[Diabetes-talk] technology flaws

[Sandi Ryan]

Well, we don't exactly get these things free, and we do pay for medications 
and supplies from the pharmaceutical companies who need to develop things 
that are accessible.  I'm willing to pay more for that lancet.  Yes I am!

Xo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] technology flaws


> Prey who's gonna pay for all this development?
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 10:38 AM
> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] technology flaws
>
> At least for blind diabetics, lancets need to get smarter.  The lancet
> needs to detect a capillary and fire only when it's on one of them if
> there's enough blood flow through it to get a donation.  Meters need to
> log every attempt to use them for a reading whether or not a valid reading
> gets generated.  Doctors probably trivialize the problem of invalid
> readings because those too are not part of the output from meters.  This
> second criticism I think holds for all meters in use these days.  Any one
> of these changes might get engineers and researchers to improve meters to
> the point that a meter doesn't just give an invalid reading, it could tell
> you or show a sighted diabetic correctly what the specific problem was
> that caused the invalid reading in the first place.
>
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> jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
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