Artificial Pancreas Could Be Operated by a Smartphone
From: Medical Design Technology - 12/03/2015
By: Sam Brusco

Researchers from the University of Virginia school of medicine is looking to
further automate artificial pancreas technology by using a smartphone to
control it all. Thanks to a $3.4 million dollar grant from the National
Institutes of Health, the team will combine a digital glucose monitor with a
digital insulin pump, allowing communication in real time leveraging
algorithms and cloud-based computing. This will permit high quality
collection of data as well as on-demand telemedicine service.

Hopefully, the device will be able to instantly monitor blood glucose levels
and send the data to a remote monitoring site, connecting the user with
telemedicine assistance as it is needed. Not only will this prevent annoying
finger pricks to test blood sugar levels, but it will provide a complete
solution to diabetes management, all the way down to clinical repsonse to
adverse events.

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