Self-Managed Internet Based Individualized Risk Assessor for Malaysian Diabetes Population

Abstract

Diabetes risk education is the foundation in diabetes management, and it requires individualization. Such individualization entails provision of relevant and prioritized information to patients. Many current consumer health information systems are capable of providing relevant information base on the patients medical records or history, risk assessment and information prioritization, are yet to be practiced. We have proposed a comprehensive Diabetes Risk Assessor (DRA ) through knowledge management (KM ) to score the risk and individualize priority of information for diabetic patients. Applying KM in healthcare system is nothing-supernatural constituent. Years of research and effort to implement KM been executed and it can be conclude that KM provides promising approach to a successful healthcare knowledge management system. The traditional healthcare patient-physician relationship now changed into dynamic means where the physicians able to treat the patient although separated by the geographical factor. KM also allows sharing of healthcare information between medical practitioners regardless of place and time. This paper described DRA a research project developing an internet base system to assist the diabetes patients in obtaining individualized health management in ensuring their health performance.