Diabetes Home Data Manager

The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) has shown that tight metabolic control can reduterm complications of diabetes. Blood glucose monitoring at home, combined with frequent communicatiinformation to health care providers, can help improve patients' diabetes self-management and metaboDiabetes Home Data Manager is a system that transmits patient home monitoring measures to a centralare immediately compiled into reports and transmitted to health care providers by modem or fax. Patisystem have software that displays their own measures in graphs and in an interactive, educational scan be used this way for other conditions--such as asthma and hypertension--that require home monitowill evaluate the impact of the system on patients' attitudes and medical outcomes in a four-month cindividuals who have insulin-dependent diabetes and are age 10 or older. If the Diabetes Home Data Mdoctor-patient communication, increases patient satisfaction, and improves health outcomes, the systbe utilized by managed care and other providers who want to reduce costs and improve the quality andhealth care.