Chronic Disease Medication Management Between Office Visits
University of Washington
James Ralston, M.D., M.P.H.
The Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Team Biographies
What Was Accomplished
To shift the organization of health care towards patients’ needs, the team from the University of Washington designed a PHR system that allows people with diabetes to record their blood glucose levels, blood pressure, food intake and exercise levels and quickly upload these readings wirelessly over a cell phone to their health care provider. Providers will review the information and sync it with the patient’s electronic medical record, providing feedback and counsel as needed. In testing the concept of a health record shared between patients and health care providers, the team is developing and testing a web-based application with extension onto a cell phone. An integration warehouse serves as data repository and reporting engine. The team has partnered with colleagues at the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine (NST) in Tromso, Norway and with Sujansky & Associates to test interoperability of the Common Platform for mobile phone self-monitoring and user feedback of blood glucose levels. The collaborators demonstrated the utility of the Common Platform for capturing and sharing person-level data.
Artifacts
To download any of these documents, view the 2006-08 Teams' Artifacts page.
- Design and Component Information - Document provides basic information about the design and components of the "Medication Management Between Office Visit" tool
- Papers and Presentations - Listing of papers and presentations about the "Medication Management Between Office Visits" project by the University of Washington team
- Presentation Slides Handout - June 2008 project status from the Project HealthDesign Showcase
- Congressional Diabetes Caucus Newsletter - December 2008 edition mentions the tool
- Journal Article - Designing mobile dietary management support technologies for people with diabetes. "Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare." Volume 14, Number 7, 2008
