mHealth Intelligence April 25, 2024
Interviews with clinicians and staff involved in virtual specialty diabetes care revealed a need for improvements in workflows, staff support, and data collection.
Though telehealth can significantly improve diabetes care, new research shows several gaps that must be closed through strategies such as creating efficient workflows around scheduling follow-up visits and ensuring diabetes data collection ahead of telehealth visits.
Published in The Journal of Clinical Diabetes, the study identified clinic-and provider-level practices that positively and negatively affect virtual diabetes care delivery. Researchers from the University of California Davis (UC Davis) and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) conducted the study, supported by a research award from the Children’s Miracle Network at UC Davis.
Prior research shows that virtual care...