Diabetes Mellitus requires regular monitoring to effectively reduce the risk of complications and improve the quality of life of the patient. The management of chronic diseases such as diabetes plays an important role in their prevention. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays an important role in general healthcare delivery and management, and the use of online systems in the monitoring of patients is considered an important tool in facilitating improvements in diabetes care; hence, a design of an online support system was done for diabetes management. This paper presents the development of an online support system for diabetes management which allows a diabetes patient to provide detailed information regarding treatment regimens such as blood glucose level at regular intervals, blood pressure level, and the food intake among others. The scheduler module of the system uses a flexible scheduler algorithm based on the First-come-First Serve basis. The system was designed using HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL.

The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) promises many benefits, but may be prone to a new phenomenon in healthcare fraud now rapidly drawing attention and commonly referred to as medical identity theft. As the medical industry continues down the path towards overall infrastructure digitization, it is anticipated that associated electronic records will become more portable hence facilitating efficient exchange. Problem however is, the enhanced transferability may also open a new vista of advantages to fraudsters. To address this risk, the NHIN implementers must implement stringent access control measures. One such solution is using a biometric cryptosystem-based solution. For defense-in-depth, a security strategy suggesting successive layers of controls, the PKI cryptographic scheme is recommended to intrinsically protect medical records when in use, storage or even in the event they are successfully stolen.

The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) promises many benefits, but may be prone to a new phenomenon in healthcare fraud now rapidly drawing attention and commonly referred to as medical identity theft. As the medical industry continues down the path towards overall infrastructure digitization, it is anticipated that associated electronic records will become more portable hence facilitating efficient exchange. Problem however is, the enhanced transferability may also open a new vista of advantages to fraudsters. To address this risk, the NHIN implementers must implement stringent access control measures. One such solution is using a biometric cryptosystem-based solution. For defense-in-depth, a security strategy suggesting successive layers of controls, the PKI cryptographic scheme is recommended to intrinsically protect medical records when in use, storage or even in the event they are successfully stolen.