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diabetes

Kaiser Permanente Study: Starting Treatment Early Doubles Chance of Success for People with Diabetes.

by Martin Trussell on March 9, 2010

in Health, Pharma, wellness

This is an important finding for the 30 million people world-wide who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes every year.

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Study Suggests Low-Consuming Medicare Beneficiaries With Chronic Disease Are More Costly to Program.

by Martin Trussell on February 25, 2010

in Health, Managed Care, Medicare, health insurance

One out of every four Medicare dollars is spent on beneficiaries with diabetes, with a high percentage attributed to tertiary illness caused by unmanaged or under-managed diabetes.

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UnitedHealthcare Wins Innovation Award from National Business Coalition on Health for Programs that Improve Consumers’ Health.

by Martin Trussell on November 24, 2009

in Innovation, health insurance, wellness

UnitedHealthcare’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program and Diabetes Health Plan were recognized by the NBCH for their ability to help enhance health care safety and quality while reducing costs.

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Doctors Cite Time, Low Reimbursement As Barriers To Providing Comprehensive Diabetes Care, Survey Shows.

by Martin Trussell on November 20, 2009

in Health, wellness

The most common service that doctors provided their patients with diabetes was instruction in, and evaluation of, self-monitoring blood glucose levels.

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Diabetics Using Twitter to Track Sugar Levels.

by Martin Trussell on January 21, 2009

in Health, Health IT, Social media

When I first conceived of writing about how health insurance plans were possibly using social media technologies like Facebook and Twitter to engage their members to seek better health, I was expecting to find more applications like the one at http://twitter.com/ss1.
Now diabetics can quickly add sugar and med entries via Twitter direct message to the [...]

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