Insulin Nation
MAY 6, 2016
“BS More pharma empire lies.” This comment, posted in response to a Type 1 research effort, is not uncommon in diabetes forums on Facebook. The pharmaceutical industry may provide the medicine that keeps people with Type 1 diabetes alive, and sponsor many conferences and diabetes-related websites (including, through advertising, this one), but it is also the biggest villain of the diabetes community.
American Well
MAY 2, 2016
So you’re considering telehealth, but you’re wondering where to start. Here are the top five considerations you should take into account for a successful telehealth strategy and implementation. #1: Start with the end in mind. When you first begin seriously considering telehealth for your organization—whether it be a health system, health plan, employer, retailer, etc.
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ACA Times
MAY 5, 2016
While many if not most of the 2015 tax season deadlines have already passed, some information-filing deadlines are steadily approaching. Some have been already been extended, including the deadline for the mailing of Forms 1095-B and 1095-C, which was extended from February 1, 2016to March 31, 2016 Other extensions are still underway, including the mailing and electronic filing deadlines of certain informational returns.
SightCall
MAY 4, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, MAY 04, 2016. Aix-en-Provence, France, MAY 4th, 2016. Softway Medical announces a partnership agreement signed with SightCall , the California based startup specialized in visual support tools. Softway Medical’s software customized for health institutions and radiology clinics will now include new interactive video chat features.
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Insulin Nation
MAY 2, 2016
Insulin Nation contributors Jennifer Smith and Ginger Vieira are collaborating on a book called Pregnancy with Type 1 Diabetes: Your Month-to-Month Guide for Diabetes Management. They have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to help fund the book’s completion and publication. You can contribute here. Below this video about their campaign is an edited excerpt of this forthcoming book about how, after years of doubt, Ginger Vieira decided to become a mother.
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ACA Times
MAY 4, 2016
The Affordable Care Act is not entirely a fan favorite among some health care providers, at least as far as UnitedHealth Group is concerned. In a report released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, UnitedHealth Group is reconsidering its participation in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange markets come 2017. The reason? UnitedHealthcare announced that it expects losses in its ACA marketplace business.
Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health
MAY 4, 2016
On April 29, the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health hosted a policy summit convened by the American Heart Association’s CEO Roundtable. The CEO Roundtable represents 26 CEOs, including Bernard J. Tyson, from some of America’s largest corporations and organizations that have joined together to create and sustain a culture of health and well-being in the workplace by collaborating on best practices and measurable new strategies for employee engagement.
Insulin Nation
MAY 2, 2016
Last November, JDRF officials announced that researchers had found biological markers for Type 1 diabetes long before symptoms appeared in children. Now another group of researchers hope to see if they can prevent Type 1 before children become symptomatic, and to do it they are planning to use a classic tool in diabetes management – metformin.
Insulin Nation
MAY 3, 2016
It was supposed to be a great marriage of a new product and deep pockets. In 2014, the pharmaceutical giant Sanofi agreed to market Afrezza, an inhalable insulin created by Mannkind Corporation. It didn’t work out that way. In the beginning of 2016, the two companies parted ways after a disappointing rollout and terrible Afrezza sales. Following the demise of the Sanofi-Mannkind agreement, speculation swirled about MannKind’s commercial future and Sanofi’s motivations.
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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
MAY 6, 2016
Women with diabetes are more likely to have healthy pregnancies if they attend a clinic to learn how to prepare for pregnancy before they conceive, according to a new Irish study. The study took place from 2006 to 2014 and monitored the medical outcomes of 414 pregnancies of women with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, according to a Healio report. Of that group, 111 women with Type 1 and 38 women with Type 2 elected to take part in the clinic Researchers found the women who attended the clinic made h
ACA Times
MAY 3, 2016
Access to health care is more than just ordinary preventative care and occasional treatment: it’s also preventing a health crisis. As Florida’s Miami-Dade County sees large numbers of its residents without health care, a health crisis may be on the horizon. The Miami Herald reports that the escalating health issues in Miami could result in overpopulation of hospitals, which in turn would be costly to the county residents.
ACA Times
MAY 2, 2016
In the April 18th edition of the Internal Revenue Bulletin, you will find “Revenue Procedure 2016-24,” a term that applies directly to annual health care percentage modifications under the Affordable Care Act including premium tax credits, exemptions, employer-sponsored minimum essential coverage and individual contribution percentages. This term references modifications that fall within sections 36B and 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code, and these percentages are used to determine credits and
Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health
MAY 3, 2016
Our guest blogger this week is Sam Piper, Senior Planner, Alta Planning + Design. Alta Planning + Design designs and implements bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure for cities and institutions. This is part 2 of his blog. Click here to read Part 1. . The streets of the future in the United states will be active, sensored streets, and will include dedicated infrastructure that makes travel by all modes of transportation comfortable.
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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.
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