Changing conditioned lifestyle behaviors can require significant effort, time, and motivation and office visits are often too brief to enable the healthcare team adequately monitor and address behavioral changes, discuss new treatment plans, and respond to patient concerns. Inadequate disease control may result from factors such as ineffective diabetes prevention and management strategies instituted by health care providers, and from poor understanding / non-compliance by patients. Telemedicine allows data such as blood glucose levels, exercise patterns, and food intake to be monitored, transmitted, stored, and analyzed. It also affords the added benefit of cost-effective remote specialist consultation in these rural communities. Management
