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NEW APP PROVIDES UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON DIABETES MANY OF US object to people texting while we are talking to them. That may be even more offensive when a doctor is checking his cell phone while examining a patient. However, in some instances phone applications, also known as ‘apps’, can be very helpful and are becoming doctors’ best ‘friends’ when it comes to patient care. One cell phone application that has been released by Johns Hopkins not long ago may be pivotal to patient care. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is enlisting smartphones in the clinical setting with an app that contains a real-time, point-of- care information technology (POC-IT) diabetes guide. In the United States, nearly 24 million people have diabetes, and 5.7 million of them don’t even know it. Long-term complications of the condition can be avoided or managed successfully through proper
care. According to the most recent figures released by the International Diabetes Federation, 366 million people in the world had diabetes in 2011, and by 2030 this number will have risen to 552 million. The highest prevalence of diabetes in the world is in the Middle East region, including six of the world’s top ten countries for prevalence of diabetes. Physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers can now have some of the most up-to- date information on the growing diabetes epidemic at their fingertips, thanks to the new Johns Hopkins guide to the disease. The POC-IT Diabetes Guide is a portable, easily searchable and quickly navigated resource written by Johns Hopkins physicians to help providers — particularly during patient visits — make the best clinical decisions. The guide provides real-time, evidence- based advice on everything from diabetes management to complications to medications. The
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THE DIAGNOSIS AND treatment of autism, a developmental disorder in children, has received a big boost in Dubai with the decision to create a comprehensive centre for autism rehabilitation through a collaboration between the Community Development Authority and Autism Trust Foundation (ATF), a UK- registered body with boards of directors in the UAE and Canada. The initiative reflects ATF and
CDA efforts to establish a unique center which can accommodate all the cases in Dubai including the 272 cases that are still on the waiting list at other autism centres. The centre will also house facilities which will include the latest technical equipment run by internationally qualified
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guide is available and applicable to health care providers in any country. “It offers almost instant, at- a-glance access to the latest consensus guidelines and expert opinions on a broad spectrum of topics in diabetes care,” says Rita Rastogi Kalyani, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the guide’s managing editor. “Johns Hopkins’ mission is to share its knowledge
with the world, and this is a practical way to do that.” The POC-IT Diabetes
Guide was developed by Johns Hopkins clinical exper ts with funding suppor t from the Trinidad and Tobago Health Sciences Initiative, a project under the management of Johns Hopkins Medicine International. Since its launch in 2011, the guide has gained popularity among health care providers in Trinidad and Tobago.
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