Gluconet monitors diabetes by Text messaging

There are two million diabetics in France, of whom 10 percent have type 1 diabetes.

To facilitate transmission of glucose information between patients and physicians, France Telecom uses the Orange GSM cellular network to send data to a secure server that contains patient files. Physicians are thus able to easily check the files and send appropriate medical advice to individual patients via SMS text messages, according to a France Telecom press release.

Initial tests of this service began with a group of ten patients in Grenoble over a three-month period. Given the positive results, clinical trials involving several dozen patients and five attending physicians at the Grenoble and Toulouse university hospitals began in April 2003.

emily | 12:08 AM | Health Issues and SMS Alerts |
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