This blog is totally independent and has only three major objectives. The first is to inform readers of news and happenings in the e-Health domain, both here in Australia and world-wide. The second is to provide commentary on e-Health in Australia and to foster improvement where I can. The third is to encourage discussion of the matters raised in the blog so hopefully readers can get a balanced view of what is really happening and what successes are being achieved. Software added to basic cellphones helped people with diabetes significantly reduce a key measure of blood sugar over a year, according to one of the largest clinical studies of medical uses for mobile-phone technology. The software is designed to be a virtual coach to help patients manage their disease. It instructs them how to address daily blood-sugar readings and asks whether they've exercised. It also lets doctors and nurses access the information through a secure website to help make treatment decisions. "Mobile health has the potential to help patients better self-manage any chronic disease, not just diabetes," said Charlene Quinn, the study's lead researcher and an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Mobile medical technology is a rapidly growing field. The Food and Drug Administration last month outlined how it planned to regulate it by focusing on mobile applications that could present a risk to patients if they don't work as intended. The technology used in the diabetes study was developed