Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 4, 2014
'When I’m not taking care of a child with Type 1 diabetes, I’m a corporate speaker for the Energy Project. The project’s purpose is to partner with organizations to create workplaces that are healthier, happier, more focused and more purposeful. I strive to help people become more accountable for their own happiness and the success of their organizations.
E-CareManagement
DECEMBER 2, 2014
I hope you’ll enjoy reviewing my slides from my December 3 presentation at the 11th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference. The presentation is formally entitled: “Patient Digital Health Platforms (PDHPs): Epicenter of Healthcare Transformation?”… …but more informally, I pose and address 7 key questions — the answers to which will shape the future of the PDHP ecosystem.
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Chilmark Research
DECEMBER 9, 2014
For better or for worse, 2014 was a big year for consumer engagement. Big on promises from industry on wearables, smartphone platforms, and connected health, to the tune of over half a billion dollars of VC investments in consumer-related healthcare companies. Big on growth for consumer-centered technologies ( video visits ) and disruptive models of care such as the 2,000 retail clinics that now exist across the country.
ACA Times
DECEMBER 30, 2014
About 87% people who selected Act through during the first open were eligible for financial assistance to lower their premiums for beginning Jan. 1, 2015, according to the Department and Human Services. HHS also released a Weekly Snapshot with more recent activity the federal exchange , It shows that from November 15 to December 26, nearly 6.5 million consumers selected a plan or were automatically re-enrolled. ends Feb. 15, 2015.
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DECEMBER 21, 2014
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Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 19, 2014
'People with Type 1 diabetes have learned that it takes more work to stay healthy than it would for the average person. The same would hold true with surviving the zombie apocalypse. Staying alive with Type 1 while dodging zombie hordes will take just a bit more forethought, so it’s good to have a plan. With this in mind, Insulin Nation has compiled a step-by-step guide for staying alive when the dead rise to eat the living*: 1.
E-CareManagement
DECEMBER 1, 2014
The editor and publisher of Accountable Care News have been generous in allowing me to republish my article from the November 2014 issue. Click here to download a.pdf copy of the article. It’s in-depth — about 2,000 words. Here’s the article in a nutshell: One of the most critical aspects of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACO has been around the timing and certainty of requiring mandatory downside financial risk for physician and hospital participants.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 12, 2014
'When I first met my wife, she didn’t know much about diabetes. She quickly got a crash course. A couple of weeks after we started dating, we were talking on the phone when my blood sugar crashed. Trying to keep up my end of the conversation got increasingly difficult as my brain became more deprived of glucose. At some point I accepted that this wasn’t going to get any better on its own and I was able to piece together a sentence explaining that I would have to call her back.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'Alan Thicke is worried that he will arrive late to his venue, so he calls from the road for our telephone interview. Thicke, who stars with his family in the mock-reality television show Unusually Thicke , is racing to a venue in New Jersey to host a show called Dancing Pros Live. “It’s like Dancing With the Stars , but without the stars,” Thicke quips.
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Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 30, 2014
'Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. In 2015, Insulin Nation will be featuring a regular Q&A column from IDS that answers questions submitted from the Type 1 diabetes community. Q: Is it common to get bruises at the site of injection? What can you do about that?
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 17, 2014
'From artificial pancreas trials to stem cell breakthroughs, 2014 was a big year for Type 1 diabetes news. Insulin Nation has compiled 10 big ideas in treatment and technology from the past year: 1. Distance Monitoring Went Mainstream. A report released in June found that some 3 million people are having their medical conditions monitored remotely, and that number should jump to 19 million in the next four years.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 5, 2014
'In the festive spirit of giving, it’s truly the thought that counts. That being said, I’ve graciously received many diabetes-themed gifts that I either later donated to the others or to the trash bin. For example. sugar-free candy has been a popular Secret Santa present with my name on it. I was never a big fan of candy as a kid, and I didn’t feel deprived without it, so it usually sat around for months until my cat made a toy out of the wrappers.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 2, 2014
'There are many reasons for Sam Fuld, an Oakland A’s outfielder with Type 1 diabetes, not to go through with a telephone interview. For one, it’s his birthday, and he’s celebrating with his family at home in New Hampshire. For another, he’s on daddy duty, and you can hear one of his children excitedly piping up in the background. It’s also an uncertain time of year to be a baseball player, as Fuld is between contracts and won’t know for a few weeks whether he’ll be re-signed by the A’s.
