Featured Report: Medicare to reveal payments to doctors

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Modern Healthcare
Medicare to reveal payments to doctors
Mar,18,2014
by+Joe Carlson
Medicare doctors are accustomed to wearing the white coats and diagnosing others' problems. But in coming months they may feel more like they're the ones wearing backless hospital gowns, as the federal government reveals previously undisclosed information about doctors' finances and performance.
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Health Insurance Exchange
Nearly Half of Employers Considering Private Exchanges
Mar,18,2014
by:+MELISSA A. WINN
Forty-five percent of employers have implemented or plan to consider using a private exchange for their full-time active employees before 2018, according to a new employer survey conducted by the Private Exchange Evaluation Collaborative (PEEC).
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Med City News
Like a Yelp for medical treatments, this app crowdsources doctors’ insights on what works best
Mar,19,2014
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
As a young doctor of naturopathic medicine at his first job, Dr. Andrew Brandeis was a like a sponge, trying to absorb as much as he could from his mentors at San Francisco urgent care center Care Practice.
“As I was sharing information with my colleagues, we started a Dropbox and eventually amassed some 10,000 treatments that we were using successfully in our practices,” he said. “We needed a way to share what we had learned.”
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Fierce Health IT
3 ways to enhance patient engagement
Mar,18,2014
by:+Zack Budryk
Engaging patients in their own wellness and care--as well as their personal health data--is necessary to qualify for new payment models and incentives and to improve outcomes. Looking for some creative strategies to engage patients? Tech reporter Allison Diana compiled a whopping 16 of them in a slideshow for InformationWeek. Here are just three of the recommendations:
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Featured Report: Outliers: Nothing nice to say? Check out Google

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Modern Healthcare
Outliers: Nothing nice to say? Check out Google
Mar,15,2014
by+Staff
How does America feel about its doctors? Those who consult Google for the answer better have a thick skin. Type the words “doctors are” into the Google search field, and it automatically guesses the rest of the query based on the popularity of past searches. Here's what Google's autocomplete function says are the four most common ways to complete the phrase:
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Health Insurance ExChange
PCIP Extended One Month
Mar,14,2014
by:+ALEX WAYNE
(Bloomberg) – A program for sick Americans who were previously denied insurance coverage will be extended another month, through April, the Obama administration said Friday afternoon. The Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan was originally set to expire on Dec. 31 and has been extended monthly since.
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Fierce Health IT
Telehealth services market on steep upward trajectory
Mar,17,2014
by:+Susan D. Hall
Revenue in the telehealth services industry is expected to grow by an annualized 30.7 percent to $320.2 million in the next five years, including revenue growth of 23.1 percent in 2014, according to industry research firm IBISWorld.
It defines telehealth services to include diagnosis, treatment, assessment, monitoring, communication and education delivered primarily through three kinds of technology: videoconferencing, remote patient monitoring and store-and-forward offerings, which transmit digital images between providers
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Fierce Health Payer
Another union push for healthcare price transparency
Mar,13,2014
by:+Ron Shinkman
Organized labor's push for healthcare price transparency expanded to South Florida, with a union for public employees demanding more cost data from hospitals, physicians and health plans.
The Service Employees International Union, which represents public workers in Miami's Dade County, made the request due to continually rising healthcare costs for union members, according to the Miami Herald. The costs for county employees could rise as much as 10 percent next year, and will approach $425 million.
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Featured Report: From #SXSW: Finding a Lively social media strategy

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Smartblog on Social Media
From #SXSW: Finding a Lively social media strategy
Mar,14,2014
by+Daley Epstein
A team of panelists engaged a packed room at SXSW on Sunday in a session titled Social Media: Strategies That Work and Future Trends. Lively, a social media app working to redefine the way we experience concerts, took a step away from their core product to broach a broader conversation about successful social media strategies for businesses. The panelists — Adam Argyle, Geoff Walker, Josh Batchelder, and Zach Varbnell — come from a broad background of industries, allowing each to offer a unique insight into the social media landscape. Here are some key takeaways from the session.
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Social Media Examiner
Stop Marketing, Start Engaging: How to Get Social Media to Really Work
Mar,14,2014
by:+Michael Stelzner
Do you use social media marketing to grow your business?
Are you wondering how to get others to say great things about your brand or product? To discover the common mistakes social media marketers make and how to fix them, I interview Scott Stratten for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast.
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Heinz Marketing
B2B Social Selling: The how & why for three key channels
Mar,12,2014
by:+ Bailie Losleben
There is reason why marketers are flocking to social media to help with lead generation efforts- everyone is logged on. In fact, a 2013 study from Pew Research found that 73% of online adults use social networking sites.
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SocialMediolopis
Five Things You Need to Know About Marketing Automation
Mar,13,2014
by:+Alexandra Burnett
Marketing automation can be applied to all sorts of processes – from lead generation and nurturing, to five things to know about marketing automationrelationship marketing and customer retention activities.Complex series of activities can be triggered by customer behaviour such as responses to emails and website views. But, despite the name, marketing automation is about more than a set of tools: done the right way, it should help you improve the way you manage all your communications, qualify and nurture prospects and retain customers.
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