Call for Input: Diabetes Technology Tools

Not sure if this is strictly relevant to the topic, but I'm gonna throw it in here anyway. Feel free to move it if needed.

This isn't so much a tool as it is a question. Why hasn't there been any integration between CGMS systems & insulin pumps with mobile phones? The increasing reliance on multiple devices to effectively manage diabetes makes mobile phones seem like a perfect solution to the problem of too many devices. Newer phones have the network tools, processing power, & storage to easily handle such simple menus/calculations/interactions with insulin pumps & CGMS systems. And the resulting data from the phones could be stored in the cloud so it was viewable by the user or doctor, as well as integrating the data with other users' data streams to help aggregate & potentially do large-scale trend analysis on it.

On the surface it seems like a real game-changer for both the diabetic & the medical device establishment. So why hasn't it happened? Can anyone please fill me in on what I'm missing here? Is it a regulatory issue? If so then why haven't other countries done it?

If no company gets on this soon I may just do it myself. Or invest in a Batman-style utility belt.

I have another place I read where its all technology and some developers are on there building and advertising all the sites http://tudiabetes.com/group/geekswithdiabetes
Also this guy http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottsDiabetesE...

Sorry, I just saw this. My doc downloads my meter info onto her computer and I get part of the read out. I do not have the cables and info to do it but would love to give it a try for some company wanting feedback. I use an updated contour meter.

Turtle

Our software product, the GI Meal Planner (www.glycemicdietsw.com) allows the user to discover not only the Glycemic Index, but also carbs, protein, saturated fat, and total fat of a meal & the entire day.
It is available for the PC or Mac and the iPhone, Blackberry, Google/Android, and Nokia Ovi store, and soon the Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows Mobile, etc.

Is it free?

The Diabetes Meal Planner is $13.95.

I'd think an Excel spreadsheet could do all that if you didn't particularly need it online.

So far I've just been using the logs that came with my meters and boy is there a variance in those.

Of course there is the new in home A1C tester, I've read about it but haven't tried it.

At the clinic the other day they did a new, or at least new to them, test that is similar to the A1C but uses a smaller time frame, 3 weeks instead of 3 months. I don't have a clue what it is called but they did one when they were trying to adjust my insulin last month.

Freestyle meters used to have a way to link your meter to a website but they stopped that several months ago. They might reenable it one of these days.

I use my PDA to keep track of it from day to day
Online just takes to long to keep it posted for me

Have you looked into Project Diabetes. AFter my summer travels are over I plan to use it to keep track of food, exercise, insulin and bs numbers
Betsie

I used spark people for a while logging food. The problem I see is I want to have all the food logging capabilities of spark people and also features for logging blood sugar, exercise and medication/insulin. It would be very useful to be able to log a meal, log the amount of insulin taken, log before and after glucose readings and be able to look at the whole picture rather than log part of it here, part of it there and have some of it on your meter.

It seems that insulin pump manufactures have missed a trick. Most of them have the exact functionality I would want on their pump PDAs so sticking it on the web with some added functionality would seem to be a no brainier.