Cloud-based diabetes coaching platform for diabetes management

Diabetes, and its expensive, life-threating consequences has become a global chronic disease crisis. Management of the disease is well understood, but poor patient compliance is very common. Wireless diabetes monitoring can engage physicians, but the cost and burden of such intervention is prohibitive. This paper describes an innovative, low-cost, cloud-based diabetes coaching support system being piloted in several countries. Many nations are using diabetes coaches, but those coaches rely on phone calls, patient self-reporting, and time-consuming home visits. This new method leverages ubiquitous, low-cost cloud-based diabetes monitoring to empower trained diabetes coaches to implement interventions escalated by clinical protocol.