Insulin Nation

JANUARY 30, 2015

'Do you ever feel disgruntled that people with Type 1 diabetes don’t show up more often in fiction? We at Insulin Nation have decided to right (write?) this wrong by inserting Type 1 diabetes into some well-known works of fiction. We think the addition of insulin really opens up a whole new dimension into these classics: Harry Potter and the Order of the Endocrinologist.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 30, 2015

Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) data shows enrollment gains in all states, according to the Department of Health and Human Services , with more than 10.1 million additional Americans covered compared to two years ago. That is a 17.5% increase over the average monthly enrolment in 2013, prior to the opening of enrolment in the federal marketplace , the agency reported.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 30, 2015

IHE Connectathon did informal testing of Mobile access to Health Documents (aka #MHD - #XDS on #FHIR. We had 9 different implementations testing at the Connectathon. : Qvera, Caradigm, Relay Health, CareEvolution, CRG Medical, Allscripts, EMC, ONC – Dragon, and an individual effort. MHD has a wide variety of deployment models, leveraging the simplicity of HTTP REST and the data model and interaction model defined in FHIR.

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 30, 2015

'Tired of standing out in a crowd when you test your blood sugar? Frustrated at being the only one who has to count carbs at the lunch table? We hear you. That’s why we imagined a world where Type 1 diabetes was normal, and having a working pancreas was unusual.

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 28, 2015

'Quick Hits. Hypoglycemia is bad, and hypoglycemia unawareness is worse. Drug manufacturers may be making better insulin delivery systems to combat hypoglycemia, but they haven’t yet been able to eliminate the chance that a low can happen. Now a group of U.S. and UK researchers are examining how the brain reacts to hypoglycemia to see if the process can be stopped where it starts.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 27, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to include Oklahoma in the King v. Burwell case that will decide whether residents of 37 states can receive federal subsidies to buy Affordable Care Act health insurance through the federal exchange. Without comment, the high court rejected the request by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to bypass review of his state’s case by a federal appeals court and combine it with the Virginia case the court has accepted for review.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 28, 2015

Almost 137,300 consumers selected Affordable Care Act plans on the federal health insurance exchange during the 10th week of open enrollment, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Jan. 28. Total sign ups topped 7.29 million since the enrollment began Nov. 15, 2014. The most recent report, which covers the period of Jan. 16 to Jan. 23, also included signup statistics for the 37 states that refer their residents to the HealthCare.gov website.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 28, 2015

IHE Connectathon this year had a major disruption caused by TLS/SSL. In hindsight this was very predictable, but those that were feeling the pain were not those that understood what was going on. The problem is that platforms (Operating Systems, Web Servers, Application Servers) have decided to forbid the use of SSL , as it contains too may vulnerabilities and has too many successful attacks against it.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 26, 2015

Following disclosures that private consumer information on Healthcare.gov was being shared with more than 30 private companies, the Obama administration curtailed outside access to the Affordable Care Act data. Privacy advocates had found that 30 to 50 companies had been given access to a consumer’s information such as tobacco use and income, although without names or social security numbers.The government said the purpose was to customize the information viewed by website users to make it more

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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.

ACA Times

JANUARY 29, 2015

Americans are not paying much attention to the King v. Burwell case now before the Supreme Court, which will decide if residents 37 states qualify for Act subsidies to buy, but a majority favor Congress acting to preserve those subsidies if the court rules them illegal. More than half the public (56%) says they have heard “nothing at all” about the case, and another three in 10 say they have heard “only a little.

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