徳島県の新しい糖尿病医療連携をめざす試み

The annual incidence of diabetes-related death in Tokushima Prefecture has kept the highest in Japan since１９９２, except２００７. Such high incidence of death in diabetic patients might be related to renal failure and myocardial infarction. Therefore, we should make more effort to prevent diabetic micro-and macro-angiopathy. Since the number of diabetologist was not enough to cover Tokushima Prefecture, most of diabetic patients were treated by family doctors. It is, therefore, important to create a bidirectional network for diabetes care between family doctors and diabetologists. We just have been established a novel medical network for diabetic patients, so called“Tokushima Medical Net”, in which family doctors and diabetologists easily communicate medical records in each other using by the cloud computing system. We believe that expansion of this network over Tokushima Prefecture could contribute to improve disease management and decrease advanced complications in diabetic patients.

四国医学雑誌 : http://www.tokushima-u.ac.jp/med/research/shikoku_acta_medica.html