Taming our diabetes monsters may seem like only a metaphor for what we try to do every day, but now there’s a fun new app for that.
Just launched in the U.S. for the first time on June 4, the MySugr Companion app was created a few years ago by a team of fellow PWDs (and some non-PWDs) over in Austria. A key to what makes this new app unique is that it lets us…
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…
Finding new and innovative ways to log our diabetes info is all the rage these days. While some companies are manufacturing new gadgets to help us log and track blood sugar readings, medication doses, carb counts and more, many new apps have been created by PWDs (people with diabetes) who live with the overflow of numbers everyday. In fact, these awesome D-entrepreneurs were the inspiration for our recurring Small But Mighty series on grassroots solutions…
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When it comes to connecting diabetes devices and assuring that they can “talk to each other,” the small but mighty startup Glooko is making surprising progress. But it’s doing so with what is essentially a clever workaround — the first and only plug-in cable between popular glucose meter models and the iPhone/iPod, which debuted in November 2011.
Touting the motto “free your data” (sorely needed!), Palo Alto, CA-based Glooko has been busy on Amazon.com selling…
To my mind, the DiabetesMine Innovation Summit I’ve hosted the last two years is not a “conference.” Rather, in the true tradition of a “Summit,” it aims to bring key decision-makers and other folks passionate about diabetes care together in one room for some very frank conversations about where we are now, what needs improvement, and how we can get to a better place as quickly as possible.
On that note, the Pharma executives and…