NutriTutor® offers people with chronic diseases
…Superior medical nutrition and lifestyle counseling. Developed by credentialed clinicians and brimming with customized tools, NutriTutor® online tutorials with clinician consultations correct the barriers found in traditional medical education, resulting in improved learning.
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Online Medical Diabetes Education with Telehealth Clinician Consultations
1. NUTRITUTOR®
YOUR #1SOURCE FOR ONLINE DIABETES SELF-
M A N A G E M E N T S K I L L S T R A I N I N G , E D U C AT I O N , A N D S U P P O RT
2. THE NUTRITUTOR® MISSION…
IMPROVING LIVES
Medical nutrition & lifestyle We help companies that
help people with
education that is … diabetes, like …
• Available wherever and • Primary care practices who
whenever 24-7 need medical home-compliant
patient education
• Affordable • Employers who need to spend
less on employee healthcare
and absenteeism
• Exceptional quality
• Insurers who need to spend less
on patient medical education
• Improves lives
3. WHO WE ARE
Developed by a registered
dietitian with over 30 years of
experience as a diabetes
educator, NutriTutor® offers the
first online customized &
interactive diabetes self-
management training program.
• Based on AADE7 (American
Association of Diabetes Educators Self-Care
Behaviors framework)
• Developed by credentialed
clinicians
• Provides HIPAA-compliant
telehealth consultations
4. ONLINE DIABETES EDUCATION
SOLVES CURRENT CHALLENGES
Epidemic Solution
Patient-centered training
• 10% of U.S. citizens
now have diabetes • Available to
anyone, anyplace, at
• By 2050, 20%--33% of anytime
U.S. citizens will have • Cost of training is
diabetes significantly reduced
• Quality of education is
• Healthcare costs are improved
more than doubled • Companies and
when diabetes is organizations can offer
present training from their own
websites!
5. COMPREHENSIVE … HOLISTIC
Control glucose,
weight, blood pressure, Online…Telehealth
& hyperlipidemia
Programs encourage
disease
ownership, problem-
solving, behavior
change, lifelong
learning, relevant
communication with the
healthcare team, and
appropriate use of medical
services.
6. THE NUTRITUTOR® DIFFERENCE …
PATIENT-CENTERED PARADIGM
Educate…Engage… Learners receive
Encourage…Empower
• Multi-media training • Months of training to allow for
deliberate and progressive
• Interactive skill habit change in the real life
development with setting
customized remediation
• Affective readiness • Customized meal plans
preparation
• Convenient access to • Downloadable manual of
clinicians tools and resources
• Behavioral goal-setting
• 24-7 social support
7. WE SERVE COMPANIES …
… that serve people with diabetes
Offer diabetes training from
your own website!
• Hospitals
• Physicians
• Corporate wellness
companies
• Employers
• Health insurance
companies
• Government health
departments
8. HOW NUTRITUTOR® HELPS
People need diabetes education!
• Wellness companies and employers
fill the diabetes-shaped training gap in employee
wellness benefits, and receive a proven 4.34:1 return
on investment
• Primary care physicians
offer patient-centered diabetes education that
meets medical home criteria
9. HOW NUTRITUTOR® HELPS
• Insurance companies
significantly reduce medical diabetes education costs
• Government health departments
improve public health while also reducing clinician staff
• Companies and organizations
offer reduced price medical diabetes education while adding
a potential revenue stream
10. OFFER DIABETES EDUCATION FROM YOUR OWN
WEBSITE, AND GET THE CREDIT!
Group Plan Options
You can…
Get a NutriTutor® learning portal • Pay a reduced price for group
CUSTOMIZED with your memberships and charge learners.
company’s name and logo on
every learning page! • Pay a reduced price for group
memberships and offer learning
free.
• Earn a referral fee for each learner
Then decide … that purchases a reduced-price
tutorial through your learning
portal.
Do you want to offer diabetes
training to your group for free or • Make medical diabetes education
for a price? available to constituents at a
reduced price…no strings
attached.
