The critical elements of digital health in diabetes and cardiometabolic care
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Digital innovations provide novel opportunities to individualize a person’s care to best match their lifestyle needs and circumstances and to support them as they live their daily lives with diabetes. These innovations also serve to provide actionable data and insights for the care team giving them a “Webb telescope-like” view into their individual self-management journey, allowing them to see what cannot be seen during infrequent and limited office visits, thereby facilitating collaboration and communication to optimize the care plan on a timely basis. Technology advances are enabling diabetes care to transition from episodic, synchronous, primarily in-person care to include synchronous virtual care options and to continuous, on-demand, data-informed, asynchronous digital care better matching the demands of living with a relentless 24/7 chronic condition. In this paper we will discuss the critical elements and considerations in designing and implementing successful diabetes digital health tools in clinical practice.
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- Authors
- Shomali, M., Mora, P., Aleppo, G., Peeples, M., Kumbara, A., MacLeod, J., & Iyer, A.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Shomali, Mansur
- Venue
- Frontiers in Endocrinology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2024-09-16
- Volume
- 15
- Pages
- 1469471-1469471
- ISSN
- 1664-2392 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC11439689
- OpenAlex
- W4402808933
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 5
- FWCI
- 5.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Frontiers in Endocrinology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes Management and Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes Management and Research
- Keywords
- digital health, diabetes management, diabetes self-management, virtual care, continuous glucose monitoring, telemedicine, patient-clinician communication
- MeSH terms
- Self-Management, Digital Health, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes Mellitus, Humans, Telemedicine
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