BD to collaborate with Columbia Asia Hospitals for diabetes management

The medical technology company BD will work with diabetes management hospital professionals in Columbia Asia Hospitals across India to equip diabetes educators with customised solutions and aid clinicians and people with diabetes who are being initiated on insulin. The collaboration, which will run for a period of nine months through BD Getting Started program, will provide a certification to the diabetes educators who will be imparted knowledge and intensive hands-on training.

The BD Getting Started is a diabetes educational resource program for insulin users. It is a collaboratively designed program for health system leaders looking to achieve the best-in-class care insulin injection experience for patients initiating insulin. These customised solutions focus on targeted improvements to standardise clinical best practices and eliminate variation in insulin initiation. The result is improved patient care, comfortable insulin experience, and improved clinical outcomes for those injecting insulin.

The Columbia Asia Hospitals group currently operates eleven facilities in India and has presence in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Kolkata, Mysore, Patiala and Pune.

“For nearly 90 years, BD’s culture of innovation and continuous improvement has enhanced the patient experience to enable better diabetes therapy and outcomes. We are glad that we are collaborating with Columbia Asia Hospitals to support their diabetes management program. BD has always taken a prominent role in educating doctors, allied healthcare professionals and patients on earlier initiation and better adherence to injectable therapies, thus helping people living with diabetes live healthier lives,” said Varun Khanna, managing director, BD-India. 

Columbia Asia Hospitals’ comprehensive diabetes management program caters to type 1 and type 2 diabetics as well as for those with Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) and Pregnancy Induced Hyperglycemia (PIH). The program enables participants to lead a healthy and active life at home and at work. The program is based on a multidisciplinary approach that addresses the challenges of managing diabetes holistically with involvement of specialists, family physicians, support staff and patient/care giver; all enabled through internationally benchmarked protocols and technology based interventions.