May 17
ACCU-CHEK® Aviva System Blood Glucose Monitoring System
After years of discussions on the accuracy of blood glucose levels and how accurate they really need to be. It is going in the direction of a mandate that would vary based on use in hospital, lab, or OTC. It appears that a two layer level of jurisdiction and distinction will be made by the FDA. There will be the Home use lay user, and the tight glycemic control designations. The consensus appears to be going to plus or minus 15%. That is compared to today’s limits of plus or minus 20% in the 8 year old ISO standard in use today.
Moving forward it is known that there is a need out there for good point of care accuracy, and it
OneTouch® UltraMini™ System
can be said that even the same meters can produce better accuracy in that environment as compared to the OTC use
Recent challenges and recalls by famous Manufacturers were made because the methods used in the meters, were not measuring the right type of glucose. Most lay people do know that their diets consist of different types of sugars that play no role in diabetes.
This error in measuring the wrong type of sugars, could cause over or under compensation with insulin in diabetic patients as well as varying results based on testing at home compared to values obtained at a commercial lab or hospital. Continue reading »
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Apr 18
The average diabetic patient can spend thousands of dollars in a year in testing product supplies alone . The economy, changes in the healthcare system, and reduction in insurance providers reimbursement’s, the hardship of the cost of testing supplies has fallen on the patient.
Discount Home Health Care Companies, are only part of the solution to reducing costs. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes patients will search the internet or go to a local pharmacy to get the best brand and price for that model. This however: is usually the beginning of a mistake of large economic scale, to their personal finance.
“What is the best brand or model” is the patients question. The large pharmaceutical companies make millions from that question. Selling strips, that cost pennies for $1.00 or more, then giving the patient a “Free Meter”.
Secondary Brands can save a patient enough money in a lifetime to retire on. Lets compare $57.90- $65.00 in a recent posting on 4 websites for the same Name Brand item. A box of 50 strips that were sold with a “free glucose meter”. That is an average of $1.23 per test. Let us say you found a super discount and got it for $50.00. You are still spending $1.00 per test 3 times a day, 365 days per year or about $1300 per year.
An educated consumer can purchase secondary brands, from a reputable website and purchase strips for $14.00 in a bottle of 50. Continue reading »
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Dec 14
OneTouch® UltraMini™ Blood Glucose Meter
The first glucose testing in laboratories was a procedure known as the folin wu test. This test was cumbersome for even the confines of a testing laboratory. It involved boiling in a special tube with chemicals in it, setting up standards and graphs so that the results could be calculated, and producing a protein free filtrate to be tested. This type of testing improved quickly over the years. This type of testing is recorded in scientific papers back as far as 1955.
Diabetes today is of epidemic proportion. Methods to monitor glucose, which is very important to patients management of this disease, have become more accurate and very specific to the glucose molecule of interest. Continue reading »
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