Apps You and Your Patients With Diabetes Should Know

The trend toward real-time digitization of primary disease management continues to increase. Major reasons for this trend are that digitization can enable increased awareness of current patient health status, adherence to a treatment plan, and closer patient follow-up. Nowhere has this trend been more embraced than in the management of diabetes. Mobile applications (apps) have evolved to play a meaningful role in chronic disease management. Moreover, as diabetes-focused foot care is essential to helping people with diabetes avoid common and preventable complications such as wounds and lower extremity amputations (LEAs), a growing number of foot health-specific apps can aid in the management of this population … read more