The ADA has a new tool intended to help us manage our diabetes better.
My Diabetes Connector is an online diabetes management tool that allows people with diabetes to securely track and monitor blood glucose levels. Displayed through a series of simple charts and graphs, users can easily track results and trends in their diabetes-related data to help improve their diabetes health. My Diabetes Connector allows input from multiple blood glucose meters and also provides a blood pressure log, an exercise log and an area in which to track medications.
The biggest problem I see with it is that it costs $10 per month. I’m sure some folks can afford an extra $120 per year for this software but that seems a little costly to me. There are certainly some cool features such as being able to easily share results with your care providers – if they are willing to take the time to look. The very generous and talented Kevin, over at parenthetic-diabetic has shared his excell sheet for free which does much of what the ADA software apparently does. He’s a little busy right now with his new twins but I know he recently updated the software. There’s also myinsulinlog.com for some free basic charting.
Thoughts?
“The biggest problem I see with it is that it costs $10 per month.I’m sure some folks can afford an extra $120 per year for this software but that seems a little costly to me.”
Zazzy,an extra $ 10.00 a month would be a big problem for many people,DS and myself included !
By: schnuckiputz on October 9, 2007
at 2:41 pm
I think this software is amazing. It allows you to share your data with others. Plus I saw that the developers of the site put out a promotional offer for 200 free licenses on the diabetes.org blog charts. You should check it out. I think it may end up being a really good value.
By: Mary on October 14, 2007
at 10:06 pm