Devices

“SweynTooth”  vulnerability: While we continue to worry about the coronavirus, a new concern has popped on the diabetes device horizon. Given that all the toys now talk with the cloud and the other toys the FDA seems to be taking a more active role regarding cybersecurity.   This week the FDA …

Automated insulin delivery can soon replace insulin injections completely. 

Can the Internet change how we can improve diabetes care?  

Does continuous monitoring mean continuous improvement?

Patients with type 2 diabetes routinely use self-monitoring of blood glucose, but what if there was a better option?

Getting patients to new standard CGM targets will prevent complications and hypoglycemia.

This approval is an example of artificial intelligence being used to improve the health of our patients with diabetes and will get us closer to a true artificial pancreas.

Which sites of continuous monitoring provide the most accurate, sensitive, and specific real-time values of blood glucose?

As the incidence of diabetes increases, insulin use can reasonably be expected to increase, and the mistakes will no doubt increase as well. Insulin is a very powerful medication, and some of these mistakes will require the ambulance, the hospital, or worse.

When using monitored glucose values to alter treatment plans, patients with type 1 diabetes may need to change their monitoring regimen.