runtastic iOS $0.99/Android $0.99 As smart phones become more and more a part of our daily lives, it seems the developers and inventors are also finding more ways to use the various features that come along with the devices. This new app uses the phone’s camera lens to actually measure …

Patricia Kringas gives us a quick overview of her background and her current work with the TODAY trial. More videos with Patricia Kringas: Results of the TODAY Study on Type 2 Adolescents What Can We Learn from the TODAY study on Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes? How Were Family Members …

Patricia Kringas reviews the structure of the TODAY trial and talks about some of the surprising results. More videos with Patricia Kringas: Patricia Kringas, RN, MA, CDE, Introduction What Can We Learn from the TODAY study on Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes? How Were Family Members Involved in the TODAY …

Patricia Kringas discusses the unexpected results of the TODAY study, focusing on how the time-to-failure with metformin for adolescents was shorter than with adults in the same type of program. She emphasizes that although lifestyle changes are critical to health and well-being, other factors seem to be at play when studying adolescents, …

Patricia Kringas, RN, CDE, describes how the TODAY study was designed to ensure that family members were also involved with the study in an in-depth and integrated manner. All educational materials were available in both English and Spanish, and family members also participated fully in the study. Although lack of …

Patricia Kringas emphasizes the necessity of shifting the dialogue for adolescents to a more aggressive and proactive approach but also lets us know that education still plays an extremely important role. Here’s the link to the free educational materials she mentions from the TODAY study (available in both English and …

Hypertension can be an expensive disease and how poor a job we do managing it in older patients can increase managed care costs. This week’s Homerun Slides series, Hypertension in the Medicare Population, Part 1 of 2, provides you with the information to talk to your colleagues about the future of …

Nikolaos Tentolouris, Nikolaos Katsilambros         Case study 5.1 A 76-year-old female patient was admitted to the orthopedic unit for right hip replacement.

  In this week’s Homerun Slides set, we take a look at the challenges posed by an increasingly elderly population to the American Medicane healthcare system….

Each week there is something new about how we can improve patient care by improving transitions for patients between healthcare units. A recent Medicare initiative aimed at smoothing transitions of care through community-based interventions successfully lowered 30-day readmission rates and all-cause hospitalization rates among beneficiaries, according to a study. Medicare quality …