February, 2014

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Understanding Insulin Sticker-Shock

Insulin Nation

'Mary Clark, a realtor in Cincinnati, has grown accustomed recently to being the center of attention at the pharmacy. An independent contractor, Clark has had trouble finding affordable health insurance that covers the costs of the insulin she needs to control her Type 1 diabetes. Since 2012, she’s noticed the price she must pay out-of-pocket has increased steeply; it’s been a big enough leap that even the pharmacists pause in their work when filling her order.

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HIMSS or Bust

Chilmark Research

Next week is that proverbial event we all, in the HIT industry, look forward to with some trepidation – HIMSS’14. For an analyst firm such as ours HIMSS provides us a great opportunity to talk with end users, vendors of all stripes and just reconnect with like-minded folks. HIMSS is probably the only annual event that is a must attend to get a good perspective on where we are, as an industry, in advancing the adoption, deployment and use of HIT in the provider setting.

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Edward Babakanian, CIO, UC San Diego Health System, Chapter 3

Health System CIO

Expanding image access with Merge iConnect “People expect to be able to do online healthcare.” Piloting telemedicine with managed care patients A culture of innovation — “It’s really about collaboration.” San Diego’s connected community “Don’t limit yourself to being an IT person.” His parenting philosphy One of the key ingredients in creating a world-class healthcare delivery system, says Ed Babakanian, is a commitment to invest in IT.

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Delivering Care Anywhere: Imagining it at HIMSS14

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

Much of the conversation taking place in Kaiser Permanente’s booth at HIMSS is about the concept of imagining care anywhere. At the conference today, Wendy Lee, senior vice president of digital health technologies and strategic services with Kaiser Permanente, and Danielle Cass, innovation evangelist of innovation and advanced technology, also with Kaiser Permanente, led a session called, “How Technology Can Enable Care Anywhere, Anytime.” Their talk generated serious interest

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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HCI-DC 2014 Health Care Innovation Day #HCIDC #IGNITEinterop

Medicine and Technology

Have you heard of Health Care Innovation Day? As our nation faces challenges related to interoperability, we have an opportunity to come together to discuss the challenges and to innovate in order to overcome these barriers. The Gary and Mary West Health Institute (WHI) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) are co-hosting HCI-DC 2014 : Igniting an Interoperable Health Care System, a public conference that will be held at the Omni Shoreham hotel on Feb

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Is it Time to Rename Type 1 Diabetes?

Insulin Nation

'In 1997, the World Health Organization, the American Diabetes Association and other groups universally adopted new nomenclature for diabetes. Diabetes was no longer to be named by whether or not patients required insulin. The names Insulin-Dependent Diabetes and Childhood Onset Diabetes were changed to Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes was then further categorized by whether it resulted from an autoimmune attack (Type 1a) or a non-autoimmune attack (Type 1b).

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Avoiding Cure Hope Burnout

Insulin Nation

'Diabetes and a Girl. When I was first diagnosed T1 13 years ago, the blood glucose meter took 20 seconds to read my blood. 6 months after my initial diagnosis, that 20 seconds was reduced to 5 seconds. A year later, I had a pump. 3 years after that, my meter linked to my pump. And a few years after that, the pump was smaller and did more. There’s been a lot of technological change when it comes to diabetes, and it has made everything easier, but there’s one thing that tech hasn’t done – f

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A Half Century with T1: Four Profiles in Courage

Insulin Nation

'Fifty years ago, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes meant glass syringes, urine tests, and living with the unknown. Now, many with T1 are living longer and living better for 50 years or more after their diagnosis. Experts attribute their longevity and high quality of life to several key factors. It’s partly that those who live well with T1 are doing what keeps all people healthy, says Dr.

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Celebrating the Rare T1 Winter Olympian

Insulin Nation

'Olga Popova / Shutterstock.com. The T1 community has been rightly celebrating the return of U.S. cross-country skier Kris Freeman to the Winter Olympics. He has competed in 3 Winter Olympics before this year, and was considered the best cross-country skier in the country for a decade. In late January, the veteran was a last-minute addition to the team traveling to Sochi, and he has competed in the Cross-Country Men’s Skiathlon.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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The Value of Knowing Your T1 Baseline

Insulin Nation

'Blood, Sweat, and Diabetes. The time has come. I want to be accountable, so I’m telling you about my goal. I’m going to ride a 100 mile Tour de Cure bike ride for the American Diabetes Association in June 2014. Mark that down. Goals drive me to stay healthy. When I was 30, my A1C was almost 12.8, so I set a goal to get it under control. I went on an insulin pump and started exercising with a personal trainer.

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Fighting for Better Test Strips

Insulin Nation

'The test strip is the cornerstone of self-care for diabetes. The numbers revealed by strips can dictate what you can eat, how much exercise you can do, how much insulin you need, and how much trouble you might be in during a low. For years, however, people with diabetes have worried about the times when their meters and test strips have given inconsistent results.

