DOC News July 1, 2004
Volume 1 Number 1 p. 13
© 2004 American Diabetes Association
WEB-BASED DIABETES RISK-ASSESSMENT TOOL UNVEILED
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) pulled the wraps off a newinteractive Web-based technology to enable clinicians and people with diabetesto make better health care decisions.
Named the Diabetes Personal Health Decisions tool (Diabetes PHD), theprogram is an extremely sophisticated software model that simulates thebiology underlying diabetes as well as nonclinical factors such as comorbidityrisks, medications, and treatments.
Users can enter personal health information such as age, gender, weight,family history, medications, and a number of laboratory values, and thenreceive a validated risk profile that provides an accurate picture of how theindividual can change his or her risk by changing modifiable health parameterssuch as weight, blood pressure, or cholesterol.
Diabetes PHD is based on Archimedes, software developed by KaiserPermanente to help clinicians analyze prevention efforts and develop clinicalpractice guidelines for the treatment of diabetes.
The model creates a virtual world that includes every person, facility,physician, and piece of equipment employed and interacting as they do in thereal world. The software models virtually all aspects of care and simulates awide variety of risk factors, medications, treatments, complications,outcomes, and costs relevant to diabetes.
ADA previewed Diabetes PHD at the recent Scientific Sessions in Orlando,Fla. The tool will be publicly launched later this year and will be free andaccessible on ADA's Web site.
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