Insulin Nation
MARCH 15, 2016
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare – a 15-year-old with Type 1 diabetes who dies from lack of insulin. When first reading such a story, the natural instinct is to throw up a mental shield by looking for an obvious villain in this case. Doing so, however, might cover up an important lesson to be learned by such a tragedy. First, let’s give this young man a name – Blake Cook, from Basingstoke, a midsized city in central England.
American Well
MARCH 17, 2016
As Albert Einstein once said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” At American Well, we recognize that telehealth is a new or budding concept for a lot of people in a lot of different industries. Our goal is to help you understand how telehealth can work for you and what exactly all these buzzwords mean. Here are the top telehealth terms we think every person new to the industry should know: ACOs: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of doctors, hosp
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Docnotes
MARCH 16, 2016
Lots of news about this recently. Five years ago, you would shake your head and say “no way – not in my lifetime.” Now you know that this is our future. It will be safer, will save billions of dollars, and will be have positive consequences we can barely imagine. The kids need to go to soccer practice? Send them. Get the dog to the vet for his check-up?
ACA Times
MARCH 16, 2016
As an applicable large employer (ALE) with at least 50 full-time and full-time equivalent employees, the Affordable Care Act requires employers to offer health coverage to their employees. If they do not, they are subject to certain penalties. Employers should ask themselves a series of questions to understand these penalties. If the employer did not offer health coverage which is called “minimum essential coverage” to at least 70% of full-time employees and their families for 2015, and at least
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Insulin Nation
MARCH 17, 2016
We’ve come a long way in diabetes care, but we’ve also come a long way in videos about diabetes. Check out these vintage spots on diabetes and diabetes charities to see how people used to talk about diabetes: 1. This video from the 1950’s teaches how to control blood sugar by testing the sugar in urine. As you watch this, picture having to store urine in glass tubes and test it in glass beakers, all to get outdated blood sugar readings.
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Medicine and Technology
MARCH 13, 2016
March 14 is a fun day for math enthusiasts who celebrate Pi (3.1416 - if you round up)! Trying to calculate the area of a circle? The circumference? You'll need Pi for those calculations. The admissions office at MIT is famous for handing out decisions on Pi day. Did you also know that 3.14 is Albert Einstein’s birthday? Celebrate Pi Day with a piece of pie!
ACA Times
MARCH 14, 2016
While the Affordable Care Act has posed some questions and conflicts with certain states, it appears that Wisconsin may be the most conflicted. Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel reports that Wisconsin has opposed a fee of about $23 million set forth by the Affordable Care Act in an effort to cover. Medicaid costs through profit-earning insurance companies.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 16, 2016
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 – What are the warning signs that a wound could become something worse with diabetes?
American Well
MARCH 13, 2016
From infancy thru adolescence and into young adulthood, the ability to access quality healthcare can often determine if a child will mature healthy, or be afflicted with a lifelong condition that might have otherwise been avoided. Providers worldwide are using telehealth to break down barriers and find unique new ways to reach children and their parents.
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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.
American Well
MARCH 13, 2016
From infancy thru adolescence and into young adulthood, the ability to access quality healthcare can often determine if a child will mature healthy, or be afflicted with a lifelong condition that might have otherwise been avoided. Providers worldwide are using telehealth to break down barriers and find unique new ways to reach children and their parents.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 17, 2016
The old Dick Tracy Sunday strip included a small section called the “Crimestoppers Textbook,” a continuing professional education resource for members of Dick’s Crimestoppers network. At least quarterly, it featured a case analysis under the heading Non Compos Mentis , which discussed times when a dimwitted perpetrator left his engraved cigarette lighter at an arson scene or his wallet on the counter during a bank heist.
ACA Times
MARCH 16, 2016
In April of last year, the Center on Budget and Policy Properties (“CBPP”) released a report detailing which states have and have not expanded their Medicaid program to low-income adults through the Affordable Care Act. At that time, 21 states had yet to jump on board, including Virginia, Florida, Texas, and several others. The assumption of some states was that the ACA and Medicaid expansion would present severe financial burdens.
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