Use cases · Primary care · Specialist clinic
Diabetes education
Diabetes education is repeated visit after visit and gaps stay hidden. TESSA teaches blood sugar monitoring, medicines and insulin, diet, foot care, and what to do when sugars run low or the patient falls sick, then checks understanding, so the diabetes nurse educator or doctor focuses on the gaps.
At a glance
- Does
- Patient education, Counselling
- Setting
- Primary care, Specialist clinic
- Specialty
- Endocrinology, GP / Family medicine / Primary care
- Who
- Patient-facing
Also searched as
diabetes education · diabetes self-management education (DSME) · insulin teaching · hypoglycaemia / hypoglycemia education
Questions
What does TESSA do in diabetes education?
Diabetes education is repeated visit after visit and gaps stay hidden. TESSA teaches blood sugar monitoring, medicines and insulin, diet, foot care, and what to do when sugars run low or the patient falls sick, then checks understanding, so the diabetes nurse educator or doctor focuses on the gaps. It does this through patient education, counselling.
Does TESSA diagnose the patient?
No, TESSA never gives a patient a diagnosis. It collects and collates the information the patient provides, asks probing questions and performs risk assessment; a clinician reviews the summary and decides, and no diagnosis, summary or management plan reaches the patient until the clinician signs.
What happens if the patient mentions a warning sign?
Warning or worrying signs that require immediate attention or action go straight to the care team without alarming the patient. For time-critical presentations, TESSA supports the clinician only and is not currently intended for patient use.
How is patient information protected?
The patient surface runs on session codes, not names, and each institution's data is kept apart with a full audit trail. Our own Anonesia by TINYHealth is a proprietary software and code that removes PIIs, e.g. names, ID numbers and contact details from text before it reaches an AI model.
How do we start with this use case?
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