The Comprehensive Diabetes Management Program (CDMP) is diabetes management software with a "whole person" focus that provides tools for continuous care and contact between patients and their providers. Two issues informed its development:
- Wagner’s chronic care model – components that involve community, self-management, decision support, and technology
- The knowledge that the traditional physician-centered, acute-care model was not designed for the huge numbers of (largely underserved) people with diabetes.
- CDMP provides a "technology assist" to the care team with clinical, lifestyle and psycho-social health information at their finger tips.
We used readily available technologies to develop a one-stop, site customizable application. Using CDMP, patients and care providers may foster active, creative, and positive, continuing relationships that keep patients healthier.
Why this application?
We know successful self-management is a team effort between patient and providers. We also know that most care providers are not diabetes specialists. CDMP provides the lynch pin between patient and care team. It is a single source for:
- Clinical decision support.
- Treatment guidelines with customizable alerts and reminders.
- Imbedded clinical and behavioral quick surveys.
- A patient snapshot – single screen reference tool.
- CarePlanning – a focus for patient-provider conversation.
- Imbedded patient education tools.
- A data warehouse for measurement of effectiveness.
- The CDMP development process found its roots years ago with the Joslin Vision NetworkTM , where we observed that:
- Looking at a patient’s eyes produces some information.
- Looking at the clinical record yields some more.
However:
- Adding a psycho-social or behavioral health dimension makes for better health outcomes, openness and patient participation.
Who uses CDMP?
Primary CDMP users are care managers who facilitate interactions between patients and the diabetes care team or direct providers. They are most often:
- Nurses
- Nurse practitioners
- PAs
- Educators
- Exercise physiologists
- Nutritionists
- Behavioral clinicians
- Some MDs
CDMP may be used in a large urban clinic or a medium–to-large suburban physician practice where a nurse or nurse practitioner sees chronic care patients for the majority of their routine appointments.
We work to complement onsite workflow and train providers in most efficient uses of CDMP for them, specifically.
CDMP Components
- Clinical Snapshot – for patient review and reference.
- Patient Portal – secure uploads of data and patient-provider messaging.
- Survey Tools – assessing self-management, nutrition, depression.
- CarePlanning – flexible team approach, clinical and self management issues.
- Risk Profile – at-a-glance indicator helps drive CarePlanning.
- Alerts and Reminders – customizable to a site, with treatment guidelines.
- Image Catalog – JVN eye images, uploaded patient pictures, EMR imports.
- Clinical Studies Management – oversight of study detail, subject pool, etc.
