Construction of Electronic Summary Sheets for Diabetes Care and Application to Diabetes Coordination Notebook

Abstract

We invented a collaborative computer system that uses a summary sheet for collecting diabetes care data, including the disease duration, physiological test results, biochemical data, diabetic complications and treatments. This practical system is useful for obtaining an overview of the disease and may be completed in four steps: 1) Developing the basic summary sheet, 2) Entering the data into the electronic medical recording system, 3) Collaborating with other medical staff when making each data sheet and 4) Converting the data sheet to the popular form of diabetic communication notes. The introduction of an automatic downloading system and the capacity for premanipulation by medical staff, including medical assistants, may make each step faster. The shorter the process, the more patients can be assessed. This system is very useful for developing diabetic community medicine via the use of electronic summary sheets adapted to conventional communication notes.