Diabetes Self-Management

MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR Diabetes Telehealth Visit

his time last year, if someone told you that your diabetes health care—diabetes provider appointments, diabetes self-management education sessions, follow-up with office staff and more—would soon occur as telehealth visits, you might have been more than surprised. Fast forward to 2020, and we are in the midst of the unprecedented times of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on health care. The use of telehealth, which is the provision of care outside of the healthcare facility by means of technology, has become widely utilized. In fact, telehealth has grown at such an incredible rate in response to COVID-19 that it’s estimated that by the end of 2020,

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