Online DPP tackles challenges of location and participation

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ’s (CDC) National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) has been proven effective at helping participants make substantial and sustainable lifestyle changes. But up until now, adoption of the program has been greatly limited by challenges in enrolling patients into local programs and scaling the program beyond its brick-and-mortar settings. But a new approach—providing the program digitally and remotely—is tackling both simultaneously“Any kind of a health care professional telling someone, ’Look, you’ve got prediabetes, you need to make some lifestyle changes,’ just hopes and prays that the patient goes out and does it,” said Sean Duffy, co-founder and CEO ofOmada Health, a San Francisco-based digital health startup. “But deep down they know that without the right support, there’s not likely going to be success.” So Omada haspartnered with the AMA andIntermountain Healthcare, a Salt Lake City-based health system, to integrate Omada ’s Program —one that goes online to overcome challenges of geography but that features a social experience similar to what a patient experiences in an in-person program—into the health system setting at Intermountain.Diabetes prevention must-haves: Simplicity and support From a user-experience standpoint, the goal of the program is to include all of the instruments patients need to take action, as well as to remove any barriers to their use of the tools and support. ...
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