Not the most creative or orignal title I am sure, but big news comes out of Apple today with the release of their new iPhone OS 3.0 event. And it’s quite exciting for the PWD (people with diabetes) and especially the geeky ones, like me. Though I’m not an iPhone user, I’m a huge Apple fan (Macbook Pro user). Apple has partnered with Lifescan and Johnson & Johnson companies and have created a prototype iPhone app for diabetes management and have announced that there will be an app that will transmit your glucose meter readings to your iPhone wirelessly (or via connector).
Some other features of the app will include:
- Marks for fasting, before meal and after meal.
- The ability to add notes.
- A meal builder app to estimate glucose levels.
- And then the ability to calculate insulin doses.
- Medical reminders that can be “pushed” thru text message reminders.
All of this information is grapevine information…meaning this is what I have read and interpreted thru other people’s blog posts and what the web sites have said directly. So, please don’t take my word as gospel on this as I encourage you to research things on your own. However, this is a big deal for medical device technology and makes diabetes just a little bit cooler.
