Insulin Nation

JUNE 2, 2015

When Jill Eastman was a child, she once told her doctor she needed to switch from injections to pills. She had been dealing with Type 1 diabetes since she was 18 months old, and she was just tired of the injections. The doctor told her she would never be able to stop injecting insulin. He was wrong. This June marks a decade since Eastman, a California realtor , regularly injected herself with insulin, thanks to a pair of islet cell transplants conducted by the Diabetes Research Institute.

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Health System CIO

JUNE 2, 2015

NextGen’s community HIE Attesting to MU 2 (acute in 2014, ambulatory in 2015) Push & pull methods of data exchange CRISP’s magic button to give docs “a broader scale of information.” Patient-centered medical homes: “It’s not just high tech; it’s high touch.” Maryland eCare “We’re the mouse that roars” In the current health system landscape, where organizations just keep growing, Calvert Health System is considered to be quite small.

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ACA Times

JUNE 2, 2015

Companies seem to have enjoyed excellent financial during the Act’s first year implementation, despite being forbidden by the law to turn down individuals with pre-existing medical conditions or charge them higher premiums. According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation , a key company profitability known as the “medical loss ratio” will range from 81% to 87% for policies for 2014 when all the figures (which are reported to state regulators) are available.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 5, 2015

The ADA Scientific Sessions is the kind of place where you hear a lot praise for technological advances in diabetes care. Diabetes researcher Dr. Simon Heller, however, provided a note of caution to our technological exuberance. In his presentation, Dr. Heller, the chair of the clinical diabetes department at the University of Sheffield (UK), presented data that showed pumps and CGMs haven’t cut rates of hypoglycemia.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 5, 2015

In the opening minutes of the ADA Scientific Sessions Conference in Boston, Medtronic struck the first blow to win hearts and minds. The medical device manufacturer announced in a series of press releases a new FDA green light and two new partnerships all aimed at helping people with diabetes to access and share pump and continuous glucose monitor (CGM) readings in the cloud.

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ACA Times

JUNE 3, 2015

Officials from at least 16 states met in early May for a confidential, unannounced meeting to discuss options available to their states if the Supreme Court rules against the Obama administration in the King v. Burwell case. The Wall Street Journal disclosed the meeting. According to reporters Louise Radnofsky and Stephanie Armour, the officials concluded they would have no practical way to respond to a ruling that would strike down subsidies in the 34 states that do not operate their own health

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ACA Times

JUNE 5, 2015

The House Ways and Means Committee approved H.R. 160, which would repeal the 2.3% excise tax on medical device manufacturers imposed under the Affordable Care Act and intended to help cover some of the costs of the law. The bill is expected to be considered soon by the full House. “It’s an iron law of economics that when you tax something, you tax something, you get less of it, so we’ve really got our wires crossed here,” Committee Chair Rep.

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