Design of a Data Management Tool for the Diabetes Technology Center

Diabetes, a disease preventing the body from breaking down sugars, affects over 20 million Americans each year. To conduct medical research and perform studies to enhance knowledge about the disease, the University of Virginia created the Diabetes Technology Center (DTC). This design project focuses on the creation and implementation of a database management system with a web-interface for the clinicians and researchers working on a study on Type 1 Diabetes. Our tool provides both a simple way to upload data into the database and easy extraction of data from the database for analysis. Other DTC studies rely on an outside technician to extract information from the database because the clinicians have little database knowledge. Our user-friendly tool allows these clinicians to extract data to analyze from the database.