More and more stories that we read or come from patients with type 1 diabetes who control their glycemia with the Apple Healthkit, an application for iPhone and Iwach that together with the continuous glucose monitor allows you to have real time readings of our glycemia both inThe smartphone that goes in our pocket, as in the wrist if the last article presented by the apple company is available.
Now, as always the stories that come from patients with diabetes who already use the Apple Healthkit reach us from the other side of the Atlantic.
Apple Healthkit stories that have teenagers or children as protagonists and how can they be otherwise their parents, who claim to feel calmer to know in real time the glycemic situation of their children.
The first story takes us to Standford, there, Rajiv Kumar, pediatric endocrinologist at the Stanford Lucile Packard Hospital, has access to the blood sugar readings of the teenager Blake thanks to Apple Healthkit, a health data system that Apple launched theSeptember 2014 and that allows with a high level of safety sharing the data generated by patients with third -party applications, such as the continued glucose monitor of Dexcom or the electronic medical history.But it also allows you from your device connected to the cynical ask for time with your specialist.A series of comforts that make management more efficient and short in time.
According to Kumar, thanks to Apple Healthkit, endocrine can “easily evaluate large volumes of sugar data and guide new insulin treatments almost in real time, this allows us to spend more time with our patients and their parents.”
The operation is simple.Patients like Blake carry a continuous glucose monitor that sends 288 blood sugar readings a day to an Apple mobile device through Bluetooth.The data is transmitted safely through Apple Healthkit to the patient's electronic medical history and is in turn connected to the health management applications of medical centers.
Aimee Fuller, mother of a child with diabetes, suddenly changed her life when she found a caretaker for her 9 -year -old son who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the Apple Healthkit.
Since then things like sleeping away from home, going to the summer camp and even going to school suppose less fears for the family."This has drastically changed our lives for the better, which allows him to be a child for the first time since he was diagnosed," says Fuller."Now we are in a position to give him more freedom while he gives us the possibility of supporting him in the management of his insulin levels."
Two examples, two stories that we hope begin to reproduce in our territory in the least possible space.The tools are, it's a matter of starting to apply.