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Why Walmart Insulins Aren’t the Answer to High Insulin Prices

Insulin Nation

Commentary. Some people don’t understand why people with diabetes get upset at the price of insulin. They see insulin for sale at a relatively reasonable price in Walmart and don’t see the problem. What they don’t know is that these Walmart insulins just don’t perform nearly as well as the more expensive insulins, and that gap in performance can have a very negative effect on the health of people with diabetes.

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Employee Spotlight

American Well

Name: Dave Tran. Title: Manager, Mobile SDK. Department: Engineering. Start Date: October 28, 2013. “In some form or fashion, everyone wants to leave their legacy on the world. American Well is making a difference in people’s lives by improving telehealth and I can’t think of a better way of leaving my legacy than by helping make healthcare more accessible and more affordable to everyone.” What attracted you to American Well?

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Cognitive ushers us from “carbon intelligence” to AI “silicon intelligence”

The Healthcare Guys

When the term “artificial intelligence” – better known as “AI” – was initially coined, it was thought that humans (carbon based life forms) had “real” intelligence while the best a machine’s intelligence (to the extent they had any) could get was “artificial”. As I work with companies that are leading major machine learning, algorithms, and AI initiatives I’m convinced that we’re ushering in a new golden age of AI but one that might need some terminology refinements.

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Telemedicine Is Now Medicine

Health System CIO

Although the concept of telemedicine isn’t exactly radical, one could argue that the way it’s being applied at organizations like NewYork-Presbyterian to improve the patient experience are quite innovative, says CIO Daniel Barchi.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare. The fastest path to widespread adoption of these technologies is the application to the most pressing public health needs.

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Service Innovation

Docnotes

“Shift the business models”. “Re-align the incentives”. “Fee-for-value”. These phrases are not new. Nor are the concepts they represent. Yet we’re starting to see new experiments from the federal government, from states, and even small communities that demonstrate a new willingness to deeply engage in understanding and overcoming the barriers to true change in how we improve health.

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Oscar’s Narrow Network Strategy: Will it Work?

E-CareManagement

Writing in Vox, Sarah Kliff describes VC-backed health plan Oscar’s latest twist on strategy: Oscar’s hope is that it can take narrow networks to the next level; rather than simply cutting costs, Oscar wants to use a narrow network to improve patient experience by deeply integrating with the hospitals and doctors it works with. Is this the right strategic approach for Oscar?

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5 Healthcare Industry Issues of 2016: Part 1

BHM Healthcare Solutions

It’s only the beginning of 2016 but here at BHM Healthcare Solutions we have been keeping a close eye on the upcoming healthcare trends for the year. So far we’ve discussed the important trends of Pharmacy and Behavioral Health and how each of those industries is expected to make great strides in the New Year. Today, we are actually going to focus on some issues that we can expect to greatly impact the healthcare industry in 2016.

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Fighting Hunger During the Holiday

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

We know that “total health” is about more than absence of sickness, it’s about having a safe place to live, food to eat and nurturing, supportive relationships among other things. The holidays are always a great time to do what we can for our communities to support their total health. At the Center for Total Health, one community partner we wanted to call out this upcoming holiday is DC Central Kitchen.

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Transform Clinical Communication With Role-based Messaging

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.

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Must listen JP Morgan Healthcare Conference Webcasts: Teladoc

ACO Watch

by Gregg A. Masters MPH NOTE: This is one in a series of ‘Must listen’ webcasts produced at JP Morgan’s 34th Annual Healthcare Conference; for background and details, see ‘If It’s January, It’s JP Morgan Healthcare Conference‘ Remaining companies to detail as they represent important ‘bell weather’ insights relative to their respective sectors, include: Aetna, […].

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Sanders, Cummings Ask Justice Department to Investigate Insulin Prices

Insulin Nation

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings have sent a letter asking the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into whether the three major insulin-manufacturers “have colluded or engaged in anticompetitive behavior in setting their drug prices.”. sponsor. On November 3rd, the two lawmakers sent a letter to U.S.

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Employee Spotlight

American Well

Name: Craig Bagley. Title: Director, Sales Engineering. Department: Sales. Start Date: July, 2009. American Well is in a unique position to continue to drive the [healthcare] industry forward and deliver on the change that patients want and need. It gives me a tremendous amount of satisfaction to be involved with that. What attracted you to American Well?

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Digitally managed clinical trials will accelerate results and reduce costs

The Healthcare Guys

Digitally managed clinical trials have the potential to accelerate results report and reduce costs but workflow questions and regulatory questions remain. In many facets of our lives digital data collection has improved services, eliminated errors, and reduced waste in time and resources. Think about the ticketing and check-in process at airports ten years ago vs. today: when airlines put the information in our hands we were able to do the check-in, seat selection, and other work for them.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

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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The Rise of Telemedicine

Health System CIO

No matter how you define telemedicine - whether it’s real-time video conferencing or the transmission of photos - it’s going to see exponential growth in 2017, and your organization needs to be ready, says John Halamka.

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What is the best master's program for physicians? by @HealthcareWen

Medicine and Technology

This is a guest post by Wen Dombrowski, MD, MBA (A follow up previous post about Physicians Evolving Role in Health Care ) I am frequently asked by physician leaders and other clinicians interested in nonclinical responsibilities " What is the best master's program that I should pursue? " I am jotting down some thoughts here in hopes that it will benefit more people beyond those who I coach 1:1.

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Healthcare Blockchain - Big-Data Pseudonyms on FHIR

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Grahame challenged us all to think about a realistic use-case for blockchain technology in Healthcare. Blockchain is a hugely hyped technology, because of the excitement of bitcoin. The technology is really not new, it is just a special mixture of crypto technologies, not unlike Digital Certificates; except rather than proof through decoupled proofs, blockchain has a public ledger where transactions must be recorded with proof that the transaction happened.

