( lycemia to track responses to activity...)Monitoring Patient Glucose Levels: New Advances in software make it easier,Health

lycemia, to track responses to activity, medication and diet and to provide more data for clinical decision-making. Using it is extremely easy, because there is no installation of software needed (the unit comes ready to go) and obtaining printouts consists of simply plugging the glucose monitor into a cable, pushing a button, then waiting a few seconds. The Smart printer is compatible with the Accu-Chek Compact, the AccuSoft Advantage, the Accu-Chek Complete and the Accu-check Active blood glucose monitors as well as hand-held PDAs.

Roche has created Compass Diabetes Care Software, and a PDA version known as Pocket CompassTM, which was cleared for use in June, 2002 by the FDA. The pocket compass software, designed for use with PDAs using a Palm OS, tracks glucose trends by storing and analyzing up to 1,000 blood glucose readings. Patients can use the infrared technology built into Accu-Check Compact or Active monitors to send data directly to their hand-held computers.

This software provides increased information to physicians, with reports, graphs and charts, as well as noting and correlating them to insulin, meal, exercise data and A1c levels.

LifeScan offers software that can be used with its meters, including its InTouch software package, which records and analyzes glucose profiles and provides enhanced patient information to the physician. The software records patient statistics in several formats, including noting hyperglycemic and hypoglycemia and a standard day format, as well as providing a correlation between insulin doses and glucose readings. It also includes a diabetes education and management component for improved patient teaching.

AIDA online is simulation software that has been available online as freeware since 1996. It allows the user to simulate the effects of changes in insulin and diet on glucose levels. It provides the healthcare provider, student or patient with a virtual diabetic patient and is a usef
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