Insulin Nation

JUNE 30, 2015

From Utah comes a tragic story of Kaden Jones, a 13-year-old who died unexpectedly from diabetic complications the morning after his first day at basketball camp in July 2014. The story has received brief coverage in the Salt Lake Tribune , regional television news, and the local paper in the young man’s hometown of St. George. There has been a wrongful death suit filed by the young man’s parents alleging negligence on the part of the basketball camp.

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American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

Welcome to the first installment of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today, #tday for all you Twitter users. Each month, Avizia will provide a recap of the latest industry news and public policy updates on issues impacting the use and deployment of telemedicine. CMS Issues New Telemedicine Guidelines and Approves Seven New Procedures in Move to Further Encourage Telehealth Initiatives.

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Morning eHealth

JUNE 29, 2015

Texas governor signs information exchange bill.

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ACA Times

JULY 3, 2015

The US Court of Appeals has denied a religious college’s request to bar the government from enforcing the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that insurance plans cover the cost of all legal forms of contraception. Wheaton College, a nondenominational evangelical Christian college in Illinois, had sought an injunction that would have the effect of blocking coverage for interuterine devices (IUDs) and medications that prevent a fertilized ovum from implanting in the uterine wall.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 29, 2015

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 – Last night I read a post about an insulin pump malfunctioning, which might have resulted in someone’s death.

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Morning eHealth

JUNE 30, 2015

SCOTUS hears health data sharing case.

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ACA Times

JULY 2, 2015

The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that insurers offer coverage to everyone, including those with serious pre-existing medical expenses, has not resulted in a surge of hight-cost claims. The federal agency that reinsurers commercial insurers against claims between $45,000 and $250,000 said that the number of such claims was lower than expected. As a result, it will cover 100% of the claims, rather than the 80% it could have paid if expenses had exceeded projections.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 29, 2015

Researchers have been trying to find ways to prevent Type 1 from developing in young children who are genetically prone to the condition. One way might be to create a vaccine that can trigger a measured immune system response to insulin in the bodies of these children; this would, in theory, safeguard against the body later having a hyperactive response to insulin and destroying all insulin-producing beta cells.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 29, 2015

The quality of diabetes care implemented at hospitals for inpatients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in the UK is less than satisfactory, according to a Diabetes Times (UK) article. Dr. Gerry Rayman, services director for Ipswich Hospital’s diabetes center, has strongly advised that the National Health Service (NHS) take immediate action to correct diabetes care problems in hospitals across the UK.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 30, 2015

The Diabetes Research Connection (DRC) is a new organization that helps fresh-on-the-scene scientists conduct Type 1 research. The group believes that innovative research is often done by early-career scientists, and that good ideas shouldn’t languish until researchers get tenure. They point to the success of young scientists who have done groundbreaking work, including Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity in his twenties, and Frederick Banting and Charles Best, who created in

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Morning eHealth

JULY 1, 2015

ONC Committee structure shuffle.

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Morning eHealth

JULY 2, 2015

New CMS rule boosts telehealth.

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ACA Times

JUNE 29, 2015

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the administration’s position in the ‘King v. Burwell’ case, supporting the legality of Affordable Care Act subsidies in all states, residents and legislators in states that have declined to expand Medicaid coverage are pondering what that ruling means to them. Drafters of the ACA assumed all states would take advantage of the law’s offer to cover most or all of the cost of expanding Medicaid coverage to include all Americans whose income was belo

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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.

Insulin Nation

JUNE 29, 2015

These days, you can Google cure-all remedies for any condition. We’ve assembled a list of four treatments that supposedly cure or reverse diabetes, at least according to the internet. (Many of these supposed cures don’t distinguish between Type 1 and Type 2.). The Pop-up Ad. After clicking on a small, stock-photo-image that claims a single piece of foreign fruit will destroy diabetes, a new internet tab opens up, prompting a video with a voice-over that doesn’t talk about fruit.

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ACA Times

JULY 2, 2015

Information is now available online for 11.4 million financial transactions paid by drug and medical device suppliers to 600,000 physicians and 1,100 teaching hospitals. The payments total $6.49 billion. The data, gathered in 2014, was published by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as part of its Open Payments program, and can be downloaded or searched online.

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