Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Medtronic to change meters it will work with

Now this is an interesting development.

According to a Medtronic press release, Medtronic and Bayer will work together to distribute a new blood glucose meter for Medtronic patients outside the US. Originally I missed the fact that within the US, Medtronic has made a similar agreement with LifeScan. Thanks Kevin and Amy for pointing this out.

The new meter for those in Canada and Europe will be based on the Bayer Contour and will transmit results to Minimed insulin pumps and the Guardian REAL-time CGMS.

The new US meter will be based on the OneTouch platform. I wonder whether they'll use a version of the more stylish OneTouch UltraMini, the Ultra2 or something completely new because of the need to include the circuitry for wireless transmission.

And once again, I hope that one or more of these three companies (Medtronic, Bayer, or LifeScan) will finally decide to work towards a standard format for representing diabetes data.

Labels: Bayer, diabetes, Medtronic, meter, Minimed, Sanvita

4 Comments:

At August 21, 2007 11:18 PM , Kevin L. McMahon said...: Try Lifescan for the US. Ha. Now isn't that even more interesting... and none of the anaylysts saw it coming.
At August 22, 2007 2:15 AM , AmyT said...: Actually Bernard, Medtronic just announced it will work with LifeScan for this in the US.

See http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070821006155&newsLang=en
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At May 21, 2008 1:42 PM , Marlon said...: Interesting that Medtronic has chosen to work with Lifescan (who are working with Animas). Do you think patients will switch from a MiniMed to an Animas pump?

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