Clocktree

AUGUST 25, 2017

You can now receive important Clocktree account notifications via popups! These popup notifications are small messages that appear in a corner of your device’s screen, whether you are logged into Clocktree or not. They will alert you to upcoming appointments or new secure messages. Since the popup notifications are securely sent, they can include sensitive information like the client’s name and profile picture, a feature that is not possible for email and text messaging.

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The Healthcare Guys

AUGUST 23, 2017

When was the last time you thought about the forms strategy in your organization? Most of us think about forms as a clerical activity but proper management of patient forms drives important clinical and business initiatives such as patient satisfaction, patient quality scores, and care coordination analytics. With so much emphasis in healthcare put on collecting quality data, information exchange, analytics, patient generated health data, and more, it’s surprising how little attention is put on

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 22, 2017

Type 1 diabetes was one of the many ailments that Jerry Lewis dealt with towards the end of his life, and it’s mentioned in multiple reports of the cause-of-death report for the legendary comedian. The Clark County Nevada Coroner reported that Lewis died on August 20th, 2017 of ischemic cardiomyopathy, according to a New York Daily News report. The actor was 91 years old. sponsor.

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American Well

AUGUST 24, 2017

The National Business Group on Health’s (NBGH) recent Large Employers’ 2018 Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey results show promise for telemedicine with 96% of employers planning to offer telehealth benefits in 2018. There has never been a better time to invest in telehealth. September marks the beginning of cold and flu season, a peak season for direct-to-consumer telehealth.

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Docnotes

AUGUST 19, 2017

Despite some concern that the migration from fee-for-service to value based payment (VBP) is being reversed, there remains strong momentum for VBP – both nationally – in the form of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act that was passed and signed into law last December, and many state and commercial initiatives, including the one I’m personally involved with, New York Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program (DSRIP).

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 23, 2017

Recently, we wrote about a study that documented high rates of suicide and drug use among organ donors with Type 1 diabetes. We asked for others to share their experiences with these issues. Aysha Amin responded, and we are sharing her story, with permission, here: I read your article today and it was a huge relief to hear that I’m not alone. I’ve struggled with suicidal thoughts for close to 12 years since I was in 7th grade.

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American Well

AUGUST 24, 2017

The National Business Group on Health’s (NBGH) recent Large Employers’ 2018 Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey results show promise for telemedicine with 96% of employers planning to offer telehealth benefits in 2018. There has never been a better time to invest in telehealth. September marks the beginning of cold and flu season, a peak season for direct-to-consumer telehealth.

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Doctoroo

AUGUST 21, 2017

Over the past few years, telehealth has proven to be a great innovation allowing people in the health care industry to think about as well as deliver mental health services. Patients express their great concern for telehealth Australia for many reasons. Not only does it help save their valuable time, it also allows them to access high quality care from the hospital or clinic located nearby.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 25, 2017

Last month I blogged about E-mail addresses -- Remedial and realistic My point for that post was that it is important to have a agreed subset of the full character encoding allowed by the e-mail address specification. This subset helps to enable Interoperability, by having everyone make sure that they can send-to, and receive-from, an address fully encoded.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2017

sponsor. Insulin insecurity is a fact of life for roughly 40 percent of people who took part in an informal survey conducted by Insulin Nation. The results of the four-question online survey of 585 individuals with insulin-dependent diabetes or caregivers of those with insulin-dependent diabetes painted a bleak picture in which many have had to choose between getting needed insulin or paying off other bills.

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ACA Times

AUGUST 21, 2017

Letters released this month by the IRS continue to point to the agency moving forward with its plans to enforce the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The IRS has indicated it could be issuing penalty notices as soon as the end of the year to companies that have not filed mandated information for the 2015 tax year, for filing inaccurate or incomplete information, or for submitting information after identified filing deadlines.

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 25, 2017

Sometimes a dry press release gives a tantalizing glimpse into the pipeline of a medical tech company. Today, Tandem released news that it has been awarded a patent for a software application that would allow a pump user to use a “remote consumer electronic device” to “initiate, program and deliver a medicament bolus to a patient using a medical infusion pump.

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 22, 2017

A woman with Type 1 diabetes shared a video of a quasi-date that quickly went downhill when the subject turned to diabetes. sponsor. In a video posted on the “You Know You’re a Type 1 Diabetic when…” Facebook group, Rose Gelin described how the date got off to a rocky start when the man she met noticed her Tandem insulin pump and asked her which type of diabetes she had.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2017

Dr. David C. Robbins, director of the KU Diabetes Institute at the KU Medical Center, picked an auspicious place to suggest that we lack evidence to determine whether newer diabetes treatments are better diabetes treatments. After all, his talk on the subject, part of a panel discussion on rising insulin prices, took place during the 77th ADA Scientific Sessions, a conference where pharmaceutical company representatives showed off the latest diabetes technology and advocates listened eagerly to

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 22, 2017

Editor’s Note – 8/23/2017 – The title and url of this story have been changed after several readers objected to the term “mansplaining.” . A woman with Type 1 diabetes shared a video of a quasi-date that quickly went downhill when the subject turned to diabetes. sponsor. In a video posted on the “You Know You’re a Type 1 Diabetic when…” Facebook group, Rose Gelin described how the date got off to a rocky start when the man she met noticed her Tandem insulin pump and

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ACA Times

AUGUST 24, 2017

In the wake of Congress being unable to pass ACA repeal and replace legislation, a bipartisan effort seems to be growing around improving the ACA. Indeed, a majority of Americans want to see Congress take a bipartisan approach to addressing healthcare issues. Among those Americans is a bipartisan group of liberal and conservative leaders in health policy are supporting the continued payment of all the federal subsidies provided under the ACA and to help Americans enroll in coverage.

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ACA Times

AUGUST 23, 2017

One of the long running controversies in America is whether marijuana should be legalized. A new bill introduced by New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker proposes to legalize marijuana on the federal level, with states being urged to follow suit with several incentives for doing so. To date, marijuana is legal for recreational use in eight U.S. states and Washington, D.C., with 29 states and D.C. allowing the use only for medical purposes.

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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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