Development and validation of software to provide medical treatment and patient empowerment to type 2 diabetics, through interaction with medical staff and real-time recording

Background

The WHO proposes a model for the care of chronic diseases, with 5 leading points. One of them is the electronic register for care, monitoring and valuation of patients. In addition, several articles have demonstrated the benefit of using electronic records helping to achieve a major metabolic control of patients, and generating reminders for health personnel regarding medical care. To facilitate the use of the tool, it must improve the interaction with the user and should be attractive in terms of design and utility. The impact with the user implies that the solution adds value to their current treatment, provides benefits in health and economic, and the solution is integrated into the services it currently receives.

Aims

Primary aim: To create, validate and export the use of a technological tool that contributes to empowerment in patients with diabetes, the provision of care according to quality standards and generate real-time information required to measure the effectiveness of interventions.

Secondary aim: To have an open information system, robust and interoperable on diabetes and its comorbidities to allow recovery, handling, processing, analysis and publication of specialized information according to the newest social and semantic tools of the digital age.

Project plan

To design an online information system, minding primarily a relational database, designed in progress or SQL permissions at different levels, allowing records, process and retrieving information at different levels:

• Medical

• Administrative

• Patient

• Curatorial

Impact

The project demonstrated that a diabetes registry can provide the data required by policymakers to identify gaps in the care continuum and thereby improve the quality of care.

Publications and output

GACD have also published an end-of-programme report providing a comprehensive summary of the programme and outcomes. You can also take a look at the project plan written by the team.

Principal investigators

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