Featured Report: ATA: State policies hinder telemedicine

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Health Insurance Exchange
PCIP Deadline Announced
Apr,25,2014
by+ BRIAN M. KALISH
A program for sick Americans who were previously denied insurance coverage has been further extended, with individuals now given until the end of June to purchase coverage. The Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan was originally set to expire on Dec. 31, 2013 and has been extended monthly since.
The Affordable Care Act prohibits insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. Congressional Democrats included the federal high-risk pool in the law as an immediate stop-gap program for people who had been denied coverage by insurers and couldn’t wait four years for medical underwriting to be outlawed.
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Health Data Management
Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns
Apr,28,2014
by:+Staff
The ECRI Institute released its annual Top 10 list of patient safety concerns, in which health I.T. has a leading role. The list is based on the institute’s database of patient safety events voluntarily submitted by provider facilities, as well as custom research requests and root-cause analyses submitted to ECRI.
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Med City News
Survey: 90% of people will share health data, 26% don’t care about privacy
Apr,25,2014
by:+Stephanie Baum
A new survey suggests that consumers are getting more open-minded about sharing their personal health data. A whopping 90 percent of the 1,000 respondents to the Makovsky Health/Kelton Survey said they would have no problem sharing their healthcare data so long as the goal is to help researchers understand a disease or improve care or treatment options.
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Fierce Health IT
ATA: State policies hinder telemedicine
Apr,,25,2014
by:+Susan D. Hall
The American Telemedicine Association has suggested some changes to the Federation of State Medical Board's (FSMB) proposed regulation of telemedicine. Among the suggestions: Don't make remote consults more cumbersome than in-person treatment and clear the way for docs to practice across state lines.
Of the changes it seeks in the FSMB's "Model Policy for the Appropriate Use of Telemedicine Technologies in the Practice of Medicine," ATA said in an announcement:
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Featured Report: The 7 Worst Types of Headlines (And How to Fix Them)

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Direct Marketing News
Data Byte: Mobile Marketers Aren't Pushing Push Notifications
Apr,23,2014
by+Perry Simpson
Though many mobile marketers continue to invest in push notifications, few actually use the medium for marketing messaging. All told, 62% of the top 100 online retailers prompt users to opt in to push notifications, 27% more than 2012, according to a recent study from mobile marketing platform OtherLevels. However only 31% of these retailers actually send push notifications to opt-in consumers.
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Hub Spot
The 7 Worst Types of Headlines (And How to Fix Them)
Apr,25,2014
by:+Ginny Soskey
Sometimes I get angry at headlines. I've written over 1,000 words on a subject, yet one 70-character phrase will most likely be the deciding factor in whether people view my writing or continue on their merry way. Just a few words could stand in the way between the piece of content being a success and a dud.
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Small Business Newz
Why Content, Social and SEO Marketing Should Be One Strategy
Apr,24,2014
by:+Sally Ormond
One strategy? Surely they’re three different disciplines, aren’t they? If you believe that, you may be experiencing issues with all three. Taking content marketing first, how did you get started with that? I’m guessing it was a blog. When you started out online, everyone and their dog were telling you that you had to have a blog. So, never one to turn down advice, you set one up and started churning out articles.
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Time
This Is the Absolute Best Day to Post on Facebook
Apr,23,2014
by:+Victor Luckerson
Businesses on Facebook are being forced to reevaluate their social media marketing strategies as their posts continue to reach fewer and fewer users. For a brand that’s looking to ensure that its posts get the most engagement possible, new data shows that Friday is the day when users are most likely to Like, comment or share posts that come from brand Pages.
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Featured Report: Why Top Hospitals Have Inadequate Websites: 10 Things to Know

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Hospital Review
Why Top Hospitals Have Inadequate Websites: 10 Things to Know
Apr,17,2014
by+ Molly Gamble
Even hospitals with the sturdiest reputations are having a hard time extending their digital presence and offering expertise beyond the confines of a brick-and-mortar hospital, according to a new report from Evolve Digital Labs.
This first-of-its-kind report, "The Digital Health of Today's Best Hospitals," evaluates the online presence and patient use of digital assets or websites from some of the top hospitals in the country, as identified by U.S. News & World Report. Hospitals and health systems analyzed include Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, UPMC in Pittsburgh, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, among many others.
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Health Insurance ExChange
Why The Uninsured Flocked For Coverage Off The Exchanges
Arp,22,2014
by:+Staff
Narrow networks and consumer confusion seem to top the list of reasons why many uninsured Americans obtained coverage off exchanges for 2014, according to benefit advisers. While the Affordable Care Act envisioned most uninsured Americans enrolling for insurance coverage through the health care exchanges, nearly half of the newly insured signed up off the exchange.
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Med City News
Nielsen: Smartphones used by more than half of Americans aged 55+
Apr,22,2014
by:+Barry Levine
Don’t look now, but the transition to a mobile-centric computing culture in the U.S. is now certified. Let’s check some new data points that represent several crossed Rubicons in the march toward Mobile Nation: For the first time, most Americans in every age group are smartphoners. According to new stats reported today by Nielsen, the age group threshold was crossed in the first quarter. Fifty-one percent of the holdout group — those over the age of 55
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Scientific America
Virtual Doctor Visits Gaining Steam in “Geneticist Deserts”
Apr,21,2014
by:+Dina Fine Maron
In Alaska patients are more likely to find an astronaut than a geneticist. William Oefelein, who piloted the space shuttle Discovery, retired there, but the state of more than 700,000 people does not have a single medical geneticist to call its own.stead, patients must wait until one flies in from Oregon around 4000 kilometers away.
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