When a young girl’s family looks to manage her diabetes, they have a unique partner in Optum®. Optum Diabetes Management can help her family monitor her blood glucose levels and implement her doctor’s plans — all while updating her providers on her condition.
This is just one example of how Optum is empowering consumers, by connecting the right data, technology and expertise to the right individuals at the right time.
Male 1: For a young neighborhood racer, diabetes could turn into a real speed bump. Fortunately, Optum helps her family monitor her blood sugar and manage her condition.
Male 2: Optum connects different parts of the health system to keep her doctor engaged and informed. That's coordination of care.
Male 3: Some of the transformations I've seen today in health care are people talking to each other that never traditionally had spoken at all. So, hospitals and payors, consumers and doctors; it's a whole new relationship that's developing in the health care system today. By understanding data and presenting that back throughout the health care delivery system, it gets everyone on the same page around the patient. Virtual care could change the lives of simple as simple as a child with diabetes. So, think about a child who we can monitor their blood glucose levels on a regular basis. A nurse could be monitoring that, translating that information back to their doctor, back to that child's parents. Consumers are being asked to take more responsibility for their health care today and they're being asked to be empowered, but to be empowered, you need information and you need to be able to translate that information to meaningful knowledge.
Male 1: This is healthier. Powered by Optum – connecting all the parts of health care from health plans to providers to employers. Healthier is here.
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Kurt Tamaru, MD, OptumCare senior vice president, describes how coordination between hospitals, health plans and providers can transform care.
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