Please reference your Statement of Work signed with T1DX-QI. Most centers have a stipend payment for the period through 12/31/2023 now due. Please submit an invoice promptly so that we can process and pay.
Invoices for deliverables due in December 2023 will be accepted through 2/28/2024. T1D Exchange closes its financial books for calendar year 2023 by 3/1/2024, therefore, we need to receive your invoice BEFORE 2/28/2024 for payment to be made.
Recordings from the T1DX-QI 2023 New York City Learning Session are now live! Use this link to view the recordings, slides and posters.
Reminder to claim your CME credit. Please use this link to claim CME credit and provide your evaluation from the session.
Check out this short Learning Session highlight video!
2024 T1DX-QI Recent Publications
Title: Demographic, clinical, management and outcome characteristics of 8,004 young children with type 1 diabetes: a vulnerable group in need of specialized healthcare
Authors: Sandy, J, Tittel, S, Rompicherla, S, Karges, B, James, S, Rioles, N, Zimmerma, A, Frohlich-Reiterer,E, Maahs, D, Lanzinger, S, Craig, M, Ebekozien, O
Link to this article coming soon!
Title: Technology and health inequities in diabetes care: How do we widen access to underserved populations & utilize technology to improve outcomes for all?
Authors: Ebekozien, O, Fantasia, K, Farrokhi, F, Sabharwal, A, Kerr, D
View all 82 manuscripts and 190 conference abstracts using this link!
QI Portal User Feature
Name: Yasi Mohsenian
Site: Seattle Children's Hospital
Years with the T1DX-QI: 2
What is your favorite feature in the QI Portal and why?
My current favorite feature is the Dashboard (though I think it will soon be replaced by the Improve tab once I have more time to play around with the settings). The Dashboard is great for a quick overview when I don’t have time to dig into the report. I also like how you can edit the top 5 metrics that are shown and choose ones that most closely relate to ongoing projects.
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Practically speaking, which feature (in addition to the above) do you use most often and why?
The reports tab is where the team and I spend the most time. We choose a metric to review and talk about at each monthly QI meeting and it has added a ton of value to those discussions. Being able to break down the data further by criteria, such as Language of care or insurance type, has also been very useful. The Reports tab is a great way to see the improvements our team has made throughout the years.
How does the QI Portal support your improvement efforts?
The Portal allows us to have easy access to measurable metrics that align with ongoing QI projects. Obtaining the data, you need is not always simple, so having information available to us at the click of a few buttons has been very beneficial. It has also encouraged collaboration and allowed us to learn from other teams. For example, if we are thinking about a project and use the compare tab and see that a few sites are doing exceptionally well in a metric, we can reach out to see if there are any learning opportunities. That isn’t information that is easily obtainable outside of the portal.
What do you dream the QI Portal could do that it doesn’t do currently?
I know this is already in the works with some of the sites, but we are eagerly anticipating our turn to set up our Type 2 Portal. We have a great team of providers that support our patients with Type 2 and have been getting them involved in QI. It would be great to have the reports available to show them the potential impact of their projects.
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Q&A Corner
There have been several newly asked questions on the internal member website. Please use this link to respond and see all questions.
New Questions:
Question:
Does anyone have any education resources for teaching about nutrition and carb counting that are in Arabic?
Name: Ashley Garrity, MPH
Clinic: C.S Mott Children's Hospital
Question:
Has anyone started to use insulin pens in the hospital for new-onset education? We used to have them but the hospital banned them a few years ago (due to safety concerns on the adult side). We would like to ask for permission to use them in the Children’s Hospital again. Thanks!
Name: Mary Pat Gallagher, MD
Clinic: Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone
Question:
I am looking for a template letter for prior authorization to justify Fiasp. The response we got from insurance was that it does not improve glycemic outcomes relative to Humalog novolog. I need some sort of protest letter with citations. Please share if you have them.
Name: Joyce Lee, MD
Clinic: C.S Mott Children’s Hospital
Congratulations!
We would like to Congratulate Dr. Shivani Agarwal for her recent promotion to Senior Director of Health Equity. In this role Dr. Agarwal will be responsible for identifying and closing equity gaps across all the communities at Montefiore.
We are very excited to see all the opportunities to expand health equity at her center.
Congratulations Dr. Agarwal on a job well done!
Events & Reminders
Upcoming Opportunities
Here are a few opportunities shared with the Collaborative.
The Department of Pediatrics at the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital at SUNY Upstate Medical University is seeking a full-time faculty pediatric endocrinologist. The position is based at the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital, a university-based children’s hospital within Upstate University Hospital located in Syracuse, NY. Please use this link to view more information.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY is expanding its clinical program in diabetes, obesity and metabolism and seeks to add highly qualified endocrinologists for an academic position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in the clinician educator track. Responsibilities include clinical care in the endocrinology/diabetes faculty practice, with a special focus in the Supporting Emerging Adults with Diabetes (SEAD) program for young adults with type 1 diabetes. Use this link to find out more.
Pediatric centers are invited to complete this survey on your practice/program's structure, organization, volume, and services and the workload for different team members. The goal is to use this data to estimate the per patient costs of pediatric diabetes care. The accuracy of the data is critical for valid bundled costing and further advocacy for global payment reimbursement. We ask for one submission per center. A $200 stipend in appreciation of your time.
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