''Fishermen on boats, they eat all kinds of stuff,'' says nursing professor Antonia Arnaert. She is voluble in her excitement about her most recent research project, which involved teaching patients with uncontrolled diabetes to use smart phones and the Internet to communicate with the nurses responsible for monitoring their health.
The nurses monitored patient responses from a distance and provided the appropriate follow-up as needed. If the patient's readings were outside predetermined parameters, the values appeared in red in the system and an alarm was triggered.
''Patients with chronic diseases like diabetes, or who have gone through surgery, often have lots of questions and the doctors and nurses don't always have the time to answer them,'' Arnaert said. ''My work is about trying to develop a new method of providing nursing care and telenursing has a big role to play there.''
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