the dictionary, chances are you'd find these real-life companies included as definition examples: Amy's Baking Company, Taco Bell, and Epicurious. Whether because of a Facebook posts gone wrong (as in the case of Amy's Baking Company and Taco Bell) or a Twitter post that has received outrage from readers and the press (Epicurious), these companies all landed in the same spot: in the middle of a huge public backlash after making a social media mistake.
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Social Media Today
Why Does Your Company Website Need a Blog?
Feb,16,2014
by:+Hesham Zebida
There are so many different business owners out there that do not understand the importance of blogging. Attaching a blog to the website of a company is something that is extremely beneficial because of the fact that you gain many different advantages. Nowadays it has become mandatory for the site of a company to have a blog and you need to understand this.
Blogs Will Instantly Attract Traffic
A site is nothing without traffic, preferably niche traffic. If your goal is to make a sale through the company site, it is important to get that relevant traffic. The content is always limited when referring to the company’s website. You just have some pages and updates are quite rare. The blogs basically solve this lack of content problem.
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