Smartphone-Based Self-Management of Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes: A Japanese System at Use by an Italian Patients’ Cohort

摘要

In a 2014 article published in this journal, Waki et al1 demonstrated that a smartphone-based self-management supportsystem for patients with type 2 non-insulin-dependent diabetes, called DialBetics, decreased HbA1c by 0.4% comparedwith standard diabetes care. The system provides a real-time,partially automated, interactive system, which delivers interpretation of the patients’ data. These include biologicalparameters and information on exercise and dietary content,the latter being calculated from data imputed by patients.Appropriate actionable information is then forwarded by thesystem to individual patients. The goal is to help patients inachieving diabetes self-management.