Date: 8/22/2009
TUMSPR News: The first Virtual Diabetes Clinic to facilitate patient-doctor interaction and pave the way for better medical services was launched in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) on Aug 17, 2009.
The first Virtual Diabetes Clinic to facilitate patient-doctor interaction and pave the way for better medical services was launched in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) at the presence of the chancellor, the health vice-minister Dr. Imami-Razavi and Dr. Aghajani the manager of the health ministry’s non-communicable diseases department as well as Dr. Torabi from TUMS center for Innovations on Aug 17, 2009.
At the Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Dr. Bagher Larijani, TUMS chancellor, described diabetes as one of the most important chronic diseases that afflicts three million Iranians with 300,000 expected life-years lost due to disease that burdens the health system with its debilitating complications.
To justify the installation of the virtual clinic, the chancellor said: “For a better management and effective diabetes care and creation of an environment that the patients themselves participate in the treatment process, we have employed information technology and electronic databases to get in touch with the patients more easily, offer treatment services to those in need and register the patients in the database.
Dr. Larijani referred to the partnership of TUMS Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center and Ministry of Health vice-minister in designing and launching the Virtual Diabetes Clinic that would serve as a diabetes registry too.
Imami-Razavi, the Health vice-minister who was formerly the dean of TUMS School of Medicine, while thanking the chancellor in taking solid steps in materializing the health of the people said that the increasing trend of non-communicable diseases has made the Health Ministry to focus on these diseases more than ever and installation of the Diabetes Virtual Clinic would help create the opportunity for a better response to this demand, an interaction beyond the classic patient-doctor relationship and reduction of the need for direct referrals to physicians in some cases.
Dr. Aghajani fro the center for the control of non.communicable diseases said this move would undoubtedly be a blessing for the health system and it could organize some of the duties regarding the management of the disease.
Hinting at the prevalence of the disease in rural areas, Aghajani said "In some active surveillance programs carried out in rural areas on people over 30, we found 200,000 new cases of diabetes mellitus and the cases were unaware of their disease which is an alarm for the country.
The Virtual Diabetes Clinic would never attempt to replace patient-doctor relationship and it just tries to complete it.
The present URL of the clinic is http://vcemrc.tums.ac.ir/pages/mainPage.asp?I=56022.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=13193
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