Insulin Nation
APRIL 4, 2014
'If you want to experience the emotional rollercoaster that comes with rooting for Afrezza, an inhalable insulin product, look no further than the stock price of Mannkind, Afrezza’s creator. Leading up to a FDA panel review of Afrezza on April 1st, Mannkind shares tanked badly. But once FDA advisors came back with a surprise 13-1 vote in favor of Afrezza for treating T1, the price of Mannkind’s shares shot up 75% in just 4 days.
eHealth
APRIL 2, 2014
Full title is, “Chronic Kidney Disease in an Electronic Health Record Problem List: Quality of Care, ESRD, and Mortality” published in the American Journal of Nephrolog y. It has implications for CKD but other chronic conditions as well regarding the appropriate use of problem lists in the EMR. With CKD, diabetes and other chronic conditions which can be initially diagnosed with a lab test (eGFR for CKD), early identification is possible.
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Chilmark Research
MARCH 31, 2014
This week, I read an article from February that provided an overview of the health IT infrastructure required for population health management (PHM). It had thorough examples and some nice graphical depictions of delivery systems and budding ACOs taking on the challenge of marrying encounter data from claims systems with clinical data from EHR to create “a 360 degree view of the patient.”.
Insulin Nation
APRIL 2, 2014
'In the book typecast , Andrew Deutscher profiles everyday heroes in the T1 community. In this excerpt, he introduces us to Tom Karlya, a diabetes dad who has made it his mission to raise money for the Diabetes Research Institute. Of all the roles that actor Tom Karlya has played, it is his undertaking as a diabetes dad that will end up earning him some kind of lifetime achievement award.
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Insulin Nation
APRIL 1, 2014
'Last November, the most intense tropical storm in documented history hit the Philippines, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless. For disaster relief groups, getting people food, water, and shelter after such a disaster isn’t easy. It’s exponentially more tricky to help those with chronic diseases like Type 1 diabetes, says Carol Atkinson, a U.S. program coordinator for Insulin for Life, an international non-profit that collects and distributes diabetes supplies for people in developi
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