The Huddle: Conversations with the Diabetes Care Team

Integrating Technology into Practice with Diana Issacs

Episode Summary

The number of technological tools and devices diabetes care and education specialists have in their arsenal continues to grow year after year. However, many barriers stand in the way of getting these tools into practices and into the hands of your clients. We’ve invited Diana Isaacs, PharmD, BCPS, BC-ADM, CDCES, to join us on another episode of The Huddle to discuss ADCES’ latest practice paper: Technology Integration: The Role of the Diabetes Care and Education Specialist in Practice. You’ll hear about the increasing importance of technology in diabetes care, how you can assess if your system is ready to adopt new technologies, guidance for incorporating technology into practice, and details on more tools available to you in the new practice paper.

Episode Notes

Resources: 

• ADCES guidance on technology is now available in two practice papers available  at DiabetesEducator.org/TechnologyIntegration.
• Danatech was developed to support the technology access and assessment needs of healthcare professionals who care for patients living with diabetes and other chronic conditions. Danatech is free to ADCES members, log in in today Danatech.org.
• ADCES workforce training offers customized training on topics like CGM, insulin pump therapy and pattern management. Learn more about this training at DiabetesEducator.org/Workforce.

Reference

Isaacs, D., Cox, C., Schwab, K., Oser, T. K., Rinker, J., Mason, M. J., … Albanese-O’Neill, A. (2020). Technology Integration: The Role of the Diabetes Care and Education Specialist in Practice. The Diabetes Educator, 46(4), 323–334. https://doi.org/10.1177/0145721720935123