Use of Gamified Social Media with Home Telemonitoring for Patient Self-Management in Poorly Controlled Medicaid Diabetics: A Pilot Study of Health Outcomes, Social Influences, and Habit Formation

Abstract

This paper summarizes a poster which presents an overview of a proposed healthcare study. The study is aimed to motivate patients, enhance patient self-care of diabetes and improve health outcomes. This study proposes to evaluate the effectiveness of a gamified social media app with a competitive game element in conjunction with home remote patient monitoring (the proposed technology intervention) in a sample of Medicaid diabetic patients with poorly controlled diabetes.