re: Fixing Healthcare

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So how do we address healthcare reform?

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Tackling Weight Loss and Diabetes With Video Chats

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Instead, Ms. Collier and her husband entered a study sponsored by a company called Virta Health, one of a new crop of high-tech companies that have designed programs aimed at helping people prevent or even reverse their diabetes.

On the program, patients video-chat with a remote Virta doctor, who consults with their primary care doctor, reviews their blood tests and medical history, and makes diet and drug recommendations. While studies show that a variety of different diets can benefit people with Type 2 diabetes

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“People with diabetes have to manage their diabetes 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,” he said, but most Type 2 diabetics see a doctor four times a year at most. In between those visits, they are largely left on their own — and many end up struggling with their diets, their blood sugar and other complicated aspects of their care.

“When you think of the amount of time they actually spend in a health care professional’s office getting counseling and support, it’s negligible. “Developing remote care models is going to be the key if we’re going to have some sort of impact on improving glucose control for the millions of people with diabetes,” he said. “It’s a much more scalable model than seeing people in a doctor’s office.”

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