Health care social media needs rules, says mHealth Summit 2012 expert

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Health care social media needs rules, says mHealth Summit 2012 expert
Feb,11,2013
by:+Staff
As mobile devices and the use of mHealth increases, so too does the use of health care social media. Today's medical students and young physicians have grown up in the Facebook and Twitter world, and they expect to carry the use of social media into their medical practices. Patients as well have turned to their peers to share medical information and learn more about their conditions and treatments.
For it's crucial that health organizations jump on the social media bandwagon with thoughtful, meaningful policies that protect private health information while satisfying the expectations of both patients and providers, according to Joe Kim, president of MCM Education. Speaking before an audience during a SearchHealthIT panel at the mHealth Summit 2012, Kim discussed the importance of HIPAA protections and bring-your-own-device policies. Listen to his ideas in this webcast, the final of a three-part series.
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MobiHealthNews
What the Air Force’s PHR efforts reveal about patient adoption
Feb,27,2013
By:+Jonah Comstock
The failure of Google Health in 2011 pointed to a critical question about patient health records (PHRs): do people want them? If a giant like Google couldn’t get enough people interested in their own health records to continue offering the service, what hope was there for mass market penetration. With Meaningful Use Stage 2 requiring hospitals to not only offer patient access to their records, but that at least 5 percent of patients actually access them, the question has never been more salient. -
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Med City News
CVS Caremark readies for swell of newly insured
Feb,27,2013
by:+Nixon,Alex
PITTSBURGH - CVS Caremark Corp. is positioning itself as a primary access point for many uninsured people who will be getting health insurance for the first time next year under health care reform, the company's CEO said on Tuesday in Pittsburgh. Larry Merlo, a Charleroi native and graduate of University of Pittsburgh's School of Pharmacy, said the nation's largest drugstore chain can have a critical part in improving access to health services while improving quality and reducing costs. "Pharmacy will be on the leading edge of addressing the quality, cost, access conundrum," the CEO told about 100 people attending a meeting of the Economic Club of Pittsburgh in the Omni William Penn hotel, Downtown.
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Fierce Health Payer
HHS rejects insurers' call to delay age-rating restrictions
Feb,27,2013
By:+Dina Overland
Despite strong pleas from insurance execs and industry lobbyists, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services went ahead with its plans to implement strict age-rating requirements in a new rule published Friday. Under the final rule, which largely resembles the proposed version published last November, insurers can only charge their older members up to three times as much as younger members, MedPage Today reported. America's Health Insurance Plans, though, pushed back on the new rules. "The new restrictions on age rating will result in an overnight increase in healthcare costs for people in their 20s, 30s and early 40s," AHIP CEO Karen Ignani said in a statement. "This increases the likelihood that younger, healthier people forgo purchasing insurance until they are sick or injured. When this happens, costs go up for everyone, young and old." Read More

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