The Royal Children’s Hospital launches betterdiabetes.com, Australia’s first on-line personal patient record

The Royal Children’s Hospital has introduced Australia’s first on-line personal patient record, BetterDiabetes.com for children and adolescents with diabetes.

Launched at the hospital on Wednesday 16th July as part of National Diabetes Week, BetterDiabetes will enhance the care of patients with Type 1 diabetes by enabling patients to take responsibility for their own medical records.

BetterDiabetes is a new way for patients to manage their diabetes and communicate with their diabetes care team.  The on-line personal patient record will create an up-to-date lifelong health record and will include current issues, test results, glucose readings and insulin dosage.

By using BetterDiabetes, patients will be able to:

  • Access their patient record via an internet website.
  • Create a lifelong health record that the patient owns and controls.
  • Have an accurate summary of their diabetes history, including all clinic visits.
  • Load glucose readings directly into their health record.
  • Track and graph all measurements and test results – glucose, height, weight, HbA1c (long-term control checks).
  • Send a secure message to their diabetes educators asking for advice on how to best manage their diabetes and receive a secure message in reply.
  • Authorise diabetes educators to view agreed parts of their BetterDiabetes record to help them give the best advice.
  • Have access to their health record 24 hours a day from anywhere in the world.
  • Set up an emergency health record on the internet.

“Living with diabetes can be overwhelming for some of our patients. BetterDiabetes.com is an empowering internet strategy that has the potential to simplify care, improve communication and motivate both our metropolitan and regional patients to take responsibility for their diabetes care,” said Dr Fergus Cameron, Head of Diabetes Services at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

BetterDiabetes has been designed and purpose-built as a joint undertaking between the Departments of Endocrinology and Diabetes, and Information Services at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Global Health Ltd, a leading Melbourne-based health IT company providing innovative health IT solutions.

For further information, please contact Annessa Conquest, Public Affairs, Royal Children’s Hospital, tel.  9345 5138 or page on 9345 5138.

This event received the following media coverage:

  • Channel 7 News
  • The Australian – article and photo/online
  • ABC Radio
  • Nova FM
  • Gold 104
  • Mix 101.1
  • 3AK

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