The Diabetes Tech-up™ Podcast
Diabetes tech—where do you start? This podcast for healthcare professionals brings together 3 experts to discuss how technology is helping to transform the way people manage certain aspects of diabetes. In-depth, insightful conversations are delivered in short episodes.
Join our cohosts, Dr. Alicia Shelly, Amy Hess-Fischl, and Amy Tenderich, for a lively roundtable discussion about the ways technology can integrate with a diabetes care plan.
Visit Podcast.DiabetesTechUp.com to learn more about the cohosts, explore communication strategies for introducing appropriate patients to diabetes technology, and get a step-by-step guide to help your patients with tech implementation.
The Diabetes Tech-up™ podcast is brought to you by Novo Nordisk.
- Update frequency
- every 32 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 13
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
A mom-and-pop… glucose control shop?
People living with diabetes are the sole proprietors of their glucose self-management. Like small business owners, they invest a lot of their time and energy, and sometimes they need help. To implem…
I like long walks on the beach and well-designed diabetes apps
Matching a patient with the right tech for them is a collaboration between patient and provider. Some patients, such as the visually impaired, have fairly evident tech needs that you may know how to…
Walk a mile in my CGM
When you’re considering diabetes tech, it may help to think about the practicalities from the patient’s perspective. What does it feel like to wear an insulin pump while you’re dancing? How much does…
It’s a tech jungle out there
Some clinicians see the upside of diabetes tech but don’t know where to turn for help with insurance, training, and support. This may lead to hesitation in both clinicians and diabetes patients, lea…
Confronting “in-tech-quity” in diabetes
In a perfect world, people living with diabetes would be able to access and successfully use the diabetes technology that fits their needs. In reality, financial challenges, lack of healthcare servi…
Don’t rage against the machine learning—Pairing artificial intelligence (AI) with human insights and action
Diabetes technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and tools that seemed revolutionary a few years ago are now in widespread use. But some patients and clinicians are still reluctant to dip their toes…
Not your father’s insulin delivery—automated insulin delivery systems and practical data talk
Automated insulin delivery (AID) systems don’t just administer insulin—they can also provide patients with robust glucose and insulin data. What can patients expect from automated insulin delivery? A…
A1C, TIR, AGP… What the tech? The evolution of diabetes metrics
Do we get all the data we need from our patients with diabetes? Is it accurate? Is it complete? When we’re trying to make sound, data-driven treatment decisions, we’re relying on the numbers, and som…
Tech, Please!
Patients and clinicians both feel the time crunch when it comes to diabetes care, and that may affect how well they work together to manage diabetes.
In this episode, our cohosts discuss their exp…
The Time Thief
Every day, people with diabetes may spend hours on blood sugar monitoring, dose logging, and other self-management tasks. As clinicians, we can help patients integrate diabetes technology into their …
The Carrot, the Stick, or…the App?
Tech can be a helpful tool to draw patients’ attention to their own behavior and motivations. When we integrate apps and digital devices with patient-centered care, we may be able to help people with…
Text Me, Maybe
To help people with diabetes stay engaged, it’s important to acknowledge and address what’s standing in their way. Cost, communication, the complexity of the insurance system, and clinician bias can …
The Adherence Enigma
For patients, staying on track with diabetes self-management can be a challenge. Each time we end a visit with a diabetes patient, we send them off hoping they’ll follow through on what we’ve discuss…