Diabeats: Empowering Diabetics to Live Smartly
This paper explores the design, development, distribution, and commercialization of a mobile application targeted for diabetes, with focus on diet management and making smart choices while eating out.
Abstract
The application of mobile technologies in the health and wellness sector presents exciting business and technical opportunities. In particular, diabetes, a worldwide phenomenon continuing to grow at alarming rates, lends itself well to monitoring and control through a mobile application. With the ubiquity of mobile computing and pervasive network effects in today’s social networks, we believe the mobile health space is primed for disruption. This paper explores the design, development, distribution, and commercialization of a mobile application targeted for diabetes, with focus on diet management and making smart choices while eating out. We discuss our journey of product iterations along with lessons learned each step of the way in building our application in this mobile health space.