Abstract:

Developing countries face steady growth in the occurrence of chronic illnesses, along with a continued burden of the health practitioner confronted with increasingly complex patient data. Moreover, patients’ also face disappointment due to lack of contact between office visits. Hence, innovative application of mobile technology on health care delivery and monitoring offer great promise for improving the quality of life. This study concentrates on determining how information visualization use in mobile diabetic self-care management can effectively improve patient health. The focal point of the study is to establish a standard guideline of icon and color-coded use in mobile diabetic self-care management and to examine the stakeholders’ requirements to support effective knowledge transfer by using the system. The qualitative research technique will be adopted as a methodology use in this research. In this scenario, stakeholders consist of practitioners and diabetic patients will be involved directly in focus group interviews, observations and prototype development. The result is expected to support the reliable, effective and validated model required for mobile visualization for diabetic self-care management system consequently will improve the quality of life of diabetic patients while larger social and health care implications will be reflected upon.