A Cloud System Utilized for Diabetic Foot Management

Diabetic foot is one of the major chronic complications of diabetes mellitus, where foot infection, deep tissue destruction due to local nerve abnormalities and peripheral vascular lesions in the distal extremity of the lower limbs are usually found. Those feet lesions are also assumed as main reasons to cause the ulceration, amputees, or even the death of patients. Appropriate intervention is helpful in the daily care of diabetic feet. However, current approaches only considered one or several foot conditions through routine inspection, such as diabetic peripheral index (DPI) or MICHIGAN test etc., an overall evaluation for the diabetic feet were lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this study was aimed to establish a cloud system for diabetic feet management, where we can quantify the diabetic feet according to an algorithm designed to overall evaluation. Those data were transferred into digital format and saved in the cloud platform, where remote accessing is available. In our system, we included examination of peripheral neuropathy, foot deformities and plantar pressure of the patient and this system could be applied for both the management of diabetic feet and used for early warning in order to prevent feet ulcerations.