Telehealth offers many benefits to your practice and clients. It’s therefore important for you to know how to skillfully deliver virtual care. This online course consists of five sections, each containing recorded presentations that offer insights from providers and people with diabetes on:

• Preparing a person with diabetes (PWD) for a telehealth visit and communicating effectively with the PWD during the visit.
• How to effectively utilize data from devices and patient-generated health data during a telehealth visit.
• Best practices, challenges, and successes in implementing telehealth in a variety of settings (e.g., FQHC, pharmacy, university, working with individuals with disabilities).
• Best practices for how to effectively apply telehealth regulations and properly code for those services in practice.
• Best practices in the development and maintenance of a sustainable telehealth practice.

Learning Outcome

Learners who complete this course will:

• Recognize how to prepare a person with diabetes (PWD) for a telehealth visit and how to communicate effectively with the PWD during the visit.
• Recognize how to effectively utilize data from diabetes devices and patient-generated health data during a telehealth visit.
• Recognize best practices, challenges, and successes in implementing telehealth in a variety of settings.
• Have knowledge of best practices for applying telehealth regulations and proper coding for reimbursement when providing telehealth services in their practice.
• Have an increased knowledge of best practices in the development and maintenance of a sustainable telehealth practice.

Course Sections

Optimizing the Telehealth Encounter for Success
This section offers expert insights on preparing a person with diabetes (PWD) for a telehealth visit and communicating effectively with the PWD during the visit.

Utilizing Data from Devices and Patient-Generated Health Data
This section offers insights from providers on how to effectively utilize data from devices and patient-generated health data during a telehealth visit.

Telehealth Best Practices ― Lessons Learned
This section offers insights from providers and patients on best practices, challenges, and successes in implementing telehealth in a variety of settings (e.g., FQHC, pharmacy, university, working with individuals with disabilities).

Telehealth Regulations and Reimbursement
This section offers insights from providers and a reimbursement expert on best practices for how to effectively apply telehealth regulations and properly code for those services in their practice.

Development and Maintenance of a Sustainable Telehealth Practice
This section offers insights from providers on best practices in the development and maintenance of a sustainable telehealth practice.

Features

• Audio-visual presentations
• Downloadable copies of slides
• Numerous handouts and links to help you improve your telehealth knowledge and skills
• Post-learning assessment

Support

This activity is supported by a grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

Activity Type

This self-paced online course is a knowledge-based learning activity.

Learning Format

Enduring Material

Intended Audience

This activity is designed for diabetes care and education specialists, including nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, physicians, PAs, and other health care providers interested in staying up to date on current practices of care for people with diabetes and other related conditions.

In support of improving patient care, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

	Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) The Universal Activity Number is JA4008258-0000-21-508-H01-P; JA4008258-0000-21-508-H01-T. This knowledge-based activity has been approved for 6.5 contact hours. This statement contains information provided to NABP from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) via CPE Monitor®. ACPE policy states paper and/or electronic statements of credit may no longer be distributed directly to learners as proof of ACPE credit. The official record of credit may be located in the learner’s e-profile in CPE Monitor.
	American Medical Association (AMA) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this enduring material for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
	American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this activity for a maximum of 6.5 ANCC contact hours. This activity discusses 1 contact hour of pharmacotherapeutic content. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 10977, for 6.5 contact hours.
	American Academy of PAs (AAPA) The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 6/11/24. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 6.5 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEU) for completion of this activity. Completion of this RD/DTR profession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60 minute hour = 1 CPEU. RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Performance Indicator selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists

To satisfy the requirements for renewal of certification for the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education (CBDCE), continuing education activities must be diabetes related and approved by a provider on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers (www.cbdce.org). CBDCE does not approve continuing education. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers.

Board Certified Advanced Diabetes Management (BC-ADM)

ADCES is the administering body for the Advanced Diabetes Management credentials. Continuing education programs offered by ADCES can be used toward fulfilling BC-ADM Certification and recertification requirements.

Other Health Professionals

It is the responsibility of each participant to determine if the program meets the criteria for re-licensure or recertification for their discipline.

In accordance with Joint Accreditation criteria and the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES) must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies for the past 24 months.

Joint Accreditation/ACCME also requires that ADCES mitigate any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity. Any conflicts noted below have been mitigated. The disclosure information is intended to identify any ineligible relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during an activity, please report it on the evaluation.

Relevant disclosures (or lack thereof) among educational activity planners and faculty are as follows:

Vivian Nnacho Ayuk, PharmD, CDCES – No conflicts of interest
Amy Carter, MA, RDN, LD, CDCES – No conflicts of interest
Emily Dawkins MS, RDN, LD, CDCES, DipACLM – No conflicts of interest
Lisa Golden, MA.Ed.HD, CRC, CDCES – No conflicts of interest
Jan Kavookjian, PhD, MBA, FAPhA, FADCES – Speakers Bureau: Merck; Consultant: MediMergent, LLC
Kristine Kilen, RD, CDCES – Novo Nordisk-Employment
Joan Martin – Good Life Designers, LLC: Consultant on patient perspectives with telehealth
Joy Pape, MSN, RN, FNP-C, CDCES, CFCN, FADCES – Speakers Bureau: Novo Nordisk; Consultant: Intellihealth-Online Obesity Management System, MannKind Corporation
Joyce Patterson, MPH, RDN, BC-ADM, CPT – No conflicts of interest
J. Daniel Ruck, DNP, FNP, RN, BC-ADM, CDCES – No conflicts of interest
Robert Schutter – No conflicts of interest
Taylor Scott, RDN, LD, CDCES – Contract Pump Trainer: Tandem Diabetes
Patty Telgener, RN, MBA, CPC – No conflicts of interest
Kate Thomas, MA – No conflicts of interest
Emily Weatherup, MS, RDN, CDCES – No conflicts of interest

Jodi Lavin-Tompkins, MSN, RN, BC-ADM, CDCES – No conflicts of interest
Sacha Uelmen, RDN, CDCES – No conflicts of interest
Patty Scalzo, CNP, CDCES – No conflicts of interest
Kristine Kilen, RD, CDCES – Novo Nordisk-Employment.

The approval of this educational offering by the ADCES does not imply endorsement of specific therapies, treatments, or products discussed in the presentations.

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Mechanism to Identify and Resolved Conflicts of Interest

Undertaking review of the educational activity to evaluate for potential bias, balance in presentation, evidence-based content or other indicators of integrity, and absence of bias.