Featured Report:Mobile ads pushing more purchases

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Marketing Strategy: What is your “Only Factor”?

Oct,17,2014

by: Austin McCraw

Warning: I am about to offend someone. It could be you. It might not be. Either way, I wouldn’t continue reading unless you’re up for having your notion of marketing challenged and you have the time to leave a ranting blog comment — just in case you end up feeling the need to. Let’s talk about marketing strategy for a moment. That’s right. Put down your proverbial to-do list, and let’s talk about the force behind the success (or failure) of all your marketing campaigns — your value proposition.   Read More

Mobile Marketing Daily

Mobile Said To Take Budget From Print, TV

Oct,17,2014
by: Mark Walsh

Marketers plan to increase mobile ad spending this year at the expense of print, television and digital display media, according to new findings  by research firm Advertiser Perceptions. More immune to mobile budget poaching were social media, digital video and search.Among the 300 agency and marketing “decision makers” interviewed online in July, findings revealed that print will suffer the most from growing mobile ad budgets, with 41% citing that category as a source for mobile ad dollars. Another 34% indicated they would shift money from TV advertising to mobile, while 32% will tap digital display budgets. Nearly four in 10 (38%) said an overall expansion in ad budgets would fund more mobile ad spending.  Read More

Dex Media

Local SEO: How to Know When You’re Winning

Oct,10,2014

by: Jeff B. Copeland 

You’re paying good money to a search engine optimization (SEO) expert or taking your own valuable time to do it yourself, so how is SEO paying off for your local business? No, we’re not asking if you’re top-ranked on Google; that’s increasingly tough to measure, as Google serves up more personalized results to its users and keeps changing the layout of its pages (for instance, one bit of prime real estate, the “7-pack” of local business listings, disappeared for many searches last summer). Read More

BizReport

Study: Mobile ads pushing more purchases

Oct,16,2014

by: Kristina Knight

Mobile devices have been shown to push more interaction from shoppers in-store - from product research to coupon downloading - but one new study indicates there is a shift in m:commerce. The study, from Marin Software, indicates mobile is shifting from influencer to converter.  New data out this week from Marin Software shows mobile devices are now pushing more conversions. According to researchers smartphones and tablets now account for about one-third of conversions on Google (30%) and Facebook (35%). Some interesting takeaways from the report include Read More

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Featured Report: Doctor-patient video visits to triple to 16 million next year

MobiHealthNews

Doctor-patient video visits to triple to 16 million next year

Aug,28,2014

by: Brian Dolan

According to research firm Parks Associates the number of doctor-patient video consultations in the US will almost triple over the next year.

“The number of doctor-patient video consultations will nearly triple from this year to the next, from 5.7 million in 2014 to over 16 million in 2015, and will exceed 130 million in 2018,” Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates said in a recent statement.  Read More

Fierce Mobile Healthcare

Mobile app privacy practices scarce, lack transparency

Aug,24,2014

by: Judy Mottl

Mobile healthcare application privacy policies are hard to find, and those in place are not providing transparency on privacy practices and more than half aren't focused software, according to a new study.

The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, states that of the 600 most common apps, just 183 boasted a privacy policy. Of those policies, about two thirds, or 66.1 percent, did not address the software and sharing practices.  Read More

Fierce Health Payer

Price transparency: a win-win for insurers and consumers

Aug,27,2014

by: Diana Manos

Price transparency is more than just an exercise in being up-front--it's imperative to improve the bottom line for any health insurer, says a new brief from the nonprofit, Families USA.

Prices vary dramatically by provider, oftentimes with no difference in quality, leaving consumers with a hard time discerning where to get the most value for their money, according to the brief.

"More expensive providers do not necessarily deliver higher-quality care," writes Lydia Mitts, senior policy analyst for the organization, which advocates for affordable, higher-quality healthcare for U.S. consumers.  Read More

Med City News

Despite promise, mobile health faces slow road

Aug,26,2014

by: Dan Verel 

While mobile health is an increasingly popular topic in healthcare and technology circles, patients – the most important piece of the equation – are still perhaps unpersuaded, according to a report in the MIT Technology Review.

