Technology Corner

Roche Diabetes Care have launched the mySugr Pump Control in Switzerland. It is a new module within the mySugr app designed to enable people with diabetes to control an insulin pump directly via a smartphone. Availability in further European countries is likely to follow.

https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/new s-releases/roche-launches-mysugr-pump-control-within-the-mysugr-app-to-simplify-insulin-pump-therapy-via-smartphone-878207237.html

Afon Technology – Images have been released of a wearable non-invasive blood glucose sensor.

https://www.med-technews.com/news/Digital-in-Healthcare-News/images-released-of-world-s-first-wearable-non-invasive-blood

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Inselspital (University Hospital of Bern), Switzerland, have developed an artificial pancreas and smartphone app that could revolutionise type 2 diabetes treatment.

A wearable ‘pancreas’ that connects to a patient’s smartphone, using an algorithm to monitor blood glucose levels and automatically give insulin as needed.

https://www.healtheuropa.eu/artificial-pancreas-trialled-in-type-2-diabetes-patients/110399