The group has an ongoing programme of work in the area of telehealth and diabetes in collaboration with the Diabetes Trials Unit and the Department of Engineering Sciences.  Mobile phone technology is being used to transmit blood glucose test results along with other diary data to a central server with real time feedback of blood glucose.  Web based data display tools allow education and monitoring of trends.

Publications include:

Farmer A, Gibson O, Dudley C, Bryden K, Hayton P, Tarassenko L, Neil A: "A randomised controlled trial of the effect of real-time telemedicine support on glycaemic control in young adults with Type 1 diabetes"; (ISRCTN 46889446) Diabetes Care, Vol 28(11); Nov 2005

A. Farmer, O. J. Gibson, L. Tarassenko and A. Neil: " A systematic review of telemedicine interventions to support blood glucose self-monitoring in diabetes"; Diabetic Medicine, 2005; 22; 1372-1378.

Farmer A, Gibson O, Hayton P, Bryden K, Dudley C, Neil A, Tarassenko L: " A real-time mobile phone based telemedicine system to support young adults with type 1 diabetes"; Informatics in Primary Care 2005; 13: 171-7

Further studies using telehealth technology are planned and information on these will be available shortly.