CGM Dashboard

CGM Dashboard

by | Jul 26, 2024 | Features, Heads Up HQ

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Optimize Patient Care with Heads Up’s CGM Dashboard: A Solution for Health Professionals

Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) has become an indispensable tool in managing diabetes and optimizing overall health. However, health professionals often face challenges in utilizing their clients’ CGM data effectively without a centralized dashboard. Heads Up’s CGM Dashboard offers a comprehensive solution to automate the collection of glucose data, streamline health management, and improve patient outcomes.

The Problem: Disjointed CGM Data Management

Health professionals frequently encounter issues when dealing with CGM data from multiple clients. The absence of a centralized platform to automate and analyze glucose data can lead to inefficiencies and missed opportunities for timely interventions. Manually logging and correlating CGM data with other health metrics is not only time-consuming but also prone to errors.

Common CGM Data Challenges:

  • Fragmented Data Sources: Health professionals often receive CGM data from various devices and apps, making it difficult to consolidate and analyze.
  • Manual Data Entry: Without automation, professionals must manually enter data, increasing the risk of inaccuracies and consuming valuable time.
  • Limited Insights: Isolated CGM data offers limited insights into overall health, making it challenging to identify correlations and trends.
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CGM Dashboard

The Solution: Heads Up’s CGM Dashboard

Heads Up’s CGM Dashboard integrates seamlessly with leading CGM devices such as Dexcom and FreeStyle Libre, providing health professionals with a centralized platform to automate data collection and analysis. This integration enables real-time syncing of glucose data, offering a holistic view of a patient’s health.

Key CGM Dashboard Features:

  • Seamless Integration: Sync data from Dexcom and FreeStyle Libre automatically, eliminating the need for manual data entry.
  • Comprehensive Tracking: Combine CGM data with other biometric data such as sleep patterns, heart rate variability (HRV), weight, and blood pressure.
  • Advanced Analytics: Use the Report Analyzer to generate detailed reports that correlate CGM data with other health metrics, uncovering valuable insights and trends.

Benefits for Health Professionals

Enhanced Efficiency

With Heads Up’s CGM Dashboard, health professionals can streamline their workflow by automating the collection and analysis of glucose data. This efficiency frees up time for more critical tasks, such as patient consultations and care planning.

Improved Patient Outcomes

By analyzing CGM data alongside other health metrics, professionals can gain a deeper understanding of their patients’ health. This comprehensive analysis enables early detection of adverse trends and timely interventions, significantly improving patient outcomes.

Personalized Care

Heads Up’s platform allows for the creation of customized dashboards and reports, tailoring insights to each patient’s unique health profile. Personalized care plans can be developed based on precise data, enhancing patient engagement and adherence.

Addressing Patient Monitoring and Compliance Issues

Heads Up’s CGM Dashboard also addresses common patient monitoring and compliance issues by providing real-time alerts and reminders. Health professionals can set customizable notifications to monitor glucose levels and other vital metrics, ensuring patients stay on track with their health management plans.

Key Features for Monitoring and Compliance:

  • Customizable Data-Driven Alerts: Receive instant notifications when patients’ glucose levels deviate from the norm, allowing for proactive management.
  • Automated Tasks: Schedule reminders for important health assessments and log entries to keep patients engaged and compliant.
  • Personalized Reminders: Send personalized reminders to patients for checking and logging health metrics, ensuring consistency and accuracy in data.

Integration Capabilities with Other Health Platforms

Heads Up’s CGM Dashboard goes beyond glucose monitoring by integrating with various health platforms and devices. This compatibility ensures that health professionals can have a comprehensive view of their patients’ health data.

Integration Examples:

  • Electronic Health Records (EHRs): Integrate CGM data with EHRs for a unified patient record.
  • Wearables and Fitness Apps: Sync data from devices like Fitbit, Apple Health, Garmin, and more.
  • Diagnostic Labs: Incorporate lab results from LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics, and others into the dashboard.

Customizable Data Visualization

Heads Up’s CGM Dashboard offers customizable graphs and charts that make it easy to visualize trends and patterns in glucose data. These visualizations help health professionals quickly identify areas of concern and track the effectiveness of interventions.

