Following a successful pilot project in Limerick University Hospital, Diabetes Ireland and DigiBete have spent the past few months training other paediatric diabetes teams on how to use the multi-award-winning App to educate their families on self-managing Type 1 diabetes.
The primary aim of the DigiBete app is to improve care for children and young people with diabetes by helping them to manage their condition more effectively, and to provide and easy cost-free communication stream for hospital paediatric diabetes teams to engage with families to provide clinical advice and information.
The app gives people a place to organise their diabetes appointments, and ongoing care, set reminders for their clinic appointments, and receive access to relevant educational resources. Families will be able to access age-appropriate diabetes information such as food and exercise support, quizzes, and videos.
The app will also be a huge benefit for paediatric diabetes teams as they will be able to share accurate and timely clinical advice and information directly with their families, send appointment reminders, and share diabetes management advice such as sick day rules and good care reminders in a matter of minutes.
Diabetes Ireland CEO Kieran O’Leary said; “We are delighted to make DigiBete available to the families of the 3,000 children and adolescents living with Type 1 diabetes in Ireland. We feel this is a fantastic investment that supports children and young people with diabetes and their families and paediatric diabetes teams nationwide. It will also allow us to reach families more directly to offer our services and extend invites to our events”.
To access the App, families need to contact their diabetes team to obtain a code and easy self-registration instructions, and Diabetes Ireland would encourage all families to speak to their team today or at their next appointment.
