Providing patient centric healthcare to diabetic patients using D-Care recommender system

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is one of the severe diseases prevailing in developing countries like India. High level of sugar in blood and urine leads to diabetes which damages the kidneys, eyes, nerves, blood vessels, heart with potential risk of life threat if not cured in time. Diabetes can be prevented with physical exercises, work out, and healthy diet. Diabetes can also be cured if detected in early stages. However, in today's busy life people tend to ignore physical activity and take unhealthy food causing high glucose level in blood. Patients are generally diagnosed with diabetes in late stages due to which it becomes challenging to cure the disease. To prevent and detect the diabetes in early stages, a solution is needed which can integrated with user's day-to-day life and can continuously monitor their diet/fold and physical activities. In this paper, we are proposing cloud-based recommender system/engine which will further integrate with user's smartphone and wearable devices to prevent diabetes by recommending healthy lifestyle and diet to diabetic patients.