COVID-19: Glooko Offers Free Remote Care to Medical Clinics and People with Diabetes – HIT Consultant

What You Should Know:

Glooko today announced that during the COVID-19 pandemic they are taking action to serve the global diabetes community by providing a no-charge remote care solution that provides live patient-to-clinician connectivity.

To minimize the risk to people with diabetes during this time by broadening access to a remote medical appointment with healthcare providers, Glooko is offering its secure, privacy-protected remote care solution at no charge to medical clinics and people with diabetes as a public service until the greatest threat of the pandemic has subsided.

Glooko, a leading diabetes software company that enables people with diabetes and clinicians to manage care in real-time, today announced they are providing a no-charge remote care solution that provides live patient-to-clinician connectivity to serve the diabetic community during the COVID-19 pandemic. This public service is being made available to medical clinics and people with diabetes across 25 countries and 15 languages where Glooko technology is already provided.

LeveragingRemote Care Models to Limit Exposure to COVID-19

As manyefforts undertaken in our communities are aimed at reducing the chances ofbeing exposed to and spreading COVID-19, individuals who have chronicconditions like diabetes and contract the virus appear to be at a higher riskfor developing complications; as such limiting exposure is critical. Forcertain appointments, healthcare professionals may determine that the patientand their care team would be best served by a remote review of the patientspersonal diabetes data and a corresponding telehealth consult, reservingin-office visits only for those appointments where a patients medical statustruly requires in-person treatment.

The Glooko product suite contains the Glooko and diasend byGlooko diabetes management solutions, which integrate with many of the leading EHR systems used today.Both systems synchronize data from more than 190 diabetes devices and activitytrackers, and they deliver integrated, timely and useful patient data,including glucose levels, blood pressure, weight, and food, insulin andmedication intake.

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COVID-19: Glooko Offers Free Remote Care to Medical Clinics and People with Diabetes - HIT Consultant