What Large-Scale Diabetes Care Transformation Looks Like

摘要

When it comes to population health for complex conditions, addressing clinical variation and clinical inertia can have a big impact in a short timeframe. For Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health, diabetes is a priority as a high-impact chronic condition. It has more than 42,000 patients diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and another 117,000 patients with prediabetes. "Every single month we have a minimum of 500 patients newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes," said Jonathan Brady, PharmD, assistant director of ambulatory clinical pharmacy programs at Geisinger. Also, in the Geisinger service area, one out of every three patients who has diabetes also has cardiovascular disease.