Sat.Oct 25, 2014 - Fri.Oct 31, 2014

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5 Viral T1D Social Media Campaigns

Insulin Nation

'Social media drives discussions on issues, and the diabetes online community is striving to raise awareness about Type 1 diabetes with some creative social media campaigns. As we approach Diabetes Awareness Month 2014, Insulin Nation takes a look at five T1D campaigns trending now: #noT1D. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is spearheading a campaign asking people with Type 1 diabetes and their loved ones to post a message on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr calling for diabetes supp

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Population Health POV — “It’s About Patient Data”

E-CareManagement

As a member of the Editorial Board of Population Health News , I was asked to provide some personal perspectives for the October 2014 issue. Here’s a quick sample: Optimal population health will depend on obtaining and applying the “right” data — data to analyze individuals and populations, discern patterns, predict high risk/cost patients, enable needed behavior change or interventions and measure and monitor progress.

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Global Portraits of Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

'Radiokafka / Shutterstock.com. Life with Type 1 diabetes is challenging for anyone, but more so for those who must manage the condition in resource-poor areas of the world. People living with diabetes in these settings face multiple challenges, such as the unaffordability of insulin, lack of access to care and diabetes education, political strife, and more.

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4 Tips for Surviving Thanksgiving

Insulin Nation

'My maternal grandfather, who was born in the century before the last one and ancient by the time I came along, was a man of few words. When he did speak, it was with the gravitas and pulpit-honed poetry of the two circuit-riding Methodist preachers for which he was named. There was one thing he said every Thanksgiving when my grandmother (whose motto was “No one leaves my table hungry”) would press him to eat another bite of corn pudding or another piece of pumpkin pie.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Bloodletting

Insulin Nation

'By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes…. –Macbeth, Act IV, scene 1, line 45. I make my living as a researcher and copy-editor, but in my spare time, I write dark fiction, mostly noir-tinged crime stories but with a few urban fantasies thrown in for variety. Yes, I confess, I have been known to write about vampires and zombies and the occasional ghoul.

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The Diabetic Chef

Insulin Nation

'The following edited excerpt comes from Dr. Beverly Adler’s book, My Sweet Life with Diabetes: Successful Men with Diabetes. Chris Smith is a Certified Executive Chef and author of Cooking with the Diabetic Chef and The Diabetic Chef’s Year Round Cookbook. While training at the Culinary Institute of America, he endured months of unquenchable thirst, frequent urination, cramps, and fatigue.

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Can I Have Your Number?

Insulin Nation

'My fasting blood sugar was 91 this morning. What was yours? The competitive urge is hardwired into our DNA. It’s the reason we’ve survived as a species. My last A1CN was 5.5. Yours? Humans like to keep score. We like to keep track. We like knowing how we measure up. Are we shorter or taller than average? Is our income higher or lower than the mean?

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Does Insulin Make Us Fat?

Insulin Nation

'The history of human thought is full of some head-scratching wrong turns. For instance, how could the human race’s best thinkers once have proclaimed that the world was flat? Or that the Earth was the center of the universe? Noted science writer Gary Taubes might have some unique insight into how science fiction comes to be regarded as science fact.

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Choosing and Using Your Meter

Insulin Nation

'Gary Scheiner recalls all too clearly his first blood sugar monitor back in 1985: “It required a hanging drop of blood — 20 microliters, which then had to be wrangled onto a square,” he says. “That’s forty times the amount of blood required by today’s monitors!”. Scheiner, who developed diabetes at the age of 18, has witnessed the many changes leading up to today’s new and improved meters.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

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.