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Website review: diabetes insight--www.diabetes-insight.info.

Reed K, Lehmann ED

Rotorua, New Zealand.

In previous Diabetes Information Technology & WebWatch columns some different diabetes Websites have been highlighted. In this issue we focus on one particular site and use this to illustrate how such Internet-based repositories of information can provide important and useful resources for people with diabetes and their carers. Diabetes is perhaps unique in the fact that much of the day-to-day responsibility for care rests with individuals themselves. Successful therapy demands considerable understanding of the condition by the person with diabetes, or his or her carer, and this can only be made possible with access to appropriate information. Provision of information via a Website is now recognised to be cost-effective and convenient, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year-and access to the Internet by the general public has grown rapidly in recent years. The increasing way in which the Internet is being used to supply individuals with tools and information for their self-care is exemplified by the Diabetes Insight Website (at: www.diabetes-insight.info).

Published 2 June 2005 in Diabetes Technol Ther, 7(3): 573-80.
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