Benefits of Data Visualization:

  • Simplified Analysis: Easily interpret complex health data through clear visualizations.
  • Trend Identification: Quickly spot trends and correlations between different health metrics.
  • Enhanced Reporting: Generate professional reports that can be shared with patients and other healthcare providers.

Case Studies and Testimonials

Case Study: Improved Diabetes Management with CGM Data Integration

In a study involving 400 patients, Heads Up demonstrated a 30% reduction in healthcare costs by optimizing treatment protocols through integrated data analytics. Clinical outcomes improved significantly, with a 25% increase in treatment adherence and a 20% reduction in emergency room visits.

Testimonials:

  • Dr. Kristine Burke, True Health Functional Medicine Practice: “Heads Up has turned a mess of PDF files and patient portals into beautiful charts and graphs, making analyses much faster and more comprehensive.”
  • Dr. Innocent Clement, Founder & CEO, Ciba Health: “We use Heads Up to flag out-of-range glucose values and weight readings, allowing our coaches to prioritize clients needing attention first.”

Security and Compliance

Ensuring the security and privacy of patient data is a top priority for Heads Up. The platform complies with healthcare regulations such as HIPAA, providing health professionals with peace of mind.

Security Features:

  • Data Encryption: All patient data is encrypted both in transit and at rest.
  • Access Controls: Robust access controls ensure that only authorized personnel can view sensitive data.
  • Audit Logs: Comprehensive audit logs track all data access and modifications for accountability.

Future Developments and Innovations

Heads Up is committed to continuous innovation and regularly updates the CGM Dashboard with new features and improvements. Upcoming developments include enhanced data visualization tools, new integrations with health devices, and advanced predictive analytics.

Educational Resources and Support

Heads Up offers a range of educational resources and support options to help health professionals make the most of the CGM Dashboard.

Available Resources:

  • Webinars and Tutorials: Regular webinars and video tutorials to guide users through the platform’s features.
  • Customer Support: Dedicated support team available to assist with any questions or issues.
  • Continuing Education: Opportunities for continuing education credits and certifications.

Get Started Using CGM Dashboards

Heads Up’s CGM Dashboard is a game-changer for health professionals seeking to optimize patient care through efficient and comprehensive data management. By integrating with Dexcom and FreeStyle Libre and enabling the analysis of CGM data alongside other biometric data, Heads Up provides the tools needed to enhance patient outcomes and streamline health management.

Start leveraging the power of Heads Up’s CGM Dashboard today and transform your approach to patient care.

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Ep. 53 – Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) To Optimize Your Diet and Lifestyle – Dr. Casey Means from Levels Health

Ep. 53 – Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) To Optimize Your Diet and Lifestyle – Dr. Casey Means from Levels Health

by | Aug 28, 2020 | Podcast

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Ever wonder if there’s another option to lowering blood glucose than the ever-popular keto diet? Then you’ll definitely want to stick around to the end of this episode. Dr. Casey Means, co-founder of Levels Health, drops some truth bombs about metabolic health, carbohydrates, and the insulin response and how you can make your own meal program to optimize your metabolic health using continuous glucose monitoring.

Dr. Casey Means completed her medical degree at Stanford Medical School, became a Head and Neck Surgeon, and then transitioned to functional medicine after finding the underlying causes of illness was not being supported in her patients through the use of surgery and medicine only. She is also one of the founders of Levels Health – a company making direct-to-consumer continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices and putting patients back in the driver’s seat of their metabolic health.

Join Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up as he gets nerdy with Dr. Casey Means about Levels Health, continuous glucose monitoring, and all things metabolic health. Even learn some great tips on how to lower glucose spikes, whether you are using continuous glucose monitoring or not!

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“The fact that changing our thoughts, changing the way we perceive stress, the food and molecular information we put in our mouths, the composition of our microbiome, how much sleep we get, exposure to different traumas (low-grade and high-grade). All these things actually change the expression of our genome. This is radically empowering. When you know this information, you realize there are actually levers to change the outcome. Health is not deterministic.”

