Are you or is someone you love Diabetic and having trouble keeping your Hgb A1c under control despite taking your medications and eating healthy? Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease that is considered a global public health problem. Education and self-monitoring by diabetic patients result in better glycemic control reducing morbidity and mortality. The increasing use of cell phones makes them a powerful platform to help provide patient specific management, delivered conveniently to patients through Diabetes management apps. In researching this topic I have found many examples of people with Diabetes reaching out in frustration due to the difficulty they are having managing the stresses of life and maintaining a healthy blood sugar. I hope that the information provided on Diabetic cell phone apps will help others to understand the impact and choose to at least try to utilize an app in obtain control of the disease.
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Did you know that there are Diabetes blog communities all over the world? Wouldn’t it be great to share best practices of innovative ideas that work for Diabetic patients from different corners of the globe? The diabetes.co.uk website is an global diabetes community offering connectivity with over 250,000 people with a common interest in Diabetes care and management. The website offers education regarding prediabetes, Type I and Type II Diabetes, food and recipes, living with Diabetes, treatment, complications and insurance. The website also offers a Diabetes forum on multiple topics of interest where people can share information with one another. Anyone can join to receive the newsletter and an ask a question window to submit a question to the community. The article attached is specifically describes the top rated diabetes apps for both iphones and androids. The apps listed are Carbs and Cals, Glucose Buddy, DAFNE Online, Insulin Dose Calculator Pro and On Track. There is user feedback as well as cost, apps available by type of phone and an ongoing list of what people are typically looking for in a phone app.
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What is it about Diabetes apps that people think is so helpful? Will the use of an app solve all of my problems with managing my Diabetes? App Grooves focuses on phone applications and their usefulness of their intent. App Grooves has evaluated the best diabetes tracking apps on the market today that make managing your condition easier. The apps featured record your dietary intake and exercise, keep track of doctor's appointments and medications, and monitor glucose levels to make your life simpler. The apps featured are OneDrop, MySugr, Diabetes: M, SiDiary, DiabetesTracker, Glucose Buddy and SugarSense. Not only does the article provide a description of each app, they also include a rating, short video of how they work and a link to upload the app.
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How can a Fitbit help you manage your Diabetes? Phone apps are not the only apps that can help with monitoring your Diabetes.... Diatribe Learn is an online publication geared toward people living with Diabetes to empower its readers with useful, actionable information that gives them hope for a better future, and helps them live happier and healthier lives. This article explains what more medical providers are realizing evidence of the importance of a peer support community in effective management of Diabetes. At least one study has shown that people with diabetes who engage with online communities are more likely to have lower A1C levels and a higher quality of life. The article also lists a number of online communities specific to people living with Diabetes. Fitbit is in the process of developing interfaces with Diabetes management app companies such as, Dexcom, Medtronic, One Drop, and Sano to help integrate the functionality of calculating insulin needs based on exercise.
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Are doctor’s recommending the use of Diabetic apps? Do doctor’s really think Diabetic apps are useful and what about them do patients find most useful? This news release addresses the overwhelming number of applications built to serve a medical need. The physicans interviewed for the article stated that at most of the 200,000 applications, they recommend maybe 50. It is important that healthcare providers evaluate the validity of the application by asking questions like; Does the app reinforce medical truths that we already know? Is the app reinforcing proven treatments in medicine to help empower patients to stick to these proven treatments? Other things to think about: Who made the app? Has it been tested? Is it endorsed by a medical society and what is that society’s reputation? Apps that are not endorsed by a recognized or certified entity may not be reliable.
