Research, definition, and design of software collecting and reporting on insulin pump and glucose sensor-derived data to enhance the care of patients with Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes.
Why it works
The typical endocrinologist has a very short visit with each patient, often fifteen minutes or less. Acquiring patient data from an insulin pump can take eight minutes, so this process needed to be delegated, reduced, or eliminated for accurate evidence-based health management to gain a foothold among all but the most high-end practices. CareLink Pro is the first software of its kind to allow device reads to be performed by the patient at home and be automatically synchronized with the endocrinologist’s patient database. In addition, in-office read times have been substantially reduced, and device management made much simpler. CareLink Pro remembers which devices (and which serial numbers) were used with a particular patient, which connectivity settings worked during the last visit, and which report parameters were used, eliminating the need to re-configure the software when a patient returns for a follow-up or routine visit.
What I’d change
While we’ve reduced technical decision-making surrounding associating a device with a patient and getting data out of it the first time, there are things we could do to nearly eliminate the work there altogether. Some poke-a-yoke (mistake-proofing) needs to be added to the patient profile to preven office staff from “recycling” patient profiles. And we have not yet succeeded in simplifying diabetes therapy, which will require machine interpretation of the data (much as is the standard of care in cardiology).
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