Integrating Patients Education into Diabetes Shared Care

摘要

Diabetes is the fourth leading causes of death in Taiwan. This indicates severely threatening our health. However the current reimbursement policy of the Bureau of National Health Insurance is based mainly on the volume of medical services, and not on the quality of care or patient education service. As a result healthcare providers do not devote significant resources to educating or informing patients. Empowering diabetes with self-care knowledge is therefore desirable. In this paper we describe a web-based diabetic education assistant system that can facilitate diabetic education, and remind patients to take appropriate actions on predefined conditions by sending them short messages through their mobile phones.