A software tool that provides relevant information for diabetic patients to help prevent diabetic foot[i][u][/u][/i]
Journal Title: IOSR Journals (IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering) - Year 2014, Vol 16, Issue 2
Abstract
Abstract: This project proposes a tool which can be very useful for diabetic patients for preventing diabetic foot. 347 million people worldwide have diabetes and 15% of them have the chance of developing diabetic foot. This can result in Amputation of limbs. This can be prevented by educating patients about the dangers of developing diabetic foot. The software provides the patients with suggestions for their current condition. The traditional way of managing diabetes and diabetic foot is to consult a doctor. But for people who are living in remote villages, where doctor is not available in the vicinity, it is difficult to consult the doctor in short intervals. The proposed tool will allow diabetic patients to get assistance without personally having to consult the doctor. So the proposed tool gives great advantage over the existing system. Many of the existing systems such as clinical decision support systems (CDSS) provide the patient with diagnosis details only. Example for this is simulconsult, diagnosispro, visualdx etc. That means when a patient provides the symptoms to the tool, the tool will determine which disease that patient is having. The proposed system concentrates mainly in post diagnosis phase of diabetic patients in particular. Moreover many other tools which exist currently provide the patient only with reminders. Reminders can be of the form of notification to take medicines which is prescribed to the diabetic patient. The proposed system differs itself by providing the diabetic patient with suggestions which is relevant to him or her. The suggestions are specific to the answer provided by the patient. The tool also tries to identify situations where the attention of a doctor is required. It also gives the provision to make an appointment with a doctor. This allows the doctor to personally assist those patients whose conditions are critical. The less critical patients can use this tool to get the necessary suggestions and advices to manage their diabetes. This tool can be use by either the patients who will get relevant suggestions according to the answers they have given for the test cases and it can be used by health professionals to provide new and useful information regarding the disease condition and update any new findings or information to help better serve the patient.
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Shebin S, , Mallikarjunaswamy S
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