Importance and Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring for Diabetes Practices

Telemedicine is the new normal, considering the era of mutant pandemics, and the parallelly evolving technology. Faced by health care restrictions obligated by the Covid-19 pandemic, patients-especially diabetes'-, and stakeholders are wondering about the importance and benefits of remote monitoring; in which the gap of the answer, shall be filled by the doctors. Background Diabetes mellitus is a disease of abnormal metabolism of carbohydrate, characterized by hyperglycemia. It is featured with a varying degree of insulin secretion impairment, along with a wide range of peripheral resistance to the insulin [UptoDate]. Failure to treat either 1st or 2nd type of DM properly will end up in a life-long complication, and acute life-threatening consequences of diabetes that lead to death [Medscape]. However, based on this fact, close monitoring represents the cornerstone in the treatment of this group of patients, especially the age extremities-children, and seniors. On a brief glance of history’s most deadly pandemics, from the Antonine Plague to the current COVID-19 event; the inevitability of pandemics recurrence would be attributed to the expansion of human society, the soaring contact with different populations, animals, and ecosystems [1].