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The Diabetes Technology Society: From Algorithms to Adherence

By AmyT on November 12, 2009

The Diabetes Technology Society held its annual meeting last Thursday through Saturday, which always takes place just about a mile and a half from my house. But guess what? This was the very first year that I found myself on the inside of this exclusive event, participating in a panel (the very last panel of the 3-day event) on “technologies to drive patient adherence.”
The term “adherence” made me bristle, too, because it sounds like…

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ANNOUNCING OUR WINNERS: The 2009 DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge

By AmyT on May 18, 2009

A huge congratulations and thank you to all who participated in this open innovation contest! This is truly “crowdsourcing” at its best — asking the community for its brightest ideas on how to improve life with diabetes.
At final toll, we received over 150 entries from participants describing themselves as:

Students – in Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Biotechnology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Biology, and Business
Electronic and computer engineers
Graphic designers
Entrepreneurs
Medical device…

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Over 130 Great New Diabetes Ideas

By AmyT on May 2, 2009

We are positively blown away: in the (nearly) final analysis, we’ve logged over 130 entries in the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. There goes my weekend…
Seriously, I want to thank each and every individual who helped with this project — including everyone who sent us their hard-won innovative concepts for improving life with this illness.  This is crowdsourcing at its very best, so THANK YOU!
And now back to reviewing entries…  Oh, and you can…

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