Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
There exists a gap today between the technology we use and the practices we deploy to manage diabetes. This is because in addition to regular glucose tracking, diabetes management requires effective communication between patients and their healthcare professionals. While blood glucose meters, insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) have evolved to allow people with the condition to live healthier lives than ever before, the enormous amounts of inaccessible data within these tools have led to a communication breakdown between patients and their physicians. How can this be?
Widespread adoption of glucose self-tracking and the technological tools that assist in this behavior is only one part of the greater diabetes management problem. The second, and more difficult issue, is how can people with diabetes communicate the data gathered by these technologies to physicians and diabetes educators, who use it to give feedback and refine treatment plans for their patients. For too many people, there is a gap between the data gathered from blood glucose meters and insulin pumps and the accessibility of that data. The lack of accessibility leads to a communication gap that keeps diabetes measurement from becoming diabetes management, and this is what needs innovation most of all.
http://www.medgadget.com/2013/03/fr...ication-breakdown-in-diabetes-technology.html
Widespread adoption of glucose self-tracking and the technological tools that assist in this behavior is only one part of the greater diabetes management problem. The second, and more difficult issue, is how can people with diabetes communicate the data gathered by these technologies to physicians and diabetes educators, who use it to give feedback and refine treatment plans for their patients. For too many people, there is a gap between the data gathered from blood glucose meters and insulin pumps and the accessibility of that data. The lack of accessibility leads to a communication gap that keeps diabetes measurement from becoming diabetes management, and this is what needs innovation most of all.
http://www.medgadget.com/2013/03/fr...ication-breakdown-in-diabetes-technology.html