Diabetes Link: Technological innovation at the service of health

Authors

  • Enzo Rucci III-LIDI, Facultad de Informática, UNLP – CIC
  • Lisandro Delía III-LIDI, Facultad de Informática, UNLP – CIC
  • Joaquín Pujol Facultad de Informática, UNLP
  • Paula Erbino Facultad de Informática, UNLP
  • Armando Eduardo De Giusti III-LIDI, Facultad de Informática, UNLP – CIC
  • Juan José Gagliardino CENEXA, CONICET-UNLP-CIC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/26838559e28

Keywords:

diabetes;, glycemia, insulin, mHealth, health informatics, mobile app, website

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease characterized by an increase in blood glucose (sugar) above normal levels and it appears when the endocrine pancreas is not able to produce the corresponding regulatory hormone (insulin). Nowadays, DM affects 8.5% of the world’s population and the situation gets worst in Argentina since 12.7% of its adult people is affected. Even though no cure for it has been found, an adequate control prevents the development of complications that harm the patients’ quality of life and increase the treatment costs. This control requires an active participation of the patient in the monitoring and treatment of the illness. In addition, depending on patient and disease severity, multiple clinical and metabolic parameters should be monitored, such as body weight, blood glucose, blood pressure, the amount of ingested carbohydrates, and physical activity performed. All these parameters have an impact in achieving treatment goals.

Diabetes Link is a comprehensive platform for control and monitoring people with DM; it combines a mobile application and a web portal. Diabetes Link allows recording various parameters relevant for the treatment and calculating multiple statistical charts. In addition, it allows connecting with other users (supervisors) so they can monitor the controls.

To determine the feasibility and potential of the proposal, physicians, educators and clinical researchers were interviewed. This development phase was complemented with a state-of-the-art study of mobile applications oriented to diabetes. After this stage, a mobile application was designed and developed (available at both Google PlayStore and Apple iOS Store) combined with a web portal (available at diabeteslink.info.unlp.edu.ar).

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Published

2021-04-19

How to Cite

Rucci, E., Delía, L., Pujol, J., Erbino, P., De Giusti, A. E., & Gagliardino, J. J. (2021). Diabetes Link: Technological innovation at the service of health. Social and Technological Development and Innovation, 3(1), 24–44. https://doi.org/10.24215/26838559e28

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