Featured Report: ACA cost estimate cut by $104B over next decade

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MobiHealthNews
Hubbub health uses gamification, friends and family in employee wellness offering
Apr,14,2014
by+Jonah Comstock
When Virgin Pulse (then Virgin HealthMiles) opened its services to (up to three) family members for free last fall, execs from the company told MobiHealthNews they predicted other employee wellness companies would follow suit. But hubbub health, a spin-off of Portland, Oregon-based Cambia Health Solutions, is doing one better, offering its gamified employee wellness offering to any number of friends and family members of employees.
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Modern Healthcare
ACA cost estimate cut by $104B over next decade
Apr,14,2014
by:+Paul Demko
Obamacare is expected to cost $104 billion less than previously anticipated for the period 2015-24, according to a new analysis (PDF) by the Congressional Budget Office. That's in part because premiums on plans purchased through the state and federal exchanges are expected to be lower than prior estimates. That spells lower federal subsidies for individual who make up to 400% of the federal poverty threshold.
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Health Insurance Exchange
A Private Exchange For ‘Every Agent?
Apr,15,2014
by:+GILLIAN ROBERTS
Imagine a world where people can buy all types of insurance without placing a phone call. Perhaps it’s on a Sunday afternoon just after paying the bills, with feet up, relaxing on the couch, computer in hand. Brian Harrigan of Group Benefit Options says this is possible, and he wants brokers to make it happen for American consumers.
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Government Health IT
Is US on the verge of a new health economy?
Apr,14,2014
by:+Mike Miliard
With consumers entranced by fast-evolving technologies and accustomed to price competition, healthcare is set to be transformed by innovations from other sectors of the economy such as retail and telecommunications, according to a new study by PwC's Health Research Institute. In Healthcare's New Entrants: Who will be the industry's Amazon.com?, PwC suggests that "market disruptors" -- new industries, new technologies -- will soon make a big mark on the $2.8 trillion healthcare sector.
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Featured Report: Patients want more services, online outreach from pharma

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MobiHealthNews
Patients want more services, online outreach from pharma
Apr,07,2014
by+ Jonah Comstock
Patients want pharmaceutical companies to reach out to them through more digital channels, and to offer more value-add services, according to a new survey from Accenture of 2,000 American adults who are taking one or more medications and have a household income of $25,000 or more.
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Modern Healthcare
Hospital prices unchanged in March, but physician office prices rise
Apr,11,2014
by:+Melanie Evans
The Producer Price Index for acute-care hospitals was flat in March, preliminary federal data show. That's in line with the same month last year, when acute-care hospital prices showed no change, but slower than the preliminary 0.3% increase reported for February, new Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. For the year that ended in March, the hospital price index increased 1.1%, the preliminary figures show, reflecting a slowdown compared with 3.1% the prior year, and an average of 2.1% for the 12-month windows ending in March each of the last 10 years.
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Med City News
Healthcare is still a people-first (not technology-first) business, says Verizon mHealth leader
Apr,14,2014
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
As a former registered nurse and diabetes nurse educator, Julie Kling saw first-hand that patients weren’t always receiving the kind of care they deserved. That’s what drove her to the business side of healthcare as director of mHealth product management at Verizon Wireless.
Kling will share her insights as part of a discussion on the opportunities and challenges in digital health at the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum, to take place April 22-23 in Chicago.
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Fierce Health IT
Nurses often view teleheath as threatening, disruptive
Apr,11,2014
by:+Ilene MacDonald
Some healthcare professionals may view telehealth as threatening and as a result, organizations should work to minimize potential disruptions, according to a new study published in BMC Health Services Research.
Researchers Urvashi Sharma and Malcolm Clarke, who both work at the department of computer science, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, U.K., interviewed community support workers and clinicians--including nurses who specialize in congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)--and conducted focus groups after the introduction of telehealth in Nottingham, U.K. to find out what they thought before and after the implementation.
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Featured Report: Is Your Small Business Maximizing Its Use of Email Marketing Software?

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Small Business Trends
Is Your Small Business Maximizing Its Use of Email Marketing Software?
Apr,10,2014
by+Drew Hendricks
Email marketing software can be a powerful tool for small businesses. It can drive traffic to your website, increase sales, build brand loyalty, and more. And the software is even more powerful if you take full advantage of the tools available to you.
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App Developer Magazine
Study Finds 80% Of Mobile Content Reads Never Leave The Landing Page
Apr,09,2014
by:+RICHARD HARRIS
Rumble, the smart mobile publishing platform, has announced the findings of its latest quarterly mobile study which identifies how users interact with content and how this affects their likelihood to share articles. This follows on from their first study, which showed that mobile readers have unique engagement habits when it comes to mobile content apps.
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Duct Tape Marketing
How to Get Past Cold Calling
Apr,10,2014
by:+Staff
Cold calling is proven to lead to high levels of anxiety for at least 40 percent of sales people during their careers. That’s why every company should strive to get to the point where they can stop relying completely on cold calling and finally see hot leads coming down the pipeline.
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Marketing Profs
Native Advertising Won't Boost Sales, Influencers Will
Apr,08,2014
by:+Susan Frech
According to a survey (PDF) by the Online Publishers Association, 90% of all online publishers said they expected to be featuring so-called native advertising this year.
We should take note of native advertising then—not only because it's a fresh vehicle for brands to propagate content but because of what it is to the consumer. It's another advertising channel to become desensitized to and requires consumers to work to differentiate between what content to trust and not trust.
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