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title: "New Digital Health Tool Aims to Improve Diabetes Care | Sutter Health"
description: "Sutter Health and AstraZeneca piloted CM-SHARE, an online tool helping primary care providers better manage patients with diabetes and other conditions."
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# New digital health tool aims to help patients keep better tabs on diabetes

Sutter Health and AstraZeneca piloted CM-SHARE, an online tool helping primary care providers better manage patients with diabetes and other conditions.

June 4, 2019 by Sutter Health

SAN FRANCISCO (Calif.) – Type 2 diabetes is not curable, but it is controllable—but as any patient or doctor will tell you, managing diabetes comes with its own set of challenges.

Given the disease’s complexity, patients and doctors need to maximize their time together. To help improve the care of people with cardiometabolic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol, investigators in Sutter’s Center for Health Systems Research (CHSR) and collaborators at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals developed and piloted an online tool called CM-SHARE (cardiometabolic Sutter Health Advanced Reengineered Encounter) to help primary care providers better manage patients with diabetes and other cardiometabolic conditions during their office visits.

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## Topics

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## Diabetes care

Managing your blood sugar is key to protecting your long-term health and energy. If you're living with diabetes, our endocrinology specialists can provide personalized treatment, medication management and support to help you thrive.

[Learn more about Diabetes care](https://www.sutterhealth.org/services/diabetes)

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