Friday, November 16, 2007

Dexcom SEVEN is cleared to calibrate with any meter

Dexcom announced today that it had received clearance from the FDA to calibrate its Dexcom SEVEN continuous glucose monitoring system using any approved blood glucose meter.

Once this feature is made available, Dexcom users will no longer need the dreaded six foot plus calibration cable. It'll need a software update to allow input of the glucose meter values. I hope they use a good algorithm to let us input those numbers!

Dexcom expects to make this feature available on new systems by the end of the first quarter of 2008, and to upgrade existing users during the second quarter of 2008.

I know that they've already started trials on their 3rd generation system, but so far there's no news about the upcoming features in the 3rd generation or the likely date for the system.

Labels: CGM, Dexcom SEVEN, FDA

1 Comments:

At November 19, 2007 11:38 AM , mollie said...: do you know if they plan to charge for this upgrade?

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