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Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 18, 2014
'So you are dealing with your Type 1 diabetes all by yourself. No one else can do it for you. That’s what we’re told by our doctors as they try to instil in us personal responsibility, and we take it to heart, perhaps too much. Since we’re the only ones who have to count carbs, check blood sugar, and be careful when exercising, it is our condition alone.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 22, 2014
'Many see the New Year as a starting point for creating positive habits or an ending point for breaking negative ones. A new calendar is as good excuse as any to find ways to recommit to your Type 1 diabetes self-care. Making a resolution is the easy part; sticking to it is hard. As a life coach with Type 1 diabetes, I find a resolution will stick if you can articulate to yourself the positive reasons why you’re making the change.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 2, 2014
'Being a dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company is my dream job, but getting here did not come without some hurdles, thanks to my Type 1 diabetes. Just as I was achieving my goals as a dancer, I had to learn how to take care of my condition. In 2001, at age 27, I was diagnosed with Type 1; I consider myself a “late bloomer”. This was also the year that I was hired for Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 15, 2014
'As a person with Type 1 diabetes, I often assumed it would be too difficult to travel on a medical mission trip. In January 2014, I proved myself wrong. As a nursing student at Quinnipiac University, I was invited to join the CMEH Foundation, which provides medical assistance in Cambodia. Boy, was my mom “thrilled” when I asked her if I could go. “Panicked” might have been a more apt description.
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Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 16, 2014
'Many in the Type 1 diabetes community want to work for a cure, but philanthropy is the closest most can come to helping find new treatments and cure research. Some charity dollars go further than others, and donors want to know how their money is spent. Using the database of Charity Navigator, a philanthropy watchdog organization, we’ve compiled statistics and grades on five popular diabetes research organizations.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 1, 2014
'Each month, we share some of the most interesting research on Type 1 diabetes that we find: Hiding Hypoglycemia. Danish researchers report that efforts to restrict driving rights for people with diabetes may be causing people to hide how often they have bouts of severe hypoglycemia. In 2012, researchers combed through medical records of people with diabetes after Denmark adopted new driver’s licence health restrictions for people with diabetes.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 9, 2014
'A new UK survey finds that people with diabetes are being unfairly denied access to blood glucose test strips. The survey, conducted by the advocacy group Diabetes UK , confirms earlier survey reports that show widespread restrictions on test strip access within the country’s national health system. The new survey polled 1300 people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. 46 percent of those surveyed said their prescriptions for test strips were refused or restricted in the last 12 months.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 31, 2014
'Insulin independence trials. Dr. Claresa Levetan has written many articles for Insulin Nation how a two-pronged therapy of beta cell regeneration and immunosuppressive drug therapy might achieve insulin independence for people with Type 1 diabetes. Now she gets an important chance to prove it. Her research team, Perle Bioscience, has kicked off its Insulin Independence Trial in Rome, with the goal of winning a U.S. patent.
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Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 31, 2014
'Better School Diabetes Care. Thanks to a new law, Ohio children with diabetes will have a better chance to receive diabetes care in school. According to a report in Canton Rep , lawmakers in that state passed a bill that allows non-medical school staff to treat a child with diabetes if a school nurse is unavailable. Under the provisions of the law, staff can volunteer to be trained to treat children with diabetes, but school districts are not mandated to have a diabetes care plan in place or ha
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 11, 2014
'This profile was excerpted from My Sweet Life: Successful Women with Diabetes , edited by Dr. Beverly S. Adler. The summer before starting second grade, I started to wet the bed again. Nothing too dramatic, but enough that my parents were concerned. I seemed healthy, otherwise, so their response to this odd bedwetting revival was to buy an alarm that connected to my underpants.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'An Eye CGM? A Holland company, Noviosense, has announced it has created a new kind of glucometer that may take the place of finger pricks, but there’s one catch: it has to be worn in the lower eyelid. The flexible device, which is the size and shape of an extremely small twig, is designed to be worn in the eyelid for up to two weeks, according to a report in Medgadget.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 30, 2014
'Here at Insulin Nation , we believe humor is an important part of staying physically and mentally healthy, so we made some silly videos to go along with the news in 2014. Our thinking is that Type 1 diabetes is such a serious condition that sometimes you have to laugh so you don’t cry. Take a look back with us at when we put on our red noses to explore the lighter side of Type 1 diabetes: What if you could read the thoughts of someone with Type 1?
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Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'Integrated Diabetes Services provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Each week, the team answers questions from people affected by Type 1 diabetes. Q: Is there any reason not to inject insulin directly into muscle? A: There is really no medical evidence that intramuscular injections are harmful.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 1, 2014
'Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. In 2015, Insulin Nation will be featuring a regular Q&A column from IDS that answers questions submitted by people within the Type 1 diabetes community. Q: I’ve heard that not all blood glucose meters are accurate.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 2, 2014
'Being a dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company is my dream job, but getting here did not come without some hurdles, thanks to my Type 1 diabetes. Just as I was achieving my goals as a dancer, I had to learn how to take care of my condition. In 2001, at age 27, I was diagnosed with Type 1; I consider myself a “late bloomer”. This was also the year that I was hired for Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance.
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