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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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Seems like every week we are hearing about new diabetes mobile apps coming out. But with so many to choose from now, how can we tell what’s really going to be helpful for us PWDs? It’s doubtful there will ever be an app that perfectly matches everyone’s needs, but there are certainly a lot of folks creating choices for us. We took a close look at some of the recent offerings:
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Earning rewards for…
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AmyT on
September 26, 2011
I’m very fortunate — and geekishly thrilled! — to be the first U.S. diabetic to review the new iBGStar, glucose meter and logging app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Yup, it’s that meter that plugs right into an iPhone! And nope, it’s not FDA approved or available on the market in America yet.
I happen to have a longstanding relationship with the folks at AgaMatrix, the innovative company that designed iBGStar for Sanofi-Aventis. The…
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AmyT on
September 8, 2011
Today, leading makers of continuous glucose monitoring system DexCom Seven unveiled a new app for the iPhone and iPad, which is a cool move on their part, because everybody wants a piece of the Apple pie, right? But a warning to DexCom users not to get too excited, since the app doesn’t actually do anything for data management purposes, not even in terms of letting you look at your own BG numbers.
What the app…
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