We know how difficult it can be to help your patients with diabetes adopt and maintain health-promoting behaviors. To address this challenge, we have developed a research-based, clinically proven online program that enables clinicians to extend existing diabetes support beyond the office visit. This new technology allows the clinical team to support more patients and encourage them to eat better and exercise more so they will lose weight – and keep it off.

Significant changes to the healthcare industry, especially with regards to how clinical teams are reimbursed for their services, are on the horizon. We believe it is important for diabetes centers to find new approaches to encourage patients to play a vital role in improving their own health. This not only improves health outcomes, but also prepares centers for the changing reimbursement structures that increase emphasis on care management and patient outcomes.

The Virtual Lifestyle Management™ (VLM) service is one such approach.
 
Diabetes centers incorporating the VLM into their current approach will:
1. Improve care to large numbers of patients at an affordable cost
2. Engage and support patients in sustainable healthy behaviors
3. Reinforce patient self-management skills and self-efficacy
4. Increase physician, nurse, dietician, and educator efficiency and effectiveness
5. Improve ongoing patient performance tracking and monitoring
6. Be a pioneer in improving diabetes care with technology
 

The Virtual Lifestyle Management™ (VLM) service offers an excellent opportunity for diabetes centers that focus on advancing diabetes care and support. Designed to enable clinicians to more effectively help their patients adopt and sustain new healthy behaviors, the VLM provides the self-management support and education that is critical for those living with diabetes. By augmenting current face-to-face and telephonic interactions, the VLM reduces staff time and provides a more affordable intervention that results in improved patient outcomes.

About the Virtual Lifestyle Management Service

Under a federal research grant from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Pittsburgh developed a weight management approach – the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). The DPP proved that overweight and sedentary adults could be counseled to eat better, be more active and lose enough weight to improve their long-term health. Along with the University of Pittsburgh, DPS Health developed the Virtual Lifestyle Management service, the online translation of the proven DPP protocols. The University has licensed to DPS Health the right to bring the VLM to healthcare provider organizations.

The VLM is an online weight management program that allows healthcare providers to efficiently engage patients to improve their physical activity and nutrition habits to achieve lasting weight loss. The VLM couples online education, guided self-discovery, barrier mitigation, goal-setting, monitoring and tracking with internet-based coaching to enable healthcare providers to offer a proven, yearlong, engaging intervention.

In short, the VLM:

  • Improves patient engagement with web-based learning, tracking and motivation
  • Boosts weight management program recruitment and retention
  • Enhances efficiency in physician/patient interactions
  • Decreases costs through staff efficiency and reduced medical care expenses
  • Allows for expanded service to a larger population
Be Prepared for Changes in Healthcare with DPS Health

It is difficult to predict how the healthcare system will evolve during this time of great change, but one thing is certain, we are on the verge of major changes in reimbursement. We believe that there will be a shift towards reimbursing services that help providers manage larger populations of patients and achieve improved outcomes. Therefore, offering interventions such as the Virtual Lifestyle Management, can have a positive impact on the bottom-line for a diabetes center.

This means centers that provide high quality care and bring “value” to their patients and to the system may become eligible for increased payment for their services. Incorporating the VLM into existing education and support offers diabetes centers a cost-effective and scalable approach that improves outcomes for large numbers of patients. Institutions that embrace this change will be at the center of shaping healthcare policy and poised to take advantage of this reform.

To do so, it is imperative to have a partner that understands the changing economies of healthcare and is dedicated to ensuring that health-promoting activities are properly compensated. DPS Health will be at the center of the conversation regarding self-management support, effective solutions and appropriate reimbursement.

DPS Health shares your hopes and concerns about the effects these impending changes will have on your program and your entire health system. We stand ready to partner with your organization to ensure that transitioning to a new structure goes smoothly.

We encourage you to get started now. Implementing the Virtual Lifestyle Management at your center today means you will be ready to receive the benefits of the future reimbursement structure. Most importantly, you will be helping patients adopt and sustain health-promoting behaviors while also increasing clinical efficiency. DPS Health is dedicated to working with you to evolve an ever-increasing suite of tools that will make your diabetes center more advanced and well-positioned for future success.

Click here to learn about the VLM and how it was developed

Click here to learn about how the VLM results in positive return on investment

Click here to see what patients and clinicians expeirence while on the VLM

We invite you to see a demonstration of the Virtual Lifestyle Management service. We believe you will immediately see that introducing the VLM into your organization will be economically productive, while simultaneously educating and engaging your patients to change their physical activity and nutrition habits so they may live longer, healthier lives.

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