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The Joy of Socks

Insulin Nation

'Foot care can be the Achilles’ heel of people with diabetes, says Dr. David Armstrong, a professor of surgery at the University of Arizona. People with diabetes “over time will lose the gift of pain – they will develop neuropathy – and they can wear a hole in their foot just like you or I could wear a hole in a shoe or a sock,” says Dr.

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Resisting the Spectacle of Being a T1 Kid

Insulin Nation

'Just a Little Sweet. There is something about the rare moments when you can watch your kids quietly from a distance, observing them as they interact with their friends. I’m often surprised by what I learn about their personalities when they realize Mommy is not hovering over them. It’s hard to provide that space, as learning not to interfere means suppressing my natural maternal instincts, especially for my T1 child.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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T1 Diabetes Education Pays Off in the UK

Insulin Nation

'Commentary. We have known all along that helping people understand their T1 leads to better health outcomes, but we rarely quantify how much help such education provides. However, new findings by the Diabetes Forum and the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists has found that such education can dramatically improve the quality of life for people with diabetes and even reduce taxpayer money spent on public health care.

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Low On Insulin for the Weekend

Insulin Nation

'Forward Motion. As I said in our a recent newsletter for Insulin Nation , people with Type 1 diabetes understand that we can’t go it alone when it comes to staying healthy. We all know that having family support is vital for keeping BG in check, and obviously we rely heavily on all our health care professionals, including our endocrinologists and CDE’s.

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Calculating for Smooth-Sailing With Insulin

Insulin Nation

'In her book Islands and Insulin: A Diabetic Sailor’s Memoir, T1 author Erin Spineto chronicles her quest to sail solo around the Florida Keys and lose her fear of her diabetes. This excerpt from that memoir takes place as she is training for the journey: 24 November 2009. Seal Beach, CA. If you have ever had the unusual pleasure of spending time with a diabetic, you might have noticed a moment when they look off to the left and appear absorbed by thoughts somehow not entirely related to the cur

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It’s late February, so we must be at HIMSS!

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

This week is the annual meeting of the Health Information Management Systems Society, and I’ll be covering it on behalf of the Center for Total Health blog. If you are in the neighborhood, drop by Kaiser Permanente at the Orange County Convention Center in Hall B, booth #3011. We are sharing mobile health innovations and apps, and we’re talking about the consumer side of health IT.

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Real-Life Examples of HIPAA Violations and How to Avoid Them

Speaker: Jack Clough, Chief Growth Officer

Download our 30-minute webinar where we delve into real-life examples of HIPAA violations and preventative measures every organization should know! You will learn: The critical factors that lead to HIPAA violations and how to identify them. Three compelling real-life cases of organizations that faced severe HIPAA penalties. Proven strategies to safeguard YOUR organization against HIPAA violations.

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Review of the Fitbug Orb Activity Tracker

Medicine and Technology

This review was originally published on FitnessTechMD by @DrJosephKim Over the past few months, I've had a chance to test and use a number of the newer wearable activity trackers (also known as fitness trackers or wearable activity monitors) like the Polar Loop and the Bowflex Boost. In this review, I'll write about my experience using the Fitbug Orb.

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Connected Care is Better Care

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

Dr. Robert Pearl, CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, speaks at Health Affairs briefing on Feb. 4. (Photo courtesy Health Affairs). “Connected care” is gaining more momentum in the health care industry. Health care providers are adopting electronic health records with federal support and standard setting. Consumer electronics makers and applications developers are offering more tools and devices for consumers to track and manage their health.

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Podcast: Telehealth for Parkinson’s care

Meaningful HIT News

Two months ago, I interviewed neurologist Ray Dorsey, M.D., co-director of the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Rochester, for a story I wrote based on a study he led. He had a lot of interesting things to say and, unlike so many other physicians, was aware of multiple system atrophy, the disease that killed my dad in 2012, so I decided to have him on for a podcast to describe how he is using off-the-shelf telehealth technology to expand access to care, improve pat

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More accolades for Topol as ‘connected health’ gains

Meaningful HIT News

I’m convinced that Dr. Eric Topol is one of those rare people, like Dr. John Halamka, who can function on minimal sleep, perhaps four hours a night. He just gets that much done. Yesterday, AT&T named Topol chief medical advisor. As such, the company says, Topol will “impact the design, development and delivery” of connected health products and services for the AT&T ForHealth business.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Poll: Which term do you prefer?

Meaningful HIT News

My last post earlier today got me thinking: we still haven’t reached a consensus on how to describe what some people have dubbed wireless health, mobile health, telehealth, digital health and connected health. Digital health has gotten popular in the past year or two, and the new issue of Health Affairs goes with connected health, but, as I noted, Dr.

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Sex and the Single Insulin Pump

Insulin Nation

'Sex with an insulin pump is a hot topic on diabetes websites. T1 blogger Kerri Sparling, who has written about pump sex in her blog SixUntilMe.com , says it’s definitely a popular conversation among T1 women’s discussion groups, with FAQs like “How do you deal with wearing a device when naked?”, “Do you disconnect a pump during intimacy?”, and “Does the pump get in the way, physically or emotionally?”.

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