WEBSITES/MOBILE APPLICATIONS Initiative to Help Eliminate Needle Phobia launched by Healthline Networks at www.BigShotsGetShots.com. It’s estimated that 50 million Americans are afraid of shots, a fear that usually starts at age 4 or 5 with a traumatic immunization experience. Since distraction appears to help ease a shot’s pain, the campaign to end needle phobia includes Read More
by Dan Dunlop In 2010 several hospitals and health systems made news by pioneering “speed-dating” events, where prospective patients could meet physicians in five-minute intervals in the hope that this brief introduction might spark a future relationship. This development created a furor among some healthcare professionals who felt that these speed-dating events were beneath the Read More
by Ben Dillon The greater Philadelphia and Delaware Valley area is one of the country’s most competitive healthcare markets. There are dozens of acute care hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory and practice sites. Mercy Health System, the largest Catholic healthcare system in the area, competes with half a dozen community hospitals and is in the Read More
Improve Your Podcast Searches If you like to listen to podcasts on your smartphone but have trouble finding content of interest, then a new feature called Smart Station within the free Stitcher app is worth trying. You hit a thumbs-up button to indicate you like a podcast selection, which improves the algorithm to offer up Read More
UnitedHealthcare: Health Care Lane – Community Center www.healthcarelane.com Health Care Lane was originally launched nearly three years ago and was reviewed in this column in November 2010. Visitors entering the main area are greeted with an aerial view of an idyllic town surrounded by rolling hills, blue sky, and a big city in the distance. Read More
by Barbara S. Long, APR When faced with a website design or redesign project, most Web teams start thinking about all the required components, such as architecture, design, photos, graphics, videos, back-end programming – and, oh yes, content. How often is old con- tent dumped into a new website without any additional thought? How often Read More
WEBSITES New Tool to Track Patient Assistance Programs for Pharmaceuticals introduced at www.NeedyMeds.com. The Patient Assistance Program Update Service provides consumers and their advocates with daily and weekly emails updates of all pharmaceutical assistance programs.
Ask the Expert with Mark S. Gothberg Winners of the 2012 eHealthcare Leadership Awards, the competition’s 13th year, were recognized in mid-November in Las Vegas during a presentation at a healthcare Internet conference sponsored by Atlanta-based Greystone.Net. The December issue of eHealthcare Strategy & Trends listed the winners. Key provisions of the Affordable Care Act Read More