Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

'Editor’s Note – In early 2014, a Miss Manners advice column suggested that people with diabetes should wait until they find a discreet place to test their blood sugars rather than test in public view. That column caused strong feelings among the diabetes community on both sides. In this column, author and life coach Laura Kronen takes the opposite position while responding to public reaction to a photo of herself injecting insulin in public.

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SightCall

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

“Thump, thump, thump, thump,” Jennifer can hear and feel her heart rate rising as she picks up her speed during her morning run. Feeling the sweat drip down her neck while simultaneously feeling the cold wind, she begins to get in her zone. Looking down at her smart watch, she reads 152 BPM (Beats Per Minute), her target rate zone. Knowing this information, she continues at that pace to increase her overall cardiovascular fitness.

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E-CareManagement

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

December 3-4, 2014 . San Diego, CA. Technology-Enabled Consumer Engagement & Behavior Change. Register by November 17th to receive a $100 early bird discount. The Healthcare Unbound Conference will focus on technology- enabled consumer engagement and behavior change. Technologies to be discussed include wearables, mHealth, remote monitoring, eHealth and social media.

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ACA Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Employer’s won’t be able to use so-called “skinny” health plans to meet coverage requirements of the Affordable Care Act , according to a notice issued Nov. 4 by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The agencies issued Notice 2014-69, which said employers cannot use plans that sharply limit for inpatient hospital services and/or physician services to meet the “ minimum Value” requirements of Internal Revenue Code section 4980H , commonly refer

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'People who pay for Lantus might be puzzled if they hear that the company that makes the popular insulin is in trouble. In 2013, sales of Lantus earned Sanofi some $8 billion, and the drug company felt comfortable enough to raise the price of its basal insulin twice in a year. Yet recent headlines suggest that Sanofi is in a financial bind, in part because of the threat of the flagging fortunes of its Lantus franchise.

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E-CareManagement

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

A number of pundits are citing the systemic failure of ACOs, after additional Pioneer ACOs announced withdrawal from the program – Where do you weigh in on the prognosis for Medicare and Commercial ACOs over the next several years?” Republished courtesy of MCOL. Mark Lutes Chair, Board of Directors, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Certainly, if we dial back the rhetoric and the expectations for immediate system -wide transformation, we can expect accountable care organizations to ma

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ACA Times

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

A key element the Act – the way the administration is distributing subsidies – is the subject a challenge that the Supreme Court today (Nov. 7, 2014) agreed to hear. Plaintiffs in the case, King v. Burwell , argue that the federal practices for handling the subsidies goes beyond what the 2010 Act authorized, and is therefore an unconstitutional encroachment on authority to control federal spending.

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'Do you find that you can’t look at food without thinking of carb counts? Do visions of blood sugar readings dance in your head? You’re not alone. People with Type 1 diabetes just look at the world differently. Using special (made-up) technology, we track Type 1 thoughts of a young woman in this video in preparation for World Diabetes Day: Is this the way you look at the world?

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

'I was chatting with a teacher at my children’s elementary school when the secretary interrupted. “Mrs. Humayun,” she said. “Zayd is 20!”. I imagined my son passed out on the floor with paramedics hovering over him. I walked in to find him grinning foolishly. He was excited. “Mom, I’m 20! This is the lowest I’ve been and I can walk around. See?”. He walked around to prove it.

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

'The following edited excerpt comes from Dr. Beverly Adler’s book, My Sweet Life with Diabetes: Successful Men with Diabetes. Let’s get this out of the way right now: Diabetes is a pain in the butt. Think about it: you have all the “usual” responsibilities of work, school, family, and home, and then all the tasks associated with a chronic health condition piled on.

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'Deadly Time Changes. Both your computer and your smart phone automatically change clock settings when Daylight Savings Time ends…so you would think a lifesaving device like an insulin pump would do it, too. Not so, warn researchers in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. Insulin pump users still need to change their clock settings , and some forget to do so, according to a report of the findings in Healio Endocrine Today.

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'At the tail end of October, Glu and T1D Exchange launched the “Smash Diabetes” campaign to raise awareness of the everyday frustration of living with Type 1 and funds for diabetes research. The campaign encourages those affected by Type 1 to smash leftover Halloween pumpkins in creative ways. Insulin Nation has picked our 7 favorite videos (so far) of people participating in the campaign: Batter up.

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