Effect of Remote Patient Monitoring and Patient Education on Patient Activation and Glycemic Control in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes

Launched by TRACY JALBUENA MD · Sep 14, 2022

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Effect of Remote Patient Monitoring and Patient Education on Patient Activation and Glycemic Control in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes

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ABSTRACT

In 2021, the MaineHealth Telehealth team was awarded a five-year, $1.7 million "Evidence-Based Telehealth Network Program" grant (EB TNPG) from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). This grant is aimed at improving patient access to educational and management services for patients with type 2 diabetes in the rural Maine primary care setting by implementing RPM. The RPM devices will be used to transmit a participant's home...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Be enrolled in Living Well with Diabetes education program
• • Have an HbA1c% ≥ 8 in the prior 6 months
• • Be capable of providing consent
• • Be adults (age 18 or over)
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Primarily managed by endocrinology for their diabetes (\> 1 visit with endocrinology in the previous 12 months)
• • Incarcerated
• • PCP not at one of the 30 primary care practices listed (see attachment List of PCP Practices)
• • Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes
• • Candidate for continuous glucose monitoring, as defined by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as using at least three insulin injections per day, any combination of types of insulins
• • Pregnant
• • Have previously participated in the Living Well with Diabetes/Virtual Diabetes Self-Management Program
• • Have previously used a remote patient monitoring device for diabetes management
• • Have a diagnosis of dementia or other clinical diagnosis that would impair participation capacity
• • Currently participating in any other clinical trial regarding diabetes care or management
• • Currently enrolled in hospice
• • Currently residing in a long term care or rehabilitation facility