Digital Health

AUGUST 22, 2014

Last week I saw an article announcing eHarmony ’s intent to launch a new career-matching service that will “pair hiring managers with candidates based on desired culture, personality and skill-set traits.”. Potential couples should not ignore those quirks. Granted, this could go somewhat legally awry if hiring managers are entering criteria suggesting they are looking for a hot personal assistant or a cabana boy with 6-pack abs, but the idea is intriguing.

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

'Editor’s Note – In early 2014, a Miss Manners advice column suggested that people with diabetes should wait until they find a discreet place to test their blood sugars rather than test in public view. That column caused strong feelings among the diabetes community on both sides. In this column, author and life coach Laura Kronen takes the opposite position while responding to public reaction to a photo of herself injecting insulin in public.

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Health System CIO

MARCH 4, 2014

Telemedicine roadblocks Working with docs to prepare for payment reform Balancing the CIO & CMIO roles — “It feels right.” From residency to hospital administration Learning from a DIY EHR Moving to Iowa — “It was one of the best moves I’ve made.” Call to action for CIOs It was early in his career that Marc Chasin learned a critical lesson in change management.

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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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American Well

OCTOBER 13, 2014

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SightCall

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

“Thump, thump, thump, thump,” Jennifer can hear and feel her heart rate rising as she picks up her speed during her morning run. Feeling the sweat drip down her neck while simultaneously feeling the cold wind, she begins to get in her zone. Looking down at her smart watch, she reads 152 BPM (Beats Per Minute), her target rate zone. Knowing this information, she continues at that pace to increase her overall cardiovascular fitness.

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eHealth

APRIL 22, 2014

Case Western Reserve University has an annual research day called Research ShowCase. I was privileged to be on the Program Board, chaired by Pete Zimmerman, Ph.D. Being both a former poster presenter and an Case alumni, made the event more meaningful. The event included hundreds of posters from post-docs, graduate students, undergrads and even high school students.

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Digital Health

JULY 30, 2014

There was a story in the Washington Post a few weeks back that started with this paragraph: “People, and especially men, hate being alone with their thoughts so much that they’d rather be in pain. In a study published in Science Thursday on the ability of people to let their minds “wander” — that is, for them to sit and do nothing but think — researchers found that about a quarter of women and two-thirds of men chose electric shocks over their own company.”.

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JULY 20, 2014

So a bit of a lapse in posts for me as I spent a luxurious few weeks vacationing. It’s amazing how fast that buzz can wear off as the world shoots you out of a cannon and back into your desk chair. I figured I would ease back into the blog with something light-hearted, so today I bring you the first installment of Digital Health: What the Hell? This intermittent but ongoing series will highlight so-called digital health products that are actually real but which, at least in my personal opinion,

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Digital Health

JUNE 25, 2014

One thing the tech software industry is great at is failing fast. This concept of “failing fast” means, at least in part, rapidly bringing the “minimum viable product” to market, even if it’s a little rocky and feature-light, and then fixing it as it gets adopted by iterating with new releases. We see this all the time in software-driven products and even with some hardware ones, such as mobile phones.

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Digital Health

JUNE 16, 2014

Phil & Luke Dunphy. This post also appeared June 16, 2014 in PE Hub. I was watching an episode of the sitcom Modern Family on TV the other day and one of the subplots was about one of the kids, Luke, trying to invent the next great kitchen innovation. Among his attempts are a toaster that butters and toasts simultaneously, the coffee-bot (never fully explained), and a self-flipping pancake whose mechanism of action is embedded popcorn.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 23, 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.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

'In Laura Kronen’s new book, Too Sweet, the not-so-serious side to diabetes , she comes to terms with a Type 1 diagnosis while keeping a sense of humor. In this excerpt, she runs down 10 common experiences that people with Type 1 diabetes might recognize in their own lives. What’s interesting about low blood sugar is that the symptoms are never the same from person to person or episode to episode.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'I’m often surprised by the number of patients who come into my office and immediately say, “I’ve been bad,“ or ”I cheated,” referring to not having lost the weight that they had hoped to or not making all of the food choices that they had planned. Moreover, patients come in programmed to believe their doctors are going to scold them for physical issues that truly result from a faulty pancreas.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 14, 2014

