Routines take effort
Remembering and organizing the steps of an existing care plan can be challenging amid the demands of everyday life.
Care, day by dayA patient-engagement initiative
Everyday care deserves thoughtful support.
Diabetes Cost Buster is a proposed digital health initiative exploring practical ways to support health literacy, care organization, and engagement with treatment already prescribed by licensed professionals.
DCB is in the planning stage. It does not provide medical care or replace a healthcare professional.
DESIGNED AROUND THE PERSON · BUILT WITH CARE · Everyday
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01 / A more supported dayRaleigh, North Carolina · Planned location
About DCB
A more connected experience around the care people already receive.
The problem
A care plan can be clear.
Daily life is not.
Living with diabetes can involve many ongoing tasks. People may need to keep track of information, routines, and appointments while balancing everything else in their day.
Information can feel scattered
People may look for reliable, understandable information as they navigate questions about their care.
Clarity mattersSupport should fit real life
Useful tools should respect personal choice and complement conversations with a licensed care team.
People stay in controlDCB is being developed as a concept. These challenges describe the motivation for exploration, not measured outcomes of a DCB product.
Our approach
Small supports.
More room for life.
DCB is exploring a simple, non-clinical role: help people stay oriented to the care plan they have already discussed with their licensed professionals.
See the planned next stepsGeneral education
Explore accessible, general information about diabetes, prepared or reviewed by appropriately qualified professionals where needed.
Care organization
Consider ways to keep personal routines and care-related information easier to organize.
User-controlled reminders
Explore reminders chosen and managed by the user to support a treatment plan prescribed by their care team.
Engagement by design
Learn how thoughtful experiences may help people stay connected to their own care journey.
Within scope: education, organization, and engagement. DCB will not diagnose, prescribe, change treatment, or provide individualized clinical advice.
The founder
Health strategy,
with a human lens.
Luciana Azevedo
Connect on LinkedInLuciana brings a long career in health marketing strategy and engagement to the DCB initiative. Since 2008, she has worked with health-focused projects, and since 2012 has led health marketing strategy and engagement at SPRIM PRO.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Nutrition from Brazil and an MBA in Business Management. Her proposed role at DCB is entrepreneurial and non-clinical: leading business strategy, product direction, and stakeholder engagement.
18+years in health marketingStrategyhealth engagement & businessPeopleat the center of the work
Roadmap
Thoughtful steps
before bigger ones.
The work ahead is planned as a sequence of learning, validation, and responsible development. Each stage depends on the findings and guidance that come before it.
- 01Planned
First · Understand
Research & listening
Define the questions, learn from people and stakeholders, and assess needs before choosing product features.
- 02Planned
Then · Shape
Concept & feasibility
Refine the concept, review privacy and regulatory considerations, and determine a responsible path toward an initial product.
- 03Future
Next · Build carefully
Prototype & evaluation
If the concept is validated, develop and evaluate a limited prototype with appropriate professional input.
- 04Future
Over time · Learn
Measure & improve
Use evidence and feedback to guide any future iteration, with outcomes assessed rather than assumed.
All milestones are prospective. No product, pilot, partnership, or clinical result is represented as existing.
Contact
Let’s make room
for a better conversation.
Interested in the DCB concept or its future development? The project welcomes future conversations across health, research, technology, and patient engagement.
contact@diabetescostbuster.comDCB is not yet operating and has no current service or partnership relationships.