A Mobile Telemedicine Workspace for Diabetes Management

In Western societies, diabetes and its complications is still causing a tremendous amount of suffering in over 5% of the population and remains a major health problem being responsible of up to 8% of national health care expenditure (Waldhäusl, 2001). Diabetes is a chronic disease characterised by a sustained elevated blood glucose level, caused by a reduction in the action of insulin secretion where related metabolic disturbances generate severe, acute and long-term complications that are responsible for premature death and disability (de Leiva et al. , 1995).