Emails, Blogs and Groups on the Web are great for some things and not so great for others. Enter the power of the Wiki plus integrated tools for capturing important information and packaging it so that people can quickly and efficiently reference factual information.
That’s what cgmscentral.com is designed to do and its focus is limited to the reimbursement process around the new continuous glucose monitoring systems.
As my family looked into the continuous monitoring sensors, reimbursement is definitely a consideration. As I tried to follow the info available online, I was frustrated by reading the same posts over and over again but never finding all of the information presented logically in a format that was relevant to my particular situation. When you’re talking about reimbursement, it has a lot to do with precedent within not only the policy of my insurance carrier but also the plan type (eg - PPO, POS, HMO, etc…) and my Group#. Try finding that level of detail easily! We needed something more powerful than a blog, email or groups messaging on the web. We needed a focused site with lots of integrated tools.
Thus, the need for CGMSCENTRAL.COM was identified. Over the past several months we used the healthcordia technology platform to create this new patient resource on the web.
Create content (Choose the appropriate item from the list):
- Blog entry
- A blog is a regularly updated journal or diary made up of individual posts shown in reversed chronological order. Each member of the site may create and maintain a blog.
- FAQ
- A frequently asked question and its answer.
- Forum topic
- Create a new topic for discussion in the forums.
- Image
- An image (with thumbnail). This is ideal for publishing photographs or screenshots.
- Poll
- A poll is a multiple-choice question which visitors can vote on.
- Newsletter issue
- Create a newsletter issue to be sent to subscribed e-mail addresses.
- Survey
- A survey allows you to create a form for use on the site to collect data
- Wiki Page
- A wiki page can be collaboratively edited.
So far, several people have stopped by and contributed info from the diabetescgms group on yahoo, members of the childrenwithdiabetes forum and readers of their weekly newsletter, readers of Bernard Farrell’s diabetes blog and most recently readers of Amy Tenderich’s diabetesmine.com blog.
This site is all about the patient, for the patient and most importantly, by the patient. As part of our awareness campaign, cgmscentral is also a proud sponsor of the Desert Dingo race team entered into this year’s Baja 1000 race to beat the desert (& diabetes) as this team is also carrying the flag of the International Diabetes Federation as the Official World Diabetes Day race car.
In the event that reimbursement turns into a long row to hoe, cgmscentral.com will be there to speed things up. In the event that I’m wrong and insurance carriers all decide to pay for this great technology you will all be invited to a virtual party at which point we will shut down cgmscentral.com
Until then, please stop by and register (or contribute your knowledge and experience anonymously) as a member of the growing community at cgmscentral.com
Did you know you can cut the cable between your iPod and your headphones? Well now you can have that same freedom from being cabled to your continuous glucose monitor thanks to a forthcoming feature recently cleared by the FDA.
Unless you were depending on it to tell you when you’re high and when you’re low. While Medtronic’s system already works without a telemetric connection and uses manual calibration I wonder if this could be one of the major reasons behind some differences between the two as reported online by patients wearing these two systems?
