Insulin Nation
JANUARY 23, 2015
'Commentary. Shortly before the 2014 Super Bowl, the Chicago Bears of the NFL made a big splash by signing their starting quarterback, Jay Cutler, to a seven-year, $126.7 million contract. This contract was big news in the NFL. It was even bigger news in the Type 1 diabetes community than the sporting world, as Cutler has Type 1 diabetes, and has been active in the Type 1 community.
American Well
JANUARY 21, 2015
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Chilmark Research
JANUARY 14, 2015
The Walgreens PR team has been busy of late, announcing a spate of partnerships that aim to transform them from a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy into a digital one-stop shop for health care consumers. Specifically, three press releases in recent weeks have revealed a strategy that aims to leverage the 82 million “Balance Rewards” members by trading them store loyalty points for using various features from an expanding in-app menu.
Import Immunity
JANUARY 3, 2015
What better time to ponder the flu than during a winter plane trip, sitting next to a hipster 20-year-old you’ve never met coughing and sleeping on your shoulder? At least I had an aisle seat. And New Year’s with my new nephew and family was super-fun. And I have Purell — lots of Purell. Anyways, it is that time of year, and according to the CDC it’s starting to look pretty ugly here in the USA.
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E-CareManagement
JANUARY 15, 2015
It’s the middle of winter. Feeling blah? Need some stimulation? You’ve come to the right place! Welcome to The “Shake the Winter Blahs” Edition of the Health Wonk review. For the second time, it’s my honor to host HWR — providing you summaries and links to the best recent writing in the health blogosphere. Let’s go!
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Insulin Nation
JANUARY 22, 2015
'Commentary. People with Type 1 diabetes may have felt a flutter in their hearts when they saw headlines that a 4-year old boy from Australia was fitted with a new type of diabetes pump technology. That’s because some news outlets, including the Guardian (UK) and the West Australian , labeled the new device an “artificial pancreas.”. By employing those two magic words these two news outlets waded into a debate that has been simmering behind the scenes in the diabetes community for several years:
American Well
JANUARY 21, 2015
There are lots of numbers floating in the telehealth space, and we’ve picked the top ten stats to know about telehealth: 1. 64% of Americans would be willing to have a video visit with a doctor. 2. Towers Watson expects a 68% increase in the number of employers offering telemedicine in 2015 (a rise from 22% to 37%) –analysts have estimated this will result in $6B in employer savings. 3. 63% of Consumers believe that high-definition video results in the most accurate diagnosis by a doctor.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JANUARY 30, 2015
IHE Connectathon did informal testing of Mobile access to Health Documents (aka #MHD - #XDS on #FHIR. We had 9 different implementations testing at the Connectathon. : Qvera, Caradigm, Relay Health, CareEvolution, CRG Medical, Allscripts, EMC, ONC – Dragon, and an individual effort. MHD has a wide variety of deployment models, leveraging the simplicity of HTTP REST and the data model and interaction model defined in FHIR.
Consumer eHealth Engagement
JANUARY 5, 2015
Twine Health Mobile App Engages Patients with Chronic Conditions The story about the health decline of our citizens is being told everywhere. According to the CDC website, “as of 2012, about half of all adults—117 million people—have one or more chronic health conditions. One of four adults has two or more chronic health conditions” This negative trend is driving up healthcare costs and putting an ongoing strain on our healthcare system.
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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.
Import Immunity
JANUARY 22, 2015
We are really proud of the immunoSEQ Analyzer — it’s a great tool with a ton of charts and visualizations specifically tareted at immunosequencing. And since the field is new to many folks, it’s great to have an environment where we can share the approaches and techniques we’ve developed over the years. If you’re an Adaptive customer and you’re not using it — you’re missing out.
ACA Times
JANUARY 27, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to include Oklahoma in the King v. Burwell case that will decide whether residents of 37 states can receive federal subsidies to buy Affordable Care Act health insurance through the federal exchange. Without comment, the high court rejected the request by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to bypass review of his state’s case by a federal appeals court and combine it with the Virginia case the court has accepted for review.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 23, 2015
'Commentary. Shortly before the 2014 Super Bowl, the Chicago Bears of the NFL made a big splash by signing their starting quarterback, Jay Cutler, to a seven-year, $126.7 million contract. This contract was big news in the NFL. It was even bigger news in the Type 1 diabetes community than the sporting world, as Cutler has Type 1 diabetes, and has been active in the Type 1 community.
American Well
JANUARY 21, 2015
As telehealth grows in popularity in the U.S., there are still telehealth myths that persist. Below we’ve addressed the ones that come up most frequently: Telehealth Myth #1: All Doctor visits need to be in person. A common misconception is that all doctor visits need to happen in person; in fact, about half of doctor visits could be done online.
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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.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JANUARY 28, 2015
IHE Connectathon this year had a major disruption caused by TLS/SSL. In hindsight this was very predictable, but those that were feeling the pain were not those that understood what was going on. The problem is that platforms (Operating Systems, Web Servers, Application Servers) have decided to forbid the use of SSL , as it contains too may vulnerabilities and has too many successful attacks against it.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 30, 2015
'Do you ever feel disgruntled that people with Type 1 diabetes don’t show up more often in fiction? We at Insulin Nation have decided to right (write?) this wrong by inserting Type 1 diabetes into some well-known works of fiction. We think the addition of insulin really opens up a whole new dimension into these classics: Harry Potter and the Order of the Endocrinologist.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 5, 2015
'There’s huge buzz in the diabetes community about the Nightscout project. Nightscout allows family members or trusted friends to view Dexcom G4 continuous glucose monitor data in realtime via the cloud on smartphones, tablets, computers and the Pebble smartwatch. It isn’t an integrated product created by medical manufacturers and software developers, but a workaround that was developed by techsavvy individuals personally affected by diabetes.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 15, 2015
'We have seen heightened awareness on insulin manipulation, an eating disorder symptom that occurs in the Type 1 diabetes community. A new term was coined to describe this set of behaviors: “diabulimia”. While increased attention for individuals with an eating disorder and diabetes is welcome, I am troubled by the limited representation of the diabulimia diagnosis.
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Insulin Nation
JANUARY 30, 2015
'Tired of standing out in a crowd when you test your blood sugar? Frustrated at being the only one who has to count carbs at the lunch table? We hear you. That’s why we imagined a world where Type 1 diabetes was normal, and having a working pancreas was unusual.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 5, 2015
'There is a quiet hacking revolution taking place in the Type 1 diabetes community. You can identify its followers by the popular hashtag #WeAreNotWaiting. There are currently thousands of individuals running an app known as Nightscout to upload real-time blood glucose readings from their Dexcom continuous glucose monitors to their own private servers.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 21, 2015
'Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS that answers questions submitted from the Type 1 diabetes community. Q: Why does a person require basal insulin, even when they are not eating? A: Excellent question!
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 23, 2015
'Commentary. Recently, Wired published an excellent article about techy-savvy parents of children with Type 1 diabetes who are hacking into the code of their children’s diabetes devices to improve upon them. These parents, who have come of age at a time when they can make complex bank transactions by smartphone, have grown frustrated that continuous glucose monitors can’t transmit blood sugar readings wirelessly.
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Insulin Nation
JANUARY 22, 2015
'Tighter Blood Glucose Control Leads to Longevity. Many Type 1 activists point out that insulin is not a cure. That’s because insulin therapy comes with a lot of negatives, including risk of death from hypoglycemia. There’s long been a debate over whether it was better in the long run to risk more bouts of hypoglycemia and achieve tighter blood glucose control, or to run high in one’s blood glucose levels and lower the hypoglycemia risk.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 5, 2015
'There is a quiet hacking revolution taking place in the Type 1 diabetes community. You can identify its followers by the popular hashtag #WeAreNotWaiting. There are currently thousands of individuals running an app known as Nightscout to upload real-time blood glucose readings from their Dexcom continuous glucose monitors to their own private servers.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 23, 2015
'In Sweet Tooth: A Memoir, Tim Anderson describes growing up gay and with Type 1 diabetes in the 80’s. In this edited excerpt, the fourth of five, teenage Tim has had it up to here with daily diabetes care. We got to Presbyterian Point, lugged the boat to the water, and sputtered out into the middle of the lake. I waterskied for a long while before flopping back into the boat.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 9, 2015
'“Maybe we should switch places,” my patient laughed when I confirmed that his self-diagnosis was likely correct. After a beat, I said, “That’s actually a pretty good idea.”. I had been having a long day at my endocrinology practice, and he did have a rather cool job as a mechanic at a nearby auto dealership. It would be nice if we could switch jobs for a day to get a new perspective, sort of like that Freaky Friday movie from back in the day.
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Insulin Nation
JANUARY 7, 2015
'Here is the latest diabetes technology news we’ve heard about in the last month: Funding for cheap pumps. Asante, the makers of the Snap insulin pump, are raising $45 million in an initial public offering to help expand the pump’s reach in the commercial market, according to a FierceMedicalDevices report. The pump is being touted by Asante for its affordability and simple design.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 28, 2015
'Quick Hits. Hypoglycemia is bad, and hypoglycemia unawareness is worse. Drug manufacturers may be making better insulin delivery systems to combat hypoglycemia, but they haven’t yet been able to eliminate the chance that a low can happen. Now a group of U.S. and UK researchers are examining how the brain reacts to hypoglycemia to see if the process can be stopped where it starts.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 9, 2015
'Dancer, teacher, and television performer Kyrra Richards returned home to Los Angeles in 2007 to face a surprise diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes. A member of a profession in which image, athletic condition, and self-confidence are essentials, Kyrra determined to brighten her outlook and accept her condition by dreaming up fashionable cases for her insulin pen, monitor, and lancets.
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