LifeScan Diabetes Management for Apple's iPhone

Some may want to try this so it is good to put it out in the open. Some people though are technologically challenged like me so this will have to include a good customer service and support system in place. This gadget is good because it calculates the sugar consumption in real time.

Evelyn Guzman
Free Diabetes
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This is a good move from lifescan, however this is nothing new. This has already been done in the past. Therasense had a handspring module for the Visor that did glucose monitoring with the PDA. Also Accuchek have a Palm OS application (pocket compass) that does logbook and graph plotting from IR uploads from the meter (and accuchek pumps) to the handheld. Lifescan should make instead a 30pin ipod mudule that does glucose monitoring, and use the ipod as a meter.

"During our interview Detmers noted that the demonstration yesterday was of a prototype application that LifeScan created specifically for the event to show what medical devices can do when connected with iPhone 3.0. Detmers stressed that the demo was not meant to represent a fully-defined commercial product that is imminent. Apple asked LifeScan just a few weeks ago to create a prototype for the event and LifeScan was all too happy to participate, but a product like the one shown is not on the verge of a commercial launch."
The entire interview with Dave Detmers, LifeScan’s Director of Communications:
http://mobihealthnews.com/973/interview-lifescan-on-iphone-30/

This year is pretty reach for new releases of iPhone apps for health care industry. This is one of the fats growing sections of AppStore. We also put our 2 cents into this trend. I invite you to check out the new application UTS Diabetes for Apple iPhone:
It appeared in AppStore just about a week ago.

iPhone platform allowed us to implement several new ideas that we couldn't implement before on Palm or RIM. We even submitted this app to DiabetesMine Design Challenge 2009 this May.