Insulin Nation

JANUARY 24, 2018

“There was no hope. There was no Cure. Until two men set out to find one.” This is the tagline for the UK film-in-progress Unspeakably Wonderful about the four scientists involved in the discovery of insulin. Neil Fleming and Matthew Lockyer (a screenwriter and a physician) collaborated to write the script, and they recently generated enough funding through crowdsourcing to hire a world-renowned script editor and cast a director.

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Redox

JANUARY 24, 2018

Last year was a discouraging one for healthcare data security, and this year seems to be off to a rocky start as well. With attacks becoming more commonplace and damaging—and with medical information more valuable than ever—healthcare organizations are beginning to put a greater and much-needed focus on protecting patient data. . According to a survey by KPMG, 47 percent of healthcare providers and health plans said they had faced security-related HIPAA violations or cyber-attacks that compromis

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 24, 2018

[link]. When most hospitals close, it’s plain to see. Equipment and fixtures are hauled out and carted away. Doctors and nurses leave and buildings are shuttered, maybe demolished. But another fate befalling U.S. hospitals is almost invisible. Across the country, conglomerates that control an increasing share of the market are changing their business models, consolidating services in one regional “hub” hospital and cutting them from others.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 24, 2018

Some trends are emerging on what is triggering the IRS to issue Letter 226J notices to organizations. Since November, the IRS has been sending notices to organizations that failed to comply with ACA’s Employer Mandate (Internal Revenue Code Section 4980H) based on information identified in the annual filing submitted to the IRS for the 2015 tax year.

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