Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Brandon Morrow may find his blood sugar levels elevated like the speed of his fastball today. After all, it’s not uncommon for a pitcher to have a surge of adrenaline knowing he is going to pitch in the World Series. Luckily for Morrow, a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers who has Type 1 diabetes, he already has honed his blood sugar management so that it has becomes an almost subconscious routine.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Appropriate patient care revolves around a team of individuals that includes the patient, a variety of clinicians and other providers, caretakers and patient advocates. The members of this team must collaborate to ensure that the best possible decisions are made on the patient’s behalf. As clinicians, scientists and innovators develop new technologies to redesign health care to make the patient experience more efficient, effective, and better, coordination of care with the patient at the center

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Mobile Health Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Most physicians have long enjoyed the benefits of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies. As health systems focused on ensuring doctors had access to state-of-the-art health IT to monitor their patients when they couldn’t be at the bedside, the quality of tools and pace of adoption for nursing solutions did not keep up. In some situations, nurses received bulky phones that could only be used within the walls of the hospital, while physicians needed to download specific apps on their own devices

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The CHRONIC Act – Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care Act – passed the U.S. Senate on September 14, 2017. The act, which is now being reviewed in the U.S. House of Representatives, allows for an expansion of telehealth/telemedicine coverage under the Medicare Advantage Plan B. Medicare Advantage Plan B is an optional insurance that covers medically necessary and preventative healthcare services, supplies, and select prescription medications for individual

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Diabetes activist Quinn Nystrom has written a memoir called If I Kiss You, Will I Get Diabetes?, about growing up with Type 1 diabetes. In this condensed excerpt, Quinn shares how her parents once had to put themselves in her shoes. The first summer I had diabetes, my parents and I attended a workshop for parents of teenagers with diabetes at the International Diabetes Center in St.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Over the last few years, pocket neighborhoods of Spanish speaking individuals have produced significant language barriers when it comes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Many whose primary language is Spanish have difficulty in understanding the forms provided for ACA information reporting. Others are completely unaware of certain government subsidies made available to them.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 23, 2017

People with Type 1 diabetes have a higher risk of gastrointestinal problems than the average population. Some of these issues may arise from frequent fluctuations in blood glucose levels that come with a diabetes diagnosis, while others may be related to the very medications that help with blood glucose regulation. Another likely reason for gastrointestinal issues (GI) may be the same overactive immune system which caused beta cell destruction in the first place.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Diabetes activist Quinn Nystrom has written a memoir called If I Kiss You, Will I Get Diabetes? It unflinchingly chronicles her process to accepting her diagnosis at the age of 10. In this condensed excerpt from her memoir, she discusses how difficult it was to return back to school after her diagnosis, especially when confronted with diabetes ignorance.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Over the past few months, the IRS has been moving forward with preparations for the ACA-mandated filings for the 2017 tax reporting year. Here’s what we know so far about the 2018 filing season. The new instructions and forms are available for Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), which are organizations with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 26, 2017

While President Trump does his best to undermine the Affordable Care Act, the American public wants it to succeed. Americans don’t want the Affordable Care Act (ACA) destroyed. They want it improved, according to the October Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. The poll found that 66% of the public think it is more important for President Trump and Congress to work on legislation to stabilize the marketplaces than to continue efforts to repeal and replace the ACA.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Perhaps only time will tell if President Trump can succeed where Republicans in Congress have failed to obliterate the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The President’s ambitious attempts to derail the ACA has been going on since he came to office, but those efforts were taken to another level last week. The recent ACA executive order signed by President Trump focused on three areas he claims will provide better healthcare choices for Americans: 1.

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