Low-cost, scalable, comprehensive online self-management platform for people with diabetes.
Low-cost, scalable, comprehensive online self-management platform for people with diabetes.
Summary:
MyDiabetesMyWay (MDMW) is an web-based platform/ smartphone app for people with diabetes, tethered to the healthcare system. MDMW has run nationally, since 2008, across NHS Scotland, and is implemented in 20% of NHS England through MyWay Digital Health. MDMW has >60,000 registrants (full data access) and more than 500,000 unique users (education platform); utilising >250 multimedia educational resources, including >100 non-english language resources, and 7 x fully (QISMET) accredited structured education e-learning courses for type 1, type 2, gestational diabetes and diabetes prevention.
MDMW integrates with NHS records through linkages with GP, other NHS IT systems, and home-recorded data through device integrations (blood glucose, activity data) and manual data input (including blood pressure/ weight). MDMW enables remote communication with health care providers (secure messaging) and drives highly tailored advice and reports (data-algorithms). MDMW improves health outcomes (HbA1C, weight and blood pressure) with significant cost savings (ROI~ 5:1).
MyWay Digital Health has developed a complimentary clinician and population analytics solution (MyDiabetes Clinical), a diabetes electronic health record, remote communication platform encompassing clinician-facing decision support (improving guideline adherence), national KPI tracking, local audit functionality and predictive analytics for diabetes complications, health deterioration, diagnosis at individual/ population level.
Challenge/problem identified:
Diabetes is a growing health problem affecting 9% of the global population. Diabetes spending will consume around 17% of the NHS budget by 2025. People with diabetes only spend a few hours per year with healthcare professionals. The rest of the time they self manage. ePatient education, empowerment, feedback, motivation and flexible access to healthcare staff can reduce costly long-term complications, clinic visits, hospitalisations and death, allowing people to live longer and healthier lives with reduced care costs.
Impact:
*Based on a recent evaluation survey of 1,098 MDMW users
**Based on a recent evaluation of clinical outcomes using time-series analytics comparing the HbA1c recordings of intervention and control cohorts
Fellow: Deborah Wake
self-care and education
primary care and urgent care
safety, quality and efficiency within hospitals
self-care and education
earlier intervention and diagnostics
primary care and urgent care
self-care and education