Practice Management

dMeetings online diabetes self-management education curriculum offers a new way to educate patients: five hours of DSME content developed and delivered by Certified Diabetes Educators (CDEs) and focused on positive patient outcomes reduces health care costs and increases patient and employee productivity.

Survey estimates that diabetes accounts for many more deaths in the United States than are being reported on death certificates — and that diabetes is actually the third leading cause of death.

I am a primary care provider in a small private office. A long-term patient of mine, 32 years of age, was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. His insurance is now one I do not participate in. Until his recent diagnosis, he visited annually and paid out of pocket. He wanted to stay with me for his care. I realized his needs were most likely more than he could afford.

Study finds NPs provide comparable quality of clinical care as physicians.

Registry improvements better track progresses meeting performance indicators.

Years ago I was attending an annual AADE meeting in Washington, DC. It was a hot summer day in August and while running between meetings, I got overheated. One of my fellow attendees, a nurse educator who was also a friend and past president of AADE, put a cool wet ...

For an easy reference on the latest changes to the ADA's Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes, just download and print out this 1-page summary of the 2015 revisions.

Many health systems’ insurance arms plan to push policies on the new insurance exchanges to expand their base of potential patients…. 

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