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Comprehensive Diabetes Care Solutions for Primary Care Facilities

Comprehensive Diabetes Care Solutions for Primary Care FacilitiesSatisfy diabetes care quality measures in a single patient visit

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Watch how Siemens Healthineers and Welch Allyn help primary healthcare providers to improve patient outcomes, potentially reduce overall costs, and satisfy diabetes-care quality measures in a single patient visit.

Your diabetic patients face many clinical risks:

80% of patients with diabetes will develop diabetic retinopathy
  • 80% of patients with diabetes will develop diabetic retinopathy.1
A 1% decrease in HbA1c can decrease the risk of eye damage by 76% and kidney damage by 50%.
  • A 1% decrease in HbA1c can decrease the risk of eye damage by 76% and kidney damage by 50%.2
More than 40% of people with diabetes will develop kidney disease.
  • More than 40% of people with diabetes will develop kidney disease.3

Help reduce these risks with comprehensive solutions at the point of care.

Manage major diabetic complications with this trio

quality measures HEDIS and CPT

Help improve patient satisfaction and compliance.

  • Meet all diabetes care quality measures in one patient visit.
  • Help improve patient satisfaction and compliance.
  • Transform care delivery with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
double patient-compliance rates

Learn more about the impact diabetic retinopathy, A1c and urinalysis testing can have on patients. Scroll through images here.

References:

1

National Eye Institute. Facts about diabetic eye disease. Available from: https://nei.nih.gov/health/diabetic/retinopathy

2

DCCT; UKPD; ADA Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes, 2005. Bode BW (ed.). Medical management of type 1 diabetes.

3

Nephropharmacol. 2016;5(1):49-56. Published online 2015 Oct 9. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5297507/

4

Garg S, Jani PD, Kshirsagar AV, King B, Chaum E. Telemedicine and retinal images for improving diabetic retinopathy evaluation. Arch Intern Med. 2012 Oct 1:1-2.

5

Medical and Surgical Clinic of Irving Rajiv Dattatreya, MD. Customer testimonial. Signed release on file.

6

Crocker, et al. Patient satisfaction with point-of-care laboratory testing: report of a quality improvement program in an ambulatory practice of an academic medical center. Clinica Chimica Acta. 2013;424:8-11.

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