Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] The Apple Watch Will Bring Glucose Tracking to Your Wrist

Of course it's good to have choices. My "down" isn't on choice, it's on Watch.

Watch - as designed now - needs Phone. You've got to carry two devices. What's the point of that? If you're of a geekish frame of mind, the more wearables the better, I suppose, but most people want simplicity, I think, not more complexity.

It seems to me that Apple's doing Watch just because they don't want to be left behind in case the concept takes off. That's OK, sure, but it's certainly nothing to get excited about. Everything Apple tries doesn't deserve wild praise from anyone. It should be judged on its own merits. What we've seen of Watch isn't a breakthrough, like, say, iPad. It's just copycat.

By the way, aren't there already glucose monitors on the market? What functionality would a Watch/Phone/sensor combo add to what's already available?

On Feb 11, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Celtica Hippocrates celtica_visitor1@me.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

While this may be true, I'm wondering if you actually have diabetes, or have tried to live with a chronic condition for over 30 years like I have? You seem very 'down' on the whole watch/diabetes app thing, asking "But who really cares?" etc. There are people who will jump on the Watch bandwagon, but I have eyesight issues from premature birth. I will have to see this thing, hold it and try it in the store before I can even think of using one. I may not care for it at all, but isn't it nice to have the CHOICE?

Even outside of things "Apple" you're right in that "There are a few million who will buy anything, Celtica". *I* will believe that is why APPL is worth over $700B, why other companies are still solvent.

On Feb 10, 2015, at 9:08 PM, David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

There are a few million who will buy anything, Celtica.

On Feb 10, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Celtica Hippocrates celtica_visitor1@me.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

There are probably a few million around the world who "Care" David. Maybe most of them would not want the Watch just for this, and it is the first *I* have heard about 'sensors' being IN the watch for Glucose levels. There was a company that tried that a couple of decades ago for the MySentry wrist band for us who may go too low in our sleep. In a few incidences, this could result in passing away ("Dead in Bed") if ones' counter regulatory hormones don't kick in. The Idea was promising, but too many inaccuracies then and too many people having a reaction to the sensors. *I* like that my transmitter will be sending the data to my receiver which I can leave in my pocket and I can see the data on my iPhone. For parents of children with this condition, it would make their job easier to be alerted to their child's bg levels at night without having to go in and do 3+ tests on their kid per night.

On Feb 10, 2015, at 4:02 PM, David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

But who really cares?

On Feb 10, 2015, at 1:00 AM, Pabitra Saha pksaha000@yahoo.co.uk [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

From other sources, it appears that watch will have
non invasive sensors built into it. Apparently, it has
6 sensors which include testing for Oxygen, glucose etc.
Let us wait and see.

With best wishes,
P. K. Saha

On 10-Feb-2015, at 10:28 am, Kris Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

FLJ!!!!

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The Apple Watch Will Bring Glucose Tracking to Your Wrist
With Apple Watch quickly approaching its April release month, app developers are giving us a better sense of the wearable's capabilities than the designers at Cupertino. For instance, we know how the watch will work with your car or draw up a to do list. Now its health merits are getting some attention.
With help from DexCom, a company that makes monitors for diabetics, the Apple Watch will be one of the first wearables to bring glucose tracking to your wrist. The Apple Watch itself will only act as a display for the information being pumped out every five minutes by DexCom's continuous glucose monitor or CGM, a hair-thin sensor embedded under the skin.
DexCom teased its intentions to bring glucose monitoring to the Apple Watch at CES 2015, as pictured below with the company's current iPhone app. Diatribe, who originally reported the CES news, also says that DexCom's new CGM will also integrate with Apple's Healthkit platform, which until now has largely been associated with fitness apps. Doctors may also benefit from the partnership as Apple's Healthkit adoption rate in hospitals is outpacing Google Fit and Samsung's S Health.
The Apple Watch isn't the first smartwatch to bring CGM monitoring to a wrist wearable. The Nightscout CGM system, which is an open source project that allows remote access to DexCom sensors, has already developed an app for Pebble. It's been hoped since the Apple Watch was announced that the wearable would follow in Pebble's footsteps, and that seems to be what's happening.
Last summer Reuters reported that Samsung, Apple, and Google are all investigating how to incorporate glucose monitoring into wearables. The one hurdle being that any device marketed for diabetics would fall under the Food and Drug Administrations stringent regulations on Class III medical devices. The CGM sensor in this case is still considered a Class III device, but because of a recent rule change, any apps or software associated with the wearable device only needs to be registered with the FDA, meaning DexCom's Apple Watch app can bypass the agency's tortoise-speed approval process and be ready to go when the wearable ships in April, according to The Wall Street Journal.
So it seems the FDA's relaxed regulations on diabetes software has given developers some room to work, and they're taking advantage. [The Wall Street Journal]

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