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Patients Pick Hospitals for their Social Media Presence. In a survey, 57% of consumers said that a hospital’s social media connections would strongly affect their decision to receive treatment at that facility, according YouGov Healthcare. 81% consider a hospital with an active online presence to be more “cutting edge.”

Patients Pick Hospitals for their Social Media Presence. In a survey, 57% of consumers said that a hospital’s social media connections would strongly affect their decision to receive treatment at that facility, according YouGov Healthcare. 81% consider a hospital with an active online presence to be more “cutting edge.”

eRx Systems May Not Reduce Medication Errors. Outpatient electronic prescribing systems don’t cut out the common mistakes made in manual systems, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Medicare to Keep Paying for Avastin. Medicare will continue to pay for bevacizumab (Avastin) when it’s used to treat metastatic breast cancer, even if the FDA decides to remove that indication from the drug, a CMS spokesman said.

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