A Communication and Information Technology Infrastructure for Real Time Monitoring and Management of Type 1 Diabetes Patients

This paper is focused on the integration of state-of-the-art technologies in the fields of telecommunications, simulation algorithms, and data mining in order to develop a type 1 diabetes patient´s semi to fully-automated monitoring and management system. The main components of the system are a glucose measurement device, an insulin delivery system (insulin injection or insulin pumps), a mobile phone for the GPRS network, and a PDA or laptop for the Internet. In the medical environment, appropriate infrastructure for storage, analysis and visualizing of patients´ data has been implemented to facilitate treatment design by health care experts.