Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia Offers Innovative Virtual Diabetes Clinic for Consumers with Type 2 Diabetes
Summary
“Our overall goal as an Anthem health plan is to take innovative approaches that will help improve the health of our consumers and transform the way that healthcare is provided in the future,” said Jeff Fusile, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, an affiliate of Anthem, Inc. “We believe introducing new solutions like this — using technology to make it easier for consumers to manage their condition — is critical to achieving that goal and helping people live their healthiest lives.”BCBSGa is offering the clinic at no additional cost to consumers with Type 2 diabetes who participate in individual and most employer-sponsored plans in the state.It’s why we’ve built a virtual environment with all the right tools and care team members to help them be aware of and manage all those little moments of living with diabetes.“The app will send text reminders to take photos of lunch, and then automatically translates the content of the meal into log entries.These entries are combined with information gathered from the consumers connected glucose meter allowing the consumer and care lead to discuss correlations via chat.”