With all the medical gear we PWDs have to carry around, it can be difficult to find the perfect bag to comfortably tote around all this stuff. (See Wil’s rant on the man-purse for PWDs, for example.) At the AADE expo last week, we saw a few new options worth mentioning. All of these companies are also started by entrepreneurs — and we do love supporting small D-businesses here at the ‘Mine!
First up is…
Besides the cool factor of “let’s take health mobile,” one of the recurring themes at the AADE conference this year was recognition of the fact that while the diabetes population continues to mushroom, the ability of healthcare professionals to care for the ever-growing numbers of patients is stagnating. (There are currently 30,000 CDEs working in the US, but at least 43,000 are needed to match the workload of 24 million PWDs; by 2025, at least…
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As we noted last week, one particularly fun thing about about attending the AADE’s Annual Meeting is the plethora of consumer and patient-facing products on display. This year, we saw three interesting things aimed at alleviating the pain of shots and finger pricks — a very minor concern for doctors, probably, but potentially HUGE for those of us who hate needles (which I’m assuming includes all of us!)
Meet Buzzy4Shots
This thing caught our attention…
Thanks to all of you who sent us tips about the recent insulin pump hacking story. We saw it. It was hard to miss. The mainstream media has lapped it up like fresh cream.
Actually, we’d heard from its instigator, type 1 diabetic and security researcher Jay Radcliffe, a few weeks back, pitching us on covering his presentation at the Black Hat Security Conference (ironically also in Las Vegas, taking place at the same time…
Before we left for the AADE conference last week, we had several requests for more info about the new FDA-approved Spring universal infusion set.
We reported on the company and their new infusion set AND insulin pump from the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions in June. Their insulin pump, the Spring Zone, has been submitted for CE mark, but since it’s not yet FDA approved, we were not able to film anything on that new…