American Well
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Dr. Stephen Matta began his medical journey in 2010 when he started his family medicine residency. An avid sports fan, Dr. Matta then decided to pursue a sports medicine fellowship, and eventually ended up working in an urgent care setting. One day while Dr. Matta was working, the patient he was treating mentioned that she had recently received care from a doctor online.
Health System CIO
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
When it comes to transitioning from face-to-face to video visits, clinicians still have trepidation, and the onus is on leaders to assuage those fears by addressing the reimbursement and integration questions, says Joe Kvedar. It started 20 years ago with a vision to leverage technology to improve access to care and efficiency. But instead of the iPhones and FitBits that are driving care today, it was a camera the size of a shoebox that offered game-changing potential.
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Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
In a new set of guidelines for Type 1 diabetes and exercise, I and my fellow researchers warn that people with Type 1 diabetes need to monitor for elevated levels of ketones during exercise. If you have Type 1 and exercise regularly, testing for ketones could save your life. Ketones develop in our bodies when we mobilize fat as fuel. Fat is an important energy source that is used by the body at rest and during exercise.
The Healthcare Guys
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Institutions in all industry sectors have made significant IT moves into the cloud (which basically means they’ve outsourced their data centers and server infrastructure). Most companies that have transformed their IT departments to be cloud first are gaining efficiencies and productivity improvements in all areas of IT. Other than being surprised by costs being higher in some cases than they expected, very few IT professionals dislike anything about the cloud enough to go back from cloud
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American Well
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Dr. Stephen Matta began his medical journey in 2010 when he started his family medicine residency. An avid sports fan, Dr. Matta then decided to pursue a sports medicine fellowship, and eventually ended up working in an urgent care setting. One day while Dr. Matta was working, the patient he was treating mentioned that she had recently received care from a doctor online.
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Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Insulin Nation and CNN have reported on the death of Kevin Houdeshell, who died of diabetic ketoacidosis after he was denied a refill on an expired prescription of insulin. Houdeshell’s death prompted a new law in Ohio that gave pharmacists the right to refill expired prescriptions in certain cases. There’s now a report out of Australia of a person with Type 1 diabetes who claims she was denied a prescription of insulin by a doctor, even as she pleaded with the doctor that she was running out of
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Post election, in December of 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began to issue out notices to employers who may have failed to comply with the ACA. These notices appear to be the first salvo in the IRS ACA audit process. Failure to successfully defend this audit could mean significant ACA related penalties. These penalties, which include the Section 4980H penalties and Section 6721 and 6722 penalties, may be imposed on Applicable large employers (ALEs), namely, those employers with 50 or
Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Healthcare IT News interviewed Kaiser Permanente CIO Dick Daniels and he shared his perspective on Kaiser Permanente’s holistic model and the value of the consumer in the care equation. “Consumer expectations and needs are a primary consideration for everything we do,” Daniels said. “We believe that individuals need to have access to information and services in ways that are welcoming and convenient to them in order to manage their health effectively.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
In February 2017, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it has funded four important trials of artificial pancreas technology, and that the first of the four trials was already underway. The funding, totaling some $41 million in grants, was provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, which is part of the NIH.
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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
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
From November 1, 2016 through January 31, 2017, Healthcare.gov launched its open enrollment period for new and returning consumers to obtain coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace. Our infographic shows the final figures, though several changes in the political system contributed to the ups and downs of enrollment. Just one week into open enrollment , Donald Trump was elected President, as enrollment surged and by December’s end had broken a new record.
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
New remarks from President Trump are now suggesting that the Affordable Care Act won’t see an immediate repeal or replacement until well into the next year. While that may be great news for some, for others it’s simply a Band-Aid over a growing battle among the ACA, the American people, and their leaders. At any moment, the ACA could be repealed and replaced, regardless of what’s publicly uttered by the Trump Administration.
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
On February 1, members of the Senate convened at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in DC, discussing a variety of topics from tax reform regarding import/export within the country’s borders to the eventual repeal and replacement bill of the Affordable Care Act. Republican Senate Finance Committee (SFC) Chairman Orrin G. Hatch from Utah commented significantly on the fate of the ACA, specifically citing that all ACA-related taxes “need to go.”.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
American voters have long been divided on the Affordable Care Act. A survey of four recent polls found that 47.3 percent of those surveyed approve of the landmark healthcare law, and 48 percent disapprove of it, according to RealClearPolitics. (Incidentally, another poll found that 35 percent of respondents didn’t know that the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare were the same thing, the New York Times reports.).
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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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