Thursday, July 12, 2007

MedApps D-PAL remote patient monitoring approved by FDA

This by way of MedGadget.

The MedApps system is designed to transmit glucose readings to a central server by way of your cellphone. It's now been approved for over-the-counter use.

The illustration from MedApps all show a OneTouch Ultra meter, but their information claims 'the BluePAL technology wirelessly transmits data from 20 of the most popular glucose devices from 4 of the leading manufacturers'.

They provide a device (Polymap Polytel) that connects to the meter and sends the data via Bluetooth to your cell phone. The cell phone transmits the data to a MedApps central server. The system can be setup to send alerts to healthcare providers based on per-patient thresholds.

It all sounds interesting, but there's a lot of steps from meter to software. Now if all the meter makers agreed on a single data standard, this would all be a little easier.

Labels: Bluetooth, datastandards, diabetes, FDA, MedApps

4 Comments:

At July 12, 2007 4:52 PM , Marston A, SugarStats said...: This is great Bernard! Now all I have to do is replace the MedApp server with SugarStats server ;-)

Lets hope the medapp data is in an open format (or do you already know?)

Shoot me an email if you know where I can get more details, I'd love to try and integrate this. It would seriously relieve use from a WHOLE LOT of work.
At July 12, 2007 6:13 PM , Kevin L. McMahon said...: Or, I could support the research behind GlucoMON® by Diabetech which automates the entire process, is easy enough for a 4yr old to use, and works in real-time while the patient is mobile.

In addition, software connections to medical devices also fall under federal regulatory guidelines so it's best to understand those before you embark too far down the path of medical device integration.
At July 13, 2007 2:14 AM , Chrissie in Belgium said...: I will tell you what I am skeptical about. If the doctors out there get loaded with all this data, how are they going to fit it into their already overloaded schedules!
At July 13, 2007 8:03 PM , Laura said...: I went with the 522 and so far I like it. I been hooked up to it since around 5:45. its sliver and I will like the BG reminder.

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