Mobile diabetes management via a handheld device

This is a story from Health Data Management (Mobile Tech):

London-based Think Positive Diabetes Wireless has developed a diabetes management system that can be used on smart phones.

The device includes a blood glucose monitor, and the device can store and transmit the data to the company's secure Web site.

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Comments

[James Taylor]

This is interesting but I think this kind of mobile monitoring needs more than just reporting to become truly useful. Reporting on the data is great for someone who is experienced in managing their diabetes but less so for someone who is not. If the data was processed against a set of rules (established both by medical best practice and the patient's own doctor) and perhaps analyzed using predictive models (to show abnormal variations from the patient's history) then recommended actions/interventions could be triggered.
A company with a similar device for monitoring heart patients (Kiwok) is doing this (http://www.edmblog.com/weblog/2006/11/using_business_.html) and I have blogged a couple of times about the need to add decisioning to make mobile healthcare really work (http://www.edmblog.com/weblog/2006/10/mobile_monitori.html) in the Healthcare section of my blog(http://www.edmblog.com/weblog/healthcare/index.html).

[Kevin McMahon]

All of this already exists (limited to the US market so far) including the mobile diagnostic device for blood glucose, a rules engine for filtering and relevance, clinical algorithms to govern information distribution based on the data and a patient-centric social networking program focus.

A whitepaper describing 4 years experience by a leading endocrinologist can be downloaded here:
http://www.diabetech.net/pdf/Diabetech.Stephen.Ponder.CMO.MD.CDE.realizing.proactive.diabetes.care.pdf

A description of the patient's day in the life when involved with the program is located here:
http://www.diabetech.net/pilot.html

A description of the production GlucoMON(R) device is located here:
http://www.diabetech.net/glucomon.html

For those of you attending ADA Scientific this year, I was invited to speak on the 24th about this as a new model for extending the capabilities of healthcare providers.

[Kevin McMahon]

All of this already exists (limited to the US market so far) including the mobile diagnostic device for blood glucose, a rules engine for filtering and relevance, clinical algorithms to govern information distribution based on the data and a patient-centric social networking program focus.

A whitepaper describing 4 years experience by a leading endocrinologist can be downloaded here:
http://www.diabetech.net/pdf/Diabetech.Stephen.Ponder.CMO.MD.CDE.realizing.proactive.diabetes.care.pdf

A description of the patient's day in the life when involved with the program is located here:
http://www.diabetech.net/pilot.html

A description of the production GlucoMON(R) device is located here:
http://www.diabetech.net/glucomon.html

For those of you attending ADA Scientific this year, I was invited to speak on the 24th about this as a new model for extending the capabilities of healthcare providers.