DiaHealth: A smart app for complete diabetes lifestyle management

Abstract

Worldwide the number of diabetes patient is increasing and the rate is alarming in countries with low and middle income. Medication of a diabetes patient still costly which leads to high mortality in developing and low income countries. Considering the fact that diabetes is a non-curable disease, prevention and management is a big deal. However, proper lifestyle management requires awareness, knowledge and care. Information and Communication technology has made life easier as information can be found more easily. Smartphone based applications are also becoming more popular as prices are lowering every day. Sharing knowledge, creating awareness, disease management and even diagnosis is possible using smartphone applications. In this article we discussed possible solution of diabetes management and prevention through mobile application and also presented our intelligent application, DiaHealth for diabetes management and prevention. To do this, we added recent trends of diabetes based mobile application and compared DiaHealth with other popular applications. Then detailed feature is given in a structured manner. With the technological advancement, we believe DiaHealth will shed light to diabetes patients to manage their health and life style, consequently it will prevent health consequence and reduce healthcare cost.