fessionals across a broad spectrum of disciplines ...ENJOY!CC----------------------------------------------------------------Manager of Social Media
The Manager, Social Media & Public Relations functions as the primary
agency representative to middle/senior level clients. Working as part of
the public relations practice, he/she internally provides strategic
leadership and counsel to account teams related to all aspects of social
media. The Manager will be responsible for development and
implementation of social media strategies and programming, ongoing
client satisfaction, and developing opportunities through building and
maintaining strong client relationships and identifying new business
opportunities. This position will also lead MedThink’s internal and
external social media efforts, ensuring consistency of message. The
manager will also help produce thought leader and perspective pieces to
showcase MedThink’s expertise in the area of social media. Traditional
public relations responsibilities may be assigned based on client
needs.
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istoric period of transformation, it is worth a quick read by all those interested in Health IT and the American healthcare delivery system ... ... The draft emphasizes adoption of
health information technology and the fostering of innovation ... Click the following hyperlink to see the 114-page Draft Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2010-2015...... The new sets forth the following overarching goals for the next five years:• Transform Health Care• Advance Scientific Knowledge and Innovation• Advance the Health, Safety, and Well-Being• Increase Efficiency, Transparency, and Accountability• Strengthen the Nation’s Health and Human Services Infrastructure and Workforce
...The plan describes Health IT (HIT) adoption as being at the heart of efforts to transform health care. Adding functionality to Electronic Health Records (EHR)s and Personal Health Records(PHR)s, HIT will be used to improve the
quality of care, reduce costs and paperwork, expand access to care, improve public health, and support reformed payment structures... ... Specifically, HHS seeks to establish new payment and delivery systems that value primary care, promote prevention & wellness; develop programs that expand the primary care workforce and encourage health care providers to practice in health professional shortage areas...... HHS will also support patient-centered research; institute reforms that encourage care coordination; and reduce disparities associated with patients’ gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status... ... To help foster innovation, the department intends to
develop and deliver “computerized geography-based inventories of patient care services” to help patients determine what services are available at each site and how far they need to travel to nearby sites...... HHS also plans to draw on innovative
technologies such as Web 2.0 to collaborate and develop solutions ... This includes blogging to rate and rank ideas and priorities, crowdsourcing to identify public opinion and preferences, group collaboration tools such as file-sharing services, idea-generation tools, mobile technologies such as text messaging, and online competitions ...See Public Comments submitted for the Plan at: http://www.hhs.gov/open/discussion/strategicplan.htmlENJOY!CC
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Why would a large consumer focused, financial management software firm suddenly purchase a web based HIT firm specializing in secure, HIPAA-compliant, physician-patient communications? ...
... Intuit can now introduce their relatively new Quicken Health solution directly to the 30,000 small practice physician websites Medfusion currently serves ... This will allow Intuit to support appointments, reminders, prescription renewals, bills, lab result, medical histories, patient
education, and virtual office visits ... ... Interesting. Intuit has done a good job of bringing easy to use, consumer focused, highly functional tax preparation and accounting products to the mass market ... Now they are setting out to do the same in the healthcare market ... A move worth watching ...Read on at:http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/05/10/daily11.html?ed=2010-05-10&ana=e_du_pub http://chilmarkresearch.com/2010/05/11/intuit-makes-a-move-acquires-medfusion/ENJOY!CC…
ealth Records (EHR) State Designation Program ......
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 generated unprecedented investments in a nationwide electronic health information system...... Starting in 2011,
eligible physicians, including those in solo or small practices, will be able
to receive reimbursements of up to $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Hospitals will also be eligible for incentive payments of $2 million or more ...
... In May of 2009, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed House Bill 706,
Electronic Health Records (EHR) – Regulation and Reimbursement. The bill requires the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) to designate one or more Management Service Organizations (MSOs) to offer EHRs throughout the state by October 2012 ...... On April 6, 2010, Chesapeake Regional Information System for our
Patients (CRISP) was awarded $5.5 million from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to become Maryland's Regional Extension Center (REC). With this award, CRISP hopes to enter into contracts with Maryland Managed Service Organizations (MSOs) in order to provide Direct Assistance support to some 1600 primary care providers statewide...... This unique model is meant to spark the
adoption of EHRs throughout the state by allowing regionally managed MSOs to assist providers in their geographic area...... Employing a best-of-breed, PaaS
(Platform as a Service) model, ZaneNet will provide Maryland physician practices with secure access to certified EHRs and connectivity to the statewide HIE as required to achieve incentive payment eligibility. The ZaneNet MSO, “ZaneNet Connect,” will leverage its buying power to deliver Maryland physicians reasonable prices for CCHIT-certified EHRs, manage the technical, privacy and confidentiality aspects of maintaining EHRs, and offer back office and next generation revenue cycle management services...... Traditional client-server or
standalone EHR systems require physician practices to individually negotiate pricing, maintain technology, and connect independently to the HIE. The” “ZaneNet Connect” MSO overcomes these barriers to “meaningful use,” by providing services on a subscription basis with minimal upfront cost requirements ...About
Zane Networks
Zane Networks, LLC (ZaneNet), located in
Silver Spring, Maryland, serves public and private entities by solving complex problems using innovative technologies in the areas of health information technologies (HIT), integrated IT and audiovisual collaborative technologies (including distance learning, telemedicine and telepresence collaborations) and web and database development. We work with federal, state and international agencies, healthcare providers, national associations, businesses and other organizations on system-wide initiatives that involve technical and project management, engineering, programming, web and database design and other expertise to optimize health outcomes. ZaneNet is an SBA Certified 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business and a Maryland MBE Certified woman-owned business committed to persistence, teamwork and high-quality service. ZaneNet has recently been chosen as a finalist for State of Maryland’s Incubator Company of the Year Award, 2010.
Point
of Contact: Luigi Leblanc, MPH,
Director of Technology,
Zane Networks, LLC, 8070 Georgia Avenue, Suite 407, Silver Spring, MD 20910
(202) 215 1758,
leblancl@zanenetworks.net
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One of the most important conferences in the connected media world of social networking, Web 2.0 and, maybe, emerging Enterprise 2.0 applications, is this week's…
As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle ... Experts say social media skills are moving alongside knowledge of e-mail and Microsoft Word as basic job requirements. This…