Featured Report: FBI warns healthcare firms they are targeted by hackers

Venture Beat

Guess what? Doctors don’t care about your Fitbit data

Aug,15,2014

by: Mark Sullivan

In theory, health wearables could make a real difference by providing a way to monitor at-risk people, like diabetics. They might be a great way to monitor poorer people who often never touch the health care system until it becomes an emergency. Also, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is introducing millions more people into an already taxed healthcare system, and wearables could be a powerful tool to monitor those new members, catching illnesses before they turn into clinic visits.    Read More

Modern Healthcare

Reform Update: Hospitals see more paying patients, but there's a hitch

Aug,20,2014

by: Beth Kutscher 

Insurance expansion under healthcare reform is starting to yield patient volume for hospitals, but the costs of staffing up for more patients are eclipsing the additional revenue.Earnings reports for not-for-profit systems in the first half of the year show that many providers are seeing rising salary and benefit expenses cut into revenue gains, leading to smaller operating surpluses. “As the pieces of the Affordable Care Act are coming together, it's changing the demand for care,” said Jeff Jones, managing director at Huron Consulting Group. “It's shifting the way that providers are thinking about their labor pools.”    Read More

Reuters

FBI warns healthcare firms they are targeted by hackers

Aug,20,2014

by: JIM FINKLE

 The FBI has warned that healthcare industry companies are being targeted by hackers, publicizing the issue following an attack on U.S. hospital group Community Health Systems Inc that resulted in the theft of millions of patient records.

"The FBI has observed malicious actors targeting healthcare related systems, perhaps for the purpose of obtaining Protected Healthcare Information (PHI) and/or Personally Identifiable Information (PII)," the agency said in a "Flash" alert obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. Read More 

MobiHealthNews

California court’s BYOD ruling could affect hospitals’ policies

Aug,19,2014

by: Jonah Comstock

A new California Court of Appeals ruling has dealt a major blow to bring your own device (BYOD) policies. Although the case focused on employees working in retail, the court’s decision may have implications for any employer with a BYOD policy in place. It could potentially have repercussions for healthcare down the road.

In a class action lawsuit, a customer service representative named Colin Cochran sued his employer, Schwan’s home food delivery service on behalf of 1,500 customer service reps who had been denied reimbursement for work calls made on their personal mobile phones. Overturning the verdict of the California Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals ruled that employers must reimburse employees for some “reasonable portion” of their phone bill, even if the employee’s phone plan was unlimited (so the work calls cost them no additional money) or was paid for by a third party.  Read More

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Featured Report: When the FCC gambles on number portability, consumers stand to lose

Wireless Week

B&N and Samsung Launch New Nook Tablet

Aug,20,2014

by: Andrew Berg

NEW YORK - Barnes & Noble (B&N) Wednesday unveiled its new Nook tablet, the first of its products to be released since the company announced it would outsource its line of slates to Samsung. The new Nook is essentially a re-branded Galaxy Tab 4 that comes running Barnes & Noble’s Android overlay.  B&N CEO Mike Huseby called the launch an “historic” day for his company, saying that he was very proud to be partnering with Samsung. 

Tim Baxter, president Of Samsung Electronics America, noted that the research firms are seeing a slow-down in tablets, but he also said that Samsung continues to see sales of its slate grow. He attributed that growth to Samsung's variety of sizes and choices.  Read More

RCR Wireless Week

When the FCC gambles on number portability, consumers stand to lose

Aug,17,2014

by: JERRY JAMES

The Federal Communications Commission will soon make a critical decision regarding a vital component of the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure: selecting the administrator for local number portability. Portability enables U.S. consumers to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers and supports the routing of virtually every voice call and text message sent across the country The FCC will decide whether to stay with current vendor Neustar or direct the industry to transition to a new vendor, Telcordia, a subsidiary of Ericsson. The contract with Neustar is currently scheduled to expire in July 2015, about 10 months from now.  Read More