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What are the must have criteria for Diabetes apps? What makes them the most user friendly and effective? Healio.com is an awesome sight with so many opportunities for Diabetic patients. The focus of Healio.com is endocrine disorders, so there are many opportunities specific to Diabetes, such as blogs, up to date news releases on Diabetes breakthroughs, journals, diabetes education and a meeting calendar for support groups. The article attached explains that the four must haves for diabetes apps are; the ability to have two-way communication, use and analysis of patient-generated health data to tailor education, and the opportunity for feedback. The article also includes certain apps that contain all four of the must haves deemed necessary for optimal Diabetes management by Certified Diabetes Educators; Blue Star, Livongo, One Drop and My Sugar.
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We now live in a cyber world in which tracking out diabetes has never been easier especially with these top apps.
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Best Diabetes Apps of 2018
What are the best Diabetes apps released and projected for release in 2018?Healthline has a great article which provides ratings for the most popular Diabetic phone apps. The article provides helpful information if you are searcing for an app to help you with nutrition tips, exercise tips, food values library, glucose meters, insulin pumps and so much more this is a great reference. https://www.healthline.com/health/diabetes/top-iphone-android-apps
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American Diabetes Association and Voxiva Join Forces to Deliver Personalized Diabetes Support to Stop Diabetes® via Cell Phones
Is there a Diabetes app that is more personalized and interactive? Absolutely! Voxiva a mobile health sevices company joined forces with the American Diabetes Association to create Care4life, a mobile Diabetes app.The program uses text messages, a personal online portal and a mobile website to engage and support users as they learn about diabetes and form healthy habits. Care4life delivers education, medication and appointment reminders, blood glucose tracking, weight and exercise goal setting and tracking, healthy recipes and nutrition tips, and a virtual coach to provide motivation. The American Diabetes Association has a blog on its website where Diabetic patients can interact with one another. The ADA website also has podcasts and tons of educational materials in Spanish as well to ensure that Diabetic patients have access to everything they need to adopt a healthy lifestyle. https://community.diabetes.org/home
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Sticking to a healthy diet is the greatest challenge for many Diabetics. Is there an app that will help me determine how it will affect my sugar before I eat it? This article shares an app named GoMeals in association with Calorie King sponsored by drug manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis that calculates carbs, fats, sodium, fiber, saturated fats and calories in a log. It uses a plate method example and shows you how many carbs, fats, calories etc the person should eat each day. The app is able to pull from a huge database from Calorie King to include thousands of items from common restaurants to make it easier to calculate. The app allows you to pre calculate food options in hopes of better better food decisions and in turn decrease fluctuations in blood sugar.
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Do you have diffculty deciding what app will be the best for you? Do you wish you had a list that clearly tells you the pros and cons of each app and how much is it going to cost you? Diabetes Forecast is a great resource for Diabetic patients supported by the ADA and published bi-monthly in print and digital. The magazine offers a comment area where Diabetics can offer advice to one another, recipes, medications and emotional support. The article provides pros, cons and cost for many well known Diabetes apps such as, GlucoseBuddy, MySugr, DiabetesConnect, SugarSense, OneDrop, Diabetes and Blood Glucose Tracker (Apple); Diabetes and Diet Tracker (Android) and BG Monitor Diabetes.
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Are there apps available that will upload my blood sugar from my meter to my phone? Wouldn’t it be cool if my insulin was automatically adjusted based on what I am eating and what my current blood sugar is running? The Diabetes Forecast Website is a wealth of diabetes app knowledge available now and future planned releases in electronic apps for diabetes management. Technological advances on the horizon include a smartphone app that wirelessly communcates with the glucose meter and pump to calculate the correct amount of insulin. The downloadable app will collect glucose data, track trends, provide custom alerts, create charts, and allow users to share data within the app. Advances of this nature stand to improve the management of Diabetes and the lives of those that deal with the complications of this disease.
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This article provides a comparison of apps like Glooko, SiDiary, Glucose Buddy and OnTrack. The article also explains that patients don’t mind checking their blood sugar, however they find it difficult to write it down. The goal of using smartphone apps is to effectively manage diabetes by improving glycemic control and prevent further complications. Keeping a record of your blood sugar levels help to identify patterns of blood sugar levels that are too high or too low. A record of your blood sugars also helps your healthcare team evaluate the effectiveness of your diabetes medications. There are other articles within the diabetic connect website that specifically discuss diabetic app usage. The great thing is that there are available areas for discussion after each article and on the main page of the website.
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Are you Diabetic and love Pinterest as much as I do? Who knew there was pinterest board dedicated to people with Diabetes? The Pinterest Board Diet and Diabetes Apps has a wealth of posts from diabetic recipes, Diabetes education apps, uplifting messages, charts listing foods and glycemic values and links to the most popular Diabetes apps that rate the apps and provide user feedback to guide the reader in chosing the app that will work best for them. Most importantly Pinterest posts are from actual Diabetics that have found value in the posts and have reposted for others to benefit.
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Finally a developer of Diabetes products that is actually Diabetic! What better way to determine the app that would work better for you than to have feedback from someone that has actually used it? Gary Scheiner, Clinical Director of Integrated Diabetes Services, known as the MacGyver of diabetes products, has lived with type I Diabetes for more than 30 years. He tries out new products before recommending them to patients. “It’s important to see new products from the user’s point of view, not just from the [health-care practitioner’s] side of things.” The article describes two Diabetes apps, the first being, DietSensor, the first nutritional coaching app to help better manage chronic conditions like diabetes. This app utilizes a tiny molecular sensor that scans the cells of homogeneous foods for macronutrients such as carbs, fat, protein, and calories through your smartphone. The app has access to a database of over 600,000 foods to effectively calculate intake even before eating, so that the person can determine how much they can eat, if at all. The mySugr mobile app introduces a new feature called mySugr Coaching that allows people living with diabetes using intensive insulin therapy access to personalized diabetes education. Users define long-term goals, such as losing weight, decreasing blood glucose levels, or even something like finishing a triathlon. Users work with their coach to attain specific goals. This is the interactivity that has been determined to be necessary for Diabetic apps to be effective in assisting Diabetics to better manage their disease.
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Are you asking yourself, is there an app that can connect to my iphone that I can record personal information real-time to share with my medical provider at a later date? The Diabetesselfmanagement.com blog contains a wealth of knowledge about diabetes from educational options for newly diagnosed Diabetic, struggles experienced by brittle Diabetics, nutrition, exercise and technological advances in the field of Diabetes management. There is a search bar at the top and you can type in whatever topic you are looking for. Since the topic of my blog is electronic phone apps, the following link will take you directly there. There are blogs on items like the iBGStar which is an blood sugar meter that can connect to your iphone and the blood sugar values can be loaded into the program to create useful graphs to better analyze your blood sugar in relation to foods consumed. You can even make notes on the graphs to identify the effects of certain foods on the blood sugar. Another blog introduces the release of Dexcom API, which is a continuous glucose monitoring company created an interface for third party vendors access to develop products that can share data with the blood glucose monitoring, food consumption, weight, exercise patterns and even share your data with your doctor making it much easier to change medication dosing and provide advice to patients. https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/?s=diabetic+phone+apps
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Diabetes apps
My name is Jennifer Tyler and I have been a nurse for 22 years. I am currently taking a communications class at ODU and in fulfilling one of the requirements have created this page in hopes of acquiring and sharing more information about the impact of electronic applications on Diabetes management. One of the departments that I supervise is health education and we are constantly exploring innovative ways to improve Diabetes self management for our patients.
Diabetes is an epidemic, especially on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, where I live. We have one of the highest incidences of Diabetes in the state. The Eastern Shore is very rural and is classified as a known food desert by the USDA, meaning there is limited access to fresh, healthy foods which are necessary for proper control of Diabetes. There have been many developments especially in technology to aide Diabetics in being more aware of their lifestyle habits. I plan to explore several types of applications, the benefits of each application and an evaluation of the applications that produce better outcomes.
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