The Endocrine Society has been leading the charge for adopting innovative diabetes care models since 2018. However, the specter of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the entire healthcare industry to rethink how patients are treated, resulting in an unprecedented wave of innovation that could revolutionize how care is delivered. In early March, Robert A. Gabbay,...
How clinicians treat patients has been drastically reimagined during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing requirements. Since patients still need to see their doctors one way or another, telemedicine has filled the gap and has been embraced by both the healthcare community and patients alike. Chirag R. Kapadia, MD, is an endocrinologist at Phoenix...
A series of papers to be published across a variety of journals provides a potential roadmap for treating COVID-19 patients within a hospital setting. It tells practitioners in these healthcare environments how to prepare for the unexpected. On April 30, an article appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Best Practices for a...
As researchers and scientists wait out the pandemic, lessons for restarting their labs can be learned from previous disasters that put a halt to research. The devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has reached every part of the globe and every industry. Countries such as France, Italy, New Zealand, and the UK have implemented some...
Stanley Andrisse, PhD, MBA, has a remarkable story that has taken him from a prison cell to Johns Hopkins University. He knows firsthand the effects of burnout and how to overcome it. He shares his tips on avoiding burnout and how he achieves an ideal work/life balance, as well as his own amazing journey. Stanley Andrisse,...
A novel way to reach even more patients, clinicians, and researchers is to take your endocrinology skill into the business world. Here we highlight an ENDO 2020 session that will show attendees how industry could be a viable route for researchers and physicians alike. Last year, at ENDO 2019 in New Orleans, three entrepreneurs at...
It helps to be able to “talk the talk” and make the business case as well as the clinical case for new expenses. Healthcare is one of the sectors where technical innovation is taking place at a break-neck pace. A practice that is slow to adapt will be slow to catch up to an everchanging...
In his session at ENDO 2019, Jeffrey Boord, MD, MPH, proposed the use of clinical pharmacists in primary care practices to help manage patients as well as overcome clinical inertia. Clinical inertia is one of the issues that can be a deterrence to optimal care for diabetes patients in a primary care setting, which, according...