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Read More »An App that Predicts Low Blood Sugars Three Hours in Advance
IBM and Medtronic team up to produce an app to predict hypos, which is 80-90% accurate. The app uses the IBM Watson supercomputer – the same one that won "Jeopardy,"
Read More »Diabetes Manager
Diabetes Manager is an all-in-one insulin calculator, carbohydrate database, favorites database, and diary. It is developed for people with type 1 diabetes who inject pre-meal fast or rapid-acting insulin.
Read More »Doximity Physician Network
Doximity, the largest medical professional network in the US, is now available for Apple Watch. Read, reply and save precious time on messaging and faxing right from your wrist.
Read More »Diabetes in Pregnancy – Gestational Diabetes Logbook and Manager
Got gestational diabetes? This App helps you track all of the factors that keep your blood sugar balanced during and after your pregnancy. Log nutrition and exercise information as well as oral medications and insulin.
Read More »What Motivates People to Use Technologies for Tracking Health?
As we all know, it is easy to start out with good intentions to be more active or manage diabetes better, but it’s much more difficult to follow through and stick with such changes so that they become sustainable. While some studies have recently shown that newer devices like the Fitbit can increase physical activity adherence, the real question is, will using the latest health information technologies be motivating enough for most people to continue doing it long-term?
Read More »Meal Memory
Meal Memory is a new approach to nutrition tracking. It helps diabetes patients understand how each meal affects them by displaying blood sugar readings from before and after eating.
Read More »Obesity-Linked Diabetes in Children on the Rise in the US
Obesity and the form of diabetes linked to it are taking an even worse toll on America’s youths than medical experts had realized. As obesity rates in children have climbed, so has the incidence of Type 2 diabetes. According to the American Diabetes Association there are 29.1 million people diagnosed with diabetes in US, of which 208,000 are under the age of 20.
Read More »Equations Developed to Determine Blindness, Limb Amputation Risks
Diabetes patients tend to overestimate complications risk, treatment benefits.
Read More »Healthy Food Access May Foster Better Diabetes Management
Study cites pantries as beneficial point of intervention for low-income population.
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