A revolutionary new process to manage your diabetes

The announcement was made in December. A new process to manage diabetes was born. It is the result of the combination of iHealth and MySugr, two pioneering companies in the field of smart health connected health. This breakthrough should make the lives of many people with diabetes easier.

The healthcare industry is full of challenges for developers of smart health connected objects. Because it is difficult to manage on a daily basis and it affects 285 million people worldwide – 6.6% of the world's adult population (2010 figures) – Diabetes presents itself as a central subject, dealt with by developers of smart health connected health objects. Google has already shown its interest in finding solutions to improve the daily lives of people affected by this disease.

In line with Google, which offered lenses and patches allowing real-time medical monitoring of patients, two other companies worked to offer a new way to control and consult their blood sugar level. On the one hand, iHealth, presented as a pioneer in smart health connected health offering a range of useful products such as blood pressure monitors, smart health connected scales or activity bracelets. The other, MySugr, company developing smartphone and web apps to help manage diabetes of its 500,000 users worldwide.

A whole log book that can be viewed on a smartphone

In reality, iHealth's know-how has been grafted onto the already existing MySugr application, ultimately giving an innovative, intelligent and extremely practical precedent. A whole follow-up book is available and can be consulted on the application iHealth Gluco-Smart. After taking their reading using the iHealth glucometer, the user only has to manually enter their data, transferred via Bluetooth. After which the program automatically takes care of analyzing them before restoring them in the form of clear and precise graphics.

Thus, at any time, the patient can consult his blood glucose readings and follow its variations via the application on his smartphone or tablet. So much data that can be shared with the doctor treating the internet. In addition to that, the application is responsible for sending an alert to its user when he forgets to perform his glycemic control. The synchronization of these two tools also aims to avoid errors related to manual data entry on the mySugr application.

For educational reasons, the mySugr.com site even offers online course to learn how to manage your diabetes. Illustrated and very playful, they are above all intended for children who will however have to know how to speak English or German; the site only offering these two languages ​​at the moment.

“Be more independent”

In an interview relayed by santeconnectee.com, Uwe Diegel, President of iHealth Europe explains the approach targeted by this new process. " To manage diabetes well it is not the data that must be managed but the patients. smart health connected health is not only the future of medicine but a reality today. It’s a tool that offers diabetic patients a way to be more independent through apps that allow them to become an actor of their own health ".

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The integration of iHealth Gluco with the mySugr application is already available in North America and Europe, downloadable from Apple Store and Google Play services. A free trial version is even available at https://mysugr.com/com/. To acquire Health Gluco, however, you must go to a pharmacy, the product is not yet authorized for sale online in France.

If this new process must still confront the reality of users, it outlines the lines of a future offering more efficient health monitoring, closer to patients, integrating smart health connected objects at the heart of health.

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