Diabetes cannot be optimally managed alone. Diabetes requires continuing medical care and patient self-management education to prevent acute complications and to reduce the risk of long-term complications. These complications include: cardiovascular disease, blindness, kidney failure, nerve damage, and lower extremity amputations.
Blood glucose self-monitoring is critical to diabetes management. Frequent testing and good patient record-keeping ensure that the healthcare team have greater access to patient data.
Patients can easily gather blood glucose data that is reliable, using FORA’s blood glucose monitoring system. Each FORA meter can store and transmit test data to FORA’s database using a PC with Internet access, giving all members of the health care team the ability to act upon the transmitted data quickly. The health care team can help patients to make changes in the care plan between office visits, in order to optimize care coordination.
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