Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 5, 2015
After months of political wrangling, North Carolina legislators succeeded in passing a bill that would promote diabetes screening for infants and toddlers, and parent education about the symptoms of Type 1 diabetes. The legislation, known as Reegan’s Rule, stalled for months, and it took some last-minute heroics on the part of its sponsors for it to pass.
American Well
OCTOBER 6, 2015
A study from Harvard Medical School supports what we already know – online care saves you time and money. In the study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers looked at the time spent by nearly four thousand people seeking in-person medical care and then calculated the dollar value of their lost time. They found that the average total visit time for typical in-person medical visits was 121 minutes.
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ACA Times
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Under the Affordable Care Act , employers with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees – called applicable large employers, or ALEs – are subject to the employer shared responsibility provisions. The vast majority of employers fall below the ALE threshold and are not subject to the employer shared responsibility provisions. If you are an ALE, you may choose to offer affordable minimum essential coverage that provides minimum value to your full-time employees and their dependents,
The Healthcare Guys
OCTOBER 28, 2015
The nice folks at Ingenious Med reached out to get my opinion on the recent ICD-10 transition. They summarized my thoughts in a recent post on their blog. Their questions reminded me of similar ones I’ve been recently asked so I thought I’d elaborate them here. Q: How will the additional specificity required by ICD-10 pose a challenge for clinicians and the way that they currently track patient information?
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Healthcare Exchange Standards
OCTOBER 20, 2015
Keith asks A theory of interoperability Definitions of interoperability surround us, but all the attention in the world to definitions make very little difference in the end. What is your theory of interoperability? How would you test it? My theory of Interoperabilty: Starts with a desired outcome that has a known value. Without this use-case driving interoperability you are just talking technical capabilities.
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Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 22, 2015
Photo Source: Keith Allison – Creative Commons Court documents and news reports reveal that a business partner of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has been investigated twice and sanctioned once by federal officials for making false claims of supplements to treat chronic conditions. One of the supplements under investigation was falsely billed as a treatment and cure for Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 21, 2015
Alexandre Rotenberg / Shutterstock.com Type 1 diabetes is trying enough for those with access to state-of-the-art medical care; it can be hard to fathom what it must be like for someone caught in a conflict zone. And yet the suffering of refugees with Type 1 is merely a footnote in the news accounts of the latest refugee crisis, as European governments struggle to offer sanctuary to tens of thousands fleeing conflict and economic hardship in the Middle East and Africa.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 20, 2015
The future is now. October 21, 2015 is the day Marty McFly travels from 1989 to “now” in Back to the Future II. There he confronts the many ways the future has changed, from hoverboards to 3D movie posters. The approach of the date when the future and the present collide has given futurists a good excuse to do some “where’s my jetpack” assessing of how far we’ve advanced and what we’ve fallen short on since the movie was released in 1989.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 16, 2015
One of the biggest pharmaceutical companies is placing a big bet that nasal glucagon is going to get FDA approval in the near future. Eli Lilly and Co. has acquired the worldwide rights to a nasal glucagon product being developed by Locemia Solutions, according to a recent press release. As is often the case in such announcements, financial terms have not yet been disclosed, and both companies have given generic quotes about how the deal was a good thing for everyone.
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Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Photo credit: Toronto Blue Jays. Each year, baseball’s playoffs are filled with unlikely heroes. This year’s might be Mark Lowe, and that would be a win for people with Type 1 diabetes everywhere. Lowe, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes during the 2008 baseball season, has endured a string of injuries and bounced around between various minor league and major league teams in recent years.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 9, 2015
My son’s honeymoon phase was like diabetes with training wheels, a seemingly manageable level of uncertainty. His body was still producing some insulin, and that made dosing somewhat of a guessing game, but his A1C was great and I felt like I had gotten the hang of being a D-mom. Then he caught a cold. It was a year after his diagnosis and he slowly started requiring more insulin.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 2, 2015
Our story on a missed Type 1 diagnosis, “I Had Type 1 Diabetes and Didn’t Know It” , elicited a long list of comments from readers, many of whom wanted to share their own missed diagnoses. From the several dozen comments, we were able to piece together a non-scientific cross-section of what happens to people with Type 1 when their symptoms are overlooked: Length May Vary.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 7, 2015
People with Type 1 often have trouble communicating with the rest of the world when their blood sugars are high or low. Their behavior can be misinterpreted as rude, or just plain weird. To combat this and raise awareness of Type 1 diabetes, we’ve created a handy Halloween-themed poster comparing zombies with those experiencing blood sugar swings. Print this out to hang at work or school: The post Is it Zombieism or a Blood Sugar Swing?
