Mississauga, ON—July 5, 2023 — PointClickCare Technologies, a leading healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey, released its latest study today in partnership with researchers from Nova Southeastern University, Becton, Dickinson and Company, and Embecta. Leveraging the PointClickCare Life Sciences’ deidentified real-world database comprising electronic health records from LTC facilities, researchers were able to identify a series of opportunities for improving diabetes management in LTC residents with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
Diabetes is common among older individuals, including residents in LTC facilities. With a growing population of adults older than 65 years of age with diabetes (24%), caring for LTC residents with diabetes is associated with many challenges, including the need to also manage multimorbidity, polypharmacy, physical frailty, cognitive impairment, dementia, and physical limitations. The goal of the research was to characterize the prescribing patterns for glucose-lowering medication annually, both overall and by resident characteristics for LTC residents with T2DM. The researchers also set out to quantify the annual frequency of hypoglycemia and emergency department transfers for hypoglycemia among LTC residents with T2DM prescribed glucose-lowering medication, overall and stratified by predefined medication types.
“With the largest database of senior care patient data in existence, PointClickCare is honored to be a part of this important study and so many other studies that are identifying correlations between specific treatments and outcomes, and gathering new insights into the determinants and patterns of health-related events in senior care.”
Jeff Wessinger, General Manager of PointClickCare Life Sciences.
To read the insights garnered in this diabetes study, please access the full research report.
In the execution of this study, the following real-world data sets comprising electronic health records (EHRs) from LTC facilities from PointClickCare, deidentified in accordance with HIPAA, were used:
- Patient-level demographics, including sex, age, and BMI
- Comorbidities, including coronary artery disease, heart failure, stroke, hypertension, dyslipidemia, renal disease, dementia, hepatic disease, and obesity
- Clinical, laboratory and health record data
- Drug orders captured as part of the regular operation of the LTC facility
- 5 study years from a total of 9,738 LTC facilities in the U.S.
To learn more about how PointClickCare is empowering research and real-time insights for clinical, commercial, government and academic institutions, visit the PointClickCare Life Sciences page.
About PointClickCare Technologies
PointClickCare is a leading healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey. More than 27,000 long‐term and post‐acute care providers, over 2,800 hospitals and 2,000 ambulatory clinics, every major U.S. health plan across the U.S, and over 75 state and Government agencies use PointClickCare, enabling care collaboration and value‐based care delivery for millions across North America.
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