Diabetes Digital Coach: Developing an Infrastructure for e-Health Self-Management Tools

Abstract

The Diabetes Digital Coach is one of two United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS) Innovate UK supported 'Internet of Things' (IoT) Test Beds focused specifically on implementing interconnected digital innovations in health and social care. The test bed will provide the infrastructure for mobile health self-management tools including patient education, wearable sensors and supporting applications and services so that people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes 'do the right thing at the right time' to self-manage their condition. The Diabetes Digital Coach Test Bed aims to enroll 12,000 people with diabetes in the West of England region over a two year period. This paper outlines the digital innovations being deployed in the test bed and describes the solution architecture underpinning the Diabetes Digital Coach platform. The data collected from the testbed will be further aggregated and processed through an analytics platform, which will be used to identify at risk patients, improve work force planning and enable a more stratified approach to patient care.