This is significant since diabetes tallies $132 billion in annual health care costs. The study found that all forms of information technology-enabled diabetes management (ITDM) can improve care processes, delay complications and save health care costs. Examples of ITDM include:
- diabetes registries
- clinical decision support systems
- remote monitoring
However, after simulating a decade of ITDM, researchers discovered that electronic diabetes registries saved the most––$14.5 billion. Furthermore, when implemented nationally, only diabetes registries were shown to be cost beneficial.
The findings underscore the importance of combining chronic disease management and information technology into the current health care system. The current system tends to focus on acute care, even though chronic illnesses such as diabetes account for the majority of health care costs.
The full report is accessible at: . http://www.citl.org/research/ITDM.htm
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DID YOU KNOW:
Men with diabetes talk as much as women with diabetes: Turns out, when you actually count the words, there isn't much difference between the sexes when it comes to talking. A team led by Matthias R. Mehl, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, came up with the finding, which is published in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The researchers placed microphones on 396 college students for periods ranging from two to 10 days, sampled their conversations and calculated how many words they used in the course of a day. The score: Women, 16,215. Men, 15,669. The difference: 546 words: "Not statistically significant," say the researchers. "What's a 500-word difference, compared with the 45,000-word difference between the most and the least talkative persons" in the study, said Mehl. |
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