PREVALENCE OF diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide. It is estimated that 415 million people have diabetes, every 6 seconds a person dies from diabetes with the accounts for 12% of the global healthcare expenditure [1]. As a result, there has been an increased pressure on the available healthcare resources, and patients diagnosed with diabetes require a more efficient and individualized disease management plan to prevent (or delay) progression and treatment costs of the short- and long-term complications of the disease.