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Your Update to All Things Beacon
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Greetings!
Welcome to the IC3 Beacon Community bi-monthly newsletter. We hope you find this series of emails educational and informative as we keep you updated on recent program activities. We look forward to working together helping you achieve your Beacon Aims and Goals.
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Getting Patients' Perspective is an Eye-Opener
The Institute of Medicine's special Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement (2003) found that "...improvements in care coordination could result in significant benefits across the continuum of care across the life span," and subsequently recommended national focus on this "cross-cutting" topic. Staff from the Utah Healthcare Institute-St. Mark's Family Medicine, under Dr. John Berneike's leadership, are piloting a newly developed Beacon Diabetes Self-Management (DSM) Care Coordination Program.
<<FULL ARTICLE>>
St Mark's Family Medicine Staff. From left to right:
Kelly, Heather, Elisa, and Dr. Berneike.
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A New Tool to Move Your A1c Control Measure: DiaLog, A Blood Sugar Tracking Game for the SmartPhone
 In partnership with the IC3 Beacon, the developers at 4th Main Health have created a new diabetes tracking tool called DiaLog Unlimited. This smartphone application helps the user to track blood glucose, medication adherence, and diet and exercise goals in an engaging environment. Data entered by the user is summarized in a histogram, enabling the patient to assess trends and make associations with behavior. The game rewards timely testing, and is a great way to entice newly diagnosed diabetics to maintain regular blood glucose testing. The recordings can be exported to a PDF file that a user can keep as a record, and bring to office visits.
The application is free for both the Android and iOS (iPhone) market. Simply search "dialog unlimited" on your iPhone, or "dialog diabetes" in the Android Market.
For questions, please see 4th Heath Main's website (4thmainhealth.com) or contact Ryan Brown at RBrown@HealthInsight.org.
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Mark Your Calendar for the Upcoming Diabetes Specialty Center's Free Diabetes Education Classes
The Diabetes Speciality Center is offering three of their diabetes education classes for free. The "Your A1c and You" and "Diabetic Ulcers" classes are open to all interested parties. For additional information, please contact Susan Elms at (801) 369-7138 or
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"Your A1c and You" with Dr. Toby Zirkle
When: Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Where: Diabetes Specialty Center, 3793 S. State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84115 |
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"Diabetic Ulcers" with Dr. Terri DeJohn
When: Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Where: Diabetes Specialty Center, 3793 S. State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84115 |
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| This material was prepared by HealthInsight as part of our work as the Beacon Community, under Cooperative Agreement Grant #90BC00006 from the Office of the National Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services. |
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