Diabetes care appointments
Diabetes care requires frequent communication between the health care providers and patient. Patients need to share important information like glucose levels, diet, and physical activity. Telehealth tools reduce travel and make it faster and easier for the patient and health care provider to manage the patient’s health together
- Over 10% of the people in the U.S. have diabetes.
- Type 1 diabetes affects about 187,000 student aged patients.
Patients with diabetes school-based telehealth benefits
- Almost all students with diabetes need help managing their diabetes at times. School-based telehealth can help with on-going diabetes education.
- Patients learn about insulin, the food they can and cannot eat, and getting exercise.
- Patients learn what healthy glucose levels are and how to keep theirs in the correct range.
- Patients learn how to check their blood and track their glucose levels.
- Patients learn the signs of high or low blood glucose and know what to do.
- Proactive diabetes monitoring is when the patient and health care provider talk about the patient’s progress. School-based telehealth for patients with diabetes allows patients and providers to monitor a patient’s progress.
- The patient tracks blood glucose, weight, diet, and exercise to share with the provider.
- Technology now allows for sharing of glucose monitoring electronically through the patient’s glucometer.
- The health care provider can suggest more activity, better foods, or changes to medicine.
- Most patients stay healthier with regular diabetes monitoring and communication with their health care provider.
- People with diabetes typically need to see their health care provider regularly. School-based telehealth makes it easier and more convenient for patients to get the care they need, when they need it.
- Patients with monitored and controlled diabetes often save money by staying healthy and can prevent costly side effects.