Insulin Nation

APRIL 30, 2015

Kevin Houdeshell. It’s been 16 months since Dan Houdeshell lost his son, Kevin, and he’s trying to accept that he may never know exactly what happened. Kevin, who was on insulin therapy, was found dead in his home in Avon, Ohio on January 8th, 2014. He had been without insulin for nine days at the time of his death. Dan and his family have tried to reconstruct those last days the best they can, talking with Kevin’s co-workers and examining text messages Kevin sent.

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American Well

APRIL 26, 2015

Dr. Alan Pitt ‘s latest blog reminds us that the last great transition in American medicine occurred in 1965 when President Johnson signed Medicare Medicaid legislation into law, establishing a safety net for many previously uninsured Americans. Technology was booming and healthcare was no exception. Today’s healthcare system was shaped by the belief that better cures were within reach through advances in technology.

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ACA Times

APRIL 30, 2015

The nation’s individual insurance market grew 46% to 15.5 million people in the first year that plans could be purchased through. Affordable Care Act marketplaces, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Four states – California, Florida, Texas and Georgia — accounted for almost half of the enrollment growth. The number of people covered in the individual market increased by more than 75 percent in six other states: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Maine, New York and Rhode Island

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 26, 2015

The IHE-ATNA Profile only calls for "Mutual-Authenticated-TLS", where I have asserted that you really need Mutual-Authorized-TLS. I am not changing the IHE-ATNA perspective. From an Interoperability perspective one is using the TLS to Mutually Authenticate. This is the concern that is addressed through Interoperability Profiling. This is all that Profiling can address, in that the Interoperability layer defines how the two sides authenticate each other.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 1, 2015

Quick Hit. A new study discussed in a Time article suggests that traumatic life events can trigger the development of Type 1 diabetes in young children. In a survey of more than 10,000 families, parents filled out questionnaires over a span of 12 years. The children who had experienced a “serious life incident” (death of a family member or serious accident, for example) showed a tripled risk of being diagnosed with Type 1.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 1, 2015

Quick Hit. Apple is giving its 700-million iPhone users the chance to become participants in virtual clinical trials to advance medical research. According to a Fierce Biotech IT article, Apple is using an open-source framework called ResearchKit to allow apps to collect medical data from mobile phones.The Apple-made framework takes data from the iPhone’s accelerometer, microphone, and GPS sensor, among other tools, to generate medical data that researchers can use.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 1, 2015

Quick Hit. In April, Novo Nordisk announced it has successfully resubmitted Tresiba, a long-acting insulin, to the FDA for approval, according to a Fierce Pharma article. In 2013, the FDA surprised Novo Nordisk officials when it rejected Tresiba due to concerns over cardiovascular risks. Novo has been conducting safety research ever since to allay the concerns of federal regulators.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 28, 2015

Sanofi has decided not to offer a discount on its new once-daily basal insulin, Toujeo. According to a FiercePharma article, the French drugmaker is confident enough in Toujeo’s ability to succeed in the insulin marketplace that it doesn’t need to offer an enticing discount to get users of its other basal insulin, Lantus, hooked. In the article, Sanofi Senior VP of Global Diabetes Pierre Chancel says, “Toujeo is an improvement on something already great.”.

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ACA Times

APRIL 28, 2015

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said Anthem Blue Cross failed to justify premium increases averaging 8.7% on individual health insurance policies grandfathered under Affordable Care Act rules. According to the agency, the increases will cost nearly 170,000 California consumers some $33.6 million for grandfathered policies. These are individual or group health plan policies.

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ACA Times

APRIL 28, 2015

Researchers at UCLA found that about 59% primary care and specialty physicians in California support the Affordable Care Act, and 61% believe the law will either help their practice or have no effect on it. The survey of 525 doctors, conducted online in mid-2014, was just published in the peer-reviewed journal Family Medicine. About 59% of the California physicians agreed with the statement that the ACA, “if fully implemented, would turn the United States in the right direction.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 28, 2015

Sanofi has decided not to offer a discount on its new once-daily basal insulin, Toujeo. According to a FiercePharma article, the French drugmaker is confident enough in Toujeo’s ability to succeed in the insulin marketplace that it doesn’t need to offer an enticing discount to get users of its other basal insulin, Lantus, hooked. In the article, Sanofi Senior VP of Global Diabetes Pierre Chancel says, “Toujeo is an improvement on something already great.”.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 28, 2015

Privacy definition is far more than just 'confidentiality' or 'consent'. Defining Privacy Privacy is a very important Human Right, yet very hard to define. I am very encouraged by all the efforts in Healthcare on Privacy. These efforts are caused by the interest, yet made complex by the lack of a simple definition for Privacy. The problem with defining Privacy, even in Healthcare, is that there really isn't a single definition of Privacy.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 28, 2015

How many people with diabetes forgot about a vial of insulin in a hot car or in the outside pocket of a backpack until it was too late? One of the many drawbacks to insulin is that it’s temperature sensitive; if it gets too hot or too cold, it becomes unusable. To combat this, Germany-based solar energy engineer Amin Zayani has designed a portable, dog tag-sized device that tracks the fluctuating storage temperature of a medication’s environment.

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