An Ultimate “Transformer:” Smart Phone to Artificial Pancreas
December 3, 2013 | Terry Sharrer

Smart Phone / Artificial Pancreas
Leaving at least one patient in an experimental trial feeling like a “Super Hero,” a novel, automated artificial pancreas, developed at the University of Virginia, has shown remarkable real-time monitoring and control of blood sugar for type 1 diabetes. The design integrates a reconfigured smart phone with an insulin pump so that communications signals from either a cloud or local source can adjust the insulin dose release according to changing glucose levels, 24/7. This may be the most sophisticated example of telemedicine to date. MORE
Image Credit: University of Virginia, Center for Diabetes Technology
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