[Diabetes-talk] technology flaws

[Mike Freeman]

What you want is the Tooth Fairie to operate your lancet device.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Sandi Ryan
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 10:50 AM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] technology flaws

Oh, I'd really love, love, love a lancet that could detect blood! 
Engineers, here's your challenge!

Sandi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 12:38 PM
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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