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Aetna has announced a collaboration with Mindbloom, a Seattle-based social media company, that will offer plan members an enhanced version of Life Game, Mindbloom's online social game for personal wellness.Starting this fall, Aetna members will have access to a new engagement model that uses the science behind social gaming - a blend of technology, art and behavioral psychology - to engage people in achieving personal health and wellness goals.
More than half of IT professionals (51 percent) do not think their IT Service Management (ITSM) processes are mature enough to effectively manage cloud-based services, and 26 percent believe their organizations aren't ready, while the remaining 23 percent are unsure, according to a new survey.
The Institute for Health Technology Transformation has released a report that compiles what key health IT experts from across the United States view as the best ways to engage patients in the digital age.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule Monday on telemedicine credentialing and privileging that aims to not only make the process less cumbersome for small hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs), but also to provide more timely care. The new rule will be published in the Federal Register on May 5 and will go into effect July 2, 2011.
The emerging patient-centered medical home (PCMH) approach to primary care is talked about a lot these days - but that doesn't mean everyone is necessarily eager to jump in head first. At the American Telemedicine Association's annual meeting, one project manager shared his tips for spurring adoption.Leveraging smart and intensive use of health IT, a team-based approach, and provider-inspired patient empowerment, the PCMH model stands to be a crucial part of healthcare reform - one that rewards quality, not quantity, of care.
News sites - specifically health magazines' websites and WebMD - still remain the most trusted online healthcare resource (68 percent), while user-generated contributions on Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs are used less frequently (54 percent), according to results from a national consumer survey conducted by Makovsky + Company.
Despite a rise in the discipline of employees for their activities on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn there is still much work to be done around procedures for enforcing social media policy, according to a survey fielded by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and its affiliated Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA).