Digital Health

JUNE 25, 2014

One thing the tech software industry is great at is failing fast. This concept of “failing fast” means, at least in part, rapidly bringing the “minimum viable product” to market, even if it’s a little rocky and feature-light, and then fixing it as it gets adopted by iterating with new releases. We see this all the time in software-driven products and even with some hardware ones, such as mobile phones.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 25, 2014

'There’s a famous rule among theatrical types that if a gun appears on stage in the first act of the play, it better go off sometime before the curtain closes. The same holds true when it comes to Type 1 diabetes. As this video shows, if a person with Type 1 diabetes shows up in a movie, chances are high that his or her condition is going to be an issue.

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American Well

JUNE 23, 2014

A new survey found 60 percent of physicians sent work-related text messages from their personal devices, and 61 percent received work-related text messages. Of those doctors, only 11 percent said their hospital offered a secure messaging service, while 58 percent were not sure. The survey, which was published in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health, was conducted by University of Kansas researchers and reported on by MobiHealth News.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 26, 2014

'Because soccer matches televised in the United States do not deliver high ratings, most of the country’s sports fans rarely get the chance to see how physically demanding soccer can be. But for those of us watching the World Cup in high definition, it is clear that “football” is a grueling 90-minute workout. Watching can lead the casual observer with Type 1 diabetes to wonder if insulin-dependent athletes could excel at such a sport.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 24, 2014

'Basal insulin was supposed to be a help for novelist Katherine Marple, but instead it became the bane of her existence. A few years back, Marple’s doctor switched her to Lantus to help control some of the peaks and valleys of her blood glucose levels. Shortly after the switch, she soon felt pain with each Lantus injection. ”It felt like I was injecting fire,” says Marple, who has Type 1 diabetes.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 25, 2014

'Throughout July, we’re featuring excerpts from Ginger Vieira’s new book, Dealing with Diabetes Burnout. In this first of four edited excerpts from the book, the longtime life coach and diabetes advocate describes the pressure everyone with diabetes feels to be perfect: Have you ever wanted to be one of those perfect diabetics? Me too. As people living with diabetes, we can’t help but compare ourselves to that “perfect patient” our doctors, parents, boyfriends, wives, strangers, and friends all

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 27, 2014

'I sometimes laugh when I look back at my personal diabetes research graveyard. All of the research that I have worked on over the past 30 years, so many ideas, some with a greater degree of success than others…you have to be comfortable with failure to be a research scientist. Decades ago, my team designed a computer program that proved to help patients lower their A1C and gave personalized reports and advice in a colorful poster; such an antiquated program would now be laughed at by the

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American Well

JUNE 23, 2014

A new survey found 60 percent of physicians sent work-related text messages from their personal devices, and 61 percent received work-related text messages. Of those doctors, only 11 percent said their hospital offered a secure messaging service, while 58 percent were not sure. The survey, which was published in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health, was conducted by University of Kansas researchers and reported on by MobiHealth News.

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