CareWire
MAY 11, 2017
Empower Patients and Family Caregivers. Patients with chronic or complicated conditions often have an entire support network that healthcare providers and care managers never actually interact with, even though this team is often vital to patient success. These family or personal caregivers help patients manage their daily activities, their medications, monitor treatment plans, coordinate appointments and more.
Insulin Nation
MAY 9, 2017
Less than a month after an Ohio woman was arrested and accused of giving her daughter an insulin overdose, another Ohio woman pleaded guilty for giving her daughter with Type 1 and other special needs a fatal amount of insulin. sponsor. According to a News-Herald report, Sandra Speck of Eastlake, Ohio pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2016 death of her daughter, Mindy.
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Healthcare Exchange Standards
MAY 10, 2017
In FHIR STU3 there are now some common query parameters. I propose that these common query parameters can be used to advance the OAuth scopes that are defined today. The current SMART scopes are based on simple vectors: Patient vs 'user' -- Where a scope of 'patient' means all results must be from that one patient Where scope of 'user' means all results are relative to that user rights to data fhir-resource -- Where a FHIR Resource named will limit results to only that Resource type This is a va
ACA Times
MAY 8, 2017
While the country still awaits the final cues for the U.S. Senate’s take on healthcare reform, more updates arrive for the coming year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule relating to the stabilization of the ACA Exchange for 2018. To facilitate such stabilization, the final rules seek to provide more “incentives” for individuals to maintain coverage while dis-incentivizing those who enroll only after discovering the need for medical services.
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New Age Healthcare
MAY 10, 2017
A 23yr old young and vibrant engineer living in a southern state of India was under constant stress when he underwent a surgery to get a cancerous growth scooped out of his left hip. The prognosis of the surgical procedure was good and doctors predicted a full recovery within 6 months. But little did he know that the next step towards complete recovery is regular physiotherapy sessions that he has to undergo, which in itself is a painful ordeal.
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Insulin Nation
MAY 10, 2017
After a Type 1 diagnosis, did you ever look back and say, “What if?” While we still don’t understand what triggers Type 1 diabetes, the process of beta cell destruction often seems to come after a cold or infection. It would be easy to lay awake and wonder if Type 1 diabetes somehow could have been avoided, despite a lack of evidence that this is possible.
Insulin Nation
MAY 10, 2017
After a Type 1 diagnosis, did you ever look back and say, “What if?” While we still don’t understand what triggers Type 1 diabetes, the process of accelerated beta cell destruction often seems to come after a cold or infection. It would be easy to lay awake and wonder if Type 1 diabetes somehow could have been avoided, despite a lack of evidence that this is possible.
New Age Healthcare
MAY 10, 2017
A 23yr old young and vibrant engineer living in a southern state of India was under constant stress when he underwent a surgery to get a cancerous growth scooped out of his left hip. The prognosis of the surgical procedure was good and doctors predicted a full recovery within 6 months. But little did he know that the next step towards complete recovery is regular physiotherapy sessions that he has to undergo, which in itself is a painful ordeal.
ACA Times
MAY 9, 2017
It was just last year when healthcare giants like UnitedHealth and Aetna were exiting out of certain ACA exchanges—citing the ACA as the cause for financial dips in their bottom line. Going into 2017, the exits have continued, and providers were upping premium costs—the latter almost encouraged in the Trump Administration’s latest proposed changes to the ACA.
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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
MAY 10, 2017
Earlier this month, we learned that President Trump attempted to yet again repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. This time it worked with the House passing the American Health Care Act, as amended, by the slimmest of margins. One aspect of the ACA that has kept Trump vocal is that of the ACA-mandated taxes attached to the AHCA. His plans for eliminating those ACA mandated taxes have had one half of the population cheering and the other half questioning what will happen once that money is n
Insulin Nation
MAY 12, 2017
Republicans have continued to struggle with their messaging in defense of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), particularly when it comes to the provisions of the legislation that weakens protections for people with preexisting conditions. sponsor. Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration, was the latest to utter a remark quickly deemed insensitive to people with preexisting conditions, and he managed to use the “D” word while doing so.
ACA Times
MAY 11, 2017
Last week, Trump’s American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed in the House with only a four-vote win despite the large majority by Republican Representatives. The bill, also known as Trumpcare, was previously withdrawn prior to the voting stage, underwent modifications steering the bill even more to the right to satisfy the conservative Freedom Caucus. Trump made it his personal mission to find a way to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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