The 5 things you need to know in the news this week

	LINKEDIN TODAY You are getting weekly emails | Change to Daily Hi Alma, check out the top news 5 articles for you today See all headlines As Smartphones Get Smarter, You May Get Healthier: How mHealth Can Bring Cheaper Health Care To All fastcompany.com - Smartphones and tablets are transforming the future of health care. Can we really trust them to save lives? Generic Pharma 2.0 Philips MMG The Trouble with Treating Patients as Consumers blogs.hbr.org - To be a patient today is to be treated as a consumer. But treating patients as typical proactive, in control, well-informed consumers can backfire. Asked to take on increasingly complex decisions and digest ever-larger amounts... Sapient Accenture Cerner Corporation Just 1% of patients drive U.S. health care spending usatoday.com - That's about $90,000 per person, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. U.S. residents spent $1.26 trillion that year on health care. Five percent accounted for 50% of health care costs, about $36,000... Trending in Hospital & Health Care, Nonprofit Organization Management and Insurance with the following companies Assurant Employee Benefits InTouch Technologies Pro Publica, Inc. Motivate physicians through technology kevinmd.com - In the modern medical environment of unpaid insurance claims, malpractice lawsuits and rushed patient encounters, many doctors feel unmotivated and unhappy. CareCloud Nurse intervention reduces readmissions fiercehealthcare.com - As hospitals continue to combat readmissions, facilities in Florida and New Jersey have found a successful tool: nurse intervention and communication. For instance, Memorial Hospital focuses on Read more... Bluedrop Performance Learning Ochsner Clinic Foundation Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation