Google negotiates with the Pharmaceutical Novartis the design and marketing of a glucometer or glycemia meter (blood sugar concentration) by means of a slow slowdown that would have the 'straight' or device capable of perceiving that value and that would even offer thePossibility of connecting with an insulin pump that would also carry the patient with diabetes, although this extreme is not yet confirmed as an attractive work hypothesis.

This novelty has been disseminated by the Spanish engineer and biomedical Iñaki Larraya during the XXXII National Seminar-Congress of the Spanish Association of Hospital Engineering (AEIH) held in the middle of the month at the Baluarte Palace in Pamplona.Larraya himself has assured that other multinationals also compete to devise and introduce into the market the ideal glucometer for the control of this variable in patients with diabetes, case of Samsung and Apple.

On the other hand, last week it began to work - according to this engineer - his personal appdemecum project, a Vademécum of mobile health applications aimed at professionals that allows them to prescribe them to patients, who receive the recipe electronically and download itwith the help of your Internet connection.It is, according to the portal itself, one of the largest health apps databases, and offers as a guarantee to have proven and selected previously.

less reactive and more personalized medicine

Larraya, who announced the initiative in the same forum, explained that, if computer technology follows the evolutionary rhythm demonstrated during the first decade of the 2000s, it will soon reach society "a less reactive medicine" and more focused on theself -care to which it has referred as "of the four p: participatory, personalized, predictive and preventive."Hence the idea of ​​creating a search engine for doctors that serves them, in turn, to recommend the applications they want to their patients.

Larraya's innovative website has been inspired, according to him he has pointed out, in some polls carried out among hundreds of patients from whom it follows that many of them do not use apps related to their pathology but would do so in the case ofMay a health professional prescribe them.

Specifically, the engineer cited a study conducted last September of the United States to 979 patients in which they were questioned about whether they resorted, in their daily lives, some way to monitor their vital constants or other variables of medical interest (for example the weight or diet) with the help of Wereable devices (devices that are incorporated into the body and interact with the user) or apps.

Of the respondents, 25.1 percent said that, in effect, it took advantage of this technology (of these, 11 percent made use of wereables and, the rest, of apps);44.3 percent did not use them but would do it if a healthcare professional prescribed it;And finally, 57.1 percent responded that it would use them if that translated into premiums or bonuses for your health insurance.