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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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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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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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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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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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St. Patty’s green: a better way to save.

 

GECKO and Green Guide for Health Care are offering resources to make your business or practice more efficient, cost effective and environmentally friendly.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day and the movement for environmental health, what are you doing to go green?

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Google+ and Healthcare

RegisterPatient Guest Post by Katie Matlack 

Google+ for Doctors: Make Big Online Marketing Gains Now

For doctors trying to reach their patients online, using Google+ can provide surprising marketing benefits that help them be more “findable” on the web. Consider that 44 percent of all Internet users search online to find information about [...]

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Meaningful Use, Stage 2.

About a week ago, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed rules for Stage 2 Meaningful Use onto the Federal Register. The rules will be up for 60 days so the public can share its opinions and suggestions for the final list of rules, which [...]

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Using Pinterest To Promote Health

For those of us who are constantly keeping up with innovations in social media, there’s nothing more exciting than a new social network destined to be “the next Facebook.” A few months ago it was FourSquare, before that LinkedIn, and now the social media gods have blessed us with Pinterest.

This addictive [...]

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