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Western Diabetes
Institute, NHS
Scotland forge
international
collaboration to
Andrew Pumerantz DO, FACP,
founder and executive director of improve diabetes care
the Western Diabetes Institute
The Western Diabetes Institute (WDI) at Western University of Health Sciences information and knowledge, they can transform their own self-care,” Wake said. “I
(WesternU) is collaborating with the National Health Service Scotland (NHS think often when we’re looking through patients’ records, the information we need
Scotland) to enhance the visualization, personalization and communication of is often spread across different pages or different bits of the site. Whereas this
diabetes patients’ health conditions, promote self-management, and ultimately to (DXDI) gives you a single snapshot of their care and can easily scan across different
improve health care outcomes. important areas and provide a really quick impression.”
WDI is working with NHS Scotland to implement a modified version of the Diabetes Dr. Andrew Pumerantz, WDI’s founder and executive director, agreed. “We need to
Cross-Disciplinary Index (DXDI©) health scorecard into the award-winning Scottish bring individualized health information, knowledge, and wisdom closer together,”
Care Information-Diabetes Collaboration (SCI-DC) platform. he said. “Diabetes extends beyond just chronic elevations in blood sugar to involve
heterogeneous patterns of co-morbidities and complications, sometimes referred to
SCI-DC is Scotland’s national suite of information technology products, and is as ‘multimorbidity,’ that differ among individual patients. Maintaining a ‘whole-
designed to provide a single, efficient, cost-effective, and up-to-date system that patient’ view’ requires a contextual reframing of diabetes that incorporates these
underpins the care delivered throughout NHS Scotland’s Managed Clinical Networks unique profiles of multimorbidity.”
to the country’s more than 275,000 residents diagnosed with diabetes.
In contrast to Scotland, a U.S. patient’s health-related information sits on “islands”
Diabetes patients in Scotland can find educational information on the of data scattered across a sea of providers’ health records, Pumerantz said. WDI
MyDiabetesMyWay website, but research has shown that uniquely personalized and developed the DXDI scorecard to capture and convey disparate information to not
tailored information is much more likely to be effective, said Dr. Debbie Wake, only display the status of a patient’s blood glucose control, but also the complexity
senior clinical lecturer and consultant endocrinologist at University of Dundee and severity of the multimorbidity that more precisely reflects their unique health
School of Medicine/NHS Tayside, and clinical lead on the award-winning interactive status.
diabetes website project MyDiabetesMyWay, www.mydiabetesmyway.scot.nhs.uk.
“DXDI could provide this ‘at-a-glance’ view from the beginning of the care cycle
“Allowing them access to information that is specifically linked to their level of care and afford the patient and their provider team with a better and more granular
and their medication and the type of diabetes they have is really important. With
“
With information and knowledge, they can
transform their own self-care. – Dr. Debbie Wake
“
38 Western University of Health Sciences
Institute, NHS
Scotland forge
international
collaboration to
Andrew Pumerantz DO, FACP,
founder and executive director of improve diabetes care
the Western Diabetes Institute
The Western Diabetes Institute (WDI) at Western University of Health Sciences information and knowledge, they can transform their own self-care,” Wake said. “I
(WesternU) is collaborating with the National Health Service Scotland (NHS think often when we’re looking through patients’ records, the information we need
Scotland) to enhance the visualization, personalization and communication of is often spread across different pages or different bits of the site. Whereas this
diabetes patients’ health conditions, promote self-management, and ultimately to (DXDI) gives you a single snapshot of their care and can easily scan across different
improve health care outcomes. important areas and provide a really quick impression.”
WDI is working with NHS Scotland to implement a modified version of the Diabetes Dr. Andrew Pumerantz, WDI’s founder and executive director, agreed. “We need to
Cross-Disciplinary Index (DXDI©) health scorecard into the award-winning Scottish bring individualized health information, knowledge, and wisdom closer together,”
Care Information-Diabetes Collaboration (SCI-DC) platform. he said. “Diabetes extends beyond just chronic elevations in blood sugar to involve
heterogeneous patterns of co-morbidities and complications, sometimes referred to
SCI-DC is Scotland’s national suite of information technology products, and is as ‘multimorbidity,’ that differ among individual patients. Maintaining a ‘whole-
designed to provide a single, efficient, cost-effective, and up-to-date system that patient’ view’ requires a contextual reframing of diabetes that incorporates these
underpins the care delivered throughout NHS Scotland’s Managed Clinical Networks unique profiles of multimorbidity.”
to the country’s more than 275,000 residents diagnosed with diabetes.
In contrast to Scotland, a U.S. patient’s health-related information sits on “islands”
Diabetes patients in Scotland can find educational information on the of data scattered across a sea of providers’ health records, Pumerantz said. WDI
MyDiabetesMyWay website, but research has shown that uniquely personalized and developed the DXDI scorecard to capture and convey disparate information to not
tailored information is much more likely to be effective, said Dr. Debbie Wake, only display the status of a patient’s blood glucose control, but also the complexity
senior clinical lecturer and consultant endocrinologist at University of Dundee and severity of the multimorbidity that more precisely reflects their unique health
School of Medicine/NHS Tayside, and clinical lead on the award-winning interactive status.
diabetes website project MyDiabetesMyWay, www.mydiabetesmyway.scot.nhs.uk.
“DXDI could provide this ‘at-a-glance’ view from the beginning of the care cycle
“Allowing them access to information that is specifically linked to their level of care and afford the patient and their provider team with a better and more granular
and their medication and the type of diabetes they have is really important. With
“
With information and knowledge, they can
transform their own self-care. – Dr. Debbie Wake
“
38 Western University of Health Sciences
