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From Facebook to Twitter to YouTube, social media has crept into mainstream America at an alarming rate. It's no different in healthcare, where providers and their patients are finding new benefits - and challenges - to their online interactions.

This month's #mhimss tweet up focused on consumer engagement tips from mHIMSS volunteer member, Sam Stern @mhealthmarketer. Today's discussion presented four key questions. Here are some of the responses and insights tweeted from engaged #mhimss Twitter followers.

With a high-profile speech by Reed Tuckson, a flashy presence in the exhibit hall and a new partnership with videogame maker KONAMI, the insurer is setting its sights on the digital health landscape in an effort to affect healthcare changes.

New England Telehealth Consortium (NETC) has tapped Germantown, Md.-based Hughes Network Systems for a four-year contract to provide high-speed satellite services for mobile telehealth clinics throughout rural communities in Northern New England.

A luncheon panel discussion at the 2013 International CES concludes that patient-centered healthcare and new advances in digital technology are pushing telehealth into the spotlight – if only the providers, courts and federal and state governments could agree.