Future technology-enabled care for diabetes and hyperglycemia in the hospital setting

Table 2 Inpatient diabetes education delivery - current and future states

Modality	Current state	Future state
1:1 at the bedside	Unit nurse/Physician/educator provides basic education- often skills based, e.g., insulin instruction, and/or printed generic content	Supplemented by printed individualized electronic medical record clinical decision support generated content based on diagnoses, procedures, medications
Low-tech	Generic education content delivered via SMART TV or video	Video-based survival skills education content individualized for diabetes medications prescribed at discharge
		Provider and/or electronic medical record clinical decision support prescribes targeted generic education content
High-Tech	Generic education content prescribed for delivery at bedside on TV or tablet computer from web-based platform	Individualized education delivered via an interactive patient engagement platform
		Content auto-directed to learner based on embedded survey responses
		“App” for telehealth coaching prescribed, e.g., BlueStar[49]