Featured Report: Patients should have access to network info before buying health plans: analyst

Healthcare IT News

Telemedicine finds favor, but needs vary

Aug,14,2014

by: Mike Miliard

Nearly half of healthcare organizations polled for a new HIMSS Analytics report use telemedicine technology -- with some of them combining as many as four different tools to enable remote care. The 2014 U.S. Telemedicine Study, the first of HIMSS  Analytics' new Essentials Briefs series, tracks a technology strategy that's increasingly finding favor among healthcare providers who are seeking ways to deliver better care to a larger patient populations at lower costs. "Organizations continue to strive toward a value-based rather than volume-based care model, and many telemedicine technologies can aid in that transition," said HIMSS Analytics Research Director Brendan FitzGerald in a press statement. Read More

Fierce Mobile Healthcare

Hospital streamlines ER consults via tablets

Aug,08,2014

by: Judy Mottl

A year-long mHealth pilot program featuring the use of iPads and initiated by a Pennsylvania health network aims to enhance emergency medical services for home-based patients while reducing emergency room visits and hospital admissions.

The pre-hospital telemedicine effort, deployed by the Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network, is the first in the state involving emergency medical services. Patients can speak directly to ER physicians via an iPad connection,  Read More

MobiHealthNews

Why hospitals are investing in telemedicine technology

Aug,14,2014

by: Jonah Comstock

Forty-six percent of healthcare providers answering a HIMSS survey used multiple telemedicine technologies in their practice, with the most popular technology by far being two-way video messaging.

HIMSS had 400 responses to an online survey, mostly from directors and managers at hospitals, but also from doctors and nurses in hospitals and private practices. The results paint a picture of telemedicine slowly being adopted to fill niches in a healthcare system still very much focused on Meaningful Use.  Read More

Modern Healthcare

Patients should have access to network info before buying health plans: analyst Aug,,2014 by: Melanie Evans  Regulators should back off health plans that give patients a limited choice of hospital and physician options or risk stifling innovation and raising prices, a health policy expert argues in the New England Journal of Medicine. Instead, regulators should ensure patients have access to network information before they buy health plans, wrote David Howard, an economics and health policy associate professor at Emory University. Another option is for insurers to leave the trade-off between cost and choice to consumers through greater use of tiered networks. Narrow networks (as the limited-choice health plans are known) give insurers leverage in price negotiations amid a wave of consolidation by health systems, hospitals and physicians, Howard wrote in a perspective piece for the journal.  Read More Healthcare IT Managed Services Healthcare Providers are you having trouble keeping up with the new government rules and regulations in Healthcare and don't know where to turn to get help? Then let us help you Wirehead Technology's Healthcare Managed IT Services will work with you to help you not only understand the rules but put together all the IT services that will help you comply with all the new Healthcare rules and stay with you to make sure your Healthcare practice is always up to date on all of the rules. To see how we can help your practice visit our Healthcare IT page

Featured Report: So you have an app idea and want to make a bajillion bucks

Fierce Wireless

Untangling the business opportunities in the Internet of Things

Aug,13,2014

by: Mike Dano

It's no secret that the Internet of Things has generated a significant amount of buzz in the wireless industry. Indeed, the Internet of Things is now at the peak of its own hype cycle,according to research firm Gartner. (For comparison, the M2M market has already peaked and is on its way toward a "plateau of productivity" while virtual personal assistants are on the firm's pre-peak "innovation trigger" slope.)   Read More

ZD Net

So you have an app idea and want to make a bajillion bucks

Aug,12,2014

by: David Gewirtz

Reader Ron sent me an email recently. He asks, "I know you have a million people ask you this, and every one that asks is sure they have the next best thing. I'm a simple non-tech guy, and I have an idea that should have already been on every phone made. I don't have a lot of money, I'm an ex-Marine who now works in law enforcement, but I'm sure if the app is made, Apple and Android both will want to make it part of the standard features of the phone."   Read More

The Next Web

iOS drops to 67% enterprise share in Q2 2014, Android grows to 32%, and Windows Phone stays flat at 1%

Aug,12,2014

by: EMIL PROTALINSKI

Apple’s iOS still rules the enterprise space, even after having fallen 5 percentage points to 67 percent of total device activations in Q2 2014. Android device activations increased the same amount to 32 percent of total activations last quarter, while Windows Phone activations remain consistent with the five previous quarters: flat at 1 percent.

