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Diabetes Connection

Taking care of your diabetes just got easier

With Diabetes Connection, the Diabetes Program at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh offers children with type 1 diabetes and their families the ability to electronically record medical information, partnering with their care providers to proactively manage their condition.

Diabetes Connection includes a personal health record (PHR), a secure connection between health care providers and patients and an online diabetes condition center.

A PHR enables individuals to record medical information, such as allergies, immunizations, measurements, conditions, tests, medications, surgeries and procedures. PHRs help with communication between the care provider and the individual – they also help those with the condition better control and manage their disease.
Secure messaging means patients and their families can communicate privately with health care providers.
The diabetes condition center provides a toolkit with a diary to log glucose values and carbohydrate and insulin intake. A glucose meter can be interfaced directly with the computer, eliminating manual entry and the hassle that comes with it.

Diabetes Connection is available to all children with type 1 diabetes at no cost. However, only patients of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s Diabetes Program can communicate with physicians and nurses online.

Learn more about the Diabetes Program at Children’s.

Find a Pediatric Diabetes Specialist.