Health Care Raw Influencer Feed 
Raw Feeds Notice: within our raw, real-time feeds, the Sociative distillation engine has eliminated ~99% of the noise you see in a typical Twitter feed, however these feeds have not yet had the final touch of human curation you see on our home page and topics. As a result, it's normal for great stories to be accompanied by a few stories that are somewhat off topic or roughly formatted. [ more ]
Bringing data to DC: Q&A with health data’s biggest evangelist HHS CTO Bryan Sivak
gigaom.com
4 mentions — 1 week ago
Bryan Sivak has lived the Silicon Valley dream — in the last 15 years, he co-founded two startups, one of which was acquired by Oracle two years ago. But instead of sticking around to start another company or taking the venture capital route, he wound up across the ...
Finding a doctor online and researching your physician on the Internet
kevinmd.com
3 mentions — 16 hours ago
A seemingly simple question, but patients are often confronted with too much information on the Internet, with variable quality.Finding a doctor a similar to completing a puzzle.Like puzzle pieces, there are many resources available, including word of mouth, hospitals, insurance companies, and physician rating sites.Don’t rely on a ...
Mobile a likely key to more patient portal use
amednews.com
6 mentions — 4 days ago
ByPamela Lewis Dolancovers health information technology issues and social media topics affecting physicians.Connect with the columnist:@Plewisdolan—pdolan@amednews.com —312-464-5412 — Posted May 20, 2013.Physicians face a meaningful use requirement for their electronic health record systems that at least 5% of their patient population access their medical records through a patient ...
Doctors 2.0™ & You
Doctors 2.0™ & You Meet the Speakers... Read the...
2 mentions — 1 week ago
The activities at Doctors 2.0 & You will include +70 Speakers, presenting real-life examples of the use of healthcare social media and applications. Additional animations will include 13 start-ups, 15 poster presenters, and the exhibitors. Speakers come from 20 countries across Europe, the Middle East, North America, Asia,
Annual Healthcare Costs For Family of 4 Now At $22,030
Forbes
2 mentions — 10 hours ago
It’s that time of year for our annual check-up with the folks at Milliman. We’ll cut to the chase – it’s not good news. The full report is available (here) and the chart for annual healthcare costs for a fictional family of 4 (with a PPO) for each ...
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nejm.org
8 mentions — 1 week ago
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UCLA surgeons using Vine, Instagram to video tweet brain surgery
latimes.com
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
UCLA Health professionals ready a patient for a procedure to implant a brain pacemaker.(@UCLAHealth Vine / May 23, 2013)Even as hospitals struggle with keeping patient information secure in the digital world, more and more are finding that some patients are willing to publicly share intimate moments.UCLA’s Health System ...
California picks 13 health plans for state-run insurance market
latimes.com
6 mentions — 18 hours ago
Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, announces the health plans that were selected for 19 regions across the state as part of the federal healthcare overhaul.(Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times / May 23, 2013)After weeks of negotiations, California said it has selected 13 health plans for ...
What's Next Health, a new RWJF series, explores the future of health and healthcare
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
2 mentions — 2 days ago
One of the best things about our jobs at Pioneer is that we get to have conversations with interesting people doing interesting things. As we network with these visionary thinkers, we want to share some of the great stuff we’re learning and hearing with you—to bring value to ...
10 Of The World's Most Tranquil Gardens (PHOTOS)
huffingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 15 hours ago
Few spaces are more calming and zen-inducing than a beautiful garden. It's hard not to feel at peace when you're surrounded by flowers, fountains and the sounds of nature, and research has shown that walking through green spaces can put the mind into a state of meditation. A ...
Teens, Social Media, and Privacy
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Pr...
2 mentions — 3 days ago
Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties (such as businesses or advertisers) accessing their data; just 9% say they are “very” concerned.Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we last surveyed in 2006:60% ...
Incentives push doctors to electronic medical records
usatoday.com
4 mentions — 22 hours ago
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Medicare Proffers $1 Billion For Healthcare Innovation Projects -- InformationWeek
3 mentions — 1 day ago
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Kathleen Sebelius: A Work In Progress
youtube.com
2 mentions — 23 hours ago
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Building Healthy Communities After Disaster
LinkedIn
2 mentions — 21 hours ago
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, is president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest health philanthropy.
The Healthcare Daily
paper.li
5 mentions — 10 months ago
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Senate GOP At Odds With Tea Party On Budget Negotiations
huffingtonpost.com
3 mentions — 14 hours ago
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is among tea party supporters at odds with traditional Republican senators on discussions for a new federal budget. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) WASHINGTON -- A tea party rebellion by several U.S. senators blocking progress on the federal budget may be working for ...
With Medicare posting hospital charges, are doctors next?
amednews.com
2 mentions — 2 days ago
Washington In an unprecedented move, the Medicare agency has released a database of average charges for inpatient services provided by hospitals and has announced plans to expand the transparency initiative, which could include posting online how much individual physicians charge for their patient care.The 163,000-line spreadsheet released in ...
UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna not part of Covered California
latimes.com
3 mentions — 1 day ago
Aetna--along with UnitedHealth Group and Cigna--is sitting out the first year of the state's health insurance exchange.(Bob Child / Associated Press)Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are not participating in California's new state-run health insurance market, possibly limiting the number of choices for millions ...
Hospital Impact
Affordable Care Act has rocky road ahead despite T...
2 mentions — 21 hours ago
The 91-7 confirmation by the U.S. Senate of Marilyn B. Tavenner as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services means we now have a permanent CMS leader for the first time since Mark B. McClellan, M.D., left the post in October 2006. Republicans refused to allow ...
The KentBottles Daily
paper.li
7 mentions — 11 months ago
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IRS Source: Lerner Placed On Administrative Leave
National Review Online
2 mentions — 16 hours ago
Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service’s director of exempt organizations, has been placed on administrative leave, according to a source in the agency’s Cincinnati office.Lerner on Thursday afternoon sent an e-mail to employees in the exempt-organizations division she oversees stating, “Due to the events of recent days, I ...
Grapefruit and Medicines: A Possible Deadly Mix?
drugs.com
2 mentions — 12 hours ago
From a historical perspective, the forbidden fruit is sometimes described as a sweet, red apple. Recent research bears evidence that grapefruit and grapefruit juice can react adversely with over 85 prescription medications. The interactions may occur with a wide variety of drugs and can result in life-threatening side ...
Millions uninsured on patchwork Medicaid expansion map
amednews.com
3 mentions — 4 days ago
Washington As most states wrapped up their 2013 legislative sessions, many of them closed the door on their most likely opportunities to expand Medicaid under an optional provision of the Affordable Care Act. When time expired on those sessions, more than half the states were on track to ...
Health IT adoption doubles from 2012
Healthcare IT News
3 mentions — 2 days ago
More than half of all eligible providers nationwide have received federal incentive payments for demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records, rates that have more than doubled since last year alone, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Wednesday.
Genetics of white tigers pinpointed
BBC News
2 mentions — 13 hours ago
The researchers have traced the cause to a single change in a gene known to drive pigmentation in a host of animals, including humans.Today, they are found exclusively in captive programmes where the limited numbers are interbred to maintain the distinctive fur colour.Shu-Jin Luo of Peking University and ...
Implementing Health Reform: Contraception Coverage And The Liberty University Case
Health Affairs Blog
2 mentions — 19 hours ago
The first few days of the week of May 20, 2013 were quiet on the regulatory front, with no new Affordable Care Act regulations or guidance (at least that I could find).HHS released power point slides from an earlier webinar that usefully describe the different kinds of assisters ...
A Hospital CEO Promises More Pricing Transparency—and Makes Rivals Squirm
Businessweek
4 mentions — 3 days ago
Steven Sonenreich, chief executive of Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, isn’t afraid of controversy. As the Miami Herald reported, this month he announced on a radio talk show that the hospital will start publishing what it charges insurers for procedures. “We will post our prices relative ...
30 Terrible Pieces of Social Media Advice You Should Ignore
blog.hubspot.com
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Funny list, hard to believe anyone with half a brain would make most of these suggestions anytime after 2009.#23 - Totally agree. It's an awful metric to weigh yourself against competition too because everyone's buying fake followers these days. I prefer to measure interactions.. the true measure of ...
American Stroke Association launches app to ID symptoms
mobihealthnews
2 mentions — 3 days ago
This week the American Stroke Association, American Heart Association, and Ad Council officially launched Spot a Stroke F.A.S.T., an app that aims to help users identify when someone is having a stroke. The app was based on Think FAST, and app launched by Australia’s National Stroke Foundation in ...
Gary Slutkin at TEDMED 2013
youtube.com
2 mentions — 18 hours ago
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Disability and Discrimination at the Doctor's Office
NYTimes.com
3 mentions — 16 hours ago
In his 60s, overweight and in a wheelchair, the patient had been seeing doctors and nurses regularly for his diabetes. Only recently had they discovered a pressure sore after someone had finally, as he put it, “wanted to examine at my backside.”My colleague, a strapping man in his ...
Millions of Americans don’t have bank accounts. That could be a problem for Obamacare.
washingtonpost.com
4 mentions — 2 days ago
Americans shopping for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act next year might hit an unexpected obstacle: the lack of a bank account.Millions of Americans are expected to qualify for tax subsidies under the health overhaul, which they can use to purchase coverage on new marketplaces. One quarter ...
ISU hands over $400K for HIPAA violation
Healthcare IT News
2 mentions — 16 hours ago
Idaho State University will pay $400,000 to the U.S. Department of Health Human Services to settle alleged violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. The settlement comes after ISU’s Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic disabled server firewall protections for a period of at least 10 months, resulting in the breach ...
The paper blizzard not addressed by electronic health records
MSDN Blogs
3 mentions — 18 hours ago
The paper blizzard not addressed by electronic health recordsEverything we read suggests the day is nearing when all hospitals and doctors will use computers instead of paper to create, store, and share our medical records. It is something that is long overdue. But despite the progress being made ...