Diabetes

Diabetes Risk Project

AMGA worked with 13 medical groups to develop a diabetes risk model that will improve the care of high-risk diabetes patients, targeting two age populations including 31-64 and 65+. To learn more about this project, click here.

Best Practices in Diabetes Care

Compendium
AMGA partnered with sanofi-aventis to develop the Best Practices in Diabetes Care Compendium. The Compendium was published in March 2006 and distributed to all AMGA medical groups.

For more information and to download the featured compendium groups and their case studies, click here.

Learning Collaborative
The Best Practices in Diabetes Care Learning Collaborative supports improvements in the management of diabetes in the ambulatory health care setting. Five medical groups were awarded $10,000 educational grants to support their initiatives and the additional five groups were supported with travel stipends to attend the collaborative meeting.

The learning collaborative commenced March 2006 and concluded in March 2007. The collaborative was supported through conference calls, online resources, consultation with experts in the field, and two in person meetings. All participants shared their experiences, materials, tools, and results with all involved in the collaborative as part of the project.

Click here to view and download the PowerPoint presentations that were presented at the 2007 Diabetes Care Learning Collaborative Wrap-Up Meeting.

Symposium
The Diabetes Best Practices Symposium was a two-day shared learning program for AMGA members that have been able to document improvement in clinical outcomes, service and efficiency related to diabetes. Participants presented an overview of their efforts to improve diabetes care, discuss successes and challenges, and take part in problem solving discussions with peers in similar organizations.

For more information and to view the PowerPoint presentations that were presented at the Diabetes Best Practices Symposium, click on the word Symposium.

Diabetes Data Collection Instruments and Protocols

AMGA National Summit on Quality Accountability in Diabetes
To identify best practices for diabetes management, AMGA hosted a series of webcasts and meetings in 2008-2009. The goals of the summit were to bring stakeholders together to discuss strategies for delivering quality diabetic patient care, and to serve as a launching vehicle for AMGA programs to advance the alignment of stakeholders.

Published Findings and Recommendations

Leading Diabetes Care in a New Direction: Major Areas of Improvement in Outcomes
Medical Groups Improving Diabetes Outcomes: Allina Medical Clinic and Health Partners
Health Plans and Employers: Helping Providers and Patients Improve Diabetes Outcomes (will be posted in late October)

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