This project intends to provide a sustainable
service care to residential and mobile diabetic patients
aiming to increase the quality of patient's care through
improving communication between patients and caregivers.
M2DM incorporates new telemedicine services that emphasise
the provision of personal health services 24 hours a day
and provides new means to information access to physicians
and patients. A Multi-Access Server (MAS) is defined in
the project comprising a full range of non-expensive and
widely accepted information technologies offering to users
a universal, easy-to-use, on-line and cost-effective access
to telemedicine and information services. M2DM provides
the capability of effectively managing the knowledge necessary
for the complex and distributed process of chronic disease
care, providing technological instruments and infrastructures
to give the right knowledge to the right people in the
right form at the right time.
M2DM aims at providing diabetic patients
and health care providers with a Multi-Access service
with the goal of increasing the quality of care through
improving communication between patients and caregivers.
A Multi-Access Server has been defined in the project,
comprising a full range of non-expensive and widely accepted
information technologies, offering to users a universal,
easy-to-use, on-line and cost-effective access to telemedicine
and information services. This server is based on Computer
Telephony Interfaces and Web-based technology. A distinguished
feature of M2DM is its capability of managing the knowledge
necessary for Diabetes Management; its final goal is therefore
be the provision of the right knowledge to the right people
at the right time. Several advanced methods for data analysis,
evidence and knowledge pooling and knowledge management
have been investigated in the project, and finally integrated
in the Multi-Access services. Moreover, the services have
been customized to meet the needs of final users by exploiting
the knowledge management approach studied in the project.
M2DM comprises both technical and clinical partners that
participate in the design and development of the overall
system.
