AN INTELLIGENT DIABETES MOBILE CARE SYSTEM WITH ALERT MECHANISM

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a kind of chronic disease which can be effectively prevented and controlled only if the blood glucose level of the patient is constantly monitored, and the health education and professional medicine care is fully supported. In this paper a role-based intelligent diabetes mobile care system with alert mechanism in full diabetic care environment is proposed and implemented. The roles in our system include patients, physicians, nurses, and home care assistants. Each of the roles uses a mobile device such as a PDA with GSM module or a mobile phone to communicate with the server so that he or she can go around without restrictions. Our system provides alert management by using an automaticl urgency strategy to assure the information correctness and notification completeness so as to improve the quality of diabetes care. The reliability test and performance test have also shown that our system can provide fast and reliable assistance to the diabetes patients. With the help of our system, it is possible to set up a whole intelligent diabetes care chain in the care center.