Project Details
Project Details
Goals:
· To create an active, effective and long-term diabetes education project through cellular SMS texting and other information avenues to promote healthy living habits, carbohydrate counting, medication information, reminders for blood-glucose testing and other related information or community diabetes events
· Perform research on the effectiveness of the above service in a remote and rural First Nations context
· Explore and develop the necessary infrastructure within existing mobile networks of KM and DMTS to send diabetes-information texts to a greater number of First Nations patients and caregivers
· Explore and develop a software interface for health-care providers to send both texts and emails through a computer terminal
Objectives of the Pilot
· Create a pilot project in interested communities where community wellness workers can send educational diabetes texts to a group of patients (2010/2011)
· Conduct research with KORI to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot and diabetes text messaging (2010/2011)
