VIDEO: Tips for expanding reach of diabetes tech in underserved communities
NEW ORLEANS — In part one of this video exclusive, James R. Gavin III, MD, PhD, talks with Anne L. Peters, MD, about using technology in underserved populations to close the diabetes treatment gap.
Gavin is clinical professor of medicine at Emory University and chief medical officer of Healing Our Village. He is a Healio | Endocrine Today Co-Editor. Peters is professor of clinical medicine at Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and an Endocrine Today Editorial Board Member. She has clinical practices in both underserved East Los Angeles and the well-resourced westside.
Gavin and Peters discuss how diabetes technology has widened health inequities — from insurance inequities and paperwork to basic social insecurity, lack of experience with any technology and limited knowledge of diabetes self-care.
“And yet we’ve shown in our research that if I give [under-resourced patients] the tools and the education, I can improve their outcomes just like anybody else,” Peters said.
Peters describes how she has addressed these issues over more than 20 years in practice.
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