Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
'If you’re a baseball fan, then nothing makes you smile in winter like the phrase “pitchers and catchers”, which is the signal for the start of Spring Training. Baseball has a long tradition of welcoming players with Type 1 diabetes, including two Hall of Famers: Catfish Hunter, who won over 200 games and 5 World Series championships, and Ron Santos, who smacked 342 home runs during his career.
American Well
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
It’s not surprising that telehealth and telemedicine top health system CIO’s IT priorities. According to the Advisory Board, offering “direct to patient telemedicine” is one of the most significant trends driving healthcare consumerism, but “most provider organizations are behind on the adoption curve”. So what do CIOs and their colleagues need to know about telehealth and telemedicine?
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ACA Times
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
The approximately 50,000 Americans who have filed tax returns using incorrect government-supplied data for their Affordable Care Act premium tax credit do not have to file amended returns, the Treasury Department announced. The IRS will not demand additional money from taxpayers who underpaid their 2014 income taxes because of wrong information they received on Form 1095-A, officials said.
Import Immunity
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
My daughter just turned twenty-one a few months ago. Watching her plow through a plate of Queso Espanoles (with Sangria) at one of her favorite spots near school, you’d never believe that as a toddler she couldn’t get near anything even resembling dairy. At about two years old, a single piece of buttered popcorn found between the sofa cushions just about closed up her throat.
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Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
'458. That was our 9-year-old daughter’s blood glucose level the night my husband and I tried to go out on a date, the night that we were going to let her grandmother babysit for the first time. We had prepared very carefully. We fed our daughter dinner before we left, so we knew the carb count was dead on, and her blood glucose was in a good range.
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ACA Times
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
The Administration has no backup plan if the Supreme Court rules against it in the King v. Burwell case that challenges a key part of the Affordable Care Act, the head of the HHS said in a letter to Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo). “We are confident we will prevail” in the lawsuit, said Sylvia M. Burwell, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, “because the text and structure” of the ACA“ demonstrates that citizens in every state would be entitled to tax credits, regardless of wheth
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
'Quick Hits. Sanofi, which has been bracing for increased competition for Lantus, has won the race to bring a new basal insulin to the marketplace. This week, the drug manufacturer announced the FDA has approved Toujeo , its new once-daily long-acting basal insulin. The new insulin is expected to go on sale in the U.S. by the start of the second quarter of this year.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
'Quick Hits. A new online initiative is inviting Australian citizens with Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes to participate in an online non-fiction writing course. The program, called Writing for Health, is being launched by The University of South Wales in collaboration with Saint Vincent’s Hospital (Sydney, Australia) and The Faces in the Street Research Institute.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
'Quick Hit. According to Glu , a T1D Exchange research study concluded that women with Type 1 diabetes often suffer from higher rates of osteoporosis or osteopenia. Among 2,582 women with Type 1, 11% had been diagnosed with either osteoporosis or osteopenia. That percentage triples with older women; 38% of women with Type 1 who were 65 years old or older had one of the bone diseases.
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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.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
'Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS that answers questions submitted from the Type 1 diabetes community. Q: I need an insulin pump that monitors blood sugars, too. My ideal pump would be able to administer Humalog or glucose as needed…… is there such a pump?
American Well
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
Part 3, Telemedicine Technology. In his third and final post about the much needed change to the American healthcare system, Dr. Alan Pitt explorers how telemedicine technology will help. In part one of the series, Dr. Pitt outlined the reasons why change is needed. In part two , he presented the cultural changes required to succeed. In this final installment, telehealth technology solutions are broken down into four basic categories: Data.
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Nationwide, the rate of those without health insurance dropped 3.5 percentage points during 2014, from 17.3% to 13.8%, according to the Gallup Poll. That is the lowest annualized rate Gallup has reported in the seven years it has tracked health insurance coverage. No state reported a statistically significant increase in the percentage of uninsured in 2014 compared with 2013.
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
Although the open enrolment period ended Feb. 15, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continued to accept applications between Feb. 16 and Feb. 22 from consumers who had experienced technical issues with the sign-up process. An additional 40,714 of these consumers selected plans and nearly 232,000 submitted applications. Total sign ups since enrollment began Nov. 15, 2014, were 8,838,291.
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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.
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
A total of 4.17 million consumers re-enrolled for health insurance during the open enrollment periods from Nov. 15, 2014 to Feb. 15, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services reported. “These numbers tell a powerful story of a strong open enrollment and of engaged and satisfied consumers,” HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said. Of those who re-enrolled, 2.21 million actively renewed their coverage, while 1.96 million allowed their plans to renew automatically.
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Many consumers who have not signed up for health insurance the Affordable Care Act will have another chance to do so, thanks to a special March 15-April 30 enrollment period announced by the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) & Medicaid Services (CMS). The extra is for individuals and families who did not have health coverage in 2014 and are subject to the fee or “ shared responsibility payment” when they file their 2014 taxes in states which use federally-facilitated marketplaces.
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
The Internal Revenue released temporary and proposed regulations aimed at clarifying which entities are excluded from being “covered entities” under Section 10 the Act. Covered entities are subject to an annual fee based the net premiums they have written for United States risks. The temporary regulations clarify that governmental entities and to the extent that they self-insure their employees’ risks may be among those excluded from being “covered entities” for a given “test year.”.
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
About 800,000 taxpayers who obtained Affordable Care Act health insurance policies through the Healthcare.gov marketplace were sent incorrect tax information by the government, and have been urged to delay filing their returns until they receive corrected forms. That is expected to be in early March. The error affects some consumers in the 37 states using Healthcare.gov who received tax credits to help cover the cost of their insurance premiums.
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This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!
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