FTNW: Data Standards

Here are a few quick links that help make the case for data standards, not just for diabetes management but in the larger health context. I particularly like this little comment about standards as "a path out of high-cost, locked proprietary systems in the end-to-end ecosystem."

http://www.cmio.net/index.php?option=com_articles&article=27860&publication=56&view=portals

http://www.technewsdaily.com/biometric-sensor-networks-health-2711/

FTNW: Bluetooth BG & Nokia

From MobiHealthNews:

Nokia has teamed up with Entra Health Systems to release a similar app that works with a Bluetooth-enabled glucose meter and on more than 50 Nokia phones.

Officially, Nokia has inked a deal with Entra Health Systems to include Entra’s MyGlucoHealth app in the Nokia Ovi Store, but the app enables users to transmit blood glucose testing results from a MyGlucoHealth Wireless meter through the user’s mobile phone to a personal health record. Here’s the official description from the Ovi Store:

“The MyGlucoHealth Mobile diabetes management system permits blood glucose testing results on the MyGlucoHealth Wireless meter to be transmitted from your mobile phone to your personal health record portal using Bluetooth technology. Patients can also review their most recent blood sugar test results, view line charts, pie charts and histograms, as well as enter, fitness, weight, exercise and nutritional data.”

FTNW: mHealth in Spain, France

From MobiHealthNews: Carriers pushing mHealth in Spain, France

Bluetooth glucometer: Vodafone owned t+Medical has already conducted 20 clinical trials with healthcare providers in the UK, US, and Dubai. One of the trials includes the use of a Bluetooth-enabled glucose meter for diabetes patients. The study found the patients improved their blood sugar levels when using the device and it also helped physicians monitor more patients.