Send blood glucose values directly from the blood glucose measuring system to the doctor's office
15.12.2014 15:05
An innovation that makes diabetes management easier and fulfills practical wishes: The precise blood glucose measuring systems from the Contour Next family from Bayer can now be used with the new gluconet software. The eHealth solution was developed so that people with diabetes can easily send their blood glucose meter data from their home computer directly to the doctor. The blood glucose measurements and evaluations for the doctor-patient consultation are therefore available at any time in the practice IT or the patient file.
This means time savings and relief for diabetologists, diabetes consultants and patients, because: “The new module helps you to use the consultation appointment effectively, to guide the patient closely and to be able to make optimal therapy decisions,” explains Oliver Ebert, from mediaspects, the manufacturer the diabetes management software. “We know from doctors, diabetes consultants and clinicians that they wanted this safe and convenient data transfer from the blood glucose meter to their practice system DIABASS5 PRO,” says Ebert.
Innovations that make life with diabetes easier are also important to Sarah Millington, Head of the Diabetes Care Division at Bayer HealthCare Germany: “We are continually working on improving the quality of our products in order to promote therapeutic safety and progress in diabetes therapy “, she explains.
“That’s why we at Bayer welcome the new eHealth solution from our partner mediaspects. Especially in the recruitment phase or when patients in rural areas have to travel a longer distance to the doctor's office, the networking of our high-quality Contour Next measuring systems and the gluconet software makes diabetes therapy easier in the future."
Safe and easy to use
In order to be able to actively use gluconet, patients need a computer with Internet access, a blood glucose meter with a USB interface (e.g. Contour Next USB) or a connection cable from the blood glucose meter to the computer and the gluconet access ID - this is issued by the doctor. The home computer then allows access to the gluconet homepage. Here the patient enters the gluconet ID. You can now start transferring the blood sugar data to the attending doctor's office. Since the gluconet software can be used free of charge in ten languages (e.g. German, English, French or Turkish), the system can also be easily used by patients with a migration background.
Security for users
After transmission, the data is available to the practice's IT system: the values are compressed and sent in encrypted form via the software's transmission module. The patient does not have to provide any personal information such as name or email address, which prevents conclusions about the user's identity. In practice, the received values can then be read out, printed and converted accordingly for evaluation programs. In addition to secure data transmission, the quality of the measured values is particularly crucial for the success of therapy: It is therefore important for people with diabetes to use a blood glucose meter that measures accurately and that they can rely on so that they can control their blood sugar well and make optimal therapy decisions meet and avoid hypoglycemia. In addition to Contour Next USB, the other blood glucose meters in the Contour Next family also measure very accurately, as they all meet the stricter measurement accuracy requirements of the new ISO standard 15197:2013.