One in 10 Americans owns some sort of health tracking device, from FitBit to Nike to Jawbone, yet more than half of those devices are no longer being used by the patient, writes Nanette Byrnes, citing consultancy firm Endeavor Partners.

With respect to mobile applications, more than 100,000 are available, but “very few” have been downloaded 500 times, while more than two-thirds of consumers have stopped using the apps, according to a PWC report   Read More

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Featured Report: 2018: 75 million wireless-connected health and fitness devices predicted to ship

Fierce EMR

Patients of EHR-users more likely to withhold information

July,28,2014

by: Marla Durben Hirsch

A provider's use of an electronic health record can cause a patient to clam up for fear that the data won't be secure, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).

The researchers, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Dartmouth College, noted that EHRs are a "double-edged sword" in that they're perceived as improving the quality of care but also are seen as having privacy and security risks. Using a nationally representative sample from the 2012 Health Information National Trends Survey, they found that 13 percent of respondents reported having withheld information from their provider because of privacy and security concerns. Read More

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A Doctor Reflects on the Small Ways Technology has Changed Practice 

July,25,2014

by:Francis V. Adams, MD

I feel naked without my beeper.  I started wearing one when I was still in medical school more than 40 years ago.  I can’t stop my hand from searching my waist for the clip-on that attaches the beeper to my belt but it isn’t there. It should be on my right side so I can quickly grab it out of the holder and check my page. For all of these years I could not get dressed or leave my home without my beeper. In all that time I can only remember forgetting to clip it to my belt once. I was ill with a stomach flu and had a sleepless night, and I rushed out without it.  Once, my beeper stopped working. I called my answering service and they messengered over a new one.

After 20 years with that beeper I called and asked for a new model. Beepers had gotten smaller and I wanted the latest design.When I called my service recently to tell them I would no longer be carrying a beeper they could not even find the record of my being issued one. They did call the next day to say that they wanted it back. I guessed that they just wanted to see what it looked like.  Read More

HealthDataManagement

Top 7 Myths About HIPAA Security Risk Analysis

July,31,2014

by: Staff

The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights’ pilot program to conduct HIPAA privacy and security audits showed that the top deficiency among audited organizations was the lack of a sufficient risk analysis plan. Coalfire Systems, an IT security advisory, audit and testing services firm, advises avoiding seven common myths about a security risk analysis.

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MobiHealthNews

2018: 75 million wireless-connected health and fitness devices predicted to ship

July,31,2014

by: Brian Dolan

By 2018 an estimated 75.7 million consumer health and fitness devices with integrated wireless connectivity will ship, up from 23 million such devices in 2011, according to a recent report from IHS Technology. The research firms points out that Bluetooth Smart-connected devices are the most popular, but devices that make use of the fitness and health-focused ANT standard also have a foothold.

The firm also expects that the semiconductors that provide the wireless connectivity for health and fitness devices will have “solid double-digit growth” this year and over the course of the next few.  Read More

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Featured Report: Telemedicine Poised for Growth, but Barriers Hinder Widespread Adoption

EHR Intelliegence

23% of providers use Epic, but VA EHR is tops for satisfaction

July,17,2014

by:Jennifer Bresnick 

Nearly a quarter of physician providers with an EHR are currently using Epic Systems,according to data from the 2014 Medscape EHR Report, but the wildly popular interface doesn’t get anywhere near the highest marks for user satisfaction.  That honor goes to the VA-CPRS, the EHR used by the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs, with Epic left languishing in seventh place behind several of its most significant competitors. Read More

iHealthBeat

Telemedicine Poised for Growth, but Barriers Hinder Widespread Adoption

July,09,2014

by: Staff

Advocates say telemedicine is primed for wider adoption, but regulatory and reimbursement problems are getting in the way.In an iHealthBeat audio report by Kenny Goldberg, experts discussed efforts to realize the benefits of telemedicine and the policy challenges that are limiting adoption of the technology.  Read More

HIX

Employers On Private Exchanges Troubled By Employee Communication Challenges

July,18,2014by: ANDREA DAVIS

Early adopters of private health care exchanges shared their experiences this week at EBN’s Private Healthcare Exchanges conference in Chicago, with many reporting employee communication as one of their primary challenges in moving to the exchange model.

