Patient Education Technology: MySugr Diabetes Logbook

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Scenario

Mrs. Sanders is a 45-year-old female recently diagnosed with type-2 diabetes.
She has a family history of diabetes and worries that she will not be able to manage the disease.
Mrs. Sanders has a college degree and has proficiency using technological devices due to her profession as a manager at a technology firm.
She has trouble with maintaining a healthy weight and overeating, which will be detrimental to managing blood sugar levels with diabetes.
Mrs. Sanders feels like she can manage her blood sugar if she knows the accurate information, as well as has a structured way to manage the readings.
With an abundance of mobile applications, she is unsure which one to select.

Name: MySugr Diabetes Logbook.
Purpose: Tracking and managing critical health information related to diabetes treatment.
Intended audience: Patients diagnosed with diabetes, particularly type 2.
Mobile device(s) upon which it will operate: Tablets and smartphones running the iOS or Android operating systems.
Where to download or obtain it: Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

Interface: The dashboard is polished to provide an immediate overview of critical information and readings.
Usability: Helps track a variety of readings besides blood sugar. The app allows tracking weight, blood pressure, oral medication, and even daily activity.
The application allows for customization to show or hide important fields pertinent to the patients therapy (Johnson, 2015).
Favorite Thing: Can be used in combination with other apps such as Apple Health to carry over calories or activities.
Favorite Thing: The company releases additional apps that ceaselessly connect with the primary app to send blood sugar readings directly from the glucometer or to provide diabetes education (MySugr, n.d.).

Patient able to keep track of post-meal and daily blood sugar levels.
The application offers reminders on when to measure vitals.
In combination with other data, the patient is able to see lifestyle effects on blood sugar.
The application offers alerts and insights when readings are abnormal.

Johnson, S. (2015). The new mySugr app 3.0 is here! Web.

MySugr. (n.d.). Apps. Web.