First Ever Wireless Diabetes Management System
Poster Presentation from Diabetes Technology Meeting November 2003.

This is a Poster Presentation - an academic presentation of clinical research regarding the first ever documented diabetes management trial that used wireless data collection, remote analysis and wireless feedback in what I like to call the “Virtual-Loop”. This experience was of course gained prior to the day of the Blog so I thought a repost was in order. What the research showed was promise in the system design and a hint at how high the bar is set when it comes to collecting accurate diabetes patient data.

The® was launched in this trial and it has evolved twice now based on 4 and a half years of field experience working with actual patients. Stephen Ponder, a practicing pediatric endo in South Texas, has more experience than any physician in the world on this stuff and he published his several years of experience with automated diabetes management systems including the wireless GlucoMON here.

While LifeComm is an exciting announcement, there is no substitute for a comprehensive diabetes program that incorporates MVNO services (including specialized wireless medical devices and wireless service) as well as a real-time care management system, high quality blood screening and A1c measurements, dynamic education and diabetes educator interventions. While LifeComm will someday offer devices and airtime, our healthcordia diabetes program does it all today.
Done wrong, we’ve seen how other trials of similar technologies can be viewed by the patient as intrusive, big brother-’ish’ and even silly. Done right, you have a great out of the box experience, a reliable and easy to use device and a GlucoDYNAMIX-ADMS finely tuned to specific patient profiles and various phases of the patient’s disease. When LifeComm is ready, we’ll most certainly give it a shot at certification.

But as I said before, people with diabetes have set the bar very high.

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