Monitoring diabetes

“Comparison of mobile monitoring devices for patients with diabetes”

Table of Contents
1.1 Structure of the thesis 7
1.2 Study Background 7
1.2.1 Concept of Mobile Health 7
1.2.2 Mobile devices in Health care 8
1.3 Problem statement 10
1.4 Value, goal and scope 10
1.5 Diabetes mellitus 11
1.6 Prevalence 12
1.6.1 Population division 16
1.6.2 Methods and equipment to control diabetes 17
1.7 Aims and objectives 18
2.1 Introduction 19
2.2 Purpose of Research 19
2.3 Research Design 20
2.4 Research Approaches 20
2.4.1 Quantitative approach 20
Experimental approach 21
Simulation approach 21
2.4.2 Qualitative approach 21
2.5 Selected Methodology 21
2.6 Procedure 22
2.7 Methodology for mobile monitoring devices search 23
2.8 Reliability 24
2.9 Limitation 25
2.10 Summary 25
3.1 Introduction 26
3.2 Literature Research Results 26
3.2.1 Importance of Cell Phones in Health Care 26
3.3 Study of different diabetes monitoring systems 28
3.3.1 Overview of selected mobile patient monitoring systems 28
3.3.2 Yale-NASA mobile patient monitoring system 30
3.3.3 AID-N mobile patient monitoring system 30
3.3.4 PHM mobile patient monitoring system 31
3.3.5 CMS mobile patient monitoring system 32
3.3.6 NTU mobile patient monitoring system 34
3.3.7 MH mobile patient monitoring system 35
3.4 Mobile networks 36
3.4.1 Wireless networks 36
3.4.2 eHealth services and wireless communication 37
3.4.3 Setting up a mobile network for diabetes patients 37
3.4.4 Framework for parameters of mobile monitoring devices 40
3.4.5 Combining the information in the network 41
3.4.6 Patient monitoring framework 41
3.5 eMedic and mHealth 43
3.6 eMedic Case Study 45
4.1 Introduction 49
4.2 Discussion 49
4.2.1 Benefits to the Health System from the Application of Cell Phones in Health Care 49
Development of Diabetes Registries: 49
Easy access to data for monitoring 51
Controlling the disease 51
4.2.2 The limitations of

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