Fujitsu mobile phones boost diabetic support services

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Fujitsu has announced the addition of a free plan to its existing Karada Life Diabetes Support services, which encompass a broad range of services that help diabetics maintain healthy habits and assist them with treatments.

From last year, Karada Life Diabetes Support service began offering a fee-based cloud service that works with a blood glucose monitor paired with Fujitsu-manufactured mobile phones to automatically record and help manage blood glucose data.

Fujitsu said it is expanding its offerings with a cloud service that provides free functions to help diabetics maintain exercise habits and dietary restrictions necessary for diabetes treatment. It uses a web application that can be run on a variety of mobile phones or smartphones to manage information on meal portion sizes, exercise, and blood glucose readings.

Fujitsu plans to expand the services it offers to diabetics to improve their quality of life and help them live fulfilling, healthier lives.

Karada Life Diabetes Support, introduced in June 2011, is a cloud-based service for diabetics that lets them use their mobile phones to record and manage health-related data, from blood glucose readings to meal and exercise figures. Users can monitor their statistics graphically, making it easy to check their status several times a day. This data exists in the cloud, meaning users can check their data via a PC, e-mail it to family members, and, if desired, have it printed and delivered to their homes if they have no printer of their own. Its ability to address a wide range of patient needs has been well received by its users.

The service that Fujitsu is rolling out today makes all of these features available for free, and is accessible from any make or model mobile phone or smartphone to benefit as many people as possible.

The service includes a program that lets users set targets for meal portion size, exercise, and number of daily blood glucose readings as well as to record data continually over a three-week period.

Reviewing past results is easy. The service sends encouraging messages weekly that show users their level of achievement toward their targets.

By switching to a paid plan, user data is automatically carried forward, making the service easier to use.