Experts in technology and medicine use diabetes to illustrate how the tools of information technology can improve patient care.

Barbara M. Hayes is Associate Dean for Administration and Planning at Indiana University School of Informatics at Indiana Universit -- Purdue University Indianapolis. William Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor of Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation (2006) and The Internet and American Business (2008), both published by the MIT Press.