At the iPhone 3.0 operating system preview show at Apple headquarters today, a representative from J&J described how the new phone software allows integration with its BG monitors. Macworld described the presentation thusly:
As an example, here’s a 15-year old girl who’s diabetic. She has to track glucose and give herself insulin injections. It’s lunch time: how much insulin does she have to take before her meal? She could have to do that 6 times a day; now using the iPhone, it can transmit information to her iPhone. Then she can mark the reading as Fasting, Before, or After meals and add notes. She can then go into the meal builder, and pick the type of food she’s going to have and use it to estimate how much carbohydrate she’ll be taking in; then it can help calculate the insulin dose that she needs. Better than having to do it in her head. In addition, the application can let diabetic users communicate with each other, or with caretakers, parents, doctors, etc. And she can send a message with her glucose numbers to her folks to let them know she’s okay. There’s also a history view of all of her readings that lets her help track her condition; there’s a graphic representation as well. You can tap on a dot and get an idea of why there are outliers, and figure out why certain readings are out of range.
Interesting stuff. I’d certainly love to see Omnipod integration!