Happy Saturday, and welcome back to our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine! hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois.
This week, Wil is looking at decisions that pump companies make about the glucose meters that will pair with their devices. This can be a tricky one, especially when we get names like Contour and Contour NEXT that sound so much alike but require different strips… Wil has some thoughts here, of…
As a blogger (conditioned for instant gratification!) I feel like I’ve been waiting forever, but the research article I prepared for the American Diabetes Association’s Spring 2013 Diabetes Spectrum journal has finally been published. It’s odd to see my name in that teeny-tiny academic-journal print.
The deal is that accomplished CDE Mary Austin approached me at last year’s big annual ADA conference to ask if I’d be willing to tackle a research project/article on patient…
Your glucose meter might be keeping secrets from you.
If and when you see a message on the screen alerting you to a “High” blood sugar, the meter probably knows more than it’s telling you, as in the exact numerical value associated with that warning. But the device makers decided that we don’t need that information…
This came to light (in our brains, at least) following the March 25 announcement that almost two million LifeScan…
Have you heard of Dario, the new smartphone-compatible glucose meter that’s about to debut over in Europe and will hopefully be heading for the U.S. market within the next year?
It’s a bite-sized meter that lets you turn your smartphone into an integrated glucose meter complete with strips, lancet poker, and phone app. More precisely, it’s an integrated unit about the size of a cigarette lighter that includes a basic adapter that connects into a…
As a follow up to the 2012 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit event held last November at Stanford University, we wanted to share the gist of the keynote talk about why the development of standards for diabetes devices and data is so crucial.
We had thought to create a white paper on the topic, but on the recommendation of the wonderful Kelly Close of Close Concerns, decided that a video version would be much more impactful; it’s…