Abstract—Intensive treatment of type 2 diabetes can respond
as a considerable decrease in the complications related to
diabetes. In spite of specialist care there are still many patients
that have poor control over their diabetes and the chronic
nature of type 2 diabetes makes patients dependent on their
care providers. In Type 2 diabetes patients require
empowerment and self-management for initial and long term
treatment. The required transfer of care from health care
providers to patients needs an intervention of computerized
decision support systems. In widespread health care practice
the interventions that have demonstrated effective results in the
management of chronic and/or progressive diseases have often
been difficult to develop because of disease nature. The paper
describes a web based intelligent decision support system (IDSS)
for type 2 diabetes patients, where more emphasis is put on
patient empowerment and self-management in treatment. The
IDSS is based on well documented decision support system,
designed mainly for type 2 diabetes patients. The scope of IDSS
is broad from being mainly used by type 2 diabetes patients as a
tool for their empowerment, self-management, communication,
and education.
Index Terms—Exercise, IDSS, selfmanagement, type 2
diabetes, web application
The author is with Tampere University of Technology, Finland (e-mail:
farrukhsahar@yahoo.com).
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Cite:F. Sahar, "Web Based Intelligent Decision Support System for Type 2
Diabetes Patients," International Journal of Engineering and Technology vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 527-531, 2013.
