[Diabetes-talk] Fwd: FDA Warning Letter Issued to Prodigy Diabetes care

[Mike Freeman]

You assume that there is a common protocol for communicating data via USB port. Without legislation dictating otherwise, I think it more probable that each manufacturer would end up insisting upon developing its own speech box and I deem this unlikely these days. We have the example of Roche which supposedly was doing just this, making a combination of an AccuChek Aviva and speech box. The meter was supposedly going to be a standard Aviva but this didn't work out. Roche had to modify the meter and we have heard nothing more of the effort for several years. 
I agree with Dotty that we should be willing to pay more for our bg meters. We would have to change our mindset. And people tend not to want to test now, let alone if meters were more expensive. And the current marketing model in the industry is that money is made on the strips, not the meters. 
Fun and games. 
Mike 

On Sep 2, 2013, at 3:15, Cherylandmaxx <Cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Biosense should also
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> From: Dorothea Martin <bestsinger at samobile.net>
> Date: 09/02/2013  3:46 AM  (GMT-05:00)
> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Fwd: FDA Warning Letter Issued to Prodigy  Diabetes care
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> Hello, All,
> If we want true fidelity in a music recorder, we pay $300 and something
> to buy the LS-100. But somehow we expect to get a complete kit for a
> low price and have it be accurate in testing our blood. There are
> accurate meters. |I think that the Bayer Breeze2 that I have used with
> sighted help is accurate, but half of its memory does not have to go
> into speech. I think it's time to move the speaking function back to
> another gadget, as with the Accu Check Voicemate or the IBG Star, where
> the iPhone does the speaking. What the good folks at |Prodigy should do
> is to make and sell such a device so that we could use almost any meter
> that has a USB connection.
> Dotty Martin
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