Hello, Illinois Diabetes Care and Education Specialists. I am excited to give some updates around the ADCES 2020 meeting along with free CE opportunities coming to our IL membership. As we continue to navigate unprecedented times, ADCES is working to make ADCES 2020 an engaging educational...
As we have endured the past few months of COVID-19 and all of the changes that have come along with this pandemic, we have been led to learn a lot in this time. We have learned a lot about ourselves, with many working from home or suddenly balancing work and home schooling. We have learned how...
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Diabetes distress is a hot topic for us as Diabetes Care and Education Specialist. Here is a link to a very throrough article concerning this topic. According to Dr. Lawrence Fisher, Research Director at the Behavioral Diabetes Institute (BDI), Diabetes Distress or “DD” refers to all the...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacl.2018.06.016 To my knowledge, this is first paper of its kind. Hopefully it can be used to convince Medicare they are missing the boat by not covering CV MNT.
Are you using AADE’s Diabetes Goal Tracker mobile app with your patients? If so, please let AADE Marketing & Communications Director Diana Pihos know. he’s looking to showcase educators using the app during a general session at the upcoming AADE Annual Meeting. She can be...
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the leading causes of liver damage. 1 About 3.2 million people in the United States are thought to be infected with hepatitis C virus, with the highest prevalence among people born between 1945-1965. 2 Hepatitis C is a blood borne pathogen which is...
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We are all concerned with staying on top of the barrage of hospital outpatient coding and reimbursement changes effective January 1, 2014 Drastic 2014 OPPS Changes - We Need to Know About These Changes.... "Out with E/M codes for ED & clinics - in with G codes: New 'averaging'...
The Endocrine Society and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Five Things HCP and Patients Should Question Download PDF 1 Avoid routine multiple daily self-glucose monitoring in adults with stable type 2 diabetes on agents that do not cause hypoglycemia. Once...
This Blog will continue the discussion posted in the LNG threads. I would like to pass along important information regarding the "Get Covered Illinois Campaign" Check Illinois Blog on the State AADE Network Page. October 1st... Today is the beginning of the state campaign "Get Covered...
One of my favorite sessions took place on Friday morning at the general session. The topic title was "Guided Imagery and the New Mind-Body Breakthroughs in Diabetes Care" The speaker was a psychotherapist and author, Belleruth Naparstek, LSW, BCD. She reviewed the latest research related mind...