The Journal of mHealth Vol 2 issue 5 (Oct) | Page 26

Next Generation Diabetes App Provides a Complete Integrated Care...
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average, people with diabetes make up to 1802 decisions about
their health every day, collecting and evaluating valuable information on personal and medical factors from blood sugar levels
to exercise to food choices. The care team of people living with
diabetes can add up to more than 10 different types of caregivers3. This makes living with diabetes complex to self-manage and
for many also very stressful.
Speaking to The Journal of mHealth Dr Andrade, Director of
Product Management at Philips HealthSuite, said; “The goal
of the app is to reduce the burden of care faced by the millions of people living with type 1 diabetes, and empower them
in self-management and enable collaborative, continuous care.
People with diabetes in our clinical partners’ medical practices

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asked for a solution that would support them in dealing with the
unexpected situations that arise daily and that would reduce the
burden of decision-making.”
“It uses their own medical data and the knowledge derived from
the real world experience of their peers, validates it with the
inputs of their healthcare team and tailors it to their needs. This
prototype solution spans multiple episodic events and encompasses disease-specific information, self-management guidance
and personal support.”
Via the integrated app and online community people with diabetes can:
»» Schedule readings and reminders and track data for a
variety of measurements needed for the management
of diabetes. These readings from connected devices and
manual input include; blood sugar levels, insulin doses,
food intake, physical activity, carbohydrate calculation,
mood and stress
»» View trends in individual or multiple measurements via
trend graphs
»» Collaborate with healthcare providers using the combined data from their personal health records, self-measurement and healthcare electronic medical records

mHealth Summit Feature - November 8-11, 2015