Leslie Vander Gheynst, director of KWRI human resources with realtor Keller Williams, which has 100,000 real estate agents across the U.S., says communication and education was “extremely difficult because those agents are not focused on how the health care reform bill is going to affect them.” Keller Williams replaced its mini-medical plans last December and now offers its sales associates (classified as independent contractors, or 1099 workers, for IRS tax-filing purposes) access to a private exchange through ConnectedHealth. Read More

MobiHealthNews

What will the IBM-Apple partnership mean for healthcare?

July,17,2014

by: Jonah Comstock 

When it comes to tech partnerships, it’s hard to imagine one more hard-hitting than Apple and IBM, two companies who announced this week that they would be collaborating on enterprise software for iPhones and iPads. Apple is also rolling out a new customer service and support offering specifically for enterprise customers. Read More

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Featured Report: Mobile apps now account for more than half of all digital media time

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Reality Check: The rise of mobile-first enterprises and the impact on devops

July,01,2014

by:  Don Addington

Agile and development and operations methodologies have made sweeping cultural changes in enterprise IT. Many of these changes have had technological enablers – virtualized servers, server-based app deployments (think HTML and CSS), and unit test frameworks – that made continuous testing and continuous deployment truly possible. It’s hard to determine whether culture changed the technology or if technology change the culture. Either way, we are getting good at it. Take, for example, Amazon.com’s frequently quoted deployment stats: 11.6 seconds between deployments; more than 1,000 deployments in a single hour; and as many as 30,000 hosts receiving a deployment simultaneously. The numbers are staggering. Read More

Wireless Week

Samsung Unveils New Line of Budget Galaxy Phones

June,30,2014

by: Staff

Samsung Monday unveiled a quartet of low- to mid-range Galaxy line of smartphones. Today's announcement expands the Galaxy line with the Galaxy Core II, Galaxy Ace 4, Galaxy Young 2, and Galaxy Star 2. While Samsung didn't provide the prices or carrier partnerships for the new phones, it did say that devices will offer "exceptional smartphone experience at an affordable price."The high-end of the line is the Galaxy Core II, which features a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, a 4.5-inch display, 2,000mAh battery and a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash. The lower end, the Galaxy Star 2, comes packing a more modst single-core 1 GHz processor and a 3.5-inch HGVA display.  Read More

Fierce Wireless

Mobile apps now account for more than half of all digital media time

June,27,2014
Mike Dano

"May turned out to be a banner month for mobile," research firm comScore noted, pointing to its new research showing that mobile platforms--smartphones and tablets--combined to account for 60 percent of "total digital media time spent," up from 50 percent a year ago. The firm also said that mobile apps accounted for more than half of all digital media time spent in May at 51 percent.

The firm noted that this shift to mobile is affecting different content categories differently. For example, full 96 percent of all digital radio is consumed through a mobile device, while just 4 percent is consumed on a desktop computer. On the other hand, social networking is slightly more evenly split, with 71 percent of users accessing it through mobile and 29 percent access it through a desktop computer.   Read More

ZD Net

The enterprise may be ready for Internet of Things, but networks are not

June,30,2014

by: Charlie Osborne

Enterprises are ready to profit from the Internet of Things (IoT), but security concerns and network capacity worries are holding back deployment.

According to a recent survey commissioned by network control company Infoblox, the majority of IT professionals believe that IoT is a potentially lucrative market, but there may not be enough network capacity to handle the demand that will accompany an anticipated explosion in the number of connected devices.

The research, carried out in May, was conducted online and collected 400 responses from US and UK network managers and executives involved in building, running, and managing enterprise networks at firms with over 1,000 employees. The majority of respondents — 90 percent — are either planning or already implementing solutions to cope with the increased demands on networking caused by IoT projects.  Read More

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Featured Report: Report: 19 million will use remote patient monitoring by 2018

HealthDataManagement

Peer Feedback via Social Media Benefits Surgical Residents

June,26,2014

by: Greg Goth

A UCLA study shows that surgical residents who received anonymous feedback from their peers through a social networking site showed greater improvement in their robotic surgery skills than those who received no such feedback.

The study, published in the early online edition of Annals of Surgery, is the first to examine the use of social networking to facilitate peer review of surgical procedure videos, said senior author Jim Hu, M.D., director of robotic and minimally invasive surgery in the urology department at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Read More

Med City News

Report: 19 million will use remote patient monitoring by 2018
June,26,2014

by:Stephanie Baum

Technological advances, particularly through devices that can track patient health and trigger alarm bells when significant changes occur, are designed to reduce costs associated with readmissions and extended hospitalization. A new report by Berg Insight shows that 3 million patients worldwide are connected to some form of remote monitoring device at home and monitored by a professional caregiver. In four years, it projects that figure to top 19 million. But what applications are remote patient monitoring devices used for most? And how will the market evolve?  Read More: 

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals 'very sloppy' about security efforts

June,,2014

by: Katie Dvorak

Healthcare facilities are constantly in danger of being hacked and having data stolen, but two researchers have found that many hospitals themselves leak valuable information online. The data leaks result from network administrators enabling Server Message Block, or SMB, which, when configured a certain way, broadcasts the data externally, researchers Scott Erven, head of information security for Essentia Health, and Shawn Merdinger, an independent healthcare security researcher and consultant, shared in a recent Wired   Read More

HIE Watch

Avoiding provider-patient mobile exchange pitfalls

June,25,2014

by:ERIC WICKLUND

Mobile technology has opened up new avenues for physicians to stay in touch with patients outside the office. However, some worry about diminishing returns over time, after the novelty wears off. With the help of B.J. Fogg and the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, GenerationOne, a Southfield, Mich.-based developer of collaborative mobile health and management tools, has compiled a Top 10 list telling providers what they should be avoiding with such communications.  Read More

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Featured Report: Hackonomics: Cybercrime's cost to business

Fierce Wireless

Analysts: 30% of Android phones in 2015 won't access Google services

June,24,2014

by: Mike Dano

According to a new report from CCS Insight, the dramatic and continued growth of the Android smartphone operating system may not be the boon to Android developer Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) that some may have expected. According to the firm, fully one in four Android phones don't currently access Google services like Maps, Gmail and the Google Play app store--and that number will likely grow in the future. Read More

ZD Net

Hackonomics: Cybercrime's cost to business

June,25,2014
by: Violet Blue 
They say "crime pays" -- but we can be certain the paychecks for cybercrime come right out of the pockets of every business with a digital footprint. In March, Juniper Networks and RAND Corporation released Hackonomics: A First-of-Its-Kind Economic Analysis of the Cyber Black Markets; its conclusion that the "Cyber Black Market" is more profitable than the global illegal drug trade led us to examine the cost of the cyber black market on businesses.  Read More

CIO Mobile

BYOD Stipends May Soon Go Away (If IT Gets Its Way)

June,23,2014

by:  Tom Kaneshige 

For employees, nothing gets more personal than money. So when companies began doling out payments to offset Bring Your Own Device wireless service bills, employees cheered. Those cries of joy, however, may turn to tears of sorrow. The BYOD payment has undergone multiple facelifts over the last couple of years -- from expense reimbursements to paycheck stipends to wireless bill credits -- and might soon evolve itself right out of existence. Read More

RCR Wireless

Sprint rolls out 30-day trial, expands LTE, Spark, HD Voice
June,23,2014
by: Dan Meyer

Sprint’s network challenges have been well known for some time as the carrier has struggled through its Network Vision upgrade program and resulting hit to its customer base and network quality. In an attempt to at least persuade customers to give its network a try, Sprint today rolled out a new 30-day guarantee program that will refund customers all charges related to using the carrier’s service should they not stay with the carrier past the first 30 days. The refunds would include the price of the device and all service and activation fees  Read More

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