Harnessing Digital Innovation for Diabetes Care: Insights From the Action4Diabetes-CorrelAid Data4Good Collaboration

Recent decades have seen a dramatic proliferation of real-world data use and evidence generation from nonresearch settings. Data utilization is particularly revolutionizing the operations and impact of nongovernmental organizations worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Action4Diabetes, which has incrementally been providing sustainable diabetes care for children, adolescents, and young adults with type 1 diabetes (aged 0-25 y) across Southeast Asia since 2015, is one such organization. Recognizing the importance of data, Action4Diabetes have collaborated with CorrelAid e.V. As part of this, Action4Diabetes has been exchanging patient data with the local program hospitals monthly. A preprocessing pipeline was implemented, extracting patient and medical product data in a standardized and unified manner. Data collected are anonymized and subsequently uploaded to secure public cloud storage, where they are processed and stored in a centralized database. The model used by Action4Diabetes shows that much can be achieved and can perhaps be utilized elsewhere.