A Diabetes Mentor in Your Cell Phone

» A Diabetes Mentor in Your Cell Phone – DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog
For most people, the cell phone is one of the only gadgets everyone understands and uses every day. There are several companies that have utilized the wide world of iPhone applications, but new-kid-on-the-diabetes-block WellDoc, a Baltimore-based company, has created a new [...]

Disease Management for Australia

Patient centered chronic care is a difficult one to set up and negotiate in Australia – a country with universal Medicare. Disease Management here is listed within the state’s agenda – but not separately funded.
Healthways – Investor Relations – News Release
Healthways International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY), today announced a five-year [...]

Diabetes and Interaction Design

I saw charmr (you can say Charmr on youtube to watch the video) by Adaptive Path and was quite intrigued. I have students doing similar projects. This is ‘gadgets that help’.
I am in diabetes for a different reason – I want to change health outcomes for the, say, 40 million Indians and further 40 million [...]

Strengthening the national diabetes care services by enhancing the capacity of health care providers

Capacity Development project. What is the ‘care model’ that the health care providers will be trained in? If this is clinical practice – how does the diabetic benefit – and therefore how will the ‘care’ model be assessed?
India Diabetes Research Foundation :: IDRF-WDF Project
PROJECT TITLEStrengthening the national diabetes care services by enhancing the capacity of [...]

This may dissipate focused effort on diabetes which is a big problem for India

Rs1,620 crore pilot project to curb diabetes, heart diseases launched – Economy and Politics – livemint.com
One health activist said the government was trying to pack too much into the programme. A. Ramachandran, president of India Diabetes Research Foundation, called the Rs1,650 crore budget “a drop in the ocean”.
“The government has also diluted the programme by [...]

Rs1,620 crore pilot project to curb diabetes, heart diseases launched

Rs1,620 crore pilot project to curb diabetes, heart diseases launched – Economy and Politics – livemint.com
New Delhi: In the first initiative of its kind, the Indian government
has started a programme to prevent as well as map the extent of
diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and stroke—chronic ailments that
could cause life expectancy in the country to fall and have [...]

If They Build a Medical Home, Will the Docs Come?

Disease Management Care Blog: If They Build a Medical Home, Will the Docs Come?
Among its many admittedly good qualities, the patient centered medical home (PCMH) has been lauded as the means to resuscitate, re-engineer or revive primary care. The Disease Management Blog asks: assuming the PMCH has plenty of merit by itself, what does it [...]

Putting a number on India’s diabetics

This is the number of diabetics in India – at 6% of the population. This is a figure I dispute – as it starts with 49 million as an estimate. Thats low for an asian country with a genetic predisposition towards Diabetes. The stats for USA say 9% of the population.
Putting a number on [...]

Diabetes in India

So its now the BBC – that is saying it. 10% or more of Indians have diabetes. A third or less are detected.
1. WHO says in the thirty millions. Out of a world population of 177 million.
2. With these new figures we are looking at 100 to 150 million diabetics.
If I were to take the [...]

BBC NEWS | South Asia | India battles diabetes ‘epidemic’

Diabetes in India

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India battles diabetes ‘epidemic’

BBC NEWS | South Asia | India battles diabetes ‘epidemic’
By Adam Mynott, BBC News, Chennai, India
The latest figures for the prevalence of diabetes are two years old and by common medical consent hopelessly out of date.
It is estimated that up to three million people die from the disease every year, and over a quarter of [...]

Jeremy Yuille Explores IxD Education at Adaptive Path

I am very curious about Adaptive path – especially their work -’charmr’ – on diabetes. I needed to see this about Jeremy – to jog me to speak to him.
Jeremy Yuille Explores IxD Education at Adaptive Path | jamin.org
Adaptive Path recently hosted a brown bag lunch with Jeremy Yuille regarding interaction design education. I skirted [...]

Smart DNA

Smart DNA: Programming the Molecule of Life for Work and Play: Scientific American

DNA molecules can act as elementary logic gates analogous to the silicon-based gates of ordinary computers. Short strands of DNA serve as the gates’ inputs and outputs.
Ultimately, such gates could serve as dissolved “doctors”—sensing molecules such as markers on cells and jointly choosing [...]

