Resources

  In this week’s Homerun Slides set, we wrap up our series on Accountable Care Organizations with a discussion of both the benefits and limitations of these relatively new tools in healthcare management. Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) is also covered….

Donna Jornsay, BSN, RN, CPNP, CDE, talks about her experience as a CDE (since the introduction of the certification) and why she developed a program to help fill the gap in care for in-patient diabetes. She notes that healthcare professionals are seeing an astounding number of patients being diagnosed with …

    By Sheri Colberg, PhD   It’s not enough to lose weight for diabetes management and prevention and better health — you really need to know how to keep it off after you lose it.

AliveCor iPhone Heart Monitor  AliveCor’s iPhone-compatible single-channel ECG monitor will be available in the US on January 1. The FDAhas cleared the 510(k) for the device. The AliveCor monitor is in a thin case with two electrodes that snaps onto the back of an iPhone 4 or 5. To obtain …

The UK National Diabetes Audit has just released some stark statistics on the effects of diabetes….

Whether your patients are young or old, being obese can boost their chances of developing diabetes…. 

Hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetes may increase risk of cardiovascular events and death….

When you’re postmenopausal and overweight, losing weight is a good thing, but gaining back just a few pounds may actually be detrimental to your cardiovascular health…. 

The novel iPhone application and device could be used to prevent strokes….

People with type 2 diabetes who are diagnosed with cancer ignore their diabetes in favor of cancer treatment but uncontrolled high blood sugar weakens their immune systems and is more likely to kill them than cancer….