Diabetes Mobile Apps are now numerous, but lack key features

[Northerner]

When it comes to the potential for digital health to radically improve chronic medical conditions, diabetes leads the discussion. Despite being an obvious market and the existence of literally thousands of apps claiming to assist with diabetes management, the diabetes app market remains relatively immature, with no clear dominating market leader. Therefore, researchers in Germany conducted a systematic review of diabetes apps for iOS and Android to assess the options currently available on the market (as of April 2013), looking specifically at cost/functionality/target market. Furthermore, given the fact that a majority of the diabetic population is over 50 years old, they additionally performed a focused usability assessment for the elderly on a 10% representative sample of the market.

http://www.imedicalapps.com/2014/06/diabetes-mobile-apps-features/

 

[trophywench]

An app where you could take a photo of food on your plate and it would offer helpful advice would be good.

So eg show it a jam doughnut and it could say 'Not the best plan, Jenny' (to quote my DSN LOL) rather than saying 'Noooooooooooooo - you is far too fat already!' would be the sort of thing that I think most of us could find helpful.

ROFLMAO