Your blood sugar readings are presented as a disjointed, meaningless series of numbers that are not connected to the things affecting it: food, exercise, insulin injections, or medications. But your job is made much harder today because the information given by your meter is presented so ineffectively that few consumers or health providers use it.
So if health care outcomes mean getting blood sugars under control, whose job is it? It is you and your physician’s job. Meter company advocates say that health care outcomes are not their job, and, actually, they are correct. Meter companies are on a profitable treadmill of giving away meters, selling test strips at a large profit, giving away meters, selling strips at a large profit, giving away meters… Yet little is done to make this technology improve health and health care outcomes. Meters are viewed as revenue generation devices, not as devices for real BG control by meter companies, and to a large extent by users as well. Today’s meter business generates billions of dollars in sales and results in hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from insurance and health care charges. Don’t blame yourself for all those bad readings if your meter continues to omit data analysis.Ĭurrent Meter Company Mindset Is A ProblemĪlthough blood glucose meters have improved tremendously in ease of use, most people with diabetes don’t realize how helpful their meters could be in their effort to control blood sugars. Meter companies have not really made a concerted effort to present blood sugar data in ways that would really be useful.
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