Diabetes Website - Guiding Principles for the Care of People With or at Risk for Diabetes

An amazing group of organizations banded together to create Guiding Principles for the Care of People With or at Risk for Diabetes, which assist providers to deliver diabetes care.  The website is at http://ndep.nih.gov/hcp-businesses-and-schools/guiding-principles/ 
It is sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH, and the CDC.

The ten principles are:

1. Identify undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes
2. Manage prediabetes
3. Provide self-management education and support
4. Provide individualized nutrition therapy
5. Encourage regular physical activity
6. Control blood sugar
7. Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
8. Detect and monitor microvascular complications
9. Consider special populations
10. Provide patient-centered care

2012 Diabetes Guidelines

The American Diabetes association recently released the 2012 Standards of Medical Care for Diabetes. I am working with nursing colleagues and a physician to implement an Intensive Therapy for Obesity at a local clinic.  The purpose of the study is to reduces risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome and diabetes.  We have submitted an IRB and an application for a small grant to support the research.  Our goal is to improve the lives of people living in Milledgeville who are at risk for developing Type 2 Diabetes (T2D).

One of the Georgia College nursing informatics graduate students will be working with the clinic to develop a database registry to support the research effort. 

Mobile Technologies and the Innovative Medical Home

Dr. W. suggested that I watch the webinar, Innovation in the Medical Home: How Mobile and Social Technologies Can Accelerate Health Behavior Changes, so I did!  The webinar supplements the information on telehealthcare in the Informatics and Nursing textbook. You can watch the video below.  It covers the topics of patient empowerment using mobile apps to manage diseases like congestive heart failure and diabetes.  It prompted me to explore many of the wonderful apps in the iTunes app store for diabetes! Amazing! Several of the apps should be perfect with clients who have metabolic syndrome.

Innovation in the Medical Home: How Mobile and Social Technologies Can Accelerate Health Behavior Changes from Loren Vandegrift on Vimeo.