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Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 14, 2015
A new study finds that people with diabetes in the U.S. are paying between 5.7 times and 7.5 times more than those in the UK for two popular insulins and a rare drug to treat diabetic retinopathy. U.S. consumers absorb this higher cost despite often not being the first in line to have access to new drugs or medical device treatments. According to a Reuters report , researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK) analyzed the drug prices for 20 top-selling drugs worldwide, including Sanofi’s La
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Commentary November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, a good time to take stock of the past year. If there is one indelible face that has become the symbol of Type 1 diabetes in 2015, it’s Nick Jonas, he of the dark hair, foxy gaze, and washboard abs. Never one to hide his diabetes, the pop star has put his Type 1 at the forefront, attaching a Dexcom CGM on said washboard abs for an advertising campaign, helping to create a Type 1 website ( Beyond Type 1 ), and speaking out against a stupid
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 16, 2015
What if you could ask your Type 1 diabetes for a day off, say, on Halloween? In this fanciful flight of fiction, we imagine such a scenario: News quickly spread throughout the diabetes online community that Type 1 diabetes has decided to give 15-year-old Jimmy Smith of Pougensburg, Pennsylvania all Halloween off to lackadaisically consume candy without counting carbs or needing to bolus.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 28, 2015
Nearly 100 years ago, researchers discovered a new drug that changed diabetes care forever. Unfortunately, after the discovery of insulin, there hasn’t been that many other drug breakthroughs to report on in the last century. Scientists are now testing existing drugs to see if they might provide effective treatments for Type 1 diabetes. Recently, it was reported that scientists were testing the hypertension drug methyldopa to see if it could delay the onset of Type 1.
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This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 2, 2015
We’d like to believe that humans have the problem-solving tools to handle health issues, but a new study shows that it might be best to turn over blood sugar management to the machines. Researchers in the UK found that an experimental closed-loop artificial pancreas system did better than humans alone at managing Type 1 diabetes, according to a Reuters report.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 30, 2015
When I started practicing yoga at 17, I couldn’t budge this nagging feeling that something wasn’t quite right. At first, doctors thought I was prediabetic because my blood glucose levels were slightly out of range. I drove home from the doctor’s office in shock from that diagnosis, but I was determined to beat it. If I worked to change my diet and adopted a positive attitude, I assumed I could avoid Type 2.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 26, 2015
Reegan’s Rule, signed into law in North Carolina , is considered the first legislative action taken in the country to improve pediatric screening for Type 1 diabetes. While it is considered a victory, it also shows the incremental progress of the legislative process. What began as a bill to mandate screening for Type 1 diabetes morphed into a bill that encouraged doctors to talk to parents of children under the age of five about the symptoms and risks of Type 1 diabetes.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Researchers have long known that diabetes runs in families, but it’s only been about 20 years since they have successfully isolated gene and antibody combinations that serve as reliable genetic predictors of the risk of developing Type 1 diabetes. A great many people who have Type 1 also have inherited genetic codes for antigens known as DR4 and DQ8; an antigen is any substance that may cause your body to produce antibodies against it.
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If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 14, 2015
A new study finds that people with diabetes in the U.S. are paying between 5.7 times and 7.5 times more than those in the UK for two popular insulins and a rare drug to treat diabetic retinopathy. U.S. consumers absorb this higher cost despite often not being the first in line to have access to new drugs or medical device treatments. According to a Reuters report , researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK) analyzed the drug prices for 20 top-selling drugs worldwide, including Sanofi’s La
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 16, 2015
One of the biggest pharmaceutical companies is placing a big bet that nasal glucagon is going to get FDA approval in the near future. Eli Lilly and Co. has acquired the worldwide rights to a nasal glucagon product being developed by Locemia Solutions, according to a recent press release. As is often the case in such announcements, financial terms have not yet been disclosed, and both companies have given generic quotes about how the deal was a good thing for everyone.
American Well
OCTOBER 28, 2015
Welcome to the October edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today! For those new to this feature, we share the telehealth industry’s hottest news, events, legislation, insight and more. Seeing Your Doctor from Your Couch. Medical Design Technology. Mike Baird, CEO of Avizia, is interviewed to discuss telemedicine, the advantages the technology has to offer, what is influencing telehealth adoption and its barriers, and his opinion on where the telemedicine industry is heading.
American Well
OCTOBER 22, 2015
Beyond the fact that many hospitals have a McDonald’s on their campus (a trend that is thankfully diminishing), they both hire shift workers. The primary physicians responsible for patients in the hospital are called the hospitalist. A hospitalist is typically someone trained in critical care or internal medicine. Rather than having a community practice, these positions are responsible for patients during their stay.
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American Well
OCTOBER 13, 2015
Dr. Alan Pitt‘s latest blog takes us on a quick trip down memory lane when patient records were 100% paper, difficult to decipher and virtually inaccessible. This resulted in huge delays in care, among other issues due to the hours of work often needed to find and understand a patient’s medical history. Fortunately, a lot has changed due to computers and federal regulations.
American Well
OCTOBER 13, 2015
Dr. Alan Pitt‘s latest blog takes us on a quick trip down memory lane when patient records were 100% paper, difficult to decipher and virtually inaccessible. This resulted in huge delays in care, among other issues due to the hours of work often needed to find and understand a patient’s medical history. Fortunately, a lot has changed due to computers and federal regulations.
American Well
OCTOBER 9, 2015
This week Intermountain Healthcare officially joined the Amwell network as our newest health system partner. Intermountain’s system encompasses 22 hospitals, 185 clinics, and a medical group of 1,300 physicians. The new telehealth service, Connect Care, will launch in early 2016. It will provide 24/7 on-demand care to all 750,000 members of Intermountain’s health plan as well as its approximately 34,000 employees, many of whom belong to the plan.
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