Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'Mary Clark, a realtor in Cincinnati, has grown accustomed recently to being the center of attention at the pharmacy. An independent contractor, Clark has had trouble finding affordable health insurance that covers the costs of the insulin she needs to control her Type 1 diabetes. Since 2012, she’s noticed the price she must pay out-of-pocket has increased steeply; it’s been a big enough leap that even the pharmacists pause in their work when filling her order.

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Chilmark Research

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Next week is that proverbial event we all, in the HIT industry, look forward to with some trepidation – HIMSS’14. For an analyst firm such as ours HIMSS provides us a great opportunity to talk with end users, vendors of all stripes and just reconnect with like-minded folks. HIMSS is probably the only annual event that is a must attend to get a good perspective on where we are, as an industry, in advancing the adoption, deployment and use of HIT in the provider setting.

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Health System CIO

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Expanding image access with Merge iConnect “People expect to be able to do online healthcare.” Piloting telemedicine with managed care patients A culture of innovation — “It’s really about collaboration.” San Diego’s connected community “Don’t limit yourself to being an IT person.” His parenting philosphy One of the key ingredients in creating a world-class healthcare delivery system, says Ed Babakanian, is a commitment to invest in IT.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Much of the conversation taking place in Kaiser Permanente’s booth at HIMSS is about the concept of imagining care anywhere. At the conference today, Wendy Lee, senior vice president of digital health technologies and strategic services with Kaiser Permanente, and Danielle Cass, innovation evangelist of innovation and advanced technology, also with Kaiser Permanente, led a session called, “How Technology Can Enable Care Anywhere, Anytime.” Their talk generated serious interest

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Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Have you heard of Health Care Innovation Day? As our nation faces challenges related to interoperability, we have an opportunity to come together to discuss the challenges and to innovate in order to overcome these barriers. The Gary and Mary West Health Institute (WHI) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) are co-hosting HCI-DC 2014 : Igniting an Interoperable Health Care System, a public conference that will be held at the Omni Shoreham hotel on Feb

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

'In 1997, the World Health Organization, the American Diabetes Association and other groups universally adopted new nomenclature for diabetes. Diabetes was no longer to be named by whether or not patients required insulin. The names Insulin-Dependent Diabetes and Childhood Onset Diabetes were changed to Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes was then further categorized by whether it resulted from an autoimmune attack (Type 1a) or a non-autoimmune attack (Type 1b).

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'Diabetes and a Girl. When I was first diagnosed T1 13 years ago, the blood glucose meter took 20 seconds to read my blood. 6 months after my initial diagnosis, that 20 seconds was reduced to 5 seconds. A year later, I had a pump. 3 years after that, my meter linked to my pump. And a few years after that, the pump was smaller and did more. There’s been a lot of technological change when it comes to diabetes, and it has made everything easier, but there’s one thing that tech hasn’t done – f

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'Fifty years ago, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes meant glass syringes, urine tests, and living with the unknown. Now, many with T1 are living longer and living better for 50 years or more after their diagnosis. Experts attribute their longevity and high quality of life to several key factors. It’s partly that those who live well with T1 are doing what keeps all people healthy, says Dr.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'Olga Popova / Shutterstock.com. The T1 community has been rightly celebrating the return of U.S. cross-country skier Kris Freeman to the Winter Olympics. He has competed in 3 Winter Olympics before this year, and was considered the best cross-country skier in the country for a decade. In late January, the veteran was a last-minute addition to the team traveling to Sochi, and he has competed in the Cross-Country Men’s Skiathlon.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

'Blood, Sweat, and Diabetes. The time has come. I want to be accountable, so I’m telling you about my goal. I’m going to ride a 100 mile Tour de Cure bike ride for the American Diabetes Association in June 2014. Mark that down. Goals drive me to stay healthy. When I was 30, my A1C was almost 12.8, so I set a goal to get it under control. I went on an insulin pump and started exercising with a personal trainer.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'The test strip is the cornerstone of self-care for diabetes. The numbers revealed by strips can dictate what you can eat, how much exercise you can do, how much insulin you need, and how much trouble you might be in during a low. For years, however, people with diabetes have worried about the times when their meters and test strips have given inconsistent results.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Foot care can be the Achilles’ heel of people with diabetes, says Dr. David Armstrong, a professor of surgery at the University of Arizona. People with diabetes “over time will lose the gift of pain – they will develop neuropathy – and they can wear a hole in their foot just like you or I could wear a hole in a shoe or a sock,” says Dr.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

