An intelligent mobile diabetes management and educational system for Saudi Arabia: System architecture

This paper presents an intelligent mobile diabetes management and educational system for patients in Saudi Arabia with type 2 diabetes (SAED). The SAED system consists of two main components: (1) the SAED mobile patient/healthcare provider component and (2) the SAED intelligent diabetes management component. The SAED mobile patient/healthcare provider component includes two units (i) the patient´s unit and (ii) the specialist diabetic unit, which communicate for data exchange. The SAED intelligent diabetes management component includes (i) a database module; (ii) an intelligent decision support module based on fuzzy logic concepts; (iii) a SAED SMS reminder module and (iv) a diabetes educational module. In general, SAED is a system capable of storing clinical data on diabetes management, such as daily blood glucose and blood pressure measurements and hypoglycaemia events. These stored records and the incorporated decision support system will allow the clinician to monitor patients remotely. Furthermore, the decision support system will provide the physician with recommendations for each patient using fuzzy logic theory.