Mobile health interventions: No silver bullet for diabetes patients, says study

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 12:51 in Health & Medicine

November 14 is World Diabetes Day. Globally about 442 million people live with this chronic condition, most of them in low-income countries, where health systems often function poorly. As they are not equipped to follow-up on patients or improve the quality of care, chronic disease management largely falls under the responsibility of the patients. One expert says that much-touted mobile technologies for self-management alone will not solve the problem.

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