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Oct,30,2012
Jim Sheward - Next Generation Mobility "The pace of change is so fast that there are significant benefits to a cloud solution." We discuss how Cloud solutions can improve your business’s productivity and what it means to enable “zero day availability”.

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This Week's Wireless Industry News
GiGaOm
Nokia's new ad exchange opens networks to developers
Oct,30,2012
by: Ryan Kim
Nokia is in a tough spot these days, falling out of the top five in smartphone sales for the first time while it pins its hopes on Windows Phone 8 and new hardware to revive handset sales again. That’s not a recipe for success in attracting developers. But Nokia is trying to cozy up to developers with the launch of a new ad exchange that it hopes will help developers make money and get their apps discovered on not just Nokia devices but all mobile platforms.
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Wireless Week
Sandy Takes Out 25 Percent of Cell Towers
Oct,31,2012
By: Peter Svensson
NEW YORK — Superstorm Sandy knocked out a quarter of the cell towers in an area spreading across 10 states, and the situation could get worse, federal regulators said Tuesday. Many cell towers that are still working are doing so with the help of generators and could run out of fuel before commercial power is restored, the Federal Communications Commission said. The landline phone network has held up better in the affected area, which stretches from Virginia to Massachusetts, the FCC said, but about a quarter of cable customers are also without service.
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CIO Mobile
7 Solid 7-Inch Tablets That Rival the iPad Mini (and Cost Less)
Oct, 25, 2012
by: Al Sacco
CIO.com's Al Sacco rounds up the best 7-inch tablets available today, including tablets from ASUS, Samsung, Lenovo and HTC. And all 7 of these 7-inchers cost less than Apple's brand new iPad mini tablet.
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Health and Wellness Seminars Coming January 2013

Chicagoland Healthcare Professionals:
Are you concerned about your practice can meet the Meaningful Use 1 and 2 regulations? Are your still struggling to understand and complete your EHR network? Do you know if you even qualify for the over $20 billion dollar EHR Incentive program funds? If answered YES to any of these questions.
Then make plans this January, 9, 2013 to attend the Health and Wellness Seminar hosted by Chicago's Uptown Business Partners. These seminars will explain in clear English not tech speak how to understand and complete an EHR for your practice how fund it and real solutions on how to find and IT partner help you complete your EHR and qualify for the EHR Incentive program. The first seminar Understanding EHR will take you step by step on how EHR works and how to create an EHR network. We will be teaching this totally interactive seminar and giving you real solutions to your EHR problem.
So make plans to attend this seminar and get the answers you need to help your practice meet all of the Meaningful Use Rules.

If you need answers to your Healthcare IT needs now visit our Healthcare Managed Services page at Wirehead Technology

Featured Report: Bloggers: 8 Tips to help you attract more readers, sales and business leads

Small Business Newz
Oct,25,2012
by: Jim Connolly
If you write a business blog and would like to see better results from it, I believe you will find the following 8 blogging tips really useful. They are based on my own experiences, having grown Jim’s Marketing Blog from zero, to one of the world’s most popular marketing blogs.

Let’s get started with tip number 1.
1. Write when you have something useful to share.
Be useful oftenVery few bloggers seem to understand one of the most basic facts of blogging. It’s simply this: You can’t expect people to keep returning to your blog, if you don’t.

For example, if a reader finds a new, useful post on your blog today, then returns in a few days and there’s nothing new, then returns a few days later and still nothing new – you stand a great chance of losing their interest. Conversely, if they find something useful on your blog every few days, they’re extremely likely to keep returning. That’s how you become part of their world. That’s how they start getting to know you.
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This Week's Mobile Marketing News
Online Media Daily
Retail To Increase Email, Mobile, Social Marketing Budgets
Oct,25,2012
by: Laurie Sullivan
Some 43% of retailers said they will raise online marketing budgets -- investing in either mobile, social or email marketing channels during the holiday season, according to a new study analyzing expectation of holiday advertising and sales. About 68% expect sales to increase this holiday, compared with last year, and nearly a quarter believe they will see it rise by more than 50%, according to the Retail Systems Research study sponsored by Bronto Software.
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Mobile Marketer
Which mobile channel will reign this holiday season?
Oct,29,2012
By: Rimma Kats
This holiday season marketers are going to be using different mobile channels such as QR codes, mobile advertising, SMS and applications to drive in-store traffic, engagement and sales. However, which one will lead the pack? Mobile has changed over the years. Retailers such as Target and Starbucks are using mobile to interact with consumers on a deeper level.
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Small Business Trends
Take Advantage of Pinterest’s “Buying Intent”
Oct, 23, 2012
by: Lisa Barone
Last week Cynthia Boris pointed me to some new social site research which found that while Facebook may come with the larger user base, Pinterest offers something even more valuable to marketers – users looking to buy. For small business owners, that’s the kind of social media finding we want to hear! Marketing Pilgrim reported on a Bizrate Insight survey which asked consumers to list the reasons they use certain social media sites and compared the results. The most recent survey centered on Facebook and Pinterest.
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Health and Wellness Seminars Coming January 2013
Chicagoland Healthcare Professionals:
Are you concerned about your practice can meet the Meaningful Use 1 and 2 regulations? Are your still struggling to understand and complete your EHR network? Do you know if you even qualify for the over $20 billion dollar EHR Incentive program funds? If answered YES to any of these questions.
Then make plans this January, 9, 2013 to attend the Health and Wellness Seminar hosted by Chicago's Uptown Business Partners. These seminars will explain in clear English not tech speak how to understand and complete an EHR for your practice how fund it and real solutions on how to find and IT partner help you complete your EHR and qualify for the EHR Incentive program. The first seminar Understanding EHR will take you step by step on how EHR works and how to create an EHR network. We will be teaching this totally interactive seminar and giving you real solutions to your EHR problem.
So make plans to attend this seminar and get the answers you need to help your practice meet all of the Meaningful Use Rules.

