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My First Year with Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

It’s Halloween weekend, 2015 and I’m traveling to New Orleans with a friend to attend a music festival. Something is wrong with me, I know that; I don’t feel well. My girlfriend and I have noted I get up at night to pee, and I’m thirsty beyond belief and very tired. My trip to New Orleans becomes the most fun and most dangerous trip of my life. Using the bathroom every hour, drinking too much too often, dehydrated beyond belief, sleeping not much at all.

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Five Ways a Good Digital Health Registry Addresses Healthcare System Needs

The Digital Health Corner

Registries have traditionally been viewed as static repositories of data to be reviewed in a summary fashion after a predetermined time period. The expanding need for drilled down relevant data has led to the development of creative sophisticated data analytics technologies. We have witnessed the transformation of registry data collection which now includes curation of relevant raw data ranging from medical images and pathology slides to genomics.

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Temporary Nondiscrimination Relief Gets Another Year Extension By IRS

ACA Times

As Closed Defined Benefit Plans are still being worked out rules-wise, the IRS has provided an extension to an important aspect of qualified plans. In a notice released toward the close of September, the IRS has extended Temporary Nondiscrimination Relief. Notice 2016-57 explains that for another year, temporary relief may be provided for closed defined benefit plans.

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Here’s What You Used to Treat Type 1 Diabetes in the 60’s and 70’s

Insulin Nation

In this excerpt from The Savvy Diabetic – A Survival Guide , diabetes activist Joanne Milo reminisces about diabetes treatment strategies and tools from yesteryear: I immediately started on insulin injections, initially administered by Dad, an engineer but secretly a wannabe surgeon. He was outstanding at giving painless shots. But, given the psychological thinking of the time, the doctor thought it was “unwise” for a father to give injections to a prepubescent daughter.

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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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Por qué yo llamo el 670G un páncreas artificial

Insulin Nation

Comentario. Tan pronto estalló la noticia de que la FDA había aprobado el Medtronic 670G se ha iniciado el debate sobre si merecía ser etiquetado como un páncreas artificial. Quería ofrecer mis pensamientos sobre el porqué, como el director editorial de una publicación de noticias sobre diabetes, me sentí cómodo usando el término para este sistema híbrido automatizado de bomba-y-CGM.

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Los pros y los contras de la terapia con bomba de insulina.

Insulin Nation

Nota del editor: En su libro, Think Like A Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes With Insulin, el educador certificado Gary Scheiner dedica un capítulo sobre los fundamentos de la terapia con bomba de insulina. Mientras los estudios muestran que el tratamiento con bomba, cuando se hace bien, conduce a un mejor control del azúcar en la sangre, no es para todo el mundo.

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How to (Possibly) Make Oral Insulin Possible

Insulin Nation

People with Type 1 diabetes, by necessity, become accustomed to an endless amount of needles and bloodletting. Most would drop everything, however, to switch to pills instead of shots, if given the choice. New research seems to suggest that tiny particles which could pass easily into the body might help drugmakers replace injectable drugs with orally administered alternatives in the near future.

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News From Washington: ACA Has To Tighten Up Pediatric Dental Care

ACA Times

When it comes to healthcare under the Affordable Care Act, many points of coverage can often be an afterthought. QHPs, or “qualified health plans,” are required to fulfill ten “essential benefits” under the ACA’s mandate. Among those ten is pediatric dental care. However, the QHP need not itself provide pediatric dental care. Instead, a plan does not lose “QHP” status if a stand-alone dental plan offering pediatric dental care is also offered.

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Updated Forms 1094-C And 1095-C Are Here

ACA Times

The IRS has released the final updated Forms 1094-C and 1095-C,and while there aren’t many modifications, there are some changes of note. As you probably already know, Form 1094-C is the Transmittal of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage Information Returns and Form 1095-C is the Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage.

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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.

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Individual Shared Responsibility Payment? Not For Everyone

ACA Times

For many, the Individual Shared Responsibility payment is another irritating factor of healthcare as it can add to yet another unforeseen financial burden to the pockets of Americans. However, we learned earlier in the month that a bill was proposed to exempt this Mandate for some, should their CO-OP qualified healthcare plan be terminated. On September 27th , the House approved that bill.