Telemedicine is the best automated-version of a support tool for those suffering from diabetes. It helps in facilitating the best decisions by health care providers and patients. There are systems designed to set up various types of subjective and objective data to manage diabetes which includes:
- Blood glucose levels, blood pressure and consistent glucose levels
- Lipid levels or Haemoglobin A1C
- Dietary consumption and workout patterns
- Dosage of medicines, allergies and related history
- Hypoglycaemia
- Hospitalisations, emergency room visits, ophthalmology visits, clinical appointments and vaccines
- Images of wounds, retina and other structure
This way, a physician or a midlevel health practitioner can connect with the patient either on an automatic instant basis or regularly depending on the situation. The images of foot wounds or retinal assessments can be transmitted to a specialist consultant residing at a remote location from a generalist office. there are scenarios when the images of the foot for remote transmission can be gathered by patients at home on their own. The images can be assessed either by a physician or in real-time through measurements or by specialist consultants remotely.