An Interactive Health Caregivers System for Diabetic Patients

Abstract

To reinforce the mutual healthcare communication between diabetic patients and caregivers, we designed and implemented a novel Interactive Health Caregivers System (IHCS) with push-pull operations. This system is expected to improve the self-care quality of diabetic patients. IHCS located in a GPRS environment could establish the mutual communication between medical communication medical devices and caregivers, thereby creating a healthcare system based on push-pull operations. This study adopted the push-pull technique for controlling signals, actively turning on medical devices, and performing mobile healthcare functions that are authorized by users. This system, with numerous enhanced functions specifically designed for healthcare purposes, could respond to many emergent scenarios. The proposed IHCS was built by making use of existing medical devices (e.g., GPRS blood glucose meter) and coupled with the integration with cloud platforms and telecare Android apps.