Combining personal diaries with territorial intelligence to empower diabetic patients

Information is today recognized as a major source of benefit/profit, for those who are able to properly create and manage it. With the advent of new computing, storing and networking technologies, transforming data into useful, 'marketable' information has become a major business goal. The myriads of data available today may be profitably aggregated into information, and effective information management is critical to gain competitive advantage. The healthcare domain makes no exception. Governments and healthcare companies are paying increasing attention to patient-centred care and to its positive effects on business metrics such as finances, quality, safety, satisfaction and market share. The term patient-centred care is referred to health care that respects and satisfies the preferences, needs and values of patients. Appropriate information sharing and communication is recognized to be one of the key factors for patient-centred care. In this paper, we propose a software framework for the development of specialpurpose applications meant to improve care experience of diabetic patients while creating public value for services. This is achieved by a profitable combination of territorial knowledge with personal data and events.