Resources

With this week’s Homerun Slides, we have one more example of a PCMH (Patient-Centere Medical Home) Case Study for you, and then we explore Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) with an examination of the basic system and a look at the NCQA ACO Standards and Measures….

Barbara J. Anderson, PhD, CDE and Abigail K. Mansfield Marcaccio, PhD The week’s excerpt answers the following questions: What is "Miscarried Helping"? What are the steps in preventing "Miscarried Helping"? How can you foster an open provider-patient relationship? What are the steps to preventing diabetes "burnout"? How can primary care …

The Future of Islet Transplantation Steve Freed: Please give tell us a little bit about yourself, and your field of interest. Dr. Eli Lewis: I studied in the medical school at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel. During medical school, I was infatuated by medical research. I then completed …

ViSi Mobile System  Sotera Wireless, Inc. has announced that the FDA has cleared its patented continuous non-invasive blood pressure (cNIBP) technology. The ViSi Mobile System is the first wrist-worn monitor to measure core patient vital signs: cNIBP, heart rate, electrocardiogram, blood oxygenation level, respiration rate, and skin temperature. Through ViSi …

Healthy eating is encouraged for all individuals, but especially for those with diabetes…. 

Patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes still make small amounts of insulin…. 

There is a decline in adherence to medication after retirement among men and women with hypertension and men with type 2 diabetes….

Complications from surgical wound closure occur three times higher in diabetic patients with high blood glucose levels…. 

Rosiglitazone plus exenatide shows lower percentage of MI…. 

Cholesterol levels unchanged….