'Commentary. We have known all along that helping people understand their T1 leads to better health outcomes, but we rarely quantify how much help such education provides. However, new findings by the Diabetes Forum and the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists has found that such education can dramatically improve the quality of life for people with diabetes and even reduce taxpayer money spent on public health care.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

'Forward Motion. As I said in our a recent newsletter for Insulin Nation , people with Type 1 diabetes understand that we can’t go it alone when it comes to staying healthy. We all know that having family support is vital for keeping BG in check, and obviously we rely heavily on all our health care professionals, including our endocrinologists and CDE’s.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'In her book Islands and Insulin: A Diabetic Sailor’s Memoir, T1 author Erin Spineto chronicles her quest to sail solo around the Florida Keys and lose her fear of her diabetes. This excerpt from that memoir takes place as she is training for the journey: 24 November 2009. Seal Beach, CA. If you have ever had the unusual pleasure of spending time with a diabetic, you might have noticed a moment when they look off to the left and appear absorbed by thoughts somehow not entirely related to the cur

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This week is the annual meeting of the Health Information Management Systems Society, and I’ll be covering it on behalf of the Center for Total Health blog. If you are in the neighborhood, drop by Kaiser Permanente at the Orange County Convention Center in Hall B, booth #3011. We are sharing mobile health innovations and apps, and we’re talking about the consumer side of health IT.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Dr. Robert Pearl, CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, speaks at Health Affairs briefing on Feb. 4. (Photo courtesy Health Affairs). “Connected care” is gaining more momentum in the health care industry. Health care providers are adopting electronic health records with federal support and standard setting. Consumer electronics makers and applications developers are offering more tools and devices for consumers to track and manage their health.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Two months ago, I interviewed neurologist Ray Dorsey, M.D., co-director of the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Rochester, for a story I wrote based on a study he led. He had a lot of interesting things to say and, unlike so many other physicians, was aware of multiple system atrophy, the disease that killed my dad in 2012, so I decided to have him on for a podcast to describe how he is using off-the-shelf telehealth technology to expand access to care, improve pat

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’m convinced that Dr. Eric Topol is one of those rare people, like Dr. John Halamka, who can function on minimal sleep, perhaps four hours a night. He just gets that much done. Yesterday, AT&T named Topol chief medical advisor. As such, the company says, Topol will “impact the design, development and delivery” of connected health products and services for the AT&T ForHealth business.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

My last post earlier today got me thinking: we still haven’t reached a consensus on how to describe what some people have dubbed wireless health, mobile health, telehealth, digital health and connected health. Digital health has gotten popular in the past year or two, and the new issue of Health Affairs goes with connected health, but, as I noted, Dr.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'Just a Little Sweet. There is something about the rare moments when you can watch your kids quietly from a distance, observing them as they interact with their friends. I’m often surprised by what I learn about their personalities when they realize Mommy is not hovering over them. It’s hard to provide that space, as learning not to interfere means suppressing my natural maternal instincts, especially for my T1 child.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

'Sex with an insulin pump is a hot topic on diabetes websites. T1 blogger Kerri Sparling, who has written about pump sex in her blog SixUntilMe.com , says it’s definitely a popular conversation among T1 women’s discussion groups, with FAQs like “How do you deal with wearing a device when naked?”, “Do you disconnect a pump during intimacy?”, and “Does the pump get in the way, physically or emotionally?”.

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Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

This review was originally published on FitnessTechMD by @DrJosephKim Over the past few months, I've had a chance to test and use a number of the newer wearable activity trackers (also known as fitness trackers or wearable activity monitors) like the Polar Loop and the Bowflex Boost. In this review, I'll write about my experience using the Fitbug Orb.

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