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Advice to the new National Coordinator

Docnotes

Two and a half years ago, John posted an entry with this title – and I recall that it was a good summary of the state of the industry. While I didn’t agree with all of his suggestions, I enjoyed the review and it offered a good set of guiding principles. Since I was Acting National Coordinator for about the same duration as Vindell will serve, (Fall of 2013 – after Farzad Mostashari departed, and before Karen DeSalvo arrived) I’ll offer some thoughts from one who has be

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

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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Virtua Navigates Orthopedic Patients Pre- & Post-Surgery with Improved Patient Engagement and Care Coordination

Consumer eHealth Engagement

WELLBE PLATFORM FOR PATIENT ENGAGEMENT With an aging population and increase in chronic conditions including obesity, the demand for hip and knee operation is increasing dramatically. A study in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery estimates by 2030 “demand for total hip arthroplasties to grow by 174% to 572,000 and demand for primary total knee arthroplasties by 673% to 3.48 million procedures” Responding to this strong demand and high procedure expense, CMS launched the Comprehe

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Telemedicine Battles Opioid Epidemic

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: The opioid epidemic is a real concern for health plans and providers. BHM understands the importance of how data management can be key to helping prevent opioid addiction. Click here to learn how we can help you. The nation’s addiction to prescription painkillers is hovering at epidemic levels. The CDC reported that in 2014 more than 14,838 people died from overdoses of drugs such as oxycodone.

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Cashier with Diabetes Illegally Fired for Treating a Low

Insulin Nation

Dollar General Store ended up paying over $275,000 because it wouldn’t allow an employee with diabetes to treat a bout of hypoglycemia with orange juice. An Americans With Disabilities Act complaint was lodged in 2012 by Linda Atkins, who had been fired by the retail chain. The lead sales associate at the Dollar General Store in Maryville, Tennessee, Atkins was covering her cash register and working alone when she grabbed a bottle of orange juice from a nearby refrigerator and paid the $1.69 pri

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Novo Nordisk Recalls More than 70,000 Glucagon Kits

Insulin Nation

The injectable glucagon kit is considered a weapon of last resort in combatting a bout of hypoglycemia. In fact, many people who care for those with Type 1 choose to call 911 and forgo using the glucagon kits altogether. These kits are not considered user-friendly, as they often require someone who may not be comfortable with needles to mix the glucagon solution and inject it into someone who may be unconscious…oh, and all during a crisis situation.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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Dual-Hormone ILet Poised to Begin FDA Testing in 2017

Insulin Nation

For the past 14 years, Dr. Ed Damiano, a Boston University engineering professor, has been working on the iLet, a compact artificial pancreas system by Beta Bionics now in its third generation of design after three years of investigational human trials. Recently, Dr. Damiano spoke with Insulin Nation via telephone about the progress being made to bring the device to market.

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How to Survive Zombies When You Have Type 1 Diabetes – An Updated Guide

Insulin Nation

You may have read our guide for surviving the zombie apocalypse with Type 1 diabetes. Contributor Gary Scheiner, a certified diabetes educator with Integrated Diabetes Services , recently sent in his own ideas for how to outsmart zombies while keeping blood sugar levels in range. Anyone who knows me knows my passion for diabetes care and treatment, but there’s something else I’m passionate about – The Walking Dead.

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My First Year with Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

It’s Halloween weekend, 2015 and I’m traveling to New Orleans with a friend to attend a music festival. Something is wrong with me, I know that; I don’t feel well. My girlfriend and I have noted I get up at night to pee, and I’m thirsty beyond belief and very tired. My trip to New Orleans becomes the most fun and most dangerous trip of my life. Using the bathroom every hour, drinking too much too often, dehydrated beyond belief, sleeping not much at all.

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Here’s What You Used to Treat Type 1 Diabetes in the 60’s and 70’s

Insulin Nation

In this excerpt from The Savvy Diabetic – A Survival Guide , diabetes activist Joanne Milo reminisces about diabetes treatment strategies and tools from yesteryear: I immediately started on insulin injections, initially administered by Dad, an engineer but secretly a wannabe surgeon. He was outstanding at giving painless shots. But, given the psychological thinking of the time, the doctor thought it was “unwise” for a father to give injections to a prepubescent daughter.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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6 Horror-Themed Memes About Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

Halloween is about more than candy, thank goodness. It’s also about scaring the *%&$ out of yourself with horror movies! In honor of the most frightful month of the year, we created six horror-themed memes about Type 1 diabetes. Enjoy! sponsor. Thanks for reading this Insulin Nation article. Want more Type 1 news? Subscribe here. Have Type 2 diabetes or know someone who does?

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Cómo las Hormonas del Estrés Aumentan el Azúcar en la Sangre.

Insulin Nation

( Extraído de Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin, por Gary Scheiner MS, CDE, DaCapo Press, 2011 ). La semana pasada decidí dormirme tarde y ver una película de miedo. Tenía algo que ver con los vampiros súper asquerosos que consiguen sus placeres comiéndose la carne viva de los inocentes huéspedes del hotel. De todos modos, al final de la desgarradora escena, y más estremecida, decidí revisar mi azúcar en la sangre.

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Morgan Angerbauer Needlessly Died from DKA in Jail

Insulin Nation

Commentary. The parents of a woman with Type 1 diabetes posted a video of her death from diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in an Arkansas jail cell to raise awareness of medical maltreatment in the prison system. According to a report in the Texarkana Gazette, the video shows the last moments of the life of Morgan Angerbauer, who grew unresponsive and then seemingly slipped into a coma before dying.

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