Fierce Developer

'Like' it or not, Facebook's developer program change is the right decision

Aug,19,2014

by: Shane Schick

According to Facebook, all app developers using its platform should be able to honestly quote a version of Sally Field's famous Oscar acceptance speech: "They 'like' me! They really, really 'like' me!" Earlier this month, Facebook made some significant updates to its Platform Policies under games and proper use. The first one comes as no surprise: In keeping with recent moves by Google and increased threats from regulatory bodies, Facebook is requiring developers to be up front about any in-app purchase requirements in so-called free-to-play (F2P) games. Read More

RCR Wireless News

Reality Check: Making voice over Wi-Fi a reality

Aug,15,2014

by: DAVE FRASER

Wi-Fi is now an essential part of our smartphone and tablet-enabled lifestyle. Today, more than two-thirds of our monthly wireless data is consumed over Wi-Fi, and all signs are that this proportion will continue to grow. So while the traditional, cellular-centric view of the industry positions Wi-Fi as a support to the mobile network, there is an alternative and provocative perspective: we actually use the cellular network as in-fill during the time we spend away from our Wi-Fi connections, be they in the home, the office or our favourite coffee shop. Read More

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Featured Report: 38% of All Ecommerce Site Visits Came From Mobile and Tablet Devices

Muli-Channel Merchant

38% of All Ecommerce Site Visits Came From Mobile and Tablet Devices

Aug,16,2014

by: Tim Parry

Ecommerce is going mobile: 38% of all ecommerce traffic during the first half of the year mobile devices and tablets, according to a report by ShopVisible.

ShopVisible said its customers saw an 18% overall increase in online revenue during the first half of the year, with a 42% increase alone in the month of June.

But despite the growing percentage of traffic, ecommerce conversion rates remain much lower on mobile devices and tablets, signaling a greater need to focus on an omnichannel user experience for all visitors, regardless of device.  Read More

Site Pro News

How Shareable Content Can Boost Your SEO

Aug,16,2014

by: Adrienne Erin

At a time when content marketing is all the rage, it’s easy to forget that not all content is created equal.

There is some content that is superior to others when it comes to search engine optimization, and that’s the content that people want to share. Call it the “it factor” of SEO.

Content with shareability stands a greater chance of going viral, of course, but it goes beyond that. Highly shareable content is also looked upon fondly by Google, which is essentially sponsoring an online popularity contest. When Google sees that other people like your content and are sharing it widely, it bumps up the rankings for that content.

Of course, saying shareable content is good is one thing; actually producing it is another. Here are some tips on how to create shareable content and how it can help your SEO. Read More

Business Intelligence 

BYOD or CYOD: Which Makes More Sense For Your Business?

Aug,14,2014

by:Rick Delgado 

Mobile devices have made the business world both easier to manage yet far more complicated than ever before. In an effort to address the needs of this rapidly developing marketplace, businesses have permitted employees to use personal devices at work through Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies. In recent years, the BYOD movement has grown in popularity, with many companies adopting programs that seek to take advantage of BYOD’s benefits. Read More

Entrepreneur

5 Key Principles for a Company's Website Redesign

Aug,15,2014

by:Jerry Jao

A company website is the face of a business and one of its main sales tool, so it needs to be built with the aim of converting visitors into customers.The primary goal of a site is to educate the audience on what the company does, why it provides the best solution for people's needs and prompt users to take action (subscribe, contact the corporation or purchase) as quickly as possible. Even when a company has the best product or service in its industry, if its website is not communicating messages quickly, concisely and effectively, this can result in valuable customers being lost to competitors.  Read More

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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

Wirehead Technology Healthcare POP

Healthcare Providers,
As you know Healthcare IT is changing every day especially in the new m-health field. Where mobile devices like iPhones, Smartphones and tablets becoming how doctors react to their patients and staff. But with this changes comes new laws about how mobility should be used to work with patient data in a secure way. This is where our mobile app called "Healthcare POP" can help Healthcare POP brings all of your healthcare info into one web-based app that can that can work on every mobile, tablet and desktop. For more information on Healthcare POP visit our demo website at http://www.wireheadtec.com/MobileApp.html Then  call us  if you have any questions.  

Best Regards,
Howard Lee
CIO
Wirehead Technology
Tel: 773-944-0370
Email:wireheadtec@gmail.com
web: www.wireheadtec.com