Insulin Nation
MAY 27, 2015
When I started a new job with a content team in the U.K., I felt like I had become the office diabetic. Regardless of how many people with diabetes there were out there, I felt like a rare animal spotted away from its natural habitat. Whether I was feasting on candy to fend off a hypo or looking particularly shifty when popping to the toilet for a shot of insulin to my buttcheek, all eyes were on me.
Import Immunity
MAY 10, 2015
It is outrageous how much fun stuff there is to learn at Adaptive. Lots of it is just brand new (thank you Adaptive scientists for putting up with me at Journal Club!). But my most exciting moments come when I find that ideas I’ve used for years take on awesome new depth and relevance in the context of immunology. Take edit distance. This is a super-core concept for things like spell check and the search recommendations you see all the time at Google: The “edit distance” between two strings is d
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Chilmark Research
MAY 26, 2015
The telehealth market has enjoyed an upward rise over the last couple of years. After signing on a number of payers, employers, and retailers, telehealth vendors have even begun gaining traction with their direct to consumer (DTC) efforts. Now, this burgeoning industry is turning their sights squarely on the provider market. While this shift was on full display at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) conference earlier this month, it is also evident that both sides are at an early stage o
AMD Telemedicine
MAY 21, 2015
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American Well
MAY 11, 2015
There are no universal definitions for the terms “telehealth” and “telemedicine,” which makes it impossible to differentiate them entirely from one another. Both terms are a modern concoction based on the evolution of developing technology. But while the line remains blurred regarding what each term covers, a few organizations have weighed in on the subject.
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Insulin Nation
MAY 1, 2015
Quick Hit. A new study discussed in a Time article suggests that traumatic life events can trigger the development of Type 1 diabetes in young children. In a survey of more than 10,000 families, parents filled out questionnaires over a span of 12 years. The children who had experienced a “serious life incident” (death of a family member or serious accident, for example) showed a tripled risk of being diagnosed with Type 1.
BHM Healthcare Solutions
MAY 6, 2015
Technology may be revolutionizing the healthcare industry but while mobile health applications and cloud-based management are convenient, many think they may be compromising the privacy of healthcare data. The debate, which is so multifaceted there isn’t one way of looking at it, centers around how the healthcare industry can embrace mobile health while still securing patient data.
ACA Times
MAY 28, 2015
The Department of and Human Services announced awards of $112 million regional cooperatives about 5,000 primary physicians in 12 states, aimed at improving the heart health of their nearly 8 million patients and preventing heart attacks and stroke. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. The program, called EvidenceNOW : Advancing Heart in Primary Care, will help primary care practices in urban and rural communities.
Insulin Nation
MAY 15, 2015
We recently wrote about Kevin Houdeshell, who died from diabetes ketoacidosis after his insulin prescription expired. Some have questioned whether Kevin should have instead gone to buy over-the-counter (OTC) insulin at WalMart instead of not having any insulin at all. As any person with diabetes knows, there are many complex factors and decisions that can lead to an emergency situation with blood sugar levels.
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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
MAY 18, 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: Should I really worry about using insulin after its expiration date? What about using it for more than 30 days?
Insulin Nation
MAY 4, 2015
I’m 29 years old and have had Type 1 for 17 years, but there is something about testing my blood sugar that throws me back to when I was first diagnosed as a child. Each time, I stand there with my eyebrow raised and my index finger on my chin, trying to analyze my daily food intake. I make excuses, telling myself that my insulin must be expired or my meter broken.
Insulin Nation
MAY 21, 2015
Approaching 50, I found myself 70 pounds overweight and always exhausted. I felt a change was due as I celebrated my 49th birthday. My wife purchased an elliptical machine for my birthday and I surprised her by actually using it. The first couple of weeks started okay, but then I started to feel worse. The weight started to come off, and then it really started to come off.
Insulin Nation
MAY 8, 2015
I often feel isolated with my Type 1 diabetes, but recently I’ve been dating someone else with Type 1. Having a partner in crime with this condition is, more often than not, an immense comfort. Our conditions may have the same textbook definition, but they are different in countless ways. I am an avid insulin pump user, while he swears by his insulin pens.
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Insulin Nation
MAY 1, 2015
Parenting a child with Type 1 comes with a lot of self-doubt. In this edited excerpt of his new book, The Unofficial Guide to Fatherhood , Dominick Domasky examines what moments in time define him as a D-parent. As a father of a child with Type 1, I constantly struggle to find the balance between tough love and my child’s smile. I know every slight lapse in strictness regarding my son’s diet affects him negatively, but when his classroom is given cupcakes or the baseball team stops for ice cream
Insulin Nation
MAY 5, 2015
A bill to make Type 1 diabetes screening more common has made progress in the North Carolina legislature, but language that would have mandated screening has been removed from the legislation. The North Carolina House of Representatives voted 111 to 6 to pass a bill known as Reegan’s Rule, which encourages well-child medical practitioners to educate parents of newborns and toddlers about the warning signs of diabetes.
