Featured Report: Barriers Continue to Hold Back Telehealth Adoption

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Health Data Management
Barriers Continue to Hold Back Telehealth Adoption
May,02,2014
by+Greg Slabodkin
Telehealth has the potential to expand access to healthcare, lower costs, and improve care quality and patient outcomes across the country. However, in order to take full advantage of new technologies and advances in telemedicine, Congress must create a national telehealth framework that breaks down the barriers to widespread adoption, according to industry stakeholders who testified May 1 before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee.
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Health Leaders Media
Sports Medicine Turns to Telemedicine
Apr,29,2014
by:+Scott Mace
Advances in telehealth technology are revolutionizing how healthcare providers respond to the hard knocks and head injuries athletes sustain on the football field, soccer pitch, and ice rink.
It may be baseball season, but I've got football on my mind. Not the game itself, but the injuries that can result from it, and specifically, how new technology can help detect concussions, those hard knocks that can do so much damage and yet be so difficult to detect.
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Med City News
As health gets social, Treato crawls the corners of the web to discover what patients are saying
May,05,2014
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
Patients are no longer tied to their physicians, and they’re certainly not tied to a specific prescription drug,” says Ezra Ernst, a former executive of UnitedHealth Group and Medscape. “With healthcare now, it’s just like with hotels – I’ll listen to my travel agent but I have to go to TripAdvisor to see what everyone else is saying, too. ”That consumer empowerment has given rise to the company that Ernst is now chief commercial officer of, Treato.
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Fierce Health Payer
EOBs don't help consumers understand coverage
May,01,2014
by:+Dina Overland
A majority of insurers' explanation of benefits statements don't help consumers understand what their plan covers for specific claims, says a new report from consulting firm Dalbar. The report evaluated EOBs to see whether insurers helped consumers understand the significance of the information and used certain design elements that enhance overall effectiveness.
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Featured Report: Are You Taking Google+ Seriously?

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Mobile Marketer
Understanding the difference between contextual and too-close-for-comfort messaging
May,01,,2014
by+Brent Hieggelke
Some applications know everything about a user – name, birthday, purchase history and location – without the consumer even realizing it. This wealth of information helps marketers personalize messages. But when do brands step over the line with this powerful data set? And where is that line, exactly?
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SocialMediopolis
Reach More Than 2% of Your Fans on Facebook
Apr,26,2014
by:+Drew Bernard
It wasn’t that many years ago that Google was a new kid on the block. If you were a webmaster back then, it was relatively easy to get your website onto the first page of Google search results. If you were thoughtful about what text you had on your website, included logical meta-tags in your site header and perhaps got a few decently trafficked websites to link to your site, Google would serve you up like a delicious dish of pasta at an Italian restaurant.
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Site Pro News
Are You Taking Google+ Seriously?
May,02,2014
by:+Delton Doucet
Since Google+ launched a few years ago the overall general consensus was that Google+ was not to be taken seriously when compared to the heavyweights of social marketing like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. Basically, Google+ was treated, and is still treated, as a ghost town in the eyes of many big and small businesses.
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Social Media Examiner
How to Create an Infographic That Boosts Social Shares and Leads
Apr,22,2014
by:+Jeff Ente
Are you considering infographics for your marketing?Can you effectively communicate visually?Infographics are powerful ways to get attention.In this article, you’ll discover how to craft infographics that are widely shared. Why Infographics? Modern humans have been around for about 200,000 years and for almost all of that time (97%, to be precise), we’ve survived by reading just the visual imagery around us.
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Featured Report: Newly approved telehealth guideline causes a stir

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Modern Healthcare
Newly approved telehealth guideline causes a stir
Apr,28,2014
by+Joseph Conn
The Federation of State Medical Boards approved a model telehealth policy this weekend that's made some providers of these services happy and others, well, not so much, because of its emphasis on using video rather than audio technology for a first patient visit.
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Information Week Healthcare
Healthcare Social Networks: New Choices For Doctors, Patients
Apr,29,2014
by:+Alison Diana
Like most people, healthcare professionals use mainstream social media networks to connect with friends and family. But almost one-third of them also join social networks focused exclusively on healthcare.
Within these communities, providers find medical advice and best-practices, job openings and career tips, research and product information, as well as the opportunity to securely communicate with peers.
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Boston Globe
Health agencies track outbreaks on social media
Apr,26,2014
by:+By Kathleen Miller
WASHINGTON — Whooping cough first sickened the Illinois high school cheerleaders. Then it struck the football players, the cross-country team, and the band. As it spread within the Chicago suburb of McHenry County in late 2011, another outbreak took place — on social media. A small business called Sickweather LLC said it detected the online flare-up on Twitter and Facebook postings in early October that year. That’s about two weeks before local health officials issued a public statement.
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Health Insurance Ezchange
Americans’ View of Obamacare Remains Mixed
Apr,29,2014
by:+BRIAN M. KALISH
Despite the Affordable Care Act exceeding its enrollment goals, Americans’ view on the law remains unchanged and a majority believe enrollment fell short of expectations.
A monthly tracking poll of 1,504 adults conducted April 15-21 — after open enrollment closed — by Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found that 54% believe enrollment fell short of the government’s expectations, while 21% believe it met expectations. Further, just 43% were able to identify that almost 8 million people have signed up for coverage.
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