My wife uses the libre - it works well (extremely well in the low area)
I get up multiple times at night to check on her
IMHO I would rather just lose sleep them monkey around with transmitters and all the other nonsense involved with dex.
When the libre T2 comes to the USA my way will have paid off
That’s the goal of most companies–to make money…I don’t know why some of you don’t expect that.
Expectation and acceptance are two different things.
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Is The Goal Of A Corporation To Make Money?
Steve DenningSenior Contributor
A growing number of companies have chosen a different goal. They see their bottom line as something radically different. Delighting their customers through continuous innovation has become their bottom line. Making money is the result, not the goal, of their activities. The interesting thing is that when they operate this way, they make a lot more money than companies that focus directly on making money.
I feel like these should be moved to the is Dexcom imploding or being run by Dr evil? Thread
The Dexcom imploding thread is on fudiabetes…my apologies
Yeah, but I expect and accept it.
Pure realism and idealism will seldom agree. Fortunately, most of us reside somewhere between those polar philosophies. I tend toward the idealistic side since I believe many of the improvements we enjoy in modern life were conceived and inspired by idealism. Dreamers are idealists.
Having said that, I fully realize that a great idea is often best implemented by people who are more realistic. I expect that companies like Dexcom will primarily focus on the bottom line. I don’t accept, however, that giving due consideration to other bottom lines, like their customers, employees or the environment necessarily detracts from their central profit motivation.
In some things, I’m an idealist, and for others I’m far more the realist.
The most accurate meter (9.83 MARD*, as I recall) is the Contour Next One. Unfortunately, they have not kept current with Bluetooth, so the only way to load readings is via USB, which you can do on a cellular phone (Android, at least ) if you install the Glooko app. (* Mean Absolute Relative Difference)
For those interested in MARDs: Significance and Reliability of MARD for the Accuracy of CGM Systems - PubMed
The Contour Next One’s low MARD is important because CGMs have to use an example of Bayesian statistics, in that its readings are a two-stage process: In the G5, it’s 20 percents (forget the points part of the rule for now) of the meter reading. Therefore, the final reading has an error range of the 20% meter error range. This explains the increased inaccuracy of the G6 since its reading allows up to 30% of the meter’s accuracy range. (FYI, the reason G6 had to use 30% was an FDA insistence based on its 30% maximum allowance for glucose meters to accommodate those D6 users who use codes rather than blood calibrations.)
I’m with Dave here, a business is in business to make money.
They will cease to exist if they don’t make money.
I wonder if they will let Type2 ‘s on injectable drugs use this when it comes out. My insurance/ Medicare has me on the Onetouch Reveal AP. I do like it. Since they won’t pay for anything else. Nancy50
My CDE said (on July 8) it’s coming very soon! And I hope the cost stays manage
able.