DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MOBILE DIABETES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

This paper describes a universal Mobile Diabetes Management and Internetworking System - MDMIS. The MDMIS system aims to improve diabetes control by providing a portable, secure and ubiquitous diabetes management service for both diabetics and medical providers. MDMIS is composed of a medical control centre, patient stations, physician stations, medical administration stations, and system maintenance stations. A patient station collects blood glucose measurements autonomously from a Bluetooth empowered glucose meter and transmits the data to the medical centre via internetworking communications. The medical centre of the system provides powerful services to both patients and physicians, such as updating user information and medication plans, sideeffects reporting, blood glucose analysis and alarming, and medicines management. These services can be accessible by patients and physicians through a simple interface from variable devices powered by different operating systems. The security issues of MDMIS are also addressed briefly.