Digital Health

JUNE 25, 2014

One thing the tech software industry is great at is failing fast. This concept of “failing fast” means, at least in part, rapidly bringing the “minimum viable product” to market, even if it’s a little rocky and feature-light, and then fixing it as it gets adopted by iterating with new releases. We see this all the time in software-driven products and even with some hardware ones, such as mobile phones.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 2, 2014

'Commentary. When my daughter was first diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, I thought our biggest challenge would be the disease itself. I never imagined we would have to simultaneously combat Type 1 diabetes and public ignorance. Yet during the past six years, a major challenge has been a lack of understanding about the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

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JUNE 11, 2014

“His treatment was fragmented rather than integrated. Each of his myriad maladies was being treated by different specialists – oncologists, pain specialists, nutritionists, hepatologists, and hematologists – but they were not being coordinated in a cohesive approach.”. – Steve Jobs , by Walter Isaacson (p. 549). As you’ve undoubtedly heard, Apple made a big splash last week by announcing “official” involvement in healthcare through a new app and accompanying SDK.

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Medicine and Technology

JUNE 12, 2014

Dr. Sebastian Schneeweiss recently wrote an interesting perspective article in the NEJM about big data in health care. He writes: Two key “learning” applications of big health care data that hold the promise of improving patient care are the generation of new knowledge about the effectiveness of treatments and the prediction of outcomes. Both these functions exceed the bounds of most computer applications currently used in health care, which tend to offer physicians such tools as context-sensiti

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American Well

JUNE 23, 2014

A new survey found 60 percent of physicians sent work-related text messages from their personal devices, and 61 percent received work-related text messages. Of those doctors, only 11 percent said their hospital offered a secure messaging service, while 58 percent were not sure. The survey, which was published in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health, was conducted by University of Kansas researchers and reported on by MobiHealth News.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 2, 2014

'From hard experience, I have learned to ask my patients with diabetes whether their weight is up, down, or stable and, just as importantly, why they think this is happening. It’s always best to listen first. We hear so much about weight being an issue for people with Type 2 diabetes, but maintaining a healthy weight can also be a struggle for people with Type 1 diabetes.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 11, 2014

'Dog and patient training. Photo Credit: Michelle Cochrane/Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides. Hypoglycemia unawareness can be a serious problem in both children and adults who have Type 1 diabetes. Sleeping through a blood sugar low is dangerous and can result in serious complications. Luckily, there is a class of service dogs trained specifically to help people with diabetes avoid bouts of hypoglycemia.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 25, 2014

'There’s a famous rule among theatrical types that if a gun appears on stage in the first act of the play, it better go off sometime before the curtain closes. The same holds true when it comes to Type 1 diabetes. As this video shows, if a person with Type 1 diabetes shows up in a movie, chances are high that his or her condition is going to be an issue.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 26, 2014

'Because soccer matches televised in the United States do not deliver high ratings, most of the country’s sports fans rarely get the chance to see how physically demanding soccer can be. But for those of us watching the World Cup in high definition, it is clear that “football” is a grueling 90-minute workout. Watching can lead the casual observer with Type 1 diabetes to wonder if insulin-dependent athletes could excel at such a sport.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 9, 2014

'U.S. News and World Report released its 2014-2015 rankings for the best children’s hospitals in the U.S., including the Top 10 hospitals for children with diabetes. Boston Children’s Hospital ranked #1, scoring a perfect 100 out of 100 with evaluators. Other Top 5 finishers included the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 24, 2014

'Basal insulin was supposed to be a help for novelist Katherine Marple, but instead it became the bane of her existence. A few years back, Marple’s doctor switched her to Lantus to help control some of the peaks and valleys of her blood glucose levels. Shortly after the switch, she soon felt pain with each Lantus injection. ”It felt like I was injecting fire,” says Marple, who has Type 1 diabetes.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 16, 2014

'Europe Gets a Dynamic Duo. The experimental is going mainstream in Europe, as Medtronic announced it has gained approval from European regulators to sell the Duo, a connected insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring system. From the way it’s described in Fierce Medical Devices , the Duo sounds a lot like an artificial pancreas system, minus Medtronic’s Threshold suspend technology, which would automatically stop insulin delivery when a low is detected.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 6, 2014

'Commentary. zeber / Shutterstock.com. A huge number of people living with Type 1 diabetes can’t reliably obtain needed insulin. I spoke to David Beran, an advisor for the International Insulin Foundation (IIF), and he told me that approximately one-third of the world’s population lacks guaranteed access to essential medicines. In the poorest parts of Africa and Asia, this proportion increases to a half.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 6, 2014

'A day for a person with diabetes like myself is broken up into a series of peaks and valleys, when it comes to both blood sugar levels and emotional stability. Too often, we address the former without paying attention to the latter. I find, however, that the two are more intertwined than even I would care to admit. Treating Type 1 diabetes often includes a series of frustrations and setbacks, and how I view these setbacks determines how well I circumvent them.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 23, 2014

'You may have read a headline or two about the success of Boston University’s artificial pancreas trials, announced at the 2014 ADA Scientific Sessions. There was a lot more going on at the 4-day event in San Francisco. Each year, more than 15,000 experts in the field of diabetes convene at the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions to hear the latest news in diabetes research, medical devices, and clinical practices.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 4, 2014

'What was supposed to be a two-hour layover in Cleveland escalated into a six-day stay in the hospital. I had stumbled out of the plane feeling terrible. I couldn’t breathe, my ribs hurt, and I was profoundly tired. I hadn’t eaten all day, and yet I was still throwing up. I tried walking with my traveling companion to get outside for some fresh air, but instead I collapsed.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 2, 2014

'In Shawn Shepheard’s new memoir, Life is Sweet , he details how he learned to embrace the challenge of late-in-life Type 1 diabetes. In this edited excerpt, Shepheard first discovers he has diabetes while traveling for work: So there I stand at the urinal. Peeing. Again. It’s my fourth visit to the restroom and I’ve only been up for two hours. What is going on?

