Carlos Haya Hospital in Malaga offers telemedicine consultation to diabetics people.

Healthcare in Malaga continues increase use of new technologies. And is that a total of 90 patients with type I diabetes, with many problems for control it, they are been controlled by telemedicine consultation from Carlos Haya hospital in Malaga. The telemedicine project was launched in 2009 and the profile of diabetics people, who use this telecare system, are young people with job.

Patients send through a website platform, information about their nutrition and physical activity, while also they must specify their capillary blood glucose or glucose self-analisys between 4 or 8 times each day. They obtain with this technology improve their quality of life and better glycemic stability. The telemedicine consultations have reduced to the middle visits of patients to Hospital. Patients according to their degree of metabolic control, are moved from a quarterly programm to other every six or nine months.

The telemedicine consultations are about 30 or 45 minutes each one and they allows direct communication with the patient, if it suffers some type of infection or doctor is interested in health factors or treatments that increase glucose level.