Insulin Nation

JANUARY 17, 2018

Think back to the first days and weeks after a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis. Did you feel prepared to manage the disease after the cursory training you received at the hospital, or, in some cases, the physician’s office? Were you confident in your ability to recognize symptoms? To make round-the-clock decisions about meal choices, dosing, treating highs and lows, etc.?

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ACA Times

JANUARY 17, 2018

One of the objectives of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make it affordable for Americans of all ages to actively take part in preventative care, including adolescents. The ACA allows adolescent patients to receive preventive services recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics without a copay. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ guidelines recommends preventive care services up to age 21, including an annual visit.

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 17, 2018

Researchers in Warsaw recently found that users of VoiceDiab, a system that uses speech recognition to transcribe information about meals for insulin delivery systems, had better postprandial glucose levels after two hours than peers without the system. The study, which was published on January 8, 2018 in the Journal of Diabetes , was conducted by Dr.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 17, 2018

This is a long overdue post of the next session from our Society’s first conference on October 25. The first keynote, about OpenNotes, was posted here , including this note: WOW was our Society’s first conference on October 25 a breakthrough event! Titled “Participatory Medicine: Transforming the Culture of Care” ( web page ), it produced a storm of attention on Twitter (our #SPM2017 hashtag had 15 million impressions in 48 hours, 1.1 million per hour during the event!

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