Smart Insulin: It Knows What You’ve Been Eating

» Smart Insulin: It Knows What You’ve Been Eating – DiabetesMine: diabetes, life, health, community
Imagine: Smart Insulin that could sense high glucose levels and automatically dispense insulin on demand. “As your glucose levels drop off, the drug stabilizes, trapping insulin until the next glucose spike.” WOW! So it knows if you’ve been bad or [...]

True Confessions of a Good Diabetic

» True Confessions of a Good Diabetic – DiabetesMine: diabetes, life, health, community
I read other PWD’s blogs, and they always seem like they have it so together. But then again, when fellow diabetics meet me in person, they seem to think I have it all figured out, too. Closer to the truth is [...]

Designed to deliver insulin to the hepatocyte cells in the liver

» More Diabetes Innovations: GluMetrics & DiaSome – DiabetesMine: diabetes, life, health, community
DiaSome Pharmaceuticals, located in Conshohoken, PA, is developing a “proprietary nanotechnology cell-receptor targeting system” designed to deliver insulin to the hepatocyte cells in the liver via both oral and injectable drug routes. According to their documentation, “the site-specific targetting of insulin essentially restores [...]

A Tale of Two Diabetics

Disease Management Care Blog: A Tale of Two Diabetics
Meet Homer. His appetite for doughnuts and aluminum wrapped carbonated carbohydrate-rich beverages has finally caught up with him. His doctor has told him that he’s overweight and has diabetes mellitus. An oaf he may be, but he’s a lovable well-meaning oaf who does his best to follow [...]

What system of care for rural communities?

Systems of Care – and a argument for the design of a new (public) health care system needs to be made – for a focus upon the BOP.
Disease Management Care Blog: The DMCB’s Principles for Healthcare Reform
Chronic illness is a significant source of health care’s cost increases. Imperfect options to slow the rate of increase [...]

Disease Management

Disease management (health) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Disease management is the concept of reducing healthcare costs and/or improving quality of life for individuals with chronic disease conditions by preventing or minimizing the effects of a disease, usually a chronic condition, through integrative care. It is also often known as: demand management, health management programs, or [...]

Medical Management Model

BCG Health Care Publications
As medical costs continue to rise, health care insurers are taking a fresh look at medical management to contain costs. With today’s approaches more sophisticated, insurers and their health plans must make carefully balanced strategic choices to derive competitive advantage by enhancing their capabilities in this area. In this report, BCG reviews [...]

Monitoring Glycemic Control in India

The Lifescan glucometer is sold by Johnson and Johnson in India. I am not sure if this particular model is sold in India.
(Can someone tell me what it costs at a pharmacy in India? And is there a scheme to get subsidized glucometers and strips?)

The Context of the Srrvice Design for India is captured in [...]

Diabetes Service Model

I have made two maps to illustrate the Service Model for Diabetes Care. One is the OVERVIEW – picture of the parts of the service, namely the service system (registration, subscription etc), the care system and the product system and the other is the ‘functions’ or the list of expertise that are included in the [...]

Diabetes Service

I imagine system for the individual diabetic – much like the mobile phone – that arrives at the home. Is accessed from the home, the person of the diabetic, at a price similar to that of mobile phone provision – Rs. 25 for a lifetime of access to a service. The service – set up [...]

E Health classification

eHealth – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
eHealth (also written e-health) is a relatively recent term for healthcare practice which is supported by electronic processes and communication. The term is inconsistently used: some would argue it is interchangeable with health care informatics and a sub set of Health informatics, while others use it in the narrower sense [...]

Designing new health services

Designing an improved health service – Press releases – NESTA
Designing an improved health service03/08/2005
“Designers have mindsets that are constantly seeking ways of creating something new.”
The companies, who have been supported by NESTA’s Creative Pioneer Programme, have now published their findings in a new NHS Report, Designs on Health 2005 (PDF, 1.72MB).
Ideas include using community hubs [...]