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Front. Endocrinol.
Sec. Clinical Diabetes
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2024.1469471
This article is part of the Research Topic Digital Technology in the Management and Prevention of Diabetes View all 9 articles

The Critical Elements of Digital Health in Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Care

Provisionally accepted
Mansur Shomali Mansur Shomali 1*Pablo Mora Pablo Mora 2*Grazia Aleppo Grazia Aleppo 3*Malinda Peeples Malinda Peeples 1*Abhimanyu Kumbara Abhimanyu Kumbara 1*Janice MacLeod Janice MacLeod 4,5Anand Iyer Anand Iyer 1*
  • 1 WellDoc, Inc., Columbia, MD, United States
  • 2 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
  • 3 Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • 4 Other, Glen Burnie, United States
  • 5 Janice MacLeod, Glen Burnie, United States

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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.

    Keywords: diabetes, Digital Health, artificial intelligence, Connected Health, digital therapeutics. Self-management, quintuple aim

    Received: 23 Jul 2024; Accepted: 23 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Shomali, Mora, Aleppo, Peeples, Kumbara, MacLeod and Iyer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Mansur Shomali, WellDoc, Inc., Columbia, MD, MD 21044, United States
    Pablo Mora, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, 75390, Texas, United States
    Grazia Aleppo, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, 60611, Illinois, United States
    Malinda Peeples, WellDoc, Inc., Columbia, MD, MD 21044, United States
    Abhimanyu Kumbara, WellDoc, Inc., Columbia, MD, MD 21044, United States
    Anand Iyer, WellDoc, Inc., Columbia, MD, MD 21044, United States

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