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KINETIK WELLBEING
Kinetik Wellbeing has newly entered the
UK arena with a blood glucose monitoring
system. The company says, "At Kinetik
Wellbeing we believe that technology
has an important role to play in making
all of our lives better. Our award-winning,
affordable and accurate range of products
allow you to independently take control of
your health and wellbeing in the comfort
of your own home or when you are out
and about or at work. We looked hard at
designing an attractive meter that was not
clunky or plain."
Kinetik Wellbeing has an association
with St Johns Ambulance, the leading first
aid charity. SJA had sought partnerships
with medical device providers and after
a tendering process, Kinetic Wellbeing
was chosen, along with others, as the
charity liked the company's products
and approach. Now they are 'working
together to deliver healthcare in the
home', with SJA providing several first aid
guides, including one on what do to in a
diabetes emergency, such as someone
having a bad hypo. Kinetik Wellbeing
blood glucose monitoring system and
blood glucose test strips are £24.99 each.
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YPSOMED
Ypsomed's diabetes brand is called mylife
(sic), to which it has recently added the
Unio Neva which can work in combination
with the mylife YpsoPump insulin pump.
Both devices have Bluetooth connection
and can send data wirelessly to the mylife
app and software. This means that the
user can combine blood glucose data
and pump data, as it gives an overview
of your therapy and more convenience
for bolus advice. Used with mylife cloud,
data synchronisation is possible between
you and your HCP, making treatment
discussions easy as graphs and statistics
can be seen there by both parties.
For those not using a pump, there's
the mylife Unio blood glucose meter,
which features a similar modern design,
making it nice and small to handle. It has
an LCD display for clear results of fast and
accurate results and includes up to four
daily alarms as well
as up to four event
markers which can
be selected for each
measurement, and
can be subsequently
edited.
Much of the
design of these two
meters was based
on user surveys,
so the power of
the people has
influenced the
end-design, and
the company reports high feedback for
ease-of-use. Of interest to some might be
the equally nifty tub of sensors that goes
with mylife sensors which is less round
and more of an oval shape (46mm high,
44mm wide, 28mm deep). Sensors need
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no coding, and many might be amused
by the fact that sensors are inserted
'sideways' which is meant to make
putting blood on the end of the sensor
less hit-and-miss.