WHAT: The launch of myMedtronic Connect, a new free mobile application to give on-the-go support for customers with diabetes who use insulin pumps or continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems.
Key features of the app include:
myOrder for ordering insulin pump and CGM supplies and accessories from the Medtronic online store
Helpful Tools including video tutorials, troubleshooting tips, and a place to save pump settings
The ability to set reminders for changing infusion sets or sensors, checking blood glucose, or ordering supplies
Travel tools including a check list and travel tips
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WHO: The app was developed for U.S. Medtronic customers with diabetes who use insulin pumps or continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems.
WHEN: myMedtronic Connect is available as of today, August 3, 2011.
WHERE: The app can be downloaded free of charge on iTunes.
WHY: Diabetes is a complex disease to manage. Medtronic is committed to providing products and support resources that simplify diabetes management so that customers can spend less time on their diabetes and more time enjoying life. myMedtronic is just one part of Medtronic’s broader connectivity strategy to provide our customers and their loved ones with technologies to better and more conveniently manage diabetes.
Learned via the app – did you know they have a travel loaner program, and will loan US customers a backup pump if you travel internationally, or to Alaska or Hawaii???
When is Medtronic going to give us an app that is compatible with Carelink? I really want the ability to be able to enter info into my Carelink data that I cannot enter in via my pump. For example, I can put an “exercise” marker in at the exact time I’m exercising, but what about retroactively going back in and noting that I had a low or exercised earlier in the day? If I could log in via my iPhone, I could do just that!!
I love Carelink, but the ability to not enter in more data when you’re ON THE GO really limits the use of the data system for me. I need to be able to go in via my phone and enter in what I ate, how much I ate, and any other notes that can supplement and help make sense of all my data. That would be a HUGE help.
Please, please Medtronic - make this improvement!!!
I checked it out on the web page. But can’t use it. I don’t have a iphone. Call me when you get it all together.
Did see something on there for travel/time change benefits. That would be useful.
