Sean Duffy, Omada Health, talks about PreventNow’s early results which are looking very promising. Omada will continue to collect the data and he points out that, because the system is technology-driven, the data is fairly easy to gather so that they can continue to look at the results over the …

Sean Duffy, Omada Health, talks about how PreventNow is working with large health care organizations such as Viridian to reach patients. In particular, they are interested in partnering with “bricks & mortar” providers where they can provide a web complement giving people options and multiple ways to manage their health….

Sean Duffy, CEO, Omada Health, discusses the potential for PreventNow.com to help prediabetes patients lower overall medical costs. He talks about some of the studies demonstrating these improvements for patients with diabetes and that similar cost savings are very likely with prediabetic patients. More videos with Sean Duffy: Sean Duffy, …

We talk about the use of technology to improve diabetes care but often it is some "new magic" device that costs a fortune and that no insurance company will pay for. This week, our Disaster Averted shows how taking advantage of free technology like Skype can help you see exactly what …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue our exploration on the state of obesity in 2014 including topics on the relationship of BMI and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, genes that cause or are associated with diabetes, and the two principal genetic defects in B-cells that can …

Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, and Michael C. Riddell, PhD Hypoglycemia Associated with Physical Activity Hypoglycemia risk. Hypoglycemia is the most common negative side effect of exercise, ranging from mild to life threatening in severity. The incidence of hypoglycemia during or after a single bout of moderate-intensity exercise in children and …

Surescripts Finds Some Data May Be Inaccurate Surescripts is reporting a potential inaccuracy of electronically transmitted medication history information used for medication reconciliation. See this PDF report for more details.  

Patient Handout: Prediabetes Turnaround  What do you have to give to your newly diagnosed prediabetic patients? From dLife comes this pdf handout that provides 12 simple steps to help prevent diabetes. Keep these on your desk and have all your overweight and prediabetic patients read and take a copy home …

Review: The Spark People Activity Tracker  This Electronic pedometer and activity monitor is accurate and simple to use. Patients can just clip it on a belt or shoe, or even place it in their pants pocket and it monitors activity. Although this sounds like every other pedometer, what makes the …

A new study which tracked a sample of more than 7,700 children through grade school across the U.S. found that of children between ages 5 and 14, nearly 12% developed obesity — 10% of girls and nearly 14% of boys. The study found that much of a child’s "weight fate” …