Healio August 10, 2019
HOUSTON — Population health provides a framework for diabetes care and education specialists to raise their value in optimizing care and education, beyond the traditional role of diabetes self-management education services, according to a speaker here.
“The role of the diabetes educator has changed or needs to change with the evolving health care landscape,” Kellie Rodriguez, RN, MSN, MBA, CDE, director of the Global Diabetes Program at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, told Endocrine Today. “Value-based health care cares less about what we do and more for the outcomes that result from what we do. Our language must be outcomes-focused, and we need to embrace the opportunities that the population health framework gives us — assessment, care prioritization,...
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