Novel Health Mobile Technology as an emerging strategy in diabetes management
Extended Abstracts :
Diabetes is a chronic disease that needs patient awareness, education, and self-management of the disease by patients. Mobile
revolution and the availability of IT technologies can serve as a connecting bridge in healthcare system to facilitate the
treatment of lifestyles diseases such as diabetes. However, the effectiveness of these techniques needs to be assessed rigorously.
Therefore, the authors have systematically reviewed the recent clinical studies using Mobile Health applications for diabetes
management.
Original articles that were published in ISI indexed journals from PubMed database from 2007 to 2014 were collected using
search specific key phrases. Selected papers were classified into ‘mobile applications for diabetes management’ which included
applications related to diabetes management, ‘mobile applications for patient education’ which included all the articles where
smart phone was used as a tool for health education and ‘mobile applications for patient behavior modifications’ which included
studies that looked into mobile applications which would affect and contribute to behavior changes.
Mobile health interventions resulted in significant clinical improvement in most of the studies. Educational SMS produced
significant results but was inferior to the apps or teleconsultations which are more engaging with patients. It seems phone calls
are less preferred, as there were only two studies where phone calls were used as intervention. Most of Smartphone apps were
evaluated for patient management and education. Implementing reliable mobile health platform in real-life setups may be a
challenging task and would require adequate infrastructure. Cost benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis are essential before
implementation of such systems.
Background:
Extended Abstracts :
Diabetes is a chronic disease that needs patient awareness, education, and self-management of the disease by patients. Mobile
revolution and the availability of IT…
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