Diabetes and Telemedicine Is the technology sound, effective, cost-effective, and practical?

In this issue of Diabetes Care, Chase etal. (1) have very nicely demonstratedhow modem technology can be a use-ful tool for providing effective manage-ment of type 1 diabetes when used in lieu of a clinic visit. This study represents an example of telemedicine, a technology that can be defined as the use of telecom-munications to support health care. Was their Colorado program sufficiently suc-cessful in becoming a model for other programs that will provide modem trans-mission of glucose values? I believe it was. An analysis of the technology utilized by this telematic program for type 1 diabetes demonstrates that the method appears to provide effective tools for health care pro