Information Technology for Diabetes Care in Europe: the EURODIABETA Initiative

The EURODIABETA project is a European Community supported project to examine the feasibility of applying information technology to improve health care in the field of chronic disease using diabetes as an example. In April 1990 physicians and information scientists from all over Europe came together and examined the potential of the project in a series of workshops. As a result physicians were convinced of the applicability of a modelling process to describe health care delivery and recommended that the project be continued. They further reviewed a data set conceived to allow description of the status of a person with diabetes and concluded that it was possible to review and explain diabetes care with this tool.