I was just reading up on Kerri’s recent blog entry and I’m afraid she isn’t that unusual when you look across the broad range of people with diabetes. She’s busy and diabetes tends to take a back seat until something serious comes around.

Here are a few suggestions for Kerri and the millions of people with diabetes like her:

Make sure you never go more than 3 months without getting your A1c.

With our HomeCheck kit you can get the highest quality A1c available in about 3 minutes from home. Just order online and mail it in. Voila - you now have a pretty good idea how things are going (vs last time) and can use that info to nudge yourself in the direction of your friendly neighborhood physician for your regular appointments as needed.

Bernard Farrell did a video review of our HomeCheck and posted it online at his blog here with the video shown below hosted on YouTube:

Find a way to easily track and identify blood sugar trends.

You can use a GlucoMON to automatically handle your logging and generate reports that allow for easy identification of blood glucose trends and to perform pattern analysis.  People who use the GlucoMON say that this only takes them about 1 minute a week with the GlucoMON when it used to take them 1 hour each month before.

And because it’s so easy they are actually managing this information on a weekly basis vs monthly.  Better information leads to better choices. You can read a GlucoMON product review by David Mendosa here and then subscribe or click on the link to his complete review at healthcentral.com

Leverage the power of the diabetes community as you seek reimbursement for new diabetes tools.

If you are going to pursue use of the new continuous glucose monitoring systems, you will most likely need to fight your insurance company to get reimbursed.  Fortunately there is an online resource sponsored by Diabetech called CGMSCENTRAL located at

http://cgmscentral.com  Everyone going after reimbursement one at a time is a very slow process. If there was a way to share information amongst the entire community the process of successfully securing reimbursement will go much faster. To be armed with knowledge is to be armed.

What else do you need to simplify diabetes?

If there are other areas of diabetes care that need simplification you should comment below.  After all, if you want things done you might as well tell someone (Diabetech) who has a track record of delivering a simplified version of diabetes care.

(psssst…. Kerri if you read this give me a call and I can set you up for a trial and see if we can make it easier for you to regain those good habits.)

…and yet another entrant in the race to continuous non-invasive sensing

http://www.echotx.com/SonoPrep+Continuous+Glucose+Monitoring

Wow…this could be a full-time job keeping up with the world of diabetes technology concept companies. On the one hand this is good. On the other hand, how many are dedicated to improving lives vs. delivering a quick exit for their investors? Let’s hope that Echo is committed and at least one of their platforms will make it into the hands of people while improving lives.

Thanks to Terri Mauro over at About.com and Guide of the Parenting Special Needs Blog chose CGMSCentral.com as its site of the day a couple of weeks ago (too much turkey I guess…zzzzzzz). Anyway, it’s great to get recognized for something that we’re all very passionate about here; getting insurance coverage for patients in need of the new continuous glucose monitoring systems.

In addition, I also noticed that we grabbed a spot on the home page of Childrenwithdiabetes.com today.

And there was a nice article by Amy Tenderich at DiabetesMine.com a week or so ago referring to my candid thoughts on the all elusive ‘codes’ coming soon to an insurance carrier near you.

So what are you waiting for? Hit CGMSCentral.com and create or join the editing process of the definitive cgms reimbursement page for your insurance carrier. Don’t forget to clarify which plan since that’s where coverage is actually determined.