New TriabetesClinic apps for childhood diabetes in use at Astrid Lindgrens Children’s Hospital

April 23, 2015 - PRLog -- Stockholm – The care process for Swedish children with insulin-dependent diabetes is now more efficient thanks to a new digital health collaboration between Astrid Lindgrens Children’s Hospital, software firm Diabetes Tools and Karolinska University Hospital’s Innovation Center.

The result of this cooperation is a first in Sweden: the addition of apps to a diabetes patient’s treatment plan. This means that staff at the Child Diabetes Unit at Astrid Lindgrens Children’s hospital, along with children and their families, can use apps to reliably calculate insulin doses from the same shared information to save time, reduce errors and inspire confidence. The new jointly created app and online service is called TriabetesClinic for Children and is supplied by Diabetes Tools.

The three organizations worked together to replace a paper-based workflow with the new TriabetesClinic tablet app for staff to use on the ward and the new TriabetesGo smartphone app for children, and their families, to use at home.

“Having timely and accurate information instantly available is one of the keys to treating children with diabetes. Our wish for a digital system that is portable, which facilitates patient participation and ownership, while enabling us to streamline our patients' time has been realized with TriabetesClinic,” said the initiator of the project at Karolinska University Hospital and head nurse at the Child Diabetes Unit 2 Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Åsa Wallin.

“Diabetes impacts family life in so many ways. I am delighted that our TriabetesClinic apps and online decision support service can simplify the care for insulin-dependent children while taking the pressure off nurses, doctors, parents and relatives,” said Diabetes Tools’ Chief Executive Officer Anders Weilandt. “Our collaboration with Karolinska University Hospital marks an important step towards greater acceptance of mobile health techniques in Sweden.”

Åsa Wallin is speaking about the need for this new, online workflow at the Vitalis 2015 eHealth congress in Göteborg at 13:00 on 24 April. Also at Vitalis 2015, Diabetes Tools is demonstrating the apps at their exhibition stand (B08:31).

About Diabetes Tools

Diabetes Tools is a Swedish medical technology company that simplifies daily life for everyone involved in diabetes care. The TriabetesClinic software service securely combines apps (for smartphones and tablets), online accounts and web interfaces to change diabetes healthcare for the better.

Diabetes Tools was named “MedTech Company of the Year 2014” by the Swedish Medtech Association. The company holds an ISO 13485 certificate, a compliance standard for creating medical devices and related services, and sells CE-marked medical software products in the European Union. Diabetes Tools is privately held and located in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, visit http://www.diabetestools.se.