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 30, 2014

'There are times when it’s not easy being a spokesperson, like when you have to stand at a podium and neither confirm nor deny the latest political scandal. And then there are times when being a spokesman is more fun, like when the insulin pump company you represent was just involved in successful trials of a closed-loop artificial pancreas system. Steve Sabicer is experiencing the latter as spokesman for Tandem, the relatively new insulin pump company on the block.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 4, 2014

'In Shawn Shepheard’s new memoir, Life is Sweet , he details how he learned to embrace the challenge of late-in-life Type 1 diabetes. In this edited excerpt, Shepheard discusses the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people to stay positive about diabetes: Connected in Motion – Photo Credit: Mike Last. The term “dream team” should not be reserved for the American Olympic basketball team or, up here in the Great White North, for the Canadian Olympic Hockey team.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 30, 2014

'The symbolic champagne bottles must have popped at Mannkind corporate headquarters on a Friday in late June; after years wandering in the regulatory wilderness, its product, Afrezza, received FDA approval. It has been a long and daunting process to get this product to market, with many regulatory hurdles, but the company persevered and its inhalable insulin product and Dreamboat inhaler now can hit the open market.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 16, 2014

'In Shawn Shepheard’s new memoir, Life is Sweet , he details how he learned to embrace the challenge of late-in-life Type 1 diabetes. In Part 3 of our series of edited excerpts from his memoir, he chronicles training for a marathon after his diagnosis. I am standing in a sea of fit people wearing spandex and Lululemon shorts. I think, “How come my butt never looks that good in those pants?”.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 6, 2014

'Este artículo fue traducido en español por Mila Ferrer. Hay un tiempo de sueño que a menudo acompaña a las recaudaciones de fondos para buenas causas que se efectúan en las noches. Los asistentes utilizan su energía social durante la hora del cóctel y luego comienzan a perder fuerza ya que el largo día de trabajo comienza a sentirse en sus cuerpos.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 19, 2014

'Este artículo fue traducido en español por Mila Ferrer. Cuando los sensores de glucosa estuvieron disponibles por primera vez en los ensayos clínicos hace 2 décadas, decidí usar un sensor para comparar mis niveles de glucosa, como una persona que no vive con diabetes, con los niveles de glucosa de mis pacientes. Yo estaba emocionada de tener esta nueva herramienta, que mide la glucosa 288 veces al día y que podría ser usado por 3 días consecutivos, como un excelente recurso para los pacientes,

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Medicine and Technology

JUNE 4, 2014

In a few weeks, the Innovation HealthJam will happen online! June 17-19. Here's what it's going to be about: Come together for this Innovation HealthJam and help brainstorm new ideas for the healthcare technology area. This event will challenge a large diverse group within the medical eco-system to re-frame health care in the United States. This online brainstorming event will bring together healthcare providers, healthcare technology companies, universities, patient advocacy groups, trade assoc

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Medicine and Technology

JUNE 3, 2014

Yesterday, the FDA announced a new initiative called openFDA to give developers, health care researchers, clinicians, and the public access to important public health data. openFDA is currently in beta, but it's definitely looking quite promising. OpenFDA utilizes a search-based Application Program Interface (API) to collect large amounts of existing publicly available data, offering developers the ability to search through text within that data, ranking results much like a search using Google w

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 25, 2014

'Throughout July, we’re featuring excerpts from Ginger Vieira’s new book, Dealing with Diabetes Burnout. In this first of four edited excerpts from the book, the longtime life coach and diabetes advocate describes the pressure everyone with diabetes feels to be perfect: Have you ever wanted to be one of those perfect diabetics? Me too. As people living with diabetes, we can’t help but compare ourselves to that “perfect patient” our doctors, parents, boyfriends, wives, strangers, and friends all

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 27, 2014

'I sometimes laugh when I look back at my personal diabetes research graveyard. All of the research that I have worked on over the past 30 years, so many ideas, some with a greater degree of success than others…you have to be comfortable with failure to be a research scientist. Decades ago, my team designed a computer program that proved to help patients lower their A1C and gave personalized reports and advice in a colorful poster; such an antiquated program would now be laughed at by the

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 18, 2014

'There are few women who wake up in the morning glittering with excitement about the changes required of her mind and body during pregnancy, even though the prospect of holding a newborn gives us hope that it will all be worthwhile. Being pregnant with Type 1 diabetes brings an extra level of “Oh my god this is a lot of #*@&% work!” to it, but there is a great payoff in the end.

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