Developers: | One Drop |
Branches: | Pharmaceutics, medicine, health care |
2019: Sales in Apple shops
At the end of June, 2019 in Apple retail stores digital sets for monitoring of level of glucose in One Drop blood appeared. Devices for patients with diabetes are on sale for $70 and Bluetooth glucose meter, test strips, lancets (in addition) and one year of free training at the certified diabetes instructor includes.
Apple gets into health sector more and more, selling the products focused on the consumer and embedding the obtained data in the Health application. However the One Drop glucose meter the only product for patients with diabetes which Apple sells in traditional retail stores.
This glucose meter issues result in only five seconds after the beginning of measurement, and then transmits data retrieveds through Bluetooth in the One Drop Mobile application on the IOS device. The glucose meter is compatible to iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and iPod touch. Using the application the patient can trace all necessary information: glucose level in blood, consumption of carbohydrates, drug intake and physical activity.
Recently the company provided expanded predictive function of the application – now on the basis of a glyukometriya and the menu of the patient of One Drop is capable to predict glucose level in blood the next 8 hours. At this AI considers also administration of drugs: both oral, and insulin.
Besides, the One Drop application is supplied with Personal Health Assistant – a digital instrument for monitoring of drug intake, a power supply and physical activity and also sugar level in blood, arterial blood pressure, weight and other indicators. Such complex approach allows to avoid many complications of diabetes, developers claim.[1]