Insulin Nation
MAY 14, 2015
Having a tough day controlling blood sugar levels? Want to laugh so you don’t cry? We’ve created several Demotivating posters for people with Type 1 diabetes.
Insulin Nation
MAY 15, 2015
Living with diabetes can be overwhelming and emotionally difficult. When you have a difficult diabetes-related emotion, it’s normal to spend a lot of time and energy trying to make yourself feel better. One common strategy is to avoid or bury these feelings. People do a lot of different things to avoid difficult emotions. For example, some people watch television, while others sleep, exercise, or binge eat or drink.
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Insulin Nation
MAY 15, 2015
Medtronic has long been sparring with the FDA over the quality of its pumps, and it now must defend itself against a lawsuit for an insulin pump failure. According to a Courthouse News article , a 57-year-old New Jersey man who was using the MiniMed insulin pump system was found unconscious in his bed after his device failed. He remained in a coma for two weeks before passing away.
Insulin Nation
MAY 14, 2015
Having a tough day controlling blood sugar levels? Want to laugh so you don’t cry? We’ve created several Demotivating posters for people with Type 1 diabetes. Feel free to share your favorites with friends…because it’s better than throwing your meter across the room: Matt Silcox designed the artwork for these posters.
Insulin Nation
MAY 28, 2015
Sugar Babies, a new documentary on children and diabetes will be released on June 2nd. We asked filmmaker Jenny Mackenzie, the mother of a child with Type 1, why she decided to make this film. Here’s her response: My daughter Lizzie was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was four years old. All of a sudden, everything revolved around carbohydrate counting, insulin injections, and hundreds of blood sugar tests taken on her tiny fingers.
Insulin Nation
MAY 29, 2015
You may be seeing the Asante Snap pump again, even if Asante seems permanently shuddered. On May 28th, it was announced in a press release received by Insulin Nation that Bigfoot Biomedical has acquired all of Asante’s assets, including the Snap insulin pump. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acquisition was first reported by diaTribe.
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Insulin Nation
MAY 20, 2015
A wise person once said “nothing worth having comes easy,” and giving birth to a child is certainly not easy. For women with Type 1, the hard work starts long before the bundle of joy arrives. I’d like to share my journey to motherhood to provide a possible roadmap for other would-be-moms with Type 1. For my husband and me, “pregnancy” meant much more than those final 9 months.
Insulin Nation
MAY 28, 2015
Quick Hit. A ccording to a Fierce Biotech Research article, researchers have discovered an area of the brain that is in charge of communicating with the rest of the body about hypoglycemia. Like many scientific discoveries, this one came as a bit of a surprise. A team of international researchers set out to study a previously untapped area of neurons in the parabrachial nucleus of the brain.
Insulin Nation
MAY 1, 2015
Quick Hit. Apple is giving its 700-million iPhone users the chance to become participants in virtual clinical trials to advance medical research. According to a Fierce Biotech IT article, Apple is using an open-source framework called ResearchKit to allow apps to collect medical data from mobile phones.The Apple-made framework takes data from the iPhone’s accelerometer, microphone, and GPS sensor, among other tools, to generate medical data that researchers can use.
Insulin Nation
MAY 8, 2015
The latest buzzword in self-help these days is mindfulness. Defined as paying attention to one’s thoughts and state of mind in a non-judgmental way, mindfulness is being touted as the new pathway to better health. While it may be trendy, I have found mindfulness helps me cope with the stress of having Type 1 diabetes. I am intimately familiar with the anxiety of living with a chronic illness, as I’ve had Type 1 for over 40 years.
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Insulin Nation
MAY 29, 2015
Analysis. On May 14th, Asante, maker of the Snap pump, was an established player in the insulin pump industry. It had been employing bloggers to promote the Snap and was touting its new pump innovation to the press. On Friday, May 15th, Asante announced it was closing. By the end of the month, another company was picking over its assets. News like this causes a ripple in the water in the small pond of pump users.
Insulin Nation
MAY 18, 2015
The sudden demise of the pump maker Asante caught everyone, even those in the news business, off-guard. Insulin Nation learned of Asante’s closure in the same way we imagine many of its customers did: in an e-mail message originating from Asante’s California headquarters at about 3:30PM Pacific Standard Time on a Friday. In the news business, late Friday afternoon is the perfect time to hide news in plain sight, as some reporters, and many readers, are already off for the weekend.
American Well
MAY 5, 2015
Telehealth is dynamically changing the way both patients and physicians view healthcare. Nobody knows this better than Roy Schoenberg, co-founder and CEO at American Well. Roy introduced the patented service brokerage technology used by his company, which is currently the nation’s largest telehealth network. In 2013, he was appointed to the U.S. Federation of Medical Boards’ task force, where he helped deliver landmark guidelines for the “Appropriate use of Telehealth in Medical Practice.
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