If you need answers to your Healthcare IT needs now visit our Healthcare Managed Services page at Wirehead Technology

Featured Report: NAPH warns uncompensated-care costs could rise

Modern Healthcare
Oct,25,2012
by: Jessica Zigmond
U.S. hospitals could face as much as $53.3 billion in additional costs of uncompensated care by 2019 because fewer Americans will get coverage under the Medicaid expansion envisioned by the healthcare reform law, according to new findings from the nation's safety net providers. The National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems calculated that figure using data from the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. Census Bureau and the American Hospital Association to put a dollar amount on what hospitals could expect if states choose not to expand their Medicaid programs.
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This Week's Healthcare News
iHealthBeat
OIG Work Plan Focuses on Role of EHRs in Medicare Overbilling
Oct,25,2012
On Wednesday, officials from HHS' Office of Inspector General said that as part of the office's investigative priorities for the next year, OIG will focus on how the use of electronic health record systems could be contributing to Medicare overbilling, the Center for Public Integrity reports. HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson discussed his office's investigative priorities in a video presentation posted on OIG's website (Shulte, Center for Public Integrity, 10/24).
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Health Data Management
Patient I.T. Engagement in Stage 2 is Policy Gone Awry
Oct,24,2012
By: Robert DeFazio
During a presentation at the MGMA Conference, Travis Broome, a health insurance specialist at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, responded to the worries of practice administrators who insisted their patients are not interested in using patient portals necessary to meet Stage 2 meaningful use patient access measures. Broome said practices would have to push the use of portals.
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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
Nuance, Epic team on voice recognition for mobile EHR customers
Oct, 23, 2012
by: Greg Slabodkin
Hoping to capitalize on physicians' growing interest in mobile electronic health record solutions, Nuance Communications last week announced the integration of its cloud-based medical voice recognition with both Epic's Haiku for the iPhone and Canto for the iPad. With voice-enabled clinical information captured from these iOS mobile applications, clinicians will be able to benefit from the same functionality as desktop EHRs, but with more efficiency while on-the-go using the power of their own voices. The Haiku and Canto mobile applications provide authorized clinical users of Epic's EHR with secure access to clinic schedules, hospital patient lists, health summaries, test results and notes, as well as supporting dictation and in-basket access. Now, with voice-enabling clinical documentation and navigation, Nuance claims Epic users will experience increased productivity resulting in an improvement in the quality of patient care
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Health and Wellness Seminars Coming January 2013

Chicagoland Healthcare Professionals:
Are you concerned about your practice can meet the Meaningful Use 1 and 2 regulations? Are your still struggling to understand and complete your EHR network? Do you know if you even qualify for the over $20 billion dollar EHR Incentive program funds? If answered YES to any of these questions.
Then make plans this January, 9, 2013 to attend the Health and Wellness Seminar hosted by Chicago's Uptown Business Partners. These seminars will explain in clear English not tech speak how to understand and complete an EHR for your practice how fund it and real solutions on how to find and IT partner help you complete your EHR and qualify for the EHR Incentive program. The first seminar Understanding EHR will take you step by step on how EHR works and how to create an EHR network. We will be teaching this totally interactive seminar and giving you real solutions to your EHR problem.
So make plans to attend this seminar and get the answers you need to help your practice meet all of the Meaningful Use Rules.

If you need answers to your Healthcare IT needs now visit our Healthcare Managed Services page at Wirehead Technology