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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Frustrated patients and their families are starting to meddle with medical devices to make them more useful, a Wall Street Journal story says.
It centers around Jason Adams, a businessman-turned-citizen hacker because he wanted to track his 8-year-old daughter’s blood glucose levels. She wears DexCom’s continuous glucose monitor, but the device doesn’t transmit blood sugar data to the internet – so Adams found a way to do it anyway.
Adams discovered NightScout, “a system cobbled together by a constellation of software engineers, many with diabetic children, who were frustrated by the limitations of current technology,” the subscription-only story says. The open-source system hacks into the DexCom device, uploads its data online and allows caregivers to check their beloved diabetics’ blood sugar levels remotely. In Adams’ case, he checks Ella’s glucose on his Pebble smartwatch.
http://medcitynews.com/2014/09/diy-...izen-hackers-adding-upgrades-medical-devices/
It centers around Jason Adams, a businessman-turned-citizen hacker because he wanted to track his 8-year-old daughter’s blood glucose levels. She wears DexCom’s continuous glucose monitor, but the device doesn’t transmit blood sugar data to the internet – so Adams found a way to do it anyway.
Adams discovered NightScout, “a system cobbled together by a constellation of software engineers, many with diabetic children, who were frustrated by the limitations of current technology,” the subscription-only story says. The open-source system hacks into the DexCom device, uploads its data online and allows caregivers to check their beloved diabetics’ blood sugar levels remotely. In Adams’ case, he checks Ella’s glucose on his Pebble smartwatch.
http://medcitynews.com/2014/09/diy-...izen-hackers-adding-upgrades-medical-devices/