In 2019, Medicare began to pay for clinics to monitor their patients remotely, under its Chronic Care Remote Physiologic Monitoring (RPM) program. Recently finalized rules for 2020 expand the opportunity, while refining, if only slightly, what kind of care is expected.
Read MoreSelf-monitoring of Blood Glucose (SMBG): Making it simple & actionable for PWD on basal insulin
on November 21, 2019
| By Barbara Eichorst, MS, RD, CDE
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titration,
cde,
hcp,
pwd,
insulin optimization,
insulin therapy,
medication optimization,
insulin titration,
diabetes,
therapeutic inertia,
clinical inertia,
inertia
For people with diabetes (PWD), initiating basal insulin can be a very scary and complicated process. As clinicians, we all try to help PWD prioritize self-management activities that are necessary to make therapy adjustments including basal insulin titration.
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Overcoming therapeutic inertia with the help of technology
on October 10, 2019
| By Barbara Eichorst, MS, RD, CDE
|
titration,
cde,
hcp,
pwd,
insulin optimization,
insulin therapy,
insulin titration,
diabetes,
therapeutic inertia,
clinical inertia,
inertia
Therapeutic inertia is a multifactorial challenge for all of us in diabetes care. It relates to so much more than just failure to initiate or escalate therapy, and it involves many players - people with diabetes (PWD), healthcare providers (HCPs), health systems and payers.
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