11. NUTRITUTOR® HELPS PHYSICIANS
Medical Home-Compliant Gain the Competitive Edge
Education
• Provide Diabetes Self-
• Patient-centered logistics & Management Training from
learning your own website using a
seamless referral process!
• Utilizes technology
• Improve patient retention
• Comprehensive programming
• Gain a local advantage in the
• Coordinated with physician diabetes / cardiovascular
practices disease market
• Integrated team approach • Meet national standards of
• Accessible 24-7 care with convenience
• Accountable business plan • Add value to your practice by
• Satisfying to both patients and referring patients to a high
their physicians standard service provider
12. WHY IS CORPORATE WELLNESS
GROWING?
Corporate wellness pays off Health insurance companies
are in the business of wellness
• Diabetes costs the U.S. $174
billion annually. Humana, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue
Shield and others have added
• Diabetes in the workforce is wellness benefits to save money.
rapidly increasing from 1 in
10, to 1 in 3 persons.
Follow the money…
• Diabetes is largely caused by and reap the rewards!
poor eating and lifestyle habits;
which can be reversed. • Healthier employees
• Once begun, diabetes is a • improved productivity
complex and difficult disease • Savings on health insurance
to treat.
13. CORPORATE WELLNESS
MAKES SENSE
Diabetes costs employers! Invest in human capital
to save money!
• Affects 6% of the
workforce, but generates
more than 25% of the total Add online Diabetes Self-
costs Management Training to
your benefits package
• Diabetes is the third most and save $4.34 for every
costly health condition for $1.00 spent!
employers
(American Association of Diabetes
As few as 1% Problem with
Real of people
Educators, 2008)
diabetes learn how to control
As few as 1% of people with
their disease!
diabetes learn how to control
their disease.
14. THE DIABETES-SHAPED GAP IN WELLNESS PROGRAMS
~ GLUCOSE CONTROL ~
Role of healthy
Glucose control is weight, blood vessels, &
everything! exercise
• Glucose changes every minute based
on a complex set of factors. Only the Critical in preventing diabetes and
person who has diabetes can control controlling the progression of diabetes, but
these factors. does not prevent medical emergencies!
• Glucose levels are the cause for costly
emergencies and permanent organ
damage.
• Uncontrolled glucose causes
diabetes, as a disease, to worsen.
• Worsened diabetes causes worsened Diabetes Self-Management
blood vessels. Training teaches people how to
control disease progression, lose
Diabetes Self-Management weight, exercise, and manage
Training teaches people how to blood pressure, cholesterol, &
prevent glucose emergencies and triglycerides.
organ damage.
15. ENDORSEMENTS
Defeat Diabetes
Association Foundation
NutriTutor® is a contributor
and partner with the
California Diabetes
Program; a status
designed for reputable
organizations and
companies that work to
control diabetes.
16. NUTRITUTOR® FEATURED ON….
Corporate Wellness Magazine Wellness.com
April 2011
How to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Outcomes
Improving Workplace Wellness for Diabetic Nationwide
Patients--A Unique Solution by Laurie Van Wyckhouse, MS, RD, LD/N
by Laurie Van Wyckhouse, MS,RD, LD/N
NutriTutor.com has rolled out a unique
…Wellness programs are currently service that helps corporate wellness
companies to bridge the gap for their
focused on diabetes patients with type 2 diabetes…
prevention, underserving a large
segment of employees who are on an
…Workplace wellness companies and
accelerated course toward body- employers seeking to significantly improve
wide destruction. It is imperative that their medical outcomes, position
we improve medical outcomes for themselves ahead of the competition, and
those who already have save healthcare dollars must find diabetes
diabetes…Read more self-management training programs with
which to partner…Read more
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17. TESTIMONIES - TAKE THE NEXT STEP AND YOU
CAN BECOME OUR NEXT TESTIMONY
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“I was diagnosed several years ago with
type 2 diabetes and was consequently Help people to overcome the
prescribed glucophage to help control my challenges of diabetes and your
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months have averaged 5.7.”
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