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Outrage and Bafflement Over Insulin Prices

Insulin Nation

The price of insulin is always a hot-button topic. Many in the diabetes community have expressed outrage at the climbing price for insulin and at disparities in the price of insulin. Similar anger popped up at the ADA Scientific Session in Boston. At one presentation, doctors squared off for a debate on whether new generation insulins were worth it for treating Type 2 diabetes, but consensus soon emerged that diet and exercise were better initial strategies.

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Infographic – Telehealth Index: 2015 Physician Survey

American Well

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Telemedicine recommendations for Senate Finance — Consumers understand genetic tests — AAFP prez trashes lack of interoperability

Morning eHealth

Telemedicine recommendations for Senate Finance.

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MIT Platform Strategy Summit, Boston, July 10

E-CareManagement

Healthcare has been a laggard in adopting platforms… …but that’s rapidly changing. In fact, I’ll suggest that healthcare will become the PINNACLE platform industry. Why? Many value propositions are very strong — literally “life-or-death” Acute and episodic care has focused on relatively discrete, time-limited events; the emerging model of chronic care and population health requires ongoing collaboration among care providers and patients.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Bigfoot’s Plan To Get An Artificial Pancreas to Market

Insulin Nation

On a Friday afternoon, Bigfoot Biomedical CEO Jeffrey Brewer was in California while his family was in New York. He’s working as quick as he can to relocate them to California, so they can join him at his company’s new headquarters, but such a change takes some time to plan out. Brewer and others at Bigfoot Biomedical are personally racing to catch up with a sudden and fortuitous acceleration in the insulin pump maker’s business plan.

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State lobbying advances telehealth — Senate Finance eyes chronic care policies — More movement on approps bills this week

Morning eHealth

Senate Finance eyes chronic care policies

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Supreme Court Rules ACA Subsidies Are Legal

ACA Times

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on June 25 th that it is legal for government subsidies under the Affordable Care Act to be available to all Americans, as the Obama administration had argued. [ The full text of the ‘King’ ruling, and the dissent, is available here. ]. Plaintiffs in the landmark King v. Burwell case had argued that the subsidies should only be given to residents of states that had “established” their own exchanges or online markets for health insurance, as

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5 More Type 1 Demotivational Posters

Insulin Nation

Do you sometimes get tired of being a poster child of someone “bravely battling” a chronic condition? It’s time to enjoy some diabetes posters that you might not see at your next Walk to Cure Diabetes event. Share them with others in the diabetes community who might need an excuse to laugh. Posters design by Matt Silcox.

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Social Media and Healthcare: Creating a Healthy Relationship

BHM Healthcare Solutions

As of January 2014, The Pew Research Center calculated that 74% of all adults who were active online used social networking sites*. In the realm of healthcare, consumers are taking to Google and crowd-source review websites, such as Yelp, to learn about healthcare providers and find hospitals in their area. Don’t shy away from a perfect opportunity to connect with your patients.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

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.

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King in the rearview mirror; Good for health IT? — E/C releases new 21st Century draft — Waiting for CMS smoke signal on ICD-10

Morning eHealth

Waiting for CMS smoke signal on ICD-10.

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ACA Triggering Merger Talks Among Insurers

ACA Times

The changes to America’s health care delivery system introduced by the Affordable Care Act are causing some of the nation’s largest health insurance companies to explore merger talks with competitors. The ACA is likely to lead to “consolidation on a huge scale,” according to Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times. Anthem, Inc. has made a merger bid for Cigna Corp., Aetna, Inc. is in discussions with Humana Inc., and UnitedHealth Group Inc. has “made overtures” to Cigna, writes Sorkin, a highly

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I Attended an Afrezza Sales Pitch

Insulin Nation

I was about to take part in a sales pitch for Afrezza, the inhaled insulin product marketed by Sanofi. Being a good reporter, I decided to do some homework before attending the presentation. Ever since the last inhaled insulin product, Exubera, failed in the marketplace, people have been wondering if an inhaled insulin could ever succeed. Mannkind Corporation obtained FDA clearance for its inhaled insulin product, Afrezza, in 2014 and the drug company Sanofi threw its hat in the ring to market A

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A Students with Diabetes Conference Journal

Insulin Nation

When I was in school, I was lucky enough to know a few other students who also had Type 1. For those who go years without meeting another person with diabetes, Nicole Johnson, a former Miss America ’99 with Type 1, founded Students with Diabetes (SWD). The organization is not just for students, per se. Instead, its mission is to “create a community and connection point for young adults with diabetes on both college campuses and in local communities across the country.”.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

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.

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Insurance hackers are from China — Congress still talking about health IT cash — ONC Standards Committee celebrates July 4 early with fireworks-filled meeting

Morning eHealth

Insurance hackers are from China.

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Congress talking health IT cash — Teladoc offers a trend to watch — Medicare struggles to incorporate gene tests for drug metabolism

Morning eHealth

Congress talking health IT cash.

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ACA Repeal Would Cost $353 Billion, Says CBO

ACA Times

A repeal of the Affordable Care Act would increase the federal deficit by $353 billion over the next 10 years, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. Repealing the ACA would also increase the number of people without health insurance by about 19 million in 2016, rising to about 24 million in 2020 and afterward, according to the CBO.