I don’t know about anyone else, but I find this development quite encouraging.
Sounds promising, but, having been in IT all my life, I don’t get excited by “vaporware” – when I see an FDA approval, I’ll be more interested…
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I agree, but it is something to keep an eye on. If they can make something along that line that actually works accurately enough to be useful, I would buy it.
I’d wear it - looks like a Swiss Army knife of health concerns are covered. As long as it’s not too costly and not a replacement for actual testing I think sounds like a Fitbit.
I think this is actually being marketed more as a health/fitness wearable. The plus side is that they don’t have to get FDA regulatory approval. Also may mean, though, that the first people wearing it are the beta testers. They’ll likely use all the data they get from those people to refine their algorithms and device – assuming they don’t go broke before then.
Personally, I suspect that the next diabetes technologies may come up in the wearables/fitness sector for people who are uber health conscious. They are allowed to market things of questionable accuracy, and then tweak incrementally. It’s much more expensive for Dexcom to get something approved – and then it’s priced so that the average curious person can’t just wear one.
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anyone familiar with what
photoplethysmograph PPG
is ?
Possibly can respond to quantity of glucose, or changes in concentration, giving a thermometer type reading. Or maybe like the original BG Chem strips that we compared to a color chart, reporting 80-120, 120-180, etc.
@MM1, I was curious about this too. I think photoplethysmography is a system where you use changes in the light reflected back from the skin as a proxy for changes in volume of blood, which then I ?guess? can tell you about blood glucose levels (although I can’t imagine there are not a ton of equations in between those two steps).
I looked on Pubmed and found a few articles about it.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6579/aa50cf/meta
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“FDA considers noninvasive and minimally invasive glucose devices that are intended to measure, monitor, or predict blood glucose levels in diabetics to be high-risk medical devices. These devices will have a significant potential impact on the medical care of people with diabetes.”
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Color me skeptical. I followed the links to the company that makes the smart watches and it was very hard to actually find any information about their products. With statements like this on their website, “Our devices are designed to benefit mankind,” it’s hard to take them seriously.
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