Mobile patient applications within diabetes - from few and easy to advanced functionalities.
Patient diaries as apps on mobile phones are becoming increasingly common, and can be a good support tool for patients who need to organize information relevant for their disease. Self-management is important to achieving diabetes treatment goals and can be a tool for lifestyle changes for patients with Type 2 diabetes. The autoimmune disease Type 1 diabetes requires a more intensive management than Type 2 - thus more advanced functionalities is desirable for users. Both simple and easy-to-use and more advanced diaries have their respective benefits, depending on the target user group and intervention. In this poster we summarize main findings and experience from more than a decade of research and development in the diabetes area. Several versions of the mobile health research platform-the Few Touch Application (FTA) are presented to illustrate the different approaches and results.
Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Norway.
Eirik
E
Årsand
Stein Olav
SO
Skrøvseth
Ole
O
Hejlesen
Alexander
A
Horsch
Fred
F
Godtliebsen
Astrid
A
Grøttland
Gunnar
G
Hartvigsen
D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D008499:Medical Records; D063731:Mobile Applications; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000379:methods*; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface