A Review of Mobile Terminal-Based Applications for Self-Management of Patients with Diabetes

Naoe Tatara, Eirik Årsand, Heidi Nilsen, Gunnar Hartvigsen
2009 2009 International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine  
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is getting prevalent very rapidly, although it is preventable by avoiding or reducing behavioral risk factors. On the other hand, mobile phones have become so powerful that they serve as a platform for application software. With the high possession rate of such high-end mobile phones, they have been considered as an ideal terminal to provide help for self-care of chronic diseases including T2DM. This is reflected by the recent monotonic increase in the number of
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doi:10.1109/etelemed.2009.14 dblp:conf/etelemed/TataraANH09 fatcat:svnftki3angjdijbfojxtw3nha