Insulin Nation

APRIL 19, 2016

Insulin Nation recognizes the everyday heroism of people affected by Type 1 diabetes. We’ve created the Everyday Hero series to profile individuals, or families who have gone above and beyond to help the Type 1 diabetes community. As a parent of a child with Type 1, Gina Garaci keeps one eye on the field as her son plays football and the other eye fixed intently on her Pebble to watch his blood sugar levels.

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ACA Times

APRIL 22, 2016

As the Affordable Care Act continues to build in momentum, many have dissected the bill and come to a series of possible improvements for the ACA. In an article printed in the Huffington Post, Dr. Stephen Ondra — Chief Medical Officer for the HCSC , the largest consumer-owned health insurance company in the U.S.—provided a detailed analysis of ways the Affordable Care Act can be improved.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 20, 2016

Updated: Vadim Peretokin advises on the FHIR chat : You're better off in the world if you know about this stuff though. [link] lists some XML-related vulnerabilities and is pretty easy to learn from. It has happened again. This time Michael Lawley reported that the HAPI reference implementation was susceptible to XXE attack -- Grahame's email to the FHIR list: Yesterday, Michael Lawley reported that the HAPI reference implementation had a security flaw in that it was susceptible to the XXE attac

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 18, 2016

The FDA reported that Dexcom has issued a voluntary recall for their G4 Platinum and G5 Mobile Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGM). The company has undertaken the recall because of reports that the G4 and G5 audible alarm systems are not sounding. The FDA is treating this recall as a Class I recall, meaning device failure could cause serious injury or death.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 21, 2016

The BBC has taken some heat recently from the diabetes community for having shows with inaccurate and insensitive depictions of diabetes. Last year, a drama called The Syndicate seemed to show hypoglycemia being treated with insulin. More recently, a character in the long-running soap EastEnders joked, “If the kids don’t give themselves diabetes, it’s not a good party.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 21, 2016

We know our readers must become experts on diabetes to stay on top of daily blood sugar levels. That’s why we created this quiz as a fun way for you to test your diabetes trivia knowledge. Click on the photo below to take our diabetes quiz and see if you are an expert when it comes to Type 1 diabetes trivia. We’ll send a $5 Starbucks giftcard to one person we draw at random from those who score expert level on the first try.

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ACA Times

APRIL 21, 2016

The Kaiser Family Foundation released a report that detailed the rates of health benefits offered to individuals. In 1999, 66% of firms offered health benefits to their employees, and that figure remained somewhat consistent until 2004, at which point the percentage dropped to 60%. It rose the following year by 1%, though dropped 2% to a total of 59% in 2007.

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ACA Times

APRIL 21, 2016

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a report, detailing a ten-year plan on Health Insurance for those 65 and under from 2016 through 2026. The 40-page report discusses the various subsidies offered to those 65 and under, with an estimation (in conjunction with the Joint Committee on Taxation – JCT ) of said subsidies totaling in excess of $600 billion for 2016.

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ACA Times

APRIL 20, 2016

Since 2014, prescription drug costs have continued to rise, due in part to specialized medications for advancements in the treatment of various medical conditions. While these advancements have proven beneficial to patients, they continue to arrive with a hefty price tag. The Kaiser Family Foundation released a detailed analysis regarding prescription drug costs.

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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

APRIL 19, 2016

Under the Affordable Care Act , individuals and families are generally required to have minimum essential coverage in order to avoid year-end penalties or shared responsibility payments. This coverage can be obtained in several ways, including through the Health Insurance Marketplace , direct purchase from a healthcare provider, and receiving health care coverage from an employer sponsored plan.

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ACA Times

APRIL 18, 2016

For many employers, this is their first year reporting employee health care coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act. Required employers include those that are ALEs,or Applicable Large Employers with 50 or more full-time employees and equivalents. The reporting appears simple at face value but in execution, the process was not due to several reasons.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 18, 2016

I was in a discussion around HL7 v2 vs FHIR lately. The technical merits of FHIR were not being debated. The technical merits were understood and agreed. The only outstanding difference is network bandwidth efficiency and processing expense. There is really nothing one can do in FHIR that one can't do in HL7 v2. Yet the question persisted, what is the reason why FHIR will win over a more compact solution like HL7 v2?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 18, 2016

I asked for use-cases on the FHIR chat so that I could model them. This effort to model use-cases is useful as it helps test the theory with reality. So the next one I got was from Andrew Torres who asks about an authorized representative. Have you thought about the authorized representative use-case? I think we spoke about this briefly at the WGM in January.

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