Story Angle Suggestions:

• Influence of social media on diabetes management
• Living the dLife- fitting diabetes self-management into your lifestyle
• Why diabetes is critical to the success of healthcare reform
• Diabetes is a 24/7 disease; doctors spend an average of 7 minutes with each patient
• Diabetes touches everyone; every family member, every friend, every co-worker, every person who pays for health insurance
• The diabetes diet could even help those who don't have the disease
• Howard Steinberg: CEO living with type I diabetes
• The future of diabetes: Prevalence of disease and technological breakthroughs will result in new treatment paradigm
• Companies founded based on a passion and belief in a need for DIY health management
• Design and rollout of media and technology based behavior change and self-care interventions
• How to improve quality scores, healthcare outcomes, while lowering healthcare costs
• Recruiting and engaging members to participate in population health programs
• Diabetes self-care-engaging the diabetes patient as a consumer