Featured Report: Telehealth Gets New Momentum, Allies

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iHealthBeat
Telehealth Gets New Momentum, Allies
Mar,24,2014
by+ Rebecca Vesely
Health reform and improved technology are driving interest in telehealth adoption among providers and patients -- and policymakers are starting to get the memo. It's a marked change since just a year ago, when policy momentum around the issue was somewhat stalled. Last March, just 13 states had legislation pending on telehealth. Today, 34 states and the District of Columbia have active telehealth legislation, with 44 statehouse bills addressing improved reimbursement for telehealth services, according to new data from the Center for Connected Health Policy in Sacramento, Calif.
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Health Insurance Exchange
EHealth Off-Exchange Enrollment Up, Premiums Down
Mar,25,2014
by:+CARRIE BURNS
As consumers navigate the final week of open enrollment, eHealth analyzed its off-exchange enrollment data from late March and found a higher percentage of younger people enrolling at eHealth, more uninsured shopping for coverage this quarter (51%) and average premiums trending downward.
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Modern Healthcare
Preventable hospital stays drop 20% over eight years, report finds
Mar,26,2014
by:+John N. Frank
The rate of preventable hospital stays dropped almost 20% from 2003 to 2011, even as large gaps remain between the healthiest and unhealthiest counties in the country, reports the fifth annual County Health Rankings, published today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
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Health Data Management
FDA Proposes Medical Device Rule to Simplify Classification Process
Mar,25,2014
by:+Greg Slabodkin
The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to amend its regulations governing classification and reclassification of medical devices to conform to provisions in the FDA Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA). Published today in the Federal Register, the proposed rule would simplify the classification process as Congress directed in the 2012 FDASIA legislation.
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Featured Report: Telehealth provisions at stake in stalled physician payment bill

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Clinical Innovation + Technology
ATA: Telehealth provisions at stake in stalled physician payment bill
Mar,19,2014
by+Laura Pedulli
With an amendment inserted in the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act that likely will prevent its passage in the Senate, telehealth provisions also contained within the bill now are in limbo.
The bill passed the House earlier this month, but Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) had inserted an amendment that would push back penalties tied to the individual insurance mandate until 2019, assuring the bill would die on arrival in the Senate.
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iHealthBeat
Social Media Users Willing To Share Health Data Despite Concerns About Privacy
Mar,10,2014
by:+Lisa Zamosky
Janet Freeman-Daily writes a blog about lung cancer. As a former aerospace systems engineer with a degree from MIT, Freeman-Daily uses her blog, "Gray Connections," to describe scientific information in less technical terms for patients with lung cancer. It's also a forum in which she can share her personal experiences as someone who had been diagnosed (in 2011) with stage 4 lung cancer. She describes the purpose of her blog this way:
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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
More training needed to get elderly using mHealth tools
Mar,17,2014
by:+Judy Mottl
Weak computer skills, poorly designed user interfaces and the lack of a compelling reason to use mHealth tools are prime reasons the elderly are not embracing mobile healthcare technologies, reveals a new University of Waterloo (ON, Canada) study.
"With training, adults aged 50 and over can be capable and interested in using mHealth applications their medication management. However, in order to adopt such technology, they must find a need that their current medication management system cannot fulfill," authors of the report, "Evaluating User Perceptions of Mobile Medication Management Applications With Older Adults: A Usability Study," write.
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Modern Healthcare
Proposed patient-centered telemedicine policy raises licensing questions
Mar,,2014
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The Federation of State Medical Boards will vote next month on a new telemedicine policy (PDF) that codifies that medical care takes place where a patient, not a provider, is located. It also states that whether a physician and patient have a virtual or a face-to-face encounter, there should be no differences in standards of care.
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Featured Report: 10 Blogging Tips That Increase Shares & Engagement

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Top Dog
10 Blogging Tips That Increase Shares & Engagement
Mar,20,2014
by:+Melonie Dodaro
Are you getting enough traction with you blogging efforts on social media? Do your readers spend several minutes on your blogs or are they disappearing in seconds? There are several blogging tips that can boost engagement with your readers but in the past couple years, there are a few that have proven to be very useful for us here at Top Dog Social Media.
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Chain Store Age
Mobile POS shipments in North America to double
Mar,20,2014
by+ DAN BERTHIAUME
Franklin, Tenn. – The growth of new mobile device shipments is expected to grow 95% worldwide and more than double (108%) in North America during 2014. According to IHL Group's Mobile POS Vendor Database, 47% of total mobile POS shipments in 2013 Worldwide were iOS devices, with Android at 33% and Windows 8 at 12%.
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Site Pro News
The Ultimate Guide to Making Your Site Facebook-Friendly
Msr,21,2014
by:+Adrienne Erin
There was a time – albeit a brief one – where brand websites existed independently from Facebook profiles. That time is now behind us, and we’ve arrived at a place where Facebook needs to be very closely tied in with existing websites so that each can benefit from the strengths of the other. Leveraging and strengthening that link is absolutely essential to maximize customer engagement and conversion.
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Small Business Newz
Google Is Planning to Help Small Businesses Perform Better
Mar,20,2014
by:+Navneet Kaushal
Google is working its way to the “next generation” Google Panda algorithm updates. Matt Cutts, Google's Head of Search Spam, announced at the Search Marketing Expo that this version of Panda refresh is supposed to be softer than the previous updates.
Google Panda was released with an aim to promote high quality content sites. Several sites were terribly affected by the search algorithm. The last update which rolled out in 2013 emerged as a a remedy for webmasters who were hit by the algorithm and helped them to claim recovery. The latest update, however, is targeted on small businesses.
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