Mobile tele-medicine systems in the multidisciplinary approach of diabetes management : the remote prevention of diabetes complications.

ABSTRACT

AIM: Evaluation of feasibility and reliability of Mobile-Telemedicine Systems (M-TS) in the remote prevention of diabetes related complications. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A feasibility-reliability evaluation based on a simulating experimentation by ten specialists (N=10) who examined a diabetic patient on the electronic space of a mobile experimental telemedicine system (MU-Exp.-TS). RESULTS: I. Remote prevention of diabetic foot and other diabetes related complications is feasible (acceptability 89-100%). II. Remote ulcer classification and diabetic foot amputation risk estimation Accuracy=89%. CONCLUSION: The proposed MU-TS based multidisciplinary approach and prevention of diabetes related complications is feasible while that of diabetic foot is both feasible and reliable.