Health Informatics - An International Journal (HIIJ) Vol.1, No.1, August 2012 19 SMS-Based System for Type-II Diabetes (NIDDM) Management Dhirendra Pandey 1 , Neeraj Kumar 1 , Vandana Pandey 1 1 Department of Information Technology, BBA University, Lucknow- India Prof.dhiren@gmail.com,neerajmtech@gmail.com,vandanadubey7@gmail.com ABSTRACT The study presents ‘Non-Insulin Depended Diabetics Mellitus’ (NIDDM), SMS-based system for Type-II diabetes management by itself. The system is structured to be long term health assistance for patients with type-II diabetes. It permits the patients to get touched to their doctor constantly. With the SMS exchange, the patients can send their general and physical status, i.e., demographic & social characteristics, awareness of Mobile phone applications, blood sugar measurements, insulin intake and other data to the doctor, which makes continuous health monitoring possible. Based on the patient data sent, an SMS messages can be return to motivate patients, it reminds them of physical activities such as, physical exercise, and healthcare appointments. In addition, an offline mobile phone multimedia educational system is also proposed with existed SMS based system. The system was discussed with the physician for system applicability for type-II diabetic patients. It was found in primary testing that the involvement of proposed system can be able to impact on some clinical outcomes, self-efficacy and diabetes management. The SMS based system technology appears feasible in diabetic care and relief but this technology must be made more user-friendly before clinical implementation at larger scale. KEY WORDS: Type-II Diabetes, Non-Insulin Depended Diabetics Mellitus (NIDDM), Health Care Management 1. INTRODUCTION One of the chronic illnesses where self management plays a crucial role for patient well-being is type-II diabetes mellitus type. Poor self management of this illness causes serious complications, which results in enormous health costs. The illness is due to destruction of the cells in pancreas which produce insulin and up to 10% of people with type-II diabetes worldwide have this form of the disease. Despite the relatively small percentage compared to the number of patients affected with the other form of type-II diabetes (type 2 type-II diabetes), developing computer/mobile applications or devices for DM1 diabetics is of special importance since the chances of complications are much higher. Based on visits to several physicians in the field no web or mobile applications that would connect physicians to their patients are currently utilized in the Palestinian Authority to assist in self management of this illness. Conventional treatment of DM1 diabetics includes 2 or 3 daily injections of insulin given after obtaining glucose measurements. The patient writes down the measurements and injections every day in a special diary. Based on the diary the physician measures patient progress and adjusts treatment as necessary during regularly scheduled patient visits that occur several times per year [12]. This method has several disadvantages; first, it lacks the opportunity for timely interventions. This is important to avoid serious complication, for example, to immediately detect trends in the data that require immediate action such as overnight hypoglycemia. Second, lack of motivation to complete a diary for a prolonged phase of time makes it difficult to control the illness. These disadvantages necessitate the introduction of new methods and applications to assist diabetic patients.