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Five Reasons why the FDA got it Right with Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

The FDA recently announced its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan. This plan was both important and necessary. Digital health differs significantly from drugs and traditional medical devices around which the FDA has developed its structure and policies over decades. Digital health software technologies have far less involvement by clinicians in product development than Pharma or medical device companies.

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The Soccer Star with Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

The Major League Soccer (MLS) champion Seattle Sounders have a bright future as a franchise, with plenty of young, budding superstars on the team. This includes forward Jordan Morris, who has Type 1 diabetes. Morris, a Seattle-area native, has already cemented himself as one of the top forwards in the MLS, and many analysts believe we have yet to see the best of his abilities.

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The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Kirk Nahra on the complications of healthcare privacy

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I listen to podcasts. I have recently come across " The Privacy Advisor Podcast ". From the perspective of Privacy, this podcast does a fantastic job. Further Angelique is fun to listen to. I suspect each podcast we learn a bit more about her, very unusual for a Privacy Advisor. But then again Privacy Principles do enable the subject to expose their data as they wish, a form of control.

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The DOL, HSAs and the New Fiduciary Rule

ACA Times

After numerous delays, the Department of Labor put its final fiduciary rule, which was issued on April 8, 2016, into partial effect on June 9 this year, but with enforcement full implementation on January 1, 2018. The Final Rule, which explicitly reiterates its scope to cover Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) , raises new potential issues for HSAs by the Final Rule’s expansion of “investment advice fiduciary” under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

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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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Max Domi – An NHL Hockey Player with Type 1

Insulin Nation

Competing in the National Hockey League presents a long list of daily challenges, including how to capitalize on scoring chances, avoid the big hits, and maintain the physique needed to compete day in and day out. Along with this, Max Domi of the Arizona Coyotes must balance his glucose levels both on and off the ice. sponsor. Domi was first diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was 12 years old.

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An Action Hero with Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

After countless movies and books where people with Type 1 diabetes are portrayed as victims, we finally have a hero. Author KJ Howe has made the main protagonist in her latest novel, Freedom Broker , a woman with Type 1 diabetes. In this thriller, Thea Paris (not pictured above) is an elite specialist who negotiates freedom for kidnap victims and leads extraction teams when diplomacy fails.

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Jay Cutler Un-Retires to Sign with the Miami Dolphins

Insulin Nation

Football fans in the Type 1 diabetes community who were looking for someone to root for after Jay Cutler retired in February have found that player: Jay Cutler. The veteran quarterback with Type 1 diabetes has come out of retirement to sign a 1-year, $10 million deal with the Miami Dolphins, according to multiple media reports. sponsor. Cutler even brought his Twitter account of out of semi-retirement to verify the news: Fins Up!

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5 Questions About Type 1 Diabetes and Mental Health Answered

Insulin Nation

Dr. Beverly Adler (aka “Dr. Bev”, right) is an award-winning certified diabetes educator and diabetes psychologist. She has combined her first-hand knowledge of living with Type 1 diabetes with a PhD in clinical psychology to serve the mental health needs of those within the diabetes community. She’s also written two self-help books and many articles, and does speaking engagements.

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What Do You Think about the Price of Insulin?

Insulin Nation

Drug pricing has been in the news a lot in recent months. We’d like to get your opinion on how the price of insulin has impacted you. Answer the four questions below and enter your email for a chance to win a $25 Starbucks gift card. (If the survey doesn’t show up right on your device, please click here to take it: [link] ). Loading… Do you have an idea you would like to write about for Insulin Nation?

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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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A Viral Diabetes Awareness Story Gets More Private?

Insulin Nation

UPDATE 8/11/2017 – 12:30 pm (EST) – Several readers are reporting seeing Ben’s post, still, but so far I have not been able to. I might have been blocked from seeing the post by Ben for some reason, or it may be a random glitch. I will keep you posted. The title, subtitle, and URL of this story have been updated to reflect that uncertainty.

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Order Word Understand Not Is

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Keith has written a humorous yet very informative article " Order Word Import Not Is ". This article points out that although there is a right order for words in a sentence, we tend to understand even when the words are in awful painful order. So, I very much agree with Keith that people can handle it when words are in diffeent order, and even when they are the wrong word but spelled close.

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Draft IRS ACA Reporting Forms for 2017 Are Out, Transition Relief for Companies Is Over

ACA Times

The IRS has released drafts of forms 1094-C and 1095-C for use in reporting ACA-mandated information for the 2017 tax year. You can view the draft forms at these links: [link]. [link]. Any comments you may have about these draft forms can be entered at this link. The IRS confirmed that the various forms of transition relief under section 4980H that had been made available in 2015 and 2016 to ALEs that fit specific situations are no longer available for 2017 tax year reporting.

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2 Reasons Why Employers Should Care About the IRS Individual Mandate Report

ACA Times

A recently released report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) on IRS notifications in regards to the ACA’s individual mandate has potential implications for employers. TIGTA, at the end of July, issued a report focused on the IRS implementation of the notification requirement for individual filers not enrolled in health insurance.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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Congress Moves Toward Bipartisan Approaches to Address Healthcare Issues

ACA Times

A spirit of bipartisanship in Congress seems to be rising from the rubble of the failed Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The first test of this new bipartisanship approach will come this month when the White House must make the next round of government cost sharing reduction payments to insurance carriers on August 21 that fund the subsidies for the health insurance obtained by about seven million Americans through the Healthcare Marketplace.

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