Title :
A peer-facilitated diabetes self-care management support system using mobile telephony
Author :
Sultan, Salys ; Mohan, Permanand
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Abstract :
This paper presents a mobile health system called Mobile DSMS which is based on the collaborative disease management framework using mobile technologies. Mobile DSMS allows patients with similar disease management interests to virtually gather and share experiences, ask questions and provide support and problem-solve remotely through the use of mobile devices.
Keywords :
diseases; groupware; health care; human computer interaction; medical administrative data processing; mobile computing; telephony; user interfaces; collaborative disease management framework; mobile DSMS; mobile devices; mobile health system; mobile technologies; mobile telephony; peer-facilitated diabetes self-care management support system; Buildings; Ground penetrating radar; Medical services; collaborative disease management; human-computer interaction; mobile dsms; remote peer-support;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2012 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1483-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-936968-43-5
