Diabetes Management in Home Telecare
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This paper discusses the use of the UNSW/MedCare home telecare systems as a diabetes management tool. The home telecare system (HTS) has demonstrated its performance in storing and measuring clinical data, scheduling actions, plotting graphs and creating reports to help the care team optimize the management of chronically ill patients (7). The existing home telecare systems has been upgraded and further programmed for the recording of blood glucose measurements (BGL), insulin injection doses, hypoglycemic episodes, dietary intake, and exercise activity. Furthermore, based on those data the system will estimate future blood glucose levels and provide recommendations on insulin doses to bring BGLs within recommended levels.
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