Providers get "wired"for HIPAA
National Reports-As next year's Health Insurance Portability and AccountabilityAct (HIPAA) deadline to begin filing claims electronically looms closer,healthcare providers are scrambling to fund and establish clinical informationsystems. A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that only 10% of hospitalshave such capabilities, and 27% in another survey said they lacked the financialresources to establish them.
Social media: ROI for health plans?
January 22nd 2015According to the research firm Gartner, Inc., information technology is subject to a five-phase acceptance cycle: a Technology Trigger, Peak of Inflated Expectations, Trough of Disillusionment, Slope of Enlightenment, and Plateau of Productivity. Even zealous advocates of social media marketing (SMM) admit their craft is currently stuck in the disillusionment phase.
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