Novel Health Mobile Technology as an Emerging Strategy in Diabetes Management

Book Chapter

Rafiullah, Satish Kumar David and Mohamed . 2017

• نوع عمل المنشور: Research
• مدينة النشر: Croatia - EUROPEAN UNION
• رابط المنشور على الويب: Novel Health Mobile Technology as an Emerging Strategy in Diabetes Management
• اسم الجهة الناشرة: InTechOpen is the world's largest Science, Technology and Medicine Open Access book publisher
• عنوان الكتاب: "Case Study of Innovative Projects - Successful Real Cases"
• الصفحات: 247 to 261

مستخلص المنشور

Advances in mobile phone technology and its applications coupled with equally robust
growth of telecommunication technology can serve to give patients a better access to the
healthcare. More and more healthcare providers and patients started using these applications.
Mobile applications are useful in handling various aspects of healthcare namely,
health promotion and disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and supporting
health services. Clinical studies evaluating mobile applications often come up
with mixed results. In this chapter, application of mobile health technology or mHealth
in diabetes management is presented as a case study. We have reviewed 25 articles from
pubmed database that fulfilled our selection criteria which included original clinical
studies that evaluated mobile health technology in the management of diabetes mellitus.
Most studies (88%) reported positive outcomes after use of the mobile health applications
in various aspects of diabetes treatment such as disease management, behavioural
monitoring and patient education. Educational SMS were effective but inferior to
Smartphone Apps or teleconsultations. User-friendliness of the systems influenced
patient compliance and outcomes. Smartphone/web applications offer significant benefits
for patient care, education and behavioural modifications. As providing continuous
patient support would require adequate infrastructure and personnel, cost effectiveness
of such interventions need to be studied.