Don’t Be An Apphole.

“What diabetes apps do you use?”I am asked this question all the time, especially now that entire conferences are being geared towards mobile health, honing in on the fact that more people have mobile phones than access to toilets.  (This is true, or at least according to the fact I saw on Time.  A phone but no toilet?)  “Mobile apps to manage diabetes – isn’t it exciting?  What are the ones that you’re using?”Last month, I spoke at the Kairos Summit in NYC about mobile health and the app-frenzy in the healthcare sphere.  I felt kind of like a tool, though, because I don’t use any mobile apps to manage my diabetes.  There are a few that I use to track other health habits (like sleep and exercise – see this post for health applications I am using that aren’t specific to diabetes), but as far as ones aimed at my pancreas?  None.  Why?  Because I haven’t found one yet that’s useful.  Applications to log my blood sugars?  I tried that … actually, I’ve tried that several times over.  Even the savviest mobile logbook still requires me to open the app, enter the blood sugar, and save it to their system.  It doesn’t sound like a big time-constraint, but for someone who uses a glucose meter that isn’t synced up with my phone, it’s a big extra step to make every time you test.  Personally, I’d rather plug my m...
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