Diabetes Link: innovación tecnológica al servicio de la salud

RUCCI, ENZO; DELÍA, LISANDRO; PUJOL, JOAQUÍN; ERBINO, PAULA; DE GIUSTI, ARMANDO EDUARDO; GAGLIARDINO, JUAN JOSÉ

Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico y Social

UNLP

Año: 2021 vol. 3 p. 24 - 44

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease characterized by an increase in blood glucose (sugar) above normal levels and it appears when the endocrine pancreasis 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).