ABOUT US
OUR STORY
Founded in 2016 at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, the Rising T1DE Alliance (RTA) is focused on proactively identifying and addressing clinical risks through actionable, timely insights. After initial funding through a grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, additional funding in 2020 helped us develop the Diabetes Data Dock, a cloud-based population health management software that integrates data from the electronic health record (EHR), self-management devices, patient-reported outcome surveys and other sources.
Together, we're reimagining diabetes care and working toward a new paradigm that continuously and seamlessly integrates data, technology and personalized care delivery. We aim to build and disseminate technologies and practices that enable healthcare organizations to deliver the high quality, data-driven care that every person with diabetes deserves.
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OUR HISTORY
The Rising T1DE Alliance story is one of vision, collaboration and perseverance. From its founding at Children’s Mercy Hospital, the RTA continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in diabetes care to pave the way for a brighter, more data-driven future of healthcare.
Phase 1: Planting the Seeds of Innovation
With a vision to change diabetes care via data-driven innovation, Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City integrated data from medical devices into a unified system, enabling real-time insights and predictive care. With the help of Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago as a partner, an internal data science team was formed.
Phase 2: The Birth of RTA
The RTA formed and developed the Diabetes Data Dock (D-Data Dock), a tool that integrates continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data into electronic health records (EHR), enabling providers to forecast outcomes, allowing for more proactive and targeted care.
Phase 3: Building a Learning Ecosystem
The RTA introduced the Rapid Learning Lab, designed to accelerate testing and validation of innovations. Lurie Children’s Hospital became deeply involved as an active site for implementing and refining innovations, while contributing critical insights to the collaborative learning model.
Phase 4: Advancing Data Integration
The RTA sharpened its focus on data integration and interoperability with the iCoDE project, an effort led by the Diabetes Technology Society, aiming to establish technical standards for CGM data integration into electronic health records (EHR). 130 experts collaborated to develop a standardized approach.
Phase 5: Securing Implementation Support
Funding was secured and implementation strategies were refined to bring diabetes innovations to healthcare institutions. Children's Mercy Hospital and Lurie Children's Hospital acted as pilot sites, where innovations were tested and insights were gathered to identify barriers and best practices.
Phase 6: Scaling & Optimizing
Driven by a mission to rapidly scale data-driven innovations and ensure cost-effective, impactful clinical integration, the team is presently focused on applying key learnings from previous phases to further expand implementation efforts at a fraction of the initial cost. The RTA is committed to enabling institutions to seamlessly integrate real-time CGM data into clinical decision-making that can eventually be scaled globally.
OUR FOCUS
Diabetes Data Dock
A cloud-based population health management software that integrates data from the electronic health record (EHR), self-management devices and other sources, aiming to make it simple and cost-effective to share and deploy.
iCoDE
Predictive Modeling
We advance predictive models and care interventions to make them more effective for people with diabetes.
Toolkit Development
We develop tools so other organizations can adopt our technologies and rapid learning methodology to integrate data into iterative care model design.
Community Building
We’re building a supportive community of innovators with a passion for optimizing diabetes population health management, while creating sustainable operational models to support it.
OUR MISSION, VISION & VALUES
Patient-Centered Care
People and their lived experiences are at the core of our efforts, ensuring every intervention and decision supports individual needs and enhances overall well-being.
Data-Driven Innovation
We continuously push the boundaries of healthcare innovation, using advanced analytics and machine learning to transform real-time health data into actionable insights to guide patient care.
Learning & Adaptability
Our approach to care is rooted in implementation science, allowing us to refine and enhance our interventions to adapt to evolving healthcare needs.
Collaboration & Advocacy
We drive impactful change that leverages the strengths of our diverse network of healthcare institutions, patient advocacy groups and research organizations for a united approach to care.
Integrity & Transparency
We uphold the highest ethical standards, transparently sharing our findings and methodologies to encourage widespread improvement and adoption.
Equity & Access
Everyone deserves access to high-quality diabetes care. We’re working to dismantle barriers by promoting scalable solutions that offer advanced, personalized care to diverse communities.
Sustainability
We aim to create tools that enable economically viable care across a variety of healthcare settings to create value for patients, health care systems and payers.
Get involved
If you’re passionate about transforming diabetes care, we’d love to connect.