Special guest, Jake Belcham, joins the Western Devs as they review the state of diabetes technology today and what's coming in the future
Recorded on Friday, February 12, 2016
Synopsis
- Type 1 vs. Type 2
- Determining your blood glucose level
- Insulin pump vs. insulin injections
- The joys of sleeping in and being hungry
- Early insulin pumps
- Dealing with statistical variability
- Continuous glucose meters
- Trends vs. point in time
- Communication (or lack thereof) between meters and pumps
- Factoring in other measures (e.g. heart rate)
- Artificial pancreas: more mashup than moonshot
- Remote monitoring
- The importance of intuition
- Using machine learning with the data
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