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health it & diabetes: using cds to support your diabetes Follow-up Care efforts
 According to HealthIT.gov , "The delivery of high quality diabetes care is a complex process that requires a provider to consider many pieces of patient information and treatment guidelines. Given that many recommendations for diabetes care are relatively well defined, diabetes follow-up care is a good opportunity to use clinical decision support (CDS) and begin combining different types of CDS to support workflow transformation and improve patient care."
The Clinical Decision Support Starter Kit from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is designed to help small practices take the first steps toward implementing CDS tools. This Starter Kit will help implementers become familiar with CDS, and it provides step-by-step examples of how to manage the implementation of a CDS rule.
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nih toolkit: using Information Systems to Support Patient Engagement
 This resource from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Diabetes Education Program discusses the transition from patient-provider interactions based mainly on office visits to newer IT-supported methods.
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download these infographics for display and distribution in your practice
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a series of
infographics
on diabetes, prediabetes, the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP), risk factors, and more in print-ready, web-ready, and poster formats.
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register now: Best Practices for Diabetes Prevention at Geisinger Health Plan
 Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 11:00 a.m.
More than 30 million individuals are living with diabetes in the United States and an estimated 84 million have prediabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Without effective intervention and treatment, the latter will develop type 2 diabetes within five years and the health risks and costs associated with chronic diseases.
Diabetes prevention is healthier and less expensive than treatment. Recent findings from a CDC longitudinal study indicate that prevention programs are leading to a decrease in the rate of type diabetes. These evidence-based programs focus on behavior changes, such as healthy eating and physical activity, to prevent the development of diabetes and the health risks and costs associated with the disease.
In this presentation, Geisinger Health Plan Wellness Specialist Carmela Carr, MS, will detail the components of the organization's successful diabetes prevention program that has earned the full recognition of CDC and improved the lives of hundreds of participants since 2016.
Learning Objectives
- Determine the resources and activities necessary for effective programming
- Implement strategies for recruiting and retaining participants
- Develop milestones and key performance indicators to measure program effectiveness
Continuing Education
This webcast is approved for up to 1.0 continuing education (CE) hours for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the Certified Professional in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CPHIMS) and the Certified Associate in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CAHIMS).
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online learning: access the aade webinar archive
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o get the latest updates and evidence-based best practices related to diabetes and prediabetes care and management, visit the
American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) website
and access its library of recorded webinars, plus links to upcoming live webinars, on a broad range of diabetes topics.
(Note: Many of the AADE webinars have an associated fee.)
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shared decision making: could this be the key to improved diabetes management?
 The NIH National Diabetes Education Program defines
shared decision making
as a collaborative process that encourages health care professionals and patients to make health care decisions together, taking into account scientific evidence as well as patients' needs and preferences. Shared decision making has been advocated as an approach to improve the quality of the patient communication process. Health care professionals must be informed of current treatment recommendations and guide patients when choosing treatment options.
Click here to learn more about the benefits of shared decision making and to access tools and decision aids that fit your practice.
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community health & wellness: Bayhealth offers free blood pressure clinics
 A September 9, 2019
article in the
Milford Beacon highlighted
the free blood pressure clinics Bayhealth hosts each month as part of the PACE - Promoting Active Community Engagement - Program.
Clinics are set for 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 18 at Slaughter Neck Community Center, 22942 Slaughter Neck Road, Lincoln; and 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Monday, September 23 in the Longwood Room of Modern Maturity Center, 1121 Forrest Ave., Dover.
The monthly blood pressure clinic at Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus will not be held in September, but will resume normal schedule in October.
PACE is a free program designed to help people live healthier lifestyles. It's important to monitor blood pressure, since hypertension/high blood pressure may be linked to heart and other chronic diseases.
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This publication was supported by the Cooperative Agreement Number NU58DP2018006563 from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Publication number: DEDPH-HD-091319
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