Diabetes care in cloud - research challenges

Prevalence of diabetes has increased in the last two decades, and disease has become an epidemic. Improperly managed diabetes leads to life-threatening complications. The advances in technology provide a lot of opportunities for improved patient care through better monitoring and communication options. With the advances in technology like cloud computing, treatment approaches have become more collaborative, patient-centric and data-driven. Cloud enables us to capture and process a large amount of data produced during diabetes treatment. This data can be used to derive insights to provide personalized treatment, evaluate risks and conduct research. This paper explores the opportunities and challenges that diabetic care using cloud brings in.