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Doctors Won’t Tell You About One Exercise Trick to Cut Your Insulin Needs in Half

Insulin Nation

You know why they won’t tell you about that one exercise trick to cut your insulin needs in half? Because there isn’t one. If you’re reading this, then you most likely chose to take a look at a health article that sounded too good to be true before sharing it or reacting to it on Facebook, and for this we congratulate you. sponsor. Unfortunately, as the number of people who read articles before sharing them dwindles, the number of junk health news sites offering false promises multiplies.

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Telehealth that’s Award-Winning – and Just the Beginning

American Well

This past Monday , industry analyst Frost & Sullivan honored American Well with the 2016 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award for our enterprise service, the Exchange. A firm known for its thorough analyses of healthcare advances, Frost & Sullivan took note when American Well unveiled the Exchange in May 2016 and, after further review, designated it a leading industry innovation.

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Fighting Hunger During the Holiday

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

We know that “total health” is about more than absence of sickness, it’s about having a safe place to live, food to eat and nurturing, supportive relationships among other things. The holidays are always a great time to do what we can for our communities to support their total health. At the Center for Total Health, one community partner we wanted to call out this upcoming holiday is DC Central Kitchen.

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Is XUA useful in service-to-service?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I got an email question asking if the use of XUA is proper for situations of service-to-service communication. I am not sure how far XUA really got in the IHE world, but we have an HIE in XYZ [sic] that seems to want to implement it on every IHE transaction, even those without a document consumer. Our role with them is strictly at a system level as a document provider and of course we are using Mutual Authentication Reading the XUA spec it seems that IHE was gunning for consent authorization of

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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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California Drug-Pricing Control Referendum Defeated

Insulin Nation

On November 8, California voters defeated a referendum that would have capped prescription drug prices purchased by the state at the prices paid by the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Proposition 61, or the California Drug Price Relief Act, elicited opposition from the pharmaceutical industry, and a warning from physicians and pharmacy managers that passage could trigger hikes in prices to absorb losses in revenue.

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The Verdict On UK’s Uber Employee Classification Case Is “Groundbreaking”

ACA Times

Uber has proven to be both a gift and a curse over the years. While the mobile car service app appears to have cornered a market previously held by more traditional companies, it has allowed efficiency and accessibility to everyday commuters while also opening an untapped job market. Those benefits have not been without a fair share of burdens, especially since the Affordable Care Act came fully into effect.

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Starting to blog again

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Sorry to my audience for not getting much from my blog lately. The transition to working life again has been distracting me. I am very sick of forms. I realize that I benefit from the forms being online using browser from the comfort of my home. I can only imagine a few years ago when all of this training and forms would be in-person and on paper. Some blog topics: IHE (ITI and possibly others) Plans for next year.

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ACA’s 2016 Penalties Are Estimated to Near $31 Billion

ACA Times

Over the course of 2016, the ACA Times has reported on ways for employers to comply with mandates of the Affordable Care Act in an effort to avoid paying large penalties to the government. It was fair warning, as many employers found difficulty in preparing and collecting the proper paperwork and proof of offer of affordable coverage to their employees.

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ACA Reporting Extension & Good Faith Relief From Penalties

ACA Times

2017 is just around the corner, and there’s news from the IRS on important changes. The IRS’s Notice 2016-70, arriving in IRB 2016-49 dated December 5, 2016, highlights some of the changes to come with ACA’s information reporting. Among them are an important date extension and the availability of good faith relief. 2016 Form 1095-B for Health Coverage, and 2016 Form 1095-C for Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage have been extended from January 31, 2017 to March 2, 2017, meaning

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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.