The latest findings come from Good Technology‘s semi-annual Mobility Index Report. It’s worth noting that since BlackBerry devices use BlackBerry Enterprise Server for corporate email access, Good Technology does not have insight into BlackBerry handset activations. Read More

Wireless Week

A Closer Look: Multitasking on Mobile Devices

Aug,12,2014

by: Anick Jesdanun

Smartphones and tablets would be much more useful if they allowed us to multitask the way desktop and laptop computers do.  When I'm watching video, for instance, I have to pause it to read an email or text that comes in. When I'm composing a message to make plans, I have to leave the app to check the weather forecast. For the most part, I'm not able to do more than one thing at a time on a single screen.   Read More

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Featured Report: Women Are Spending More Time And Money On Mobile Games

Business Insiders

Women Are Spending More Time And Money On Mobile Games
Aug,07,2014
by:REBECCA BORISON
Thanks to a few hits like "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" and "Clash of Clans," women are spending a crazy amount of time playing mobile games — roughly 32% of the time they spend on their phones.Some are also spending a crazy amount of money on these games' in-app purchases.

According to a new report from Flurry, women are dominating the mobile game space in terms of both time and money spent. Flurry found they make 31% more in-app purchases than men and spend 35% more time in gaming apps. Women were also more loyal to apps than men, with 42% higher retention rates. Flurry obtained these results by analyzing 1.1 million devices around the world.   Read More

Social Media Today

The In-Store Imperative for Brands in the Digital Age
Aug,07,2014
by: Loni Stark 

Cus­tomer is no longer a good enough word to describe the many individuals in relationship with a brand. We’ve called them fans and audi­ences, col­lab­o­ra­tors and par­tic­i­pants, vis­i­tors and users, trying to cap­ture the nature of cus­tomer inter­ac­tions in the dig­i­tal age. But a sin­gle word may never be enough, because touch points and oppor­tu­ni­ties for engage­ment keep mul­ti­ply­ing. The once lin­ear sales fun­nel is now an evolv­ing, cir­cu­lar process with active and informed men and women enter­ing through var­i­ous channels.

For example, the cus­tomer that sets foot in a store today is a very dif­fer­ent ani­mal from the one that walked through the door more than a decade ago. Chances are the cus­tomer knows a good deal about your prod­uct before approach­ing a sales­per­son. The sales­per­son needs to under­stand the cus­tomer well enough to make broader rec­om­men­da­tions (for exam­ple, sug­gest­ing new design­ers or acces­sories to a fash­ion­ista). We no longer live in a product-driven world. The customer-centric sell is per­son­al­ized to unique and specific customer lifestyles. Read More

Advertising Age 

Google Tests Way to Track Consumers From Mobile Browsers to the Apps They Use
Aug,07,2014
by: Tim Peterson

Google has come up with a way to overcome the ad-targeting gap between mobile web visitors and mobile app users, according to people familiar with the matter.The online ad giant is set to begin testing a new method of targeting tablet and smartphone users that connects the separate tracking mechanisms that follow what people do on the mobile web and in mobile apps respectively, the people said. Until now, advertisers have usually been forced to treat individual mobile users as two unconnected people, depending on whether they are using a mobile browser or apps.  Read More

e-Marketer

Marketers Just Want to get to Know you (with Data)

Aug, 07,2014
by: Staff

There’s no denying that consumers are demanding more tailored experiences when interacting with companies than ever before. Based on recent research, professionals are collecting data through analytics in an effort to respond appropriately.  The May 2014 study by Econsultancy in association with Lynchpin found that, thanks to the rise of data-driven marketing, analytics were a hot topic among digital business professionals worldwide, many of whom were using them to improve personalization efforts. In fact, personalization and targeting were the second most popular requirements for analytics related to understanding the customer, cited by 53% of respondents. Tracking behavior across devices and channels, which can aid in personalization further down the road, ranked first.  Read More

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Featured Report: Hospital pilots iPad video chats in lieu of ambulance rides

MobiHealthNews

Hospital pilots iPad video chats in lieu of ambulance rides

Aug,05,2014

by: Jonah Comstock

Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has begun a one-year pilot of a novel telemedicine program, one that will allow first responders to connect select patients to a doctor via an iPad rather than actually transporting them to the hospital.

