Title: CHALLENGES OF DIABETES CARE & THE ROLE OF TELEMEDICINE

Biography:

Dr Sania Bashir, is a dedicated, organized, and self-motivated individual with good interpersonal skills and a mature team working skills along with a willingness to learn and develop new skills. She is reliable and often seeks new responsibilities within a wide range of employment areas. Working for Diabetes Patients is her passion, for this, she established an organization “Diabetes TeleCare” that is providing 24/7 online services as well as providing complete education to diabetes patients.

Abstract

Diabetes, Global burden of 537 million adults with the continuous increase of its incidence and prevalence, and it is estimated that if the pattern of rising remains the same then after 25 years it will involve 783 million people. Sedentary lifestyle, urbanization, aging population, an increase in obesity ratio being the highest risk factor. Such an increase in prevalence becomes challenging for health care practitioners to manage every patient on an individualized basis. Currently, Diabetes care is facing many challenges, and to overcome these challenges, there was a need for increased communication between clinicians and patients, customization of care, and increased collaboration among them that become helpful in improving health outcomes and preventing diabetes complications Digital health is a convergence of health care and technology in which integration of collected data by using software and apps, the emergence of modern models of care, driven by the ubiquity of mobile devices, provide better information, offer low cost with best possible outcomes. Telemedicine is the “Exchange of medical information with the use of electric communication for improving patient’s health status" according to the American telemedicine association. It is an extended term of medical care remotely by the use of audiovisual communications. It includes the transmission of patient data and its remote interpretation for follow-up along with preventive intervention The fact cannot deny that patient-physician interaction plays an essential role in improving health outcomes and preventing long-term complications. Telemedicine proved its role in Diabetes Management and it promises to become a Novel 21st-century tool for better communication between clinicians and patients in a cost-effective manner.