The Friday Five – American Diabetes Month
November is American Diabetes Month and this week’s Friday Five looks at the cost of diabetes, new ways to treat and support those with diabetes…
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Blink Health to Give Away $10 Million Worth of Free Diabetes Medications to Help People Afford Treatment
Blink Health, America’s leading prescription drug savings platform, launched a program to help #TreatType2 diabetes by committing to give away $ 10 million worth of…
November is American Diabetes Month
One in eleven Americans has diabetes and every 23 seconds someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with the disease. Diabetes causes more deaths than AIDS…
How Advanced Analytics Can Improve Population Health Management
By Dan Trott – Data culled from increasing numbers of shared databases of EHRs, clinical research pools, geographical positioning systems, connected devices and more has given rise to using advanced analytics for improving population health management (PHM).
Reimagining How Diabetes is Prevented and Managed
The American Diabetes Association and IBM Watson Health announced a long-term collaboration to bring together the cognitive computing power of Watson and the Association’s vast…
Medicare Proposes Expansion Of Counseling Program For People At Risk Of Diabetes
By Mary Agnes Carey – As the health law turned six, federal officials proposed the expansion of a Medicare diabetes prevention program funded by the landmark measure. The pilot program, developed and administered by the YMCA…
New Guidance for EPs Reporting Diabetes
Due to an error found in the logic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing guidance on measure CMS122 (Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c Poor Control), which is included in the 2014 measure set for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program for eligible professionals (EPs).
American Diabetes Month Facts and Figures
Follow the American Diabetes Association @AmDiabetesAssn and join the conversation with #StopDiabetes, #diabetes, and #AmericanDiabetesMonth. Diabetes affects nearly 30 million children and adults in the…
American Diabetes Month
Diabetes Awareness Month was first established in 1975. U.S. presidents and Congress, however, did not start passing proclamations to recognize November as “diabetes month” until…