MALAMA Case Studies

Case study #1

700+ bed public tertiary hospital

>90% of patients on Medicaid/uninsured
~30% of pregnant patients have diabetes

BACKGROUND

  • All pen and paper

  • Care coordination issues (NP/RDs)

  • 45 min per patient visit (average)

  • Patients travel 1-2 hours to bring records in

  • Forget records, adjust medication "blind"

Results

  • 90% reduction in charting time (NPs)

  • 4% improvement in glycemic control

  • Avg. logging/day 2.7 --> 4.3

  • 96% data completion rate

    Updated 8/8/2023

"I I feel like you all have taken so much accumulated knowledge and turned it into something so practical and helpful. You are building my faith that technology can be used for good!"

Case study #2

non-profit,
14-hospital AMC on east coast

NPs running the perinatology clinic
Urban population, 150 patients monthly (mostly GDM)

BACKGROUND

  • Multiple ethnicities of patients

  • Varied information on diet, depending on CDE

  • Multiple data streams for various diabetes types (OneTouch, Glooko)

  • Low return rate postpartum (10%)

Results

  • 73% retention

  • 3.2 average logging / day

  • 53% data completion

"My patients were quite upset when I told them I could not track them on Malama any longer"

"Charting used to take 45 minutes,
now it's down to less than 5"