Smart phones, a new weapon against diabetes?

Afther 13 years from the firsth iphone and more of 20 years from the IBM Simon, we can see a world of infinity oportunities with this tecnology, a example of that is a new article abaut Mobile-Phone App to Support Self-Management in Australians with Diabetes

Digital behavioural change interventions have the potential to provide education and motivate users to regularly engage with self-management of diabetes. 

The development of My Care Hub involved a comprehensive process of healthy behavioural change identification, end users' needs, expert consensus, data security and privacy considerations

Twelve respondents provided feedback on the usability of the app. Initially, a simplification of the documentation features of the app was identified as a need to improve usability. Overall, results indicated good user satisfaction rate.

Emerging evidence support the use of smartphone apps for diabetes self-management.

There remains paucity of information in relation to the description of the development processes and design of smartphone apps interventions, leaving unanswered questions about how to productively leverage apps for diabetes self-management. Adequate description of the development of interventions could decrease waste in health research and enhance better organized synthesis of study results. This is recordatory about how new technologies can give us a better life.

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