**7. Conclusion**

**Figure 2.** Capabilities necessary for mobile diabetes management system for hospitals and health care centers.

personalization and have the possibility to download the contents.

gained result is a more practical.

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**6. Discussion**

system.

Experts in this research believed that proposed framework must be delivered through remote education to diabetes patients. Suitable remote education formats recommended in order of priority include imaging, audio, model questions and answers, and text tutorials. Patients on remote education should be able to search based on their needs, choice of content, and

The weakness of this project is that benefits of experts surveyed only from health information management, software and physician in diabetic research center fields. To design and implement more appropriate conceptual models, involved experts should be from various fields such as telecommunication and addressing various aspects are very helpful, and the

Nowadays real-time access to reliable and proper information in order to deliver continuous health care and increase quality of care is very much in demand. So in order to achieve this goal, interoperability and coordination among providers involved in patient treatment for exchange of health information is a critical need. Chronic disease management especially diabetes based on IT tools has impressive benefits and some challenges. In this chapter, diabetic management system is classified into two groups: agent-based system and nonagent-based

Better self-care, improved prevention, increased quality life style, and teleconsultation are most important benefits of nonagent-based systems. Also these systems confront some challenges. The use of agent systems as a modern technology to decrease these barriers and take full advantages of telemedicine is essential and health systems must move using agentbased applications. In the second group, some of the benefits of agent technology in teleme‐ dicine services delivery include providing immediate feedback to patients, promoting interaction of the patient with organization that provides remote health care, reinforcing their motivation for the use of telemedicine systems and patients, and clinicians focusing on

abnormal data that will prevent future occurrence of dangerous situations.

Application of electronic health systems for patient monitoring has significant advantages. The use of these tools in health care organizations needs to study about these technologies, compare their benefits and limitations, note to organizational resources including human, technical, financial; suitable planning, and affordability of these facilities. Determining and decreasing challenges and identifying opportunities that affect on successful implementation of these technologies have critical roles in proper application of each of these systems.

Health care systems based on mobile technology are faced with important limitations such as user attitude and acceptance, budget, technical standard, equipment, and tools required for mobile communication, security and good infrastructure, increasing the accuracy of critical signals, interoperability between different systems, bandwidth limitations, quality of health services, battery life limited tools, and so on.

User acceptance is improved through the provision of advisable training and cultural aware‐ ness. It also provides an environment in which innovations in organizations are appreciated. Key factors to increase user acceptance include staff participation and involvement in all stages of the process from planning to implementation, clear and effective communication between managers and all staff members involved in the project, describing the advantages of technol‐ ogy and change management.

Note to important factors such as adequate bandwidth, preparation of standard tools that provide maximum mobility and flexibility for users, decreasing obstacles which interrupt network communications, insurance coverage, and supporting patients who use remote monitoring devices, data encryption while transferring, paying attention to legal and ethical aspects are all necessary in the success of these systems in health care organizations.
