I get a lot of questions regarding how I track and report my blood sugar readings so I figured I would do a post on Glooko, the best app I’ve ran into for diabetics. Going into my upcoming “medical makeover” w/ Hippocrates Health that I blogged about last week, this has been one of the things that we have been looking into so I’m able to share things like my diet, exercise, and glucose readings w/ them. Long story short, I’m a technology nerd so anything that interfaces with my iPhone will only encourage me to test more times during the day.
Glooko is a cool app that is available on iPhone and Android platforms. The cool thing about Glooko is that there is a proprietary cable that is purchased separately that connects from my iPhone to a reader that pulls date from my testing equipment, the ACCU-CHEK® Nano. Once data is pulled into Glooko’s app, it’s also sent online to My Glooko Dashboard that gives me a graphical representation of where I’m at w/ my diabetes. This video gives the best description of Glooko…
In the coming weeks you will likely see screenshots or graphics embedded in my blog posts regarding my medical makeover, these will likely be screencaps from the Glooko dashboard. Stay tuned, things are sort of getting off the ground this week, I’m meeting Dr. Amy at the hospital this thursday to do my beginning labwork…
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