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For the past few years, there is a significant increase in the number of mobile health (mHealth) applications specifically for diabetes. These applications are mostly for self - management. However, most of these applications have the same features but it lack the part of educating patients and the involvement of medical professionals in the development process of an application. Diabetes Bridge aims to propose solutions to these problems.

Diabetes Bridge is a mobile health application intended to better facilitate care coordination for people with diabetes. This application was developed with the coordination of a healthcare professional. Some features of the application includes preparing for the consultation with listing down important questions, knowing what to do before going to laboratory tests, and educating patients with the common questions that diabetic people asked to their doctors.

The usability of Diabetes Bridge was evaluated by people with diabetes and a health practitioner using Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) as an evaluation tool to assess the mobile health application in four categories. A total of thirty (30) people participated in the testing. The participants perceived the application to be useful and that it was well - made for people with diabetes. The application’s simplicity and ease of use receive a good feedback from the testers. Improvements can be made in the visuals of the application to make it more appealing for all age groups and not only for the older people. It is very useful in preparation with the patient’s consultation, laboratory requests and results and educating the patient about his diseases. Diabetes Bridge is positively received by diabetic people as a good mobile health application.