blood glucose data

Tandem’s t:connect Software Takes Pumpers to the Cloud(s)

By WilD on March 26, 2013

Almost 10 months after the Tandem Diabetes t:slim insulin pump hit the U.S. market, we finally have access to the pump management software that goes with it.
Tandem released their much-anticipated t:connect pump software last night (read: very early today) at the stroke of midnight on the East Coast. The cloud-based software, which works from either a PC or Mac (!), merges data from t:slim pumps and an assortment of seven different blood glucose meters…

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Sunday Funnies: D-Data Gone Wild

By AmyT on March 3, 2013

 
With all the dueling software formats for blood sugar data, ever feel this way?
 

 
YES! We sure do. Our perennial question to D-device and software makers is why this data is made so complicated. Thanks for the visual to our regular contributor Jerry King, an accomplished worldwide cartoonist and all-around mega-talented guy.
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The “Ethical Imperative” of Diabetes Interoperability

By AmyT on January 31, 2013

The fact is, a handful of manufacturers currently have a stronghold on our diabetes data. Their systems collect this vital health data for us, but are designed to withhold it so that we rely on their products exclusively to access it, share it, or analyze it.
More and more patients are finding this intolerable, and are fed up with waiting for the Pharma industry to embrace long-overdue open standards.
I’m a bit obsessed with this…

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Dexcom’s New G4 — Is Now the Time to Buy?

By WilD on November 19, 2012

{Editor’s Note: I’m expecting a new G4 unit of my own any day now. I plan to post my own review, and my opinions may differ from our correspondent’s here. We’re all for diversity of viewpoints. -AmyT}

Last month, Dexcom’s fourth-generation Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) was FDA approved, much faster than anyone — even the folks at Dexcom— expected. Fifteen days later, I was opening a FedEx box from Dexcom and have been wearing the…

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What I’ve Learned From ‘Log for Life’

By AmyT on August 4, 2010

Alan Johnson was part of the team at start-up company Gnoso Inc. that won the DiabetesMine Design Challenge in 2008, with an online tool called LogforLife. We’ve stayed in touch, and I’ve asked Alan, who is not diabetic, to share his journey with us here at the ‘Mine: what has he learned along the way, in the process of developing and trying to market a blood glucose record-keeping program?  Surprisingly, Alan didn’t talk about advances…

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