Improving Diabetes Outcomes
Improving Diabetes Outcomes
Curated Expert Guidance, Tools, and Resources, Updated September 2019
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As of CDC's 2017 National Diabetes Statistics Report, 30.3 million people, or 9.4% of the total U.S. population, have diabetes. Of these 30.3 million, only 23.1 million are diagnosed—while the other estimated 7.2 million are undiagnosed. Additionally, more than 1 in 3 adults or 84.1 million people in the U.S. have prediabetes, including nearly half of people age 65 and older. According to 2018 UDS data, an estimated 15.1% of Federally Qualified Health Center patients nationwide have diabetes, an increase over recent years. Of these approx. 2.4 million plus patients living with...
Integrating Internal and External Data into a Health Center’s Primary Care Services
Integrating Internal and External Data into a Health Center’s Primary Care Services
A profile of health center experiences, developed with Chiron Strategy Group
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This brief discusses the importance of integrated data, and provides examples of how other health centers have integrated and utilized oral health, colon cancer screening data, and other data within primary care.