IBM Cloud helps improve diabetic care

December 17, IBM announced the results of a joint work with the German company Diabetizer. This company deals with health issues, namely, medical technologies that could improve the conditions of medical care for people with various diseases. In particular, it is planned to begin work with patients with diabetes. Partners plan to create a cloud application that allows diabetics to automatically upload data to the Network, with subsequent processing of the downloaded data and presenting the results in an understandable form.

According to the plan, patients with diabetes will be able to use various devices with a network connection that would help people periodically send data such as blood sugar levels. According to Diabetizer, there are more than 350 million people with diabetes of one type or another in the world today. In fact, diabetes is one of the most common diseases of our time. Working with IBM, Diabetizer changes the way that diabetics interact with medical organizations. Now, many people with diabetes use hand-written drug plans, and often cannot get the results of blood sugar level analysis, not to mention detailed biometric information.

Also the problem is the "manual" checking of blood sugar levels. Using the power of the IBM Cloud, Diabetizer was able to create a cloud-based application designed to analyze the large amount of data provided by diabetics. At the same time, the application also has a version for mobile devices, which allows diabetics to receive and send data without any problems in a matter of minutes. In particular, patients are able to:
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• Aggregate data on blood sugar, nutrition and health data from various sources;
• Use the Internet of Things to integrate biometric data with wearable devices, analyzing physical activity and blood sugar levels.

“Cloud technologies gave us a flexible and powerful tool that allowed us to create a cloud application presented in the form of a simple web service,” said Robin Hrassnigg, founder and managing director of Diabetizer.

“By combining this data with the capabilities of analytical tools, we provide millions of people with diabetes with an opportunity to get better medical care,” Hrassnigg continued.

The myDIABETIZER application combines the ability to accurately assess blood glucose levels, with the possibility of obtaining medical documentation required by doctors and diabetologists. The cloud service from Diabetizer allows you to easily take an individual approach to each patient. Among other things, the application is synchronized with devices like iBGStar and GlucoDock, with the ability to download data via smartphones and tablets.

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