'If people with diabetes had a quarter for every dumb thing someone says to them about diabetes, they’d never have to pay for insulin. The Insulin Nation staff have gathered some of the most ridiculous things people say about diabetes in one video compilation. Sit back and enjoy the ignorance, and then share this video with others for a “laugh so you don’t cry” kind of catharsis.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 7, 2014

'Dustin McGowan. In baseball, pitchers have been known to sneak a few things into their back pockets or onto their bodies to help with their pitching performance. Headlines were made early in the 2014 baseball season when New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was thrown out of a game for smearing pine tar on his neck to “doctor” the ball. Most famously, a knuckleball pitcher named Joe Niekro was caught red-handed with an emery board in his pocket which he used to scuff up baseballs.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'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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Insulin Nation

JULY 22, 2014

'Throughout July, we’re featuring excerpts from Ginger Vieira’s new book, Dealing with Diabetes Burnout. In this final edited excerpt from the book, the longtime life coach and diabetes advocate shares the lessons she’s learned from years of exercise with Type 1 diabetes. There is no doubt that exercising with diabetes is about one million times more challenging than exercising without diabetes, particularly if you take insulin.

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 13, 2014

'With a growing number of children being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, it would seem that there would be more awareness of the symptoms of its onset, but this is not the case. A recent study done by UK doctors in Southampton and Oxford documented that diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) was present in 25% of 2,000 UK children newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

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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.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 3, 2014

'An Alberta man with Type 1 diabetes was recently pulled over by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for an unpaid speeding ticket, and he was lucky it didn’t end up costing him his life. According to a report in CBC News – Edmonton , Mitchell Chernoff was pulled over during a weekend traffic stop in late June and arrested for the unpaid ticket.

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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.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 14, 2014

'There’s a sleepy tempo that often accompanies evening fundraisers for good causes. Attendees use up their social energy during the cocktail hour and begin to lose steam as the long work day catches up with them. Once the lights dim and the speeches begin, eyelids grow heavy. This was the pleasant way a recent JDRF New England event was progressing until Thomas Brobson took the floor and began to talk about advances in artificial pancreas technology.

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 15, 2014

'BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL – PART 1 of 2. It’s that time of year – back to school! New notebooks, new clothes, new bookbag, and new teachers that will need a crash course in diabetes education. When my son was first diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, we were two weeks into 4th grade. We were lucky in that his teacher has a child that had been diagnosed a year earlier with T1D.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 2, 2014

'Commentary. When my daughter was first diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, I thought our biggest challenge would be the disease itself. I never imagined we would have to simultaneously combat Type 1 diabetes and public ignorance. Yet during the past six years, a major challenge has been a lack of understanding about the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

'Claire, living with T1D for 18 years. One of the biggest diabetes stories of 2014 came about when Miss Idaho chose to expose her insulin pump during the swimsuit portion of the Miss America contest. A pair of young women with Type 1 diabetes plan to take that type of exposure one step further in 2015. Kat Reed and Tara Layman have created a calendar, T1D Exposed, comprised of people with Type 1 diabetes in the buff, but wearing their pumps or continuous glucose monitors.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 27, 2014

'In my practice recently I saw a very bright and talented woman about my age with Type 1 diabetes. She told me how, years ago, she had been accepted to medical school and elected not to go because she knew that, with the intensity of the studying and crazy schedule of hospital rotations, she would not be able to manage her glucose levels properly. I was so saddened to hear this, for I know so many physicians with Type 1 diabetes, and know the value their perspective brings to endocrinology.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'If you have Type 1 diabetes and are out of the “honeymoon period,” you’ve probably been told that your pancreas has stopped producing insulin. But it turns out that information may be wrong. Many people with Type 1 still produce at least some insulin, even years after diagnosis. Traditionally, doctors and researchers believed that the pancreas “crashed and burned,” rapidly declining in its ability to secrete insulin as early as a year after the onset of Type 1.

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