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Diabetes is the perfect medical condition to manage virtually because [telemedicine] allows people to connect more frequently with their health care providers - Martin Abrahamson MD
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Telemedicine and Diabetes Care
At 300 pounds, Chris Burke knew he needed to lose weight. He’d been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2005 and promptly did everything his doctors asked of him. Initially, that meant following a diet and exercise regimen, along with taking daily doses of metformin. Eventually—as his condition worsened and he became insulin deficient—that meant giving himself injections of insulin up to seven times a day. But his blood glucose levels remained dangerously high.
After two years of trying to manage his diabetes, he was up to 425 pounds and his blood glucose levels were three times the norm. In 2007, he was hospitalized with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life-threatening…
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It takes a Tribe: A new model of type 1 diabetes care in Australia
With a focus on building community, peer-led information exchange, creative health programs, and social support, the Family Centre does diabetes differently and represents a new model of care for people with type 1 diabetes.
The Future of Diabetes Management
Luckily, there are so many digital health innovations for diabetes patients out there that diabetes management has been improving for years steadily – and it will significantly change in the coming years.
New Approaches to Providing Individualized Diabetes Care in the 21st Century
Building from a foundation of rapid innovation, the 21st century is poised to offer considerable new approaches to providing modern diabetes care. The focus of this paper is the evolving role of diabetes care providers collaboratively working with patients and families toward the goals of achieving optimal clinical and psychosocial outcomes for individuals living with diabetes.
5 Reasons to See an Endocrinologist If You Have Diabetes
What does an endocrinologist do for diabetes? One woman with the disease shares a handful of reasons to motivate you to make or keep the appointment.
Diabetes Clinic at a Distance: Telemedicine Bridges the Gap
Results from the FITE diabetes project suggest that the use of telemedicine in populations with limited access to medical care greatly reduced urgent care and hospitalizations. There was greater expense involved in providing the standard of care, but the return on this investment was substantial.
The Challenge of Diabetes for Doctor and Patient
The tidal wave of diabetes over the last two decades has made it one of the most common diseases that internists and family doctors treat. Right now feels like a good-news-bad-news time on the diabetes front, which in a general medical clinic can sometimes feel like the only front there is.
Virtual diabetes clinic has an impact on awareness
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia offers new product to its consumers with diabetes
What happens at the diabetes clinic?
Your clinic should keep you in touch with the latest advances in the management of diabetes and advise on patient education courses to help.
Telemedicine and Diabetes Care
Telemedicine is looking to radically change your doctor visits.
HEAL Clinics
Our mission is to eradicate type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes and obesity with an evidence-based, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet and lifestyle.
Diabetes360
Our mission is to help you adjust to living with diabetes and to promote wellness through a variety of personalized treatment and educational programs.
Parsley Health
The next-generation of primary care is personal. Parsley Health takes a functional, whole body approach to medicine, and believes in real, genuine doctor-patient relationships.
Best Hospitals for Diabetes & Endocrinology
The 50 top-scoring hospitals are ranked, followed by high performing hospitals.
Diabetes Center at UCSF
The Diabetes Center at UCSF typically conducts numerous clinical trials relating to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Eskind Diabetes Clinic
The Eskind Diabetes Clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center diagnoses and treats adults with diabetes. Our specialists will assess your overall health and develop a personalized plan to manage your diabetes. From the latest in technology to diabetes self-management, you and your family will have all you need to live well with diabetes.
Joslin Diabetes Center
Joslin Diabetes Center is the only diabetes institution in the world that goes beyond a single focus. With efforts in these three critical areas, a synergy develops: researchers, clinicians and educators collaborate in ways that produce cutting-edge scientific discovery, unique clinical care models and pioneering educational strategies.
The Best Children’s Hospital Diabetes Programs
The ranking evaluated 110 U.S. children’s hospitals. To evaluate the quality of each hospital’s children’s endocrinology program, evaluators examined its reputation with specialists, the quality of its diabetes management, its nurse-to-patient ratio, its volume of diabetes-centered patients, and its efforts to prevent infection.
The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Clinic
The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, combining unprecedented family-oriented patient care and education with world-class diabetes research programs, has been named one of three "Diabetes Centers of Excellence" in New York State
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