Glucose Meters

Real Diabetes Management Part 2: The Burning Need for Interoperability & Standards

By AmyT on July 15, 2010

{Note: this is second in a two-part series aimed not only at patients, but those in the Pharma industry as well.}
I was interviewed the other day for an upcoming story about Sanofi-Aventis’ new strategy to not just offer individual diabetes products, but become a “full diabetes management vendor.” They are not alone.  Medtronic, Roche, Bayer, Abbott and others are among the big industry players talking about more of a “systems approach” to diabetes as…

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Real Diabetes Management Part 1: Making Our Data Speak to Us

By AmyT on July 13, 2010

{Note: this two-part series is aimed as much at Pharma as at patients. If you work in the industry, please read.}
If the emphasis among diabetes systems vendors last year at the annual American Diabetes Association Conference was “data visualization,” then this year’s was “data interpretation.“ I am 100% more enthused about the latter, and I’ll tell you why.
It seemed that last year, all the big players — J&J, Medtronic, Abbott Diabetes, Roche, and…

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Test Strip News: The PQQ Gremlin

By AmyT on July 8, 2010

The relative accuracy of blood glucose meters has of course been in the spotlight of late, since the FDA held a hearing to “crack down” on this issue last Fall. Funny, but I always assumed this had more to do with the technology inside the meter than the test strips themselves. Silly me.
One of this year’s buzzwords at the ADA Conference in Orlando last week was the “PQQ Enzyme” {glucose dehydrogenase (GDH)-pyrroloquino-linequinone (PQQ)} –…

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WaveSense Jazz Meter to Connect with the iPhone

By AmyT on July 6, 2010

Congratulations again to the innovative little Salem, NH-based company doing some killer work in glucose monitoring. Not only did AgaMatrix score the job when Sanofi-Aventis decided to go into glucose meter business recently, but now they’ve accomplished a breakthrough close to my own heart:
The WaveSense Jazz meter will be the first medical device ever to connect directly with the Apple iOS platform. A new download cable, which AgaMatrix was demonstrating at the ADA Conference…

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Kids Category Winner Will Blow You Away

By AmyT on June 24, 2010

Sixteen-year-old Megan Khoury of Midland, Texas, won our Kids’ Category in the DiabetesMine Design Competition this year. Her entry, a concept called AniMeter, received the most votes among our four kids’ finalists:

But even more than the interactive glucose monitor Megan envisioned, it’s her life that will blow you away. At least it did me.
Megan is energetic and well-spoken. In a nutshell, Megan’s heavily involved in competitive tennis, dance and theater, pageantry, and fund-raising…

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