AAPPO Accountability and Value for Improved Diabetes Care Issue Brief Patient-Centered Technology and Its Potential to Improve Diabetes Care

This is the second Innovations in Value Based Approaches to Diabetes Care Issue Brief in a series by the American Association of PPOs. This Issue Brief looks at “Patient-Centered Technology and Its Potential to Improve Diabetes Care.” It specifically examines the potential for technology to transform how patients manage and improve their health. While many recent innovations have emerged from the health sector – including technologies such as wireless blood glucose monitors, new medication delivery systems, and devices for biometric testing – other technologies such as smart phone applications and games also have tremendous health potential.