Mobile app helps manage diabetes
An interactive mobile phone app called DiabetesIQ, released this week, challenges people to test their knowledge of diabetes and compete with one another as they learn