diabetic care associates patient portal

How do I deal with a diabetic patient?

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Does a diabetic patient should eat orange?

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How to improve diabetic compliance?

CheckMyVitals Today, 25.8 million Americans have diabetes and one in three American adults have hypertension, representing 77.9 million. In order for these millions of patients to manage their disease, they should take regular measurements of their vital signs (i.e. blood sugar, blood pressure, pulse readings), as recommended by their physicians. The current methods, (usually a...

How can a primary care physician help a diabetic?

R. A. Ramanujan, M.D. “Patients and I work as a team in optimizing their care plan. I provide them with comprehensive information about their diseases and review management options. Then, together, we decide which treatment is best-suited for their condition.” Medical School: All India School of Medicine, New Delhi Specialty Training: University of Medicine and...

Structure of the Portal

The UPMC patient portal, known as UPMC HealthTrak, combines the communications power of an integrated EMR portal with customized features aimed at enhancing diabetes self-management.

Preliminary Testing and Assessment of the Portal

With permission from the quality improvement committee of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh, the portal team recruited patients with diabetes to participate in five focus group sessions in which the patients discussed various diabetes-related topics, saw demonstrations of how the proposed diabetes patient portal would function, and completed questionnaires about the portal's usefulness and value..

Discussion

The UPMC diabetes patient portal was designed to enhance patient-provider communication and to allow patients to take a greater role in their own efforts to manage diabetes and prevent associated diseases.

Article Information

This research was sponsored by funding from the U.S. Air Force administered by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Fort Detrick, Md.,Award Number W81XWH-04-2-0030.