Chronic disease management is a necessity, not a choice, for payors. Chronic diseases affect 60% of adults and place, by far, the biggest burden on the healthcare system. Improving chronic disease management processes and outcomes in your organization could lower your costs and improve productivity.

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Since chronic diseases are the greatest driver of healthcare costs and lost productivity, you cannot afford to ignore their impact. As an employer or insurer, you need to know that 9 in 10 healthcare dollars in the United States are spent on chronic diseases and mental health conditions for a total annual cost of about $3 trillion</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Diabetes Prevention Program is recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an effective way to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes among individuals with prediabetes or high type 2 diabetes risk. The DPP has been shown to lower 3-year diabetes risk by over 50%. </p>

Type 2 diabetes affects approximately 8 percent of adults in the United States...

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">November is Diabetes Awareness Month. <strong><em>November, 2018</em></strong>. Will it be the month that saves your life? Will it save your family members and friends? It may turn out to be a life-saving for millions of Americans because November is National Diabetes Awareness Month.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The world has gone digital. Are you keeping up? Digital therapeutics are not the <em>next</em> big thing in healthcare. Digital therapeutics are the <em>current </em>big thing in healthcare! If your organization is not using them, you are risking sicker members or employees, and higher healthcare costs, and decreased productivity.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Disease Management Programs are treatments that are offered through devices such as phones, sensors, apps, and computers. Many types of devices and health program delivery systems can be considered part of disease management. Digital health coaches that use artificial intelligence (AI) to provide customized coaching.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Chronic Disease Management is the single greatest contributor to reductions in healthcare spending by employers, and to employee satisfaction with health benefit offerings.</p>

You may think of a diabetes coach as a health professional that you see in person occasionally, but there are other options. A digital health coach can provide a full range of coaching services, plus have advantages over a live coach.

Gestational diabetes develops during pregnancy and causes high blood sugar that can affect your pregnancy and your baby's health.

Diabetes may be a chronic condition that changes your life, but using Lark Diabetes Care can help, so great job getting started!

What you eat is one of the most important factors in controlling diabetes, but eating fast food with diabetes can be done if you choose the right foods.

Eating fast food can be hard to avoid. Here are some tips for a healthy fast food breakfast for diabetes to keep blood sugar stable.

What is the Anti-Diet Diabetes Diet? This way of approaching food to help you feel better each day, lose weight, and manage your blood sugar.

Finding healthy snacks for diabetics can be challenging, especially when trying to find foods that can help maintain a healthy A1c, won’t spike your blood sugar,

Should you drink smoothies if you have diabetes? The answer depends on what kind of smoothie, and whether they help you get needed nutrients.

Your multivitamin supplement can provide nutrients that you need and are essential for blood sugar control and insulin sensitivity.

The glycemic index of a food is a measure of how it affects your blood sugar. Foods with a high GI leads to a quick and high spike in your blood sugar levels, followed by a dip. Foods with a lower GI have a less dramatic and healthier effect on your blood sugar.

Can I prevent diabetes if I am prediabetic?" For most people, the answer is a resounding, “Yes!”. Learn how you can prevent type 2 diabetes.

You may notice symptoms such as hunger and thirst before you know that you have diabetes or soon after your diagnosis.

Exercise lowers blood sugar and glycated hemoglobin (A1C) levels to manage diabetes and reduce the risk of complications lower the risk of complications!

Prediabetes, also known as borderline diabetes, is the stage before Diabetes. It is a condition in which your blood sugar is higher than normal, but not as high as it would be if you had diabetes. If you have prediabetes, you may have no symptoms. However, you are at higher risk for developing diabetes.

Your blood sugar, or blood glucose, is an important measure of your health. This is where blood glucose monitoring comes into play to help with diabetes.

The Hgb test is used as a test to diagnose prediabetes and diabetes, and is also used to manage long-term blood sugar for diabetics.

Blood sugar levels need to be in a normal range for you to be healthy. The ranges of normal levels of blood sugar depend on factors such as what time of day it is and when you last ate.

Diabetic nerve pain is symptom of diabetic neuropathy, a common complication of diabetes. It can limit your activities and interfere with quality of life.

Women with prediabetes are more likely than men to progress to diabetes. Learn the warning signs of diabetes in women, and live a healthier lifestyle!

While diabetes early signs may be absent or subtle, signs of type 2 diabetes can occur very clearly as well.

How can your patients keep track of their daily medications to stay on track? Medication adherence imrproves outcomes across disese states.

Women with prediabetes are more likely than men to progress to diabetes. Learn the warning signs of diabetes in women, and live a healthier lifestyle!

The time has come to rethink what you thought you knew about carbohydrates if you thought all are the same. Instead of following a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet that was popular decades ago, or avoiding nearly all carbohydrates with a low-carbohydrate diet, you can take a more moderate approach by choosing the "good" carbs using the glycemic index.

If you have pre-diabetes or are looking to lose weight, your diet is often to blame. But what foods can help you lower your risk for diabetes?

Do you ever forget to take your blood pressure medications? This is how you can add your medications and use Lark’s medication coaching.

Blood sugar is an important part for you to be healthy but remembering what a normal level can be hard. Let our blood sugar level chart help!

Social distancing helps slow the spread of coronavirus. For people with diabetes, it is even more important to understand the risks of COVID.

During quarantine, the safest option is staying at home as much as possible. For people with prediabetes, staying active is a challenge.

People with diabetes are in one of the high-risk groups for being impacted by coronavirus. Learn how to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

You have a lot of control over your risk for diabetes and heart disease. Here are 5 ways that you may be raising your risk, and what you can do about it.

Despite your healthy intentions, you may sometimes encounter obstacles such as low motivation, not enough time, too much stress, or irresistible temptations. Should you just throw in the towel? No!

How will you motivate yourself to stick to the year-long program and, along the way, practice healthy behavior changes consistently enough to turn them into habits? The more reasons you have, the better your motivation may be for thriving with Lark.

Fat had been the villain for years. But there are some fats that can help you get skinnier! We've made a comprehensive list to help you.

When you have diabetes, what you eat matters, so the best granola bars for diabetes help keep blood sugar in target ranges.

High levels of social support from family, friends, and peers leads to better health and faster recovery from chronic conditions.