Forget about Y2K – this year’s Leap Year date of Feb. 29, 2012, caused a hiccup in the Animas OneTouch Ping system that the company wants to alert customers to right away.
Apparently the problem only affects users who attempted to make changes to their time and/or date settings on that exact fateful day. Weird. Per Animas:
On this date, the pump’s software did not recognize changes some patients attempted to make to their time…
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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had a chance to test drive one of the newest glucose meters to hit the market — the Telcare BGM 3G, the first wirelessly-enabled glucose meter, from the Bethesda-based company of the same name (which we introduced here). Telcare made their debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, and was a semi-finalist in the “Last Gadget Standing” competition, alongside some very cool new technologies from mainstream consumer…
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AmyT on
December 9, 2011
In the last few years, we’ve seen a few sleeker-looking glucose meters make it to market, along with more logging tools and apps than we can shake a stick at. But what’s still been lacking is some good assistance in taking all those numbers and actually knowing what to do with them — what changes do they call for in our diabetes management?
Unless you’re telephoning your CDE or endo every time you spot some…
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AmyT on
October 17, 2011
Suddenly, it seems to be raining diabetes iPhone apps. Many of them offer sophisticated graphing of your glucose data, or educational materials, medication reminders, training videos, and even links to purchase supplies. Notice that NOT ONE of the logging apps offers a way around manual entry of your numbers — ugh!
New Glooko, due on the market Nov. 15, aims to change all that. It will be the first available plug-in cable between popular glucose…
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