Marie Ennis-O'Connor recently made an excellent post in Healthworks Collective, in their Beyond the Buzz section, entitled 35 Success Strategies for Healthcare Social Media in 2015.

A excerpt of a dozen of these great tips and strategies have been posted in healthsprocket.

Aegis Health Group just released a brief on: Six Trending Developments Influencing Optimism in Health Care. A summary list of these trends has been posted in healthsprocket. Aegis tells us there "appears to be a new wave of optimism among healthcare leaders as the industry has moved beyond the initial uncertainty and disruption triggered by the ACA."

Here's their full text elaborating on their optimism and these points:

A new list: Your Healthcare Lexicon for 2015 from A to Z tries to tackle listing a litany of issues, from little to big - in alphabetical order - that we will be facing during 2015. So check it out, and slide down the alphabet as the year progresses. Want a full explanation of each item from A to Z? Visit the corresponding mcolblog post which elaborates on this alphabet soup.

We've published our annual April Fools Day edition of our SprocketRocket newsletter from healthsprocket, with this year's special postings made on April 1st. For a look at past April 1st postings, you can browse by category from the top menu in healthsprocket, and select Satirical.  Enjoy!

Four lists have just been posted with the top health plan scores from the J.D. Power 2014 Member Health Plan Study, broken down by regions, with the top plans in each subregion listed:

by Clive Riddle, President, MCOL

One thousand, three-hundred and fifty-four lists are currently posted on healthsprocket. So what are they all about? We decided to take a peek,

95 of the lists are video lists, and 69 are opinion lists (meaning the person who posted the lists provided their opinion on a topic). The balance (1,190) are fact lists, although remember in healthsprocket that a fact lists in includes citing a third-party's opinions with a source.

by Clive Riddle, MCOL President
 
We're pleased to announce the healthsprocket Predictions and Trends Contest, and hope you will participate! Here's what you need to do:
 
1. Post an Opinion Based List with Predictions for 2012 or Trends in 2011 – regarding any healthcare topic or issue
2. Win a MCOLGlobal membership valued at $90 just for posting your list

by Clive Riddle, MCOL President
 
At the end of this month we will be announcing an exciting contest where everyone posting a list regarding 2012 health care predictions or 2011 top trends can win a valuable prize, and five of these entries can win a grand prize valued at $7,500 each! Stay tuned for details.

 by Clive Riddle, MCOL President
 

by Clive Riddle, MCOL President
 
Health Insurance Exchanges are the trending topic in healthsprocket, with five of the top ten trending lists relating to HIX topics, including the #1 spot. The rest of the top ten includes two lists regarding readmissions, two regarding emergency departments and one regarding social media.
 
You can check out what's Trending This Month anytime, using the link in the left menu from any page.