Health System CIO
MARCH 13, 2017
Concerns about digital tools negatively impacting the physician-patient relationship linger, and it’s understandable, says Dr. Joe Kvedar. But if implemented the right way, technology can increase both access and convenience.
33 Charts - Digital Health
MARCH 16, 2017
Like many professionals, I’m trapped in the now. I function with dated workflows and connect with patients like doctors did a hundred years ago. Elements in our world are moving, however, but no one notices. Even those of us with a remote sense of the changes ahead have a hard time understanding what’s happening to us. According to tech visionary Kevin Kelly we are in the process of becoming.
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Insulin Nation
MARCH 17, 2017
As an outside observer, I have watched the Type 1 diabetes community grow and mature so much in recent years. That being said, there’s always room for improvement. Allow me to offer five unsolicited pieces of advice. In the future, people with Type 1 diabetes might want to stop…. 1. …saying they won’t let Type 1 diabetes stop them/slow them down. sponsor.
ACA Times
MARCH 16, 2017
Uber made a huge stride in their favor at the top of March, when a California court named them victorious in yet another misclassification case. The case surrounded once again classifications of Uber drivers as employees over independent contractors. The ruling was that Uber drivers are independent contractors. This is one of many instances where misclassification cases have popped up and shut right down.
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Meaningful HIT News
MARCH 16, 2017
I did a video interview this week with AliveCor COO Doug Biehn about that company’s launch today of a physician-side artificial intelligence platform for mining ECG readings for signs of atrial fibrillation, a key early marker of stroke risk. AliveCor also announced it has closed a $30 million Series D investment round, led by Omron Healthcare and Mayo Clinic.
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Insulin Nation
MARCH 13, 2017
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: After my Type 1 diagnosis, my doctor asks me regularly about my dental visits.
ACA Times
MARCH 15, 2017
The Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), released a notice at the close of February, announcing that insurance companies may extend coverage of certain non-grandfathered individual and group plans that are currently not ACA compliant for another year. Plans renewed on or before October 1, 2018 provided that they end by December 31, 2018.
Meaningful HIT News
MARCH 14, 2017
Remember the “death panels” hysteria in 2009 or so when the Affordable Care Act was under development? (PolitiFact called “death panels” the “lie of the year” for 2009, not surprising, since the idea apparently originated with that truth stretcher extraordinaire, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.). As you may have heard, that rhetoric resurfaced during town halls held by a few Republican members of Congress.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 15, 2017
Is there a certain month in the year where you find that you have more bouts of hypoglycemia than others? You might be in good company. sponsor. A new study suggests that people with diabetes may be at more risk of hypoglycemia in the coldest and hottest months of the year. In the study, researchers also discovered a temperature zone that seemed to offer the lowest risk for people with diabetes, at least for those living in the Hamburg region of Germany.
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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
MARCH 13, 2017
sponsor. Recently, we featured the story of an Australian woman with Type 1 diabetes who was denied a refill of insulin by a doctor. We have since received word from others who have had a similar problem. Here, a mother shares the ordeal her family went through because of a an apparent records mishap. My daughter has Type 1 diabetes, and she has twice been denied a refill on her insulin prescription.
ACA Times
MARCH 14, 2017
At the close of February, the IRS released a notice regarding qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangement (QSE HRA) notices and an extension until further guidance is provided. These notices are the initial outreach an eligible employer (less than 50 full-time employees and equivalents with no group health plan offered) must make to eligible employees notifying them of the QSE HRA.
ACA Times
MARCH 14, 2017
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) did not change state law on abortions and expressly allowed states to elect out of abortion coverage in qualified health plans offered through the Exchange if such state enacts laws to provide for such prohibition. It is on the Exchange where the ACA’s PTCs are triggered. 2016 saw 25 states banning abortion coverage on the Exchange, 6 states with no ban but no plans that offer coverage, 17 states plus DC with no ban at least 1 plan with covera
Insulin Nation
MARCH 15, 2017
Reporter Oren Liebermann discovered he had Type 1 diabetes during a year-long trip around the world. In this edited excerpt from his memoir, The Insulin Express , Liebermann first begins to feel the effects of his yet undiagnosed diabetes while teaching English at a monastery in Nepal. The hike up the mountain takes 45 minutes, and I feel completely wiped out when we reach the top.
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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.
ACA Times
MARCH 13, 2017
As part of President Trump’s plans for repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, one element that remains in the forefront is that of proposed tax credits (PTCs) for Americans. Are they all that they seem to be? A recent Kaiser Family Foundation study doesn’t seem to think so. In one of their latest studies, the KFF found that PTCs under the proposed replacement plan would be 36% less than they currently are by 2020, with a longer lead time for credit increases.
ACA Times
MARCH 17, 2017
A few weeks ago, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan voiced the House GOP’s plans for a repeal and the replacement plan , which placed a heavy focus on eliminating ACA-mandated taxes. However, concerns surfaced from within the Republican party, urging for changes. On March 15, Vice President Mike Pence held a meeting with the Republican Study Committee (RSC) to put the wheels in motion for amending the newly proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA).
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