– Dr. Casey Means

In this podcast you’ll learn:

  • About Dr Casey Mean’s journey to founding Levels Health [2:30]
  • Epigenetics and how even thoughts can affect our genes [3:50]
  • How modern medicine is about pattern matching of signs and symptoms to diagnose and prescribe, and how bio-individuality is much less a part of things [5:45]
  • About her experience as an ENT doc and how she noticed the connection of inflammatory conditions that were being treated with surgery, rather than investigating the underlying contributors [7:00]
  • How Dr. Casey Means shifted her practice from surgery based to a longevity and metabolic practice [10:00]
  • Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) and how it could help course-correct metabolic issues [12:16]
  • How Dr. Casey Means saw symptoms greatly decline after a lot of upfront support in her appointments as her patients began buying into the changes and doing what was suggested [16:44]
  • Blood sugar dysregulation statistics [17:02]
    • 74% of American’s are overweight or obese
    • 128 million American’s pre-diabetic or diabetic
    • 88% of American’s are metabolically unhealthy – recent study out of UNC
    • About the connection between COVID-19 and metabolic health and how it appeared in April 2020 in over 100 publications that obesity, diabetes and metabolic health were the key driving factors in COVID-19 mortality [17:50
  • How Virta Health in 10 weeks, can get a patient from a diabetic HbA1c to a non-diabetic HbA1c in a program that only involves diet and exercise [18:30]
  • Diabetes is a driver in Alzheimer’s dementia which is now being called Type 3 diabetes as the brain becomes insulin resistant [20:10]
  • The effects of hyperglycemia include things such as PCOS, Peripheral Vascular Disease, gout, acne, mental health – depression and anxiety which is twice as high in people with metabolic disease, circadian rhythm disruption, and even NAFLD in children [21:23]
  • Sleep, stress, movement, and food are the four contributors to metabolic disease and about Dr. Casey Means’s shift to make her process scalable for metabolic improvements [22:30]
  • About how people have to close the loop between their actions and what is happening. Nutrition is an open-loop system and if you don’t have any direct 1:1 reaction to what’s happening, it’s really difficult to take ownership of which food(s) caused a problem for you [23:50]
  • How continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) works, what it is. It works by reading the interstitial fluid between cells and taking readings every 15 minutes automatically and sending the information to your phone [25:45]
  • Levels is an FDA approved device for type 1 and type 2 diabetes continuous glucose monitoring [26:45]
  • That insulin has a second action – to block cells from burning fat which signals the body to burn glucose, never allowing the body to dip into the fat stores for energy [29:30]
  • Most weight loss studies show failure at the 2-year mark because they’re not approaching it from a metabolic standpoint and the fact that you cannot burn fat without having a low insulin state [30:00]
  • Glucose spikes can be lowered through reduction of carbs in a meal, timing of carbs (eat them last). Use cinnamon, apple cider vinegar, or berberine as insulin sensitizers. Deep breathing can also affect it, keeping the glucose low by reducing the stress response in the body. Walking for 20 minutes after meals or even 2 minutes every 30 minutes throughout the day can also lower glucose response [31:03]
  • How to get a CGM through Levels Health – about the process and the device [33:50]
  • Dr. Casey Means describes what it’s like to wear the device and how it feels like having a superpower to be able to get immediate feedback on whether she’s feeling a particular way due to blood sugar fluctuations or a food she ate [36:16]
  • How interoception (similar to somatic awareness) helps people connect how they are feeling to what’s happening in their body [36:55]
  • About the hyper-palatability of food products and how the Levels Health CGM can help you make better decisions when the brain is hijacked by food chemicals [38:40]
  • How you can train your body to recognize blood sugar signs and signals to be able to tell what your blood sugar is by utilizing tech while you’re learning the signs from your body [40:20]
  • About the study out of Israel where they gave 800 people CGMs and provided the same meals for them all and found vastly different responses in blood sugar [41:20]
  • With the keto movement we can tap more into the fat burning because the substrates aren’t even there for burning glucose for fuel. But with CGM monitoring, you can monitor how specific carbs affect you personally. You can have a higher carb quantity in your diet and not significantly raise your blood glucose to bring a more balanced way of eating back into your life [43:40]
  • Discussion around food: how combining fats and proteins with carbs can help lower the metabolic response [46:00]
  • How long does it take to reverse metabolic issues? And how to achieve metabolic fitness [47:40]
  • About the importance of metabolic flexibility for athletes [52:15]

References

Levels Health Website
Levels Blog 
Levels – Twitter 
Levels – Instagram
Dr. Casey Means Instagram 
Dr. Casey Means Twitter
Virta Health Clinic
Israel CGM Study
Wired to Eat – Robb Wolf

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