How Can You Help Patients Use New Diabetes Technologies?

We’ve seen an expansion in the world of diabetes technologies that, if used the right way, can improve diabetes care. But diabetes technologies aren’t reaching everyone who could potentially benefit. Dr. Tamara K. Oser, a primary care doctor and diabetes researcher, discusses how health care professionals can equitably put diabetes technologies into practice.

Tamara K. Oser

MD

Dr. Oser is an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, director of the Primary Care Diabetes Lab, and director of the High Plains Research Network. As a practicing family physician, she cares for many patients with diabetes, and her research interests focus on integrating diabetes technologies into primary care settings and using diabetes technologies to improve outcomes for patients with prediabetes, type 1 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes.