American Well
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
By Sarah Natoli, Content Marketing Manager. Towers Watson predicts that by 2018, 80% of employers will offer a telehealth benefit to their employees. This projection is in stark contrast to 2014, when just 22% of employers had adopted telehealth, and the close of 2015, which marked a further rise to a third of employers offering the benefit. Clearly the trend is growth, but what is the story behind it?
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
According to a Yale School of Nursing study , 33.5 percent of parents of children with Type 1 experience psychological distress upon the event of a child’s diagnosis, and 19 percent of parents report psychological stress one to four years after diagnosis. Researchers arrived at these figures by reviewing 34 peer-reviewed studies on parents of children with Type 1.
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ACA Times
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Many Americans signing up for new health care policies are receiving an unwelcome surprise: higher deductibles. Insurance plans, whether obtained through an employer or purchased individually via Affordable Care Act marketplaces, typically include a rise in deductibles compared to prior years, CBS News reports. Deductibles are the portion of medical bills individuals must pay before their insurance begins to cover the costs.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
The current practice is ‘in person proofing’… as the first encounter with the patient is as a … patient… Now many patients are not at their ‘best’ when they first appear, so the understanding of their identity evolves over the first hours and days and weeks. Thus in healthcare practice we often know the patient by many identifiers that we have either merged or linked.
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American Well
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
By Sarah Natoli, Content Marketing Manager. Towers Watson predicts that by 2018, 80% of employers will offer a telehealth benefit to their employees. This projection is in stark contrast to 2014, when just 22% of employers had adopted telehealth, and the close of 2015, which marked a further rise to a third of employers offering the benefit. Clearly the trend is growth, but what is the story behind it?
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ACA Times
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
About 12.7 million consumers selected health insurance plans through the Health Insurance Marketplaces during the 13 weeks of Open Enrollment, the Department of Health and Human Services announced. Of the total, over 9.6 million came through the HealthCare.gov platform, and 3.1 million more selected a plan through State-based Marketplaces. In addition, during the Open Enrollment period nearly 400,000 people signed up for New York’s new Basic Health Program, and about 33,000 people signed up for
Medicine and Technology
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
Today is National Wear Red Day. Are you wearing red? Here's some history about this day: In 2003, the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute took action against a disease that was claiming the lives of nearly 500,000 American women each year – a disease that women weren’t paying attention to. A disease they truly believed, and many still believe to this day, affects more men than women.
Consumer eHealth Engagement
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
OMADA HEALTH CONSUMER VIEW. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that 86 million, 1 in 3 Americans now have prediabetes, and 9 out of 10 of them don’t even know they have the condition. Unless there is an intervention, 15% to 30% of people with prediabetes will develop type 2 diabetes within 5 years. The CDC predicts that if current trends continue, 1 in 3 Americans will have diabetes by 2040.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
In the course of living with Type 1 diabetes for 38 years, Sue York of England developed a deep fear of needles. It was a phobia so severe that it caused her to shake and sometimes vomit when she injected insulin. Because of this, doctors eventually decided to undertake the world’s first-ever pancreas transplant in response to a phobia. York, 55, explained in an interview with BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire Programme that she felt constantly afraid, even when she wasn’t directly using a needle.
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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
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Individuals may receive forms in the next few months which provide information about health care coverage they were offered during 2015. The forms are for use by these individuals when they prepare their federal income tax returns, but the forms are not filed with the returns. Much like Form W-2 and Form 1099, which include information about the income the taxpayer received, these forms provide information about their health care coverage which may be needed when these individuals file their ind
American Well
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
By Kofi Jones. Yesterday, Democrats and Republicans from both the House and the Senate came together in a bipartisan effort to introduce important legislation with significant positive impact for telemedicine. The Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies CONNECT for Health Act (S. 2484 in the Senate and H.R. 4442 in the House) would greatly expand providers’ ability to leverage innovative telehealth healthcare technologies to increase access to healthcare for Med
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
In the course of living with Type 1 diabetes for 38 years, Sue York of England developed a deep fear of needles. It was a phobia so severe that it caused her to shake and sometimes vomit when she injected insulin. Because of this, doctors eventually decided to undertake the world’s first-ever pancreas transplant in response to a phobia. York, 55, explained in an interview with BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire Programme that she felt constantly afraid, even when she wasn’t directly using a needle.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Researchers are always looking for a way to curb the risk of complications from surgery and reduce hospital readmissions, especially for people with diabetes. They may have found a new partner in pharmacists. A recent study conducted at the Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, found that introducing a pharmacist into a patient’s diabetes management team pre-surgery and post-surgery led to better blood sugar control and surgery outcomes in study participants with diabet
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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.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Researchers are always looking for a way to curb the risk of complications from surgery and reduce hospital readmissions, especially for people with diabetes. They may have found a new partner in pharmacists. A recent study conducted at the Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, found that introducing a pharmacist into a patient’s diabetes management team pre-surgery and post-surgery led to better blood sugar control and surgery outcomes in study participants with diabet
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Researchers are always looking for a way to curb the risk of complications from surgery and reduce hospital readmissions, especially for people with diabetes. They may have found a new partner in pharmacists. A recent study conducted at the Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, found that introducing a pharmacist into a patient’s diabetes management team pre-surgery and post-surgery led to better blood sugar control and surgery outcomes in study participants with diabet
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Research into possible functional cures for Type 1 diabetes is often open-ended, with no guarantee of success. The same can be said of documentary filmmaking, since the outcome of the story being told is often unknown when filming begins. A documentary in progress happens to combine the uncertainty of both endeavors in one project. Lisa Hepner is a director of documentary films, and she has Type 1 diabetes.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Research into possible functional cures for Type 1 diabetes is often open-ended, with no guarantee of success. The same can be said of documentary filmmaking, since the outcome of the story being told is often unknown when filming begins. A documentary in progress happens to combine the uncertainty of both endeavors in one project. Lisa Hepner is a director of documentary films, and she has Type 1 diabetes.
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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!
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
California voters this November will have the opportunity to decide whether the state should control the cost of prescription drugs. The ballot proposition would require the state to negotiate prices with drug companies that are no higher than what the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pays for medications. Proponents of the initiative say it would affect about 5 million people whose health care is covered by the state.
American Well
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
By Kofi Jones. Yesterday, Democrats and Republicans from both the House and the Senate came together in a bipartisan effort to introduce important legislation with significant positive impact for telemedicine. The Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies CONNECT for Health Act (S. 2484 in the Senate and H.R. 4442 in the House) would greatly expand providers’ ability to leverage innovative telehealth healthcare technologies to increase access to healthcare for Med
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