This Week's Healthcare Online News
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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