[Diabetes-talk] technology flaws

[Jude DaShiell]

The development will get done and with nanotechnology when it gets too 
expensive not to do the development and no sooner. On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, 
Sandi Ryan wrote:

> 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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