title: Design and development of a web-based application for diabetes patient data management.
abstract: A web-based database management system developed for collecting, managing and analysing information of diabetes patients is described here. It is a searchable, client-server, relational database application, developed on the Windows platform using Oracle, Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic Script (VB Script) and Java Script. The software is menu-driven and allows authorized healthcare providers to access, enter, update and analyse patient information. Graphical representation of data can be generated by the system using bar charts and pie charts. An interactive web interface allows users to query the database and generate reports. Alpha- and beta-testing of the system was carried out and the system at present holds records of 500 diabetes patients and is found useful in diagnosis and treatment. In addition to providing patient data on a continuous basis in a simple format, the system is used in population and comparative analysis. It has proved to be of significant advantage to the healthcare provider as compared to the paper-based system.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Biology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Pune, Pune, India.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Deo
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Deobagkar
authors.forename: Deepti D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Deobagkar
mesh_terms: D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009862:Online Systems; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface