Mobile and smartphone (mHealth) technologies have the potential to improve diabetes care and self-management, but little is known about their effectiveness and how patients, providers, and payers currently interact with them. We conducted a systematic review and found only 20 peerreviewed articles, published since 2010, with robust evidence about the
It is well known that the United States is facing an obesity epidemic and the long-term sequela are costly. Researchers continue the search for effective weight loss interventions that can be applied in outpatient settings but these are often time consuming and resource intensive, requiring repeated counseling . It is
Numerous diabetes-management systems and programs for improving glycemic control to meet guideline targets have been proposed, using IT technology. But all of them allow only limited—or no—real-time interaction between patients and the system in terms of system response to patient input; few studies have effectively assessed the systems’ usability and