http://www.manyone.net/dip/ You now have a partner organization who can reach our President.This is part of the Obama Angels Network. Please join if you have diabetes and encourage those at risk or diabetic. This is a National effort to combat this disease.
Diabetes has become an epidemic and the rate of diabetes incidence is continually rising. It was estimated in the year 2006 that about 21 million Americans had diabetes with an incidence increasing rate of 14% and that about 41 million Americans were pre-diabetic. In 2002, the cost of diabetes to the United States was $132 billion. Diabetes is mainly managed by the patient; a large amount of knowledge including clinical, technical and data interpretation skills must be acquired in order for the patient to successfully self-manage diabetes. Many diabetes knowledge sources exist. These sources can be classified depending on the intended recipient of the information, information medium, the cost to access information, ease of accessibility, and information structure. Currently, we have various technologies and media to represent diabetes knowledge. However, diabetes knowledge is dispersed, weakly structured, hard to find or access, or inefficiently utilizes the Internet. We need a universal, comprehensive web-based knowledge portal for diabetics, healthcare professionals, and the interested general public. Moreover, information need to be delivered via the easiest and most effective means, including knowledge navigation maps, simulation, and animation. By implementing a web-based diabetes knowledge portal, diabetes prevention measures can be improved, government expenditure on diabetes complications can be reduced, and millions—if not billions—of dollars may be saved each year. For the last eighteen months, we have been developing the informatics foundations and concepts for the Diabetes Information Portal, published in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology 2008:
Posted By: Marta Fernandez
Thursday, March 5th 2009 at 11:22AM
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