Project DOC aims to reduce diabetes risks

Posted by News Thursday, August 20th, 2015

Valley Morning Star, June 23, 2015

The University of Texas System aims to use social, mobile and cloud technology — with cognitive analytical tools — to develop health care delivery solutions customized for individual patients in the Rio Grande Valley. Lydia Chin, UT System’s associate vice chancellor for Health Transformations and chief innovation officer of Health Affairs for the UT System, said Project Diabetes and Obesity Control (DOC) began more than a year ago.

Chin said the system has been investing in the Rio Grande Valley with the development of the new UT Rio Grande Valley, the UTRGV School of Medicine — which is set to open in 2016 — and the South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, which will bring a research team to look into the disease in the area. Read more.

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