Insulin Nation
JANUARY 26, 2017
Our son was found dead in his bed by his college roommates. He had come back from classes early on a Monday complaining of nausea and weakness. He then vomited several times through Tuesday, but refused to go to campus health services. His roommates were worried, but he told them he has feeling better. He laid down on Tuesday afternoon and was found unresponsive the next morning.
CiscoHealth
JANUARY 24, 2017
It’s 2017 and we’re still waiting for the flying car (well, one we can afford). However, one futuristic vision is not only here – it’s become a way of life. I’m talking about video communication. Sure, applications like Skype and FaceTime have been popular for a while. But recently, video has exploded into the […].
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American Well
JANUARY 23, 2017
American Well has published a new eBook – the latest in our Telehealth Index Series. We ran a nationally projectable survey with Harris Poll in late 2016 to measure the latest in consumers’ perceptions and experience with telemedicine. The survey, which surveyed over 4,000 individuals, took a close look at consumers’ outlook on telehealth and how they want to use telehealth to access healthcare.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JANUARY 25, 2017
Gathering Privacy Consent is never easy. A Patient, when they are healthy, has no interest in giving Consent for future actions. Mostly because they don't want to admit they might get sick in the future. Secondarily because they don't want to do unnecessary paperwork. Realistically, they just want healthcare to work, and not get in the way of them getting the best treatment.
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Insulin Nation
JANUARY 25, 2017
We have just learned that Mary Tyler Moore has passed away at the age of 80. Moore was the first public face of Type 1 diabetes, and she served with distinction as the longstanding international chairwoman of JDRF. sponsor. Much has been written about her advocacy work, but we would also like to take a moment to remember her for upending the traditional picture what it was like to have Type 1 diabetes.
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American Well
JANUARY 23, 2017
American Well has published a new eBook – the latest in our Telehealth Index Series. We ran a nationally projectable survey with Harris Poll in late 2016 to measure the latest in consumers’ perceptions and experience with telemedicine. The survey, which surveyed over 4,000 individuals, took a close look at consumers’ outlook on telehealth and how they want to use telehealth to access healthcare.
ACA Times
JANUARY 26, 2017
While we are getting our information in order for the 2016 tax year, we received some clarity on the previous year from the IRS. The IRS’s Commissioner John Koskinen has reported on information surrounding employer shared responsibility payments and individual premium tax credits (PTCs) for the 2015 tax year. ALEs are required to offer minimum essential coverage to their full-time employees.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 25, 2017
My daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of four, right when her blood sugar began to rise. We were fortunate to catch it early, for if it had progressed to when she would have needed an IV drip of insulin, the medicine itself might have killed her. After being in the hospital for three days after that diagnosis, we were cleared for Emmy to go home.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JANUARY 24, 2017
I have been unable to attend HL7 WGM for a year, a problem that is now better. This means that when I attended the FHIR Connectathon 14, prior to the HL7 Workgroup Meeting in San Antonio TX , I was shocked to experience the new FHIR Connectathon. This is good change on many levels. The others from the FHIR core-team have seen the changes over-time, so the transition is not as shocking as it was for me.
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Insulin Nation
JANUARY 24, 2017
A mother of a child with Type 1 diabetes alleges in two complaints to the U.S. Department of Education that the school system in Prince William County, Virginia, has failed in her son’s diabetes care. sponsor. Joni Blue, the mother of 5th grader Gavin Verhagen, argues in the first complaint that there have been repeated denials of her son’s right to proper diabetes care.
ACA Times
JANUARY 24, 2017
As of this month, Hawaii’s small business market will provide healthcare to its workers that competes with (and even beats) what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has provided for Americans. Hawaii’s Prepaid Health Care Act came into effect in 1974 and provides employees who work more than 20 hour per week with healthcare, along with covering most of their monthly premiums.
ACA Times
JANUARY 25, 2017
In the final rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disabilities in certain health programs and activities, clarification on nondiscrimination requirements and new standards to implement Section 1557, particularly with respect to discrimination on the basis of sex, are provided.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 23, 2017
Have you ever fantasized about suing drugmakers who jack up the price of insulin? Novo Nordisk is being sued for its drug pricing, but not by its customers. sponsor. A class action lawsuit has been filed against Novo Nordisk by a group of investors who say they were misled about earnings forecasts. It’s alleged the drugmaker hid market trouble by colluding with other drug companies to keep the price of insulin artificially high.
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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
JANUARY 23, 2017
On his first day in office, Trump signed one of his first executive orders, entitled “Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal.”. The Executive Order states that it is Trump’s policy “to seek the prompt repeal” of the ACA, and that in the meantime, the executive branch is ordered to minimize the “unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens of the “ACA” will be given the maximum extent permitted by law, and to “prepare the States more flexibi
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 24, 2017
Two Republican lawmakers have revealed proposed legislation that would replace the Affordable Care Act. There are many question marks about the bill, but one certainty it provides is that it would continue the policy now in place of banning insurance companies from denying coverage based on preexisting conditions. Other popular Affordable Care Act provisions that would be preserved include that insurers would be barred from enacting lifetime caps on benefits, and that children would be allowed t
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