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Friday, March 21, 2014

Featured Report: 10 Blogging Tips That Increase Shares & Engagement

This Week's Home/Small Business Online News

Top Dog
10 Blogging Tips That Increase Shares & Engagement
Mar,20,2014
by:+Melonie Dodaro
Are you getting enough traction with you blogging efforts on social media? Do your readers spend several minutes on your blogs or are they disappearing in seconds? There are several blogging tips that can boost engagement with your readers but in the past couple years, there are a few that have proven to be very useful for us here at Top Dog Social Media.
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Chain Store Age
Mobile POS shipments in North America to double
Mar,20,2014
by+ DAN BERTHIAUME
Franklin, Tenn. – The growth of new mobile device shipments is expected to grow 95% worldwide and more than double (108%) in North America during 2014. According to IHL Group's Mobile POS Vendor Database, 47% of total mobile POS shipments in 2013 Worldwide were iOS devices, with Android at 33% and Windows 8 at 12%.
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Site Pro News
The Ultimate Guide to Making Your Site Facebook-Friendly
Msr,21,2014
by:+Adrienne Erin
There was a time – albeit a brief one – where brand websites existed independently from Facebook profiles. That time is now behind us, and we’ve arrived at a place where Facebook needs to be very closely tied in with existing websites so that each can benefit from the strengths of the other. Leveraging and strengthening that link is absolutely essential to maximize customer engagement and conversion.
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Small Business Newz
Google Is Planning to Help Small Businesses Perform Better
Mar,20,2014
by:+Navneet Kaushal
Google is working its way to the “next generation” Google Panda algorithm updates. Matt Cutts, Google's Head of Search Spam, announced at the Search Marketing Expo that this version of Panda refresh is supposed to be softer than the previous updates.
Google Panda was released with an aim to promote high quality content sites. Several sites were terribly affected by the search algorithm. The last update which rolled out in 2013 emerged as a a remedy for webmasters who were hit by the algorithm and helped them to claim recovery. The latest update, however, is targeted on small businesses.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Featured Report: Medicare to reveal payments to doctors

This Week's Healthcare Online News

Modern Healthcare
Medicare to reveal payments to doctors
Mar,18,2014
by+Joe Carlson
Medicare doctors are accustomed to wearing the white coats and diagnosing others' problems. But in coming months they may feel more like they're the ones wearing backless hospital gowns, as the federal government reveals previously undisclosed information about doctors' finances and performance.
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Health Insurance Exchange
Nearly Half of Employers Considering Private Exchanges
Mar,18,2014
by:+MELISSA A. WINN
Forty-five percent of employers have implemented or plan to consider using a private exchange for their full-time active employees before 2018, according to a new employer survey conducted by the Private Exchange Evaluation Collaborative (PEEC).
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Med City News
Like a Yelp for medical treatments, this app crowdsources doctors’ insights on what works best
Mar,19,2014
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
As a young doctor of naturopathic medicine at his first job, Dr. Andrew Brandeis was a like a sponge, trying to absorb as much as he could from his mentors at San Francisco urgent care center Care Practice.
“As I was sharing information with my colleagues, we started a Dropbox and eventually amassed some 10,000 treatments that we were using successfully in our practices,” he said. “We needed a way to share what we had learned.”
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Fierce Health IT
3 ways to enhance patient engagement
Mar,18,2014
by:+Zack Budryk
Engaging patients in their own wellness and care--as well as their personal health data--is necessary to qualify for new payment models and incentives and to improve outcomes. Looking for some creative strategies to engage patients? Tech reporter Allison Diana compiled a whopping 16 of them in a slideshow for InformationWeek. Here are just three of the recommendations:
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Featured Report: Outliers: Nothing nice to say? Check out Google

This Week's Healthcare Online News

Modern Healthcare
Outliers: Nothing nice to say? Check out Google
Mar,15,2014
by+Staff
How does America feel about its doctors? Those who consult Google for the answer better have a thick skin. Type the words “doctors are” into the Google search field, and it automatically guesses the rest of the query based on the popularity of past searches. Here's what Google's autocomplete function says are the four most common ways to complete the phrase:
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Health Insurance ExChange
PCIP Extended One Month
Mar,14,2014
by:+ALEX WAYNE
(Bloomberg) – A program for sick Americans who were previously denied insurance coverage will be extended another month, through April, the Obama administration said Friday afternoon. The Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan was originally set to expire on Dec. 31 and has been extended monthly since.
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Fierce Health IT
Telehealth services market on steep upward trajectory
Mar,17,2014
by:+Susan D. Hall
Revenue in the telehealth services industry is expected to grow by an annualized 30.7 percent to $320.2 million in the next five years, including revenue growth of 23.1 percent in 2014, according to industry research firm IBISWorld.
It defines telehealth services to include diagnosis, treatment, assessment, monitoring, communication and education delivered primarily through three kinds of technology: videoconferencing, remote patient monitoring and store-and-forward offerings, which transmit digital images between providers
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Fierce Health Payer
Another union push for healthcare price transparency
Mar,13,2014
by:+Ron Shinkman
Organized labor's push for healthcare price transparency expanded to South Florida, with a union for public employees demanding more cost data from hospitals, physicians and health plans.
The Service Employees International Union, which represents public workers in Miami's Dade County, made the request due to continually rising healthcare costs for union members, according to the Miami Herald. The costs for county employees could rise as much as 10 percent next year, and will approach $425 million.
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