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Can Social Media Detect Suicide Risk?
July,05,2013
by+Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
Can real-time analysis of social media and mobile device text data help detect suicide risk among U.S. service veterans? That's what a new research collaboration involving Facebook is trying to figure out.
But some privacy experts raise concerns about whether individuals will be accurately informed about how their data will be collected, used, and safeguarded.
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HIE WATCH
ACA employer mandate, reporting voluntary until 2015
July,03,2013
by:+Mary Mosquera
The Obama administration announced late Tuesday that it has delayed until 2015 the healthcare reform law's requirement that businesses with more than 50 employees must offer them insurance, bending to criticism that requirements were burdensome and complex.
“We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively,” Mark Mazur, the treasury department’s assistant secretary for tax policy, explained in a blog. “We recognize that the vast majority of businesses that will need to do this reporting already provide health insurance to their workers, and we want to make sure it is easy for others to do so.”
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Fierce Health IT
Patient portals not quite ready for med adherence
July,05,2013
By:+Ashley Gold
Patients are enthusiastic about using online portals to manage their medications, but more features and functionality are necessary to maximize medication management and adherence, according to a study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
The study's authors point out that no data exist about the potential and real uses of patient portals for medication adherence to improve outcomes.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Going private Employers see benefits in choice of insurance exchanges
June,29,2013
by:+ Jonathan Block
Carl Cudworth, director of benefits at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing in Austin, Texas, was facing steeply rising health insurance costs for his company's 700 retirees.
In 2010, he shifted away from offering them a menu of several health plans chosen by the company, with the company paying a fixed percentage of the premium for each plan. Instead, Houghton Mifflin gave them a fixed dollar amount and referred them to a private health insurance exchange operated by San Mateo, Calif.-based Extend Health, which subsequently was acquired by consulting firm Towers Watson.
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