At Glooko, we empower healthcare providers with the tools and insights they need to make informed decisions quickly and easily to improve the health outcomes of their patients living with diabetes.
With nearly half of physicians reporting at least one burnout symptom in a recent study from the American Medical Association, it’s critical we make diabetes data management simpler to not overburden those providing care.
That’s why the Glooko platform integrates with leading electronic health record (EHR) systems in the U.S., including Epic, Oracle Health, MEDITECH, Greenway Health, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, and AthenaHealth, making our diabetes management platform seamlessly and securely available within this critical healthcare technology and eliminating the need to platform switch.
Why EHR Integrations Matter
Diabetes care is complex, and healthcare providers face the challenge of managing patient data across multiple systems. In an era where time is precious and clinicians are already spending much of their time on administrative tasks, clinicians need timely access to the most relevant health data without the inefficiencies of navigating multiple data platforms.
By integrating Glooko into EHRs, we streamline how healthcare providers access diabetes data, enabling them to provide the highest quality care. Our integrations provide clinicians and care teams with immediate access to comprehensive data from more than 200 diabetes and health monitoring devices used by their patients, eliminating the need for additional logins and manual data entry by people living with diabetes each day.
EHR integrations not only optimize existing systems, but they also have the potential to enhance clinical decision-making by giving clinicians the full picture of a person’s health. It empowers them to make faster, more informed treatment decisions. That’s why health systems spend $2.5 million to $1.2 billion on EHR integrations each year. They’re powerful and their care teams can reap the benefits of reduced documentation burden.
How It Works
By leveraging SMART on FHIR technology and HL7, standard interoperability frameworks, Glooko integrates with existing EHR systems at hospitals and health systems. Healthcare providers can then access patients’ timely glucose data, medication logs, activity levels, food intake, and much more without leaving the EHR.
The integrations support healthcare systems by offering a single, unified view of a person’s diabetes information, all while ensuring secure, HIPAA-compliant data exchange. The technology is designed to streamline workflows, making it easier for clinicians to focus on what truly matters: providing quality care for their patients.
A Step Toward the Future of Diabetes Care
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical teams who provide care to the more than 38 million people in the U.S. living with diabetes have greatly declined in number, furthering the urgent need for seamless, data-driven solutions to help reduce administrative burdens and workloads that drive burnout.
- Since 2022, more than 138,000 nurses left the workforce due to stress, burnout, and retirement. New data from the NCSBN reveals almost 40% of nurses intend to leave the workforce by 2029, leaving the remaining time-pressed nurses to provide care to an already large patient population.
- Based on a recent GoodRx study, more than 70% of U.S. counties don’t have an endocrinologist and the number of trained endocrinologists is declining, meaning primary care providers must be knowledgeable in diabetes management and shoulder the workload.
- There is a significant shortfall of certified diabetes care and education specialists (CDCES), impacting diabetes care quality. In the U.S., there are about 19,500 diabetes educators — roughly 1 CDCES per 1,000 individuals with diabetes. An additional 35,000 educators would be required to meet the current demands of patients in the U.S. alone, furthering the workload burden.
And the burnout by clinicians and care teams is only going to grow greater as 98 million American adults have prediabetes, according to the CDC.
By optimizing and integrating with leading EHR systems, Glooko is taking a significant step forward in transforming diabetes management and reducing extra steps taken by healthcare providers to improve the quality of care. Our integrations help improve workflows, limit platform switching, simplify clinical decision-making, and support better outcomes for both healthcare providers and people with diabetes.
These integrations represent our ongoing commitment to delivering cutting-edge, interoperable solutions that empower both clinical teams and patients in making diabetes easier to manage.
Ready to Learn More?
Healthcare providers and hospital systems can access EHR integrations by reaching out to our dedicated team for a demo. With robust support from our dedicated team, some integrations, like with Epic, can be up and running within a weeks, making it easier than ever to take advantage of the benefits Glooko has to offer.
To learn more about Glooko’s many EHR integrations, visit our Integration Portal.