“The benefits of telemedicine to the patient are innumerable, offering direct in-home access to a physician who can see them and talk to them,” Richard Gibbons, Director of the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, Pennsylvania Department of Health, said in a statement. “I’m very excited about the potential of this program and glad to see that it is happening in a community hospital such as Allegheny Valley.”    Read More

AHRQ Innovations

Community-Based Health Coaches and Care Coordinators Reduce Readmissions

Aug,05,2014

by: Andrey Ostrovsky, MD

Supported by mobile technology, trained health coaches at Elder Services of Merrimack Valley (an Area Agency on Aging in Northeastern Massachusetts) visit recently discharged Medicare patients in their homes and monitor them via telephone to identify and address declines in health status that increase the risk of readmission. Administered in partnership with area hospitals, the 4-week program begins with an inhospital visit to determine the risk of readmission. Patients at medium or high risk for readmission receive an in-home visit within 48 hours of discharge and a weekly phone call for each of the next 3 weeks. During each encounter, the coach uses a tablet-based application that provides suggested questions written in lay language based on the patient's diagnoses, treatment, and overall risk profile. If the answers indicate a decline in health status, the system sends a real-time alert to a nurse care coordinator, who subsequently uses a different component of the software to help the patient and coach address the issue within 24 hours, including arranging for any needed services. The use of health coaches supported by the tablet-based software significantly reduced readmissions among at-risk Medicare patients, as compared with use of health coaches without the software. This reduction generated substantial cost savings for partner hospitals and the health care system as a whole.  Read More

Modern Healthcare

Stage 2 attestations inch upward, latest CMS data indicate

Aug,06,2014

by: Joseph Conn 

Hospitals, physicians and other eligible professionals are inching closer to upgrading their electronic health-record systems, but significant progress remains limited to a small handful of providers, the latest CMS data show.
As of Aug. 1, 78 hospitals have attested to meeting the more stringent EHR Stage 2 requirements. That's just 24% of the 322 hospitals that have already attested for the 2014 reporting year, which began for them Oct. 1, 2013. The data was part of a CMS Data Review slide presentation given Wednesday to the federally chartered Health Information Technology Policy Committee.  On the provider side, 1,898 physicians and other eligible professionals have attested to Stage 2. That’s 35% of the 5,365 physicians and other EPs who have attested during their payment period, which began Jan. 1, 2014.  Read More

Fierce Health IT

The rise of nurses in health IT

Aug,04,2014

by:Katie Dvorak

From chief nursing informatics officers to chief information officers, nurses increasingly are taking on new leadership roles in health IT and having a major impact on healthcare innovation and delivery. For instance, nurse informatics are vital to information system development, implementation and optimization, according to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2014 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey, released in February. More than 70 percent of the survey's respondents hold a title that specifies informatics, and interest in additional training within the field is also shown to be on the rise.  Read More

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Featured Report: User Beware: That Mobile App is Spying on You

CIO Mobile

User Beware: That Mobile App is Spying on You

Aug,05,2014

by: 

Bill Snyder

 

Those apps you download on your smartphone may be free or very cheap, but there’s a hidden price you should be aware of: loss of privacy.The vast majority of the most popular iOS and Android mobile apps collect a variety of personal data from users, including location details, address book contacts and calendar information, according to a just-released survey by Appthority, a company that advises businesses on security.The report does offer some significant good news. Appthority found that very few of the apps it analyzed carried malware.Appthority, which says it has a catalog of around two million apps, analyzed a total of 400 of the most popular mobile apps available (based on downloads) in Apple’s App Store and Google Play. When it comes to free apps, there was essentially no difference between the two platforms.  Read More

ZD Net

Is the smartphone killing off society's social skills?

Aug,06,2014

by:David Gewirtz

Did ever notice how sometimes things can seem absolutely normal, until you look around and realize you could be in a Doctor Who episode? Last night was like that. It was late and I was at a local pub celebrating a friend's birthday. I'm not much of a pub creature. I sowed my wild oats a long time ago. Sowed them, harvested them, cooked them, and made meal out of them. But I'm -- quite thankfully -- past those days.   As a result, I only find myself in a pub-like atmosphere on those few occasions when I didn't plan far enough in advance to have a good excuse to get out of a social event. That means I manage to avoid having to go out on the town more than once every two or three months. Read More

RCR Wireless News

Mavenir looks to moderate NFV expectations as hype swells

Aug,04,2014

by: DAN MEYER

Network function virtualization has become a significant talking point across the mobile telecommunications space, with most wireless operators and equipment vendors looking more closely at the technology. That attention comes from the potential cost savings and potential improvements in rolling out new services that wireless carriers are always looking to take advantage of. IDC recently released a report predicting that network virtualization was “set to revolutionize the telecom industry as it transforms the culture and operational infrastructure, as well as the fabric of legacy proprietary infrastructures that have, until now, dominated the space.” That followed a report from Maravedis-Rethink released earlier this year that predicted early three-fourth of mobile operators will deploy some form of NFV by 2018, noting the move to NFV will be one of the most important ways carriers will “transform their cost base and their service delivery in the next few years.”   Read More

Wireless Week

Verizon to FCC: Throttling Unlimited Users “Widely Accepted”

Aug,05,2014

by: Ben Munson

Verizon has officially responded to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler after the Commissioner criticized the carrier’s decision to start slowing data speeds for some unlimited plan customers on its LTE network. The United States’ largest carrier called the practice “widely accepted,” according to Reuters. Verizon CEO Dan Mead, to whom the FCC’s letter was addressed, said the policy was in line with FCC principles. Verizon calls the practice “network optimization” and says that it will only apply to the top five percent of users on unlimited plans and will only take effect when the network is congested. The carrier says the policy will “ensure the fair allocation of capacity.”   Read More

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Featured Report: Mobile internet revenue to hit $700B in 4 years, growing more than 300%

VentureBeat

Mobile internet revenue to hit $700B in 4 years, growing more than 300%

July,30,2014

by: John Koetsier

Mobile revenue will jump more than 300 percent in the next four years, hitting $700 billion in revenue by 2017, according to a new report by Digi-Capital. No, that’s not all gems in Clash of Clans. In fact, most of the growth will be in mobile commerce, which Digi-Capital says will hit $516 billion. Consumer apps will account for another $74 billion, while enterprise mobility will hit $53 billion. Mobile ads, at $42 billion, and wearables, at $11 billion, will round out the $700 billion total. “Mobile’s so big, it’s hard to take in all at once,” report author Tim Merel told VentureBeat. “When we broke down the data by sector … what jumped out was the power of mCommerce to drive the market. Growing from over $100B to half a trillion dollars globally, it commands the lion’s share.” The next four years won’t only showcase the maturation of mobile, however. According to Merel, it will also highlight the ascendence of Asia. Read More

Marketing Experiments Blog

Copywriting: How to tip the scale so customers act

July,14,2014

by: Daniel Burstein

When writing copy for promotions, content and advertising, many writers tend to be pulled between two possible directions: creativity on one side, and communication on the other.

How can I be creative and still effectively communicate the ideas I have?

 Think like the customer

Creativity and communication are not the two opposing forces in the customer’s mind. The customer is weighing these two decisions:

• What is the value of this?
• How much will it cost me?

“Essentially the prospect, even if at a subconscious level, engages in elementary math: Vf_Ac - Cf_Ac, which is to say, they subtract the perceived cost force from the perceived value force,” said Flint McGlaughlin, Managing Director, MECLABS, parent company of MarketingExperiments.  Read More

Site Pro News

Content Marketing or SEO: Which is Most Crucial?

Aug,04,2014

by: Tina Courtney-Brown 

Every season, it seems some new marketing trend surfaces, and people speculate whether it will replace SEO all together. Perhaps we’re all a little sick of the unknown and infinite process that is SEO; but try as we might, it really isn’t a replaceable task.

Content marketing may be a new and trendy phrase, but the practice itself is ancient. Online, it’s become the single most successful means of educating folks about your industry, product, and services. And while content marketing is integral to great SEO, it has not, and will not, replace it. So how can the two best work together for maximum benefit? That’s the right question to explore.  Read More

Marketing Proofs

Three Questions You Have to Ask Yourself About Your Social Brand

Aug,01,2014

by: Lance Neuhauser 

Marketers often get preoccupied by trying to track their direct return on investment for social spend. How much does each "like" cost? How much in sales will each "like" bring in?

Those are the wrong questions to ask.

Social spend for marketers has ROI that far exceeds the number of "likes" a brand acquires.

Based on my experience with major national brands, trying to use social as a direct response channel or only to drive one specific action leaves a lot of business intelligence value on the table.To really add value to your social brand, you should be asking yourself the following questions. 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

Physicians Practice 

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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