Empowering community health workers with mobile technology to treat diabetes

S Duffy, J Svenson, A Chavez, M Kelly… - The Annals of Family …, 2019 - Annals Family Med
We designed and implemented a clinical decision support application (app) for smartphones
to enable lay community health workers (CHWs) to manage diabetes in rural Guatemala …

Using community health workers and a smartphone application to improve diabetes control in rural Guatemala

S Duffy, D Norton, M Kelly, A Chavez… - … Health: Science and …, 2020 - ghspjournal.org
Background: The global prevalence of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980. Seventy-
five percent of patients with diabetes live in low-and middle-income countries, such as …

A patient-designed do-it-yourself mobile technology system for diabetes: promise and challenges for a new era in medicine

JM Lee, E Hirschfeld, J Wedding - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
The US health care system has typically embraced a top-down model of health production,
in which largescale organizations, such as pharmaceutical or medical device companies or …

Mobile Health Intervention in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Clinical Trial

BS Gerber, A Biggers, JJ Tilton, DES Marsh… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Clinical pharmacists and health coaches using mobile health (mHealth) tools,
such as telehealth and text messaging, may improve blood glucose levels in African …

Mobile health (mHealth) for diabetes care: opportunities and challenges

F Fatehi, LC Gray, AW Russell - Diabetes technology & therapeutics, 2017 - liebertpub.com
The number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled since 1980, affecting more than 400
million people worldwide, and is estimated to increase to 642 million by 2040. 1, 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Development of an information system and mobile application for the care of type 2 diabetes patients at the primary care level for the health sector in Mexico …

NC Barengo, LM Apolinar, NA Estrada Cruz… - Trials, 2022 - Springer
Background Providing optimal care for type 2 diabetes (DM2) patients remains a challenge
for all healthcare systems. Patients often encounter various barriers in adhering to self …

[HTML][HTML] Smartphone-enabled health coach intervention for people with diabetes from a modest socioeconomic strata community: single-arm longitudinal feasibility …

N Wayne, P Ritvo - Journal of medical Internet research, 2014 - jmir.org
Background Lower socioeconomic strata (SES) populations have higher chronic disease
risks. Smartphone-based interventions can support adoption of health behaviors that may, in …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation and evolution of diabetes mobile applications: key factors for health care professionals seeking to guide patients

RA Ristau, J Yang, JR White - Diabetes Spectrum, 2013 - Citeseer
According to statistics from 2011, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) estimates that
25.8 million children and adults in the United States have type 1 or type 2 diabetes. 1 …

Mobile phone diabetes project led to improved glycemic control and net savings for Chicago plan participants

S Nundy, JJ Dick, CH Chou, RS Nocon, MH Chin… - Health …, 2014 - healthaffairs.org
Even with the best health care available, patients with chronic illnesses typically spend no
more than a few hours a year in a health care setting, while their outcomes are largely …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic medical assessment, referral and treatment for diabetes care in China using lay family health promoters: protocol for the SMARTDiabetes cluster …

D Peiris, L Sun, A Patel, M Tian, B Essue, S Jan… - Implementation …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) affects 113.9 million people in China, the
largest number of any country in the world (JAMA 310: 948–59, 2013). T2DM prevalence …