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3 Tips For Using Your Health Tracking Device Effectively

The rise of the Nike+ Fuel Band, JawboneUp, and countless other number of health-tracking devices have been introduced to the market recently, and have greatly changed the ways that people access their health information. I’ve attached some tips for making the best of all of this data:

1. You are in charge of your [...]

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The Health 2.0 Show.

Want to see how Health 2.0 is impacting the health care community?

Health 2.0 hosts a monthly episode to update its audience on how its relationships and communities have brought change and inspiration.

To tune into the webinar, register at the Health 2.0 Show’s registration page. The next show will take place Tuesday, [...]

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Health 2.0 Code-a-thon.

 

Amateur and professional developers, ready your Objective-C and Binary. Health 2.0 and sponsors including Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council and Intel are hosting the Hokie Health Code-a-thon this Friday and Saturday to make the health industry more efficient and less costly through the innovative creations of development teams.

The top project will win $2,500, and [...]

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Social Media & Medical Practices: A Case Study- Statler-Krumholtz Orthodontics

Statler-Krumholtz is an orthodontic practice located in Boca Raton, Florida. The practice does an outstanding job on incorporating social media into their healthcare marketing campaign. As of April 3, 2012 the practice has 2,218 likes, a large amount of content on their site, and an abundance of recommendations from current and former patients. Statler-Krumholtz Orthodontics [...]

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4 Advantages To Adopting A Digital Office Management Platform

Now is the time when medical practice management is turning digital, and a lot of practices are having to make the decision to adopt or wait for something better. Make your practice digital- Offering your patients online patient registration gives them the notion that your practice is tech-savvy. Although your office management system has nothing [...]

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How to attract patients & keep them (healthy) with social media.

RegisterPatient Guest Post by Katie Matlack

An interesting article over at Software Advice, a free online resource, discusses ways doctors can use social media for a variety of purposes. You’ve probably heard about the September 2011 survey from QuantiaMD and the Care Continuum Alliance, which reported that over half of all doctors use social media [...]

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Electronic Medical Records with tips from real users.

RegisterPatient Guest Post by Katie Matlack

I cover medical software and health IT for Software Advice, so I was curious to learn about some of the secrets to success when switching to an EMR. To find out what is it that separates the health care providers who truly reap the benefits of switching to EMR from those who don’t, I interviewed representatives of three health providers [...]

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Affordable Care Act may survive without individual mandate.

   

Health care professionals and insurance agencies lean forward in their seats as the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, is approaching its date with the Supreme Court on March 28.

The ACA’s most Constitutionally questioned requirement, called the individual mandate, states that every person must have health insurance. This isn’t [...]

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The Rise of mHealth Apps To Increase Patient Care

The Rise of mHealth Apps Will Lead To Increased Patient Care 

Besides the newest social media sites, the most successful tech start-ups that have been launching recently have been healthcare related.

The Increase in Patient Data 

Because of the onset of applications that are allowing users to [...]

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Did you know? Stress.

A little stress can motivate people and make them more efficient, according to HealthGuide.org. Too much stress, however, has unpleasant consequences.

The website refers to the condition of too much stress as being in a constant state of emergency. It’s running your body like a race car with too little gas.

Three responses to stress [...]

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