Savvy Closed Loop Update, January 2017

Savvy Closed Loop Update, January 2017

FROM Diatribe.org, 12/14/2016 : When JDRF started the Artificial Pancreas Project in 2006, the idea of automating insulin delivery using a standard insulin pump, a CGM, and a control algorithm seemed crazy to many patients. Even back in the early 2000s, researchers...
SAVVY UPDATES 1/10/2017:  Fun Tidbits

SAVVY UPDATES 1/10/2017: Fun Tidbits

A WOMAN with TYPE1 is the Next UK Prime Minister!  Thanks to InsulinNation, Theresa May became prime minister of the United Kingdom in July 2016! May was diagnosed with T1 in November 2012 at age 56, and uses daily insulin injections. Read more: Will a Woman with Type...
Savvy NEW Apps

Savvy NEW Apps

I recently attended the DiabetesMine D-Data Exchange and Innovation Summit at UCSF.  Several app developers displayed their new products … just so you know what’s out there.   Sugar.IQ (a collaboration between Medtronic and IBM Watson) uses Medtronic...
Savvy Year End Appreciations PLUS a HOLIDAY OFFER!

Savvy Year End Appreciations PLUS a HOLIDAY OFFER!

During the holidays and at year’s end, we often review the past year, recalling the high points, giving thanks for surviving the low points, and giving appreciation to those in our lives who have been there for us, providing joy and love to us. Last year, I designed...
Savvy about PBMs: Are They Causing Prices to Skyrocket?

Savvy about PBMs: Are They Causing Prices to Skyrocket?

Here a most interesting overview of prescription benefit managers (PBMs), which drug companies fear now, but consumer advocates might grow to fear, which appeared in InsulinNation, by Jim Cahill, a senior writer for Insulin Nation and Type 2 Nation. Before turning to...
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