March 9, 2022

Diabetes Emotional Distress – Using the 7 A’s Model in Clinical Practice

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In his recent post, Are Clinicians Missing Part of their Patients’ Story?, Garry Welch, Ph.D. described why it is important for clinicians who provide care for people with diabetes to understand what diabetes distress is and how it differs from depression. If depression has been identified properly through a screening tool, clinicians in non—provider roles …

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March 8, 2022

Five Ways Clinicians Can Support a Patient Experiencing Diabetes Distress

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Studies show that approximately 20–45% of patients living with diabetes are emotionally overwhelmed and at risk of disengaging from treatment or becoming depressed. Few doctors are aware of these patient struggles, but “diabetes distress” as it is known clinically, is now recognized as a key “vital sign” by both the Centers for Disease Control and the American Diabetes Association. These rates show that …

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March 5, 2022

Diabetes Emotional Distress – Are Clinicians Missing Part of their Patients’ Story?

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Today, healthcare organizations and clinicians are increasingly asked by payors and employers to improve care quality, reduce gaps in care, and foster patient engagement in treatment. This is part of a growing national emphasis on value-based and whole-person care, particularly for the costly chronic conditions that impact more than 133 million people in the US. …

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March 3, 2022

Insights in Action: Top 3 Meal Plan Behaviors, Barriers, and Goals

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A key component of improving population health outcomes is effectively targeting educational resources and population health strategies. Silver Fern’s population health data helps you quickly identify the most common health barriers affecting a targeted population. Like, for example, a group of commercial drivers with prediabetes. Commercial drivers face challenging work schedules and are at high …

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January 6, 2022

Whitepaper: New Approaches to Address Vaccine Hesitancy

There is broad consensus across the medical community that the most effective way for individuals to avoid the most serious consequences of COVID-19 and for communities to stop the spread is through vaccination. In this recent mini-whitepaper, Silver Fern co-founder and chief scientific officer, Garry Welch, PhD, examines a better way to address vaccine hesitancy. …

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December 10, 2021

A Healthy Holiday Feast

Healthy Holiday Feast

When patients ask me what they should do about food preparation for the holidays, I am always in a bit of a quandary. For one-day events such as Thanksgiving, my gut reaction is to tell them to enjoy the day and eat what they want – unless they have an allergy or a condition such as heart failure where overindulgence at even a single meal could cause severe damage. …

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November 30, 2021

A better way to address Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy: Listening, engaging, and moving forward

As of mid-November 2021, the US Covid-19 death toll is about 757,000 from 47 million cases. There is broad consensus across the medical community that the most effective way for individuals to avoid the most serious consequences of Covid and for communities to stop the spread is through vaccination. With the Delta variant mostly in …

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November 15, 2021

Silver Fern Healthcare Upgrades Platform Content to meet Medicaid Readability Guidelines

Hartford, Conn., November 15, 2021  — Silver Fern Healthcare, a mission-driven SaaS company offering solutions backed by 30 years of evidence-based research to better control and prevent chronic disease and to improve health outcomes, announced that it has upgraded the patient-facing content across its proven Behavior Diagnostic Platform to improve accessibility and meet readability guidelines. …

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