This morning Swiss company Ascensia Diabetes Care, maker of connected glucose meters, unveiled its new diabetes management and analytics platform, dubbed GlucoContro.online.
The tool is able to work with the company's existing Contour glucose meters and can capture data directly from the Contour Diabetes app or Contour cloud. The new platform is cloud-based and lets users open in their browsers....
What happened
In a triple-blinded, multisite, independent study, researchers have found that only one third of commercially available FDA-cleared blood glucose meters in the United States could consistently perform to an accuracy standard close to, but actually more lenient than, the FDA’s. Of the 18 BCGs tested, only six were consistently accurate in each of three test sites. Five were compliant...
