Healthcare in Ireland is often in the media unfortunately for the wrong reasons. Increasing demand for healthcare has overcrowded hospitals beyond capacity. We can all recount the frustration felt having to commute long distances to hospitals only to find ourselves waiting even longer to be seen by a healthcare professional. I wanted to do this project to help fix this problem. I believe telemedicine is an invaluable tool which can make a real difference in patients lives. While telemedicine is by no means a solve all solution, I believe in the context of type 1 diabetes care and monitoring it has huge potential. With this project instead of dreading the transport and waiting of appointments and inevitability not going as often as one would like I hope to offer a stress free, time friendly alternative that not only facilitates patient needs but lessens the overcrowding in hospitals.
