Recently, mobile health care has been applied to manage diabetes requiring self-management. Health care by mobile applications (apps) has a great advantage when applied to patients with diabetes; the adherence to self-management activities for diabetes can be improved through mobile apps. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared and approved the use of some mobile apps as medical devices for the management of diabetes since 2010. However, mobile apps may not be effective for all patients. We here report the effect of use of mobile-based diabetes care app (Healthy-note app) for 2 patients with diabetes, and discuss issues and strategies for effective mobile intervention. Further study is needed on improving patient's participation to increase the effect of management via a mobile app.

Citations

Citations to this article as recorded by  

• Data-Driven Carbohydrate Counting Accuracy Monitoring: A Personalized Approach
  Dbora Amorim, Francisco Miranda, Lus Ferreira, Carlos Abreu
  Procedia Computer Science.2022; 204: 900.     CrossRef
• Avaliação do aplicativo “Gestação” na perspectiva da semiótica: o olhar das gestantes
  Francisca Francisete de Sousa Nunes Queiroz, Christina César Praça Brasil, Raimunda Magalhães da Silva, Indara Cavalcante Bezerra, Patrícia Moreira Costa Collares, José Eurico de Vasconcelos Filho
  Ciência & Saúde Coletiva.2021; 26(2): 485.     CrossRef
• Mobile App for Simplifying Life With Diabetes: Technical Description and Usability Study of GlucoMan
  Kaspar S Schmocker, Fabian S Zwahlen, Kerstin Denecke
  JMIR Diabetes.2018; 3(1): e6.     CrossRef
• Effectiveness of mobile application for menstrual management of working women in Japan: randomized controlled trial and medical economic evaluation
  Mihyon Song, Hidenobu Kanaoka
  Journal of Medical Economics.2018; 21(11): 1131.     CrossRef