title: Self-management support interventions that are clinically linked and technology enabled: can they successfully prevent and treat diabetes?
abstract: Patients with diabetes need a complex set of services and supports. The challenge of integrating these services into the diabetes regimen can be successfully overcome through self-management support interventions that are clinically linked and technology enabled: self-management support because patients need help mastering the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors so necessary for good outcomes; interventions because comprehensive theory-based, evidence-proven, long-term, longitudinal interventions work better than direct-to-consumer or nonplanned health promotion approaches; clinically linked because patients are more likely to adopt new behaviors when the approach is in the context of a trusted therapeutic relationship and within an effective medical care system; and technology enabled because capitalizing on the amazing power of information technology leads to the delivery of cost-effective, scalable, engaging solutions that prevent and manage diabetes.
authors: DPS Health, Los Angeles, California, USA. nkaufman@DPSHealth.com
authors: Neal D
authors: ND
authors: Kaufman
authors: Paula D Patnoe
authors: PD
authors: Woodley
mesh_terms: D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D019468:Disease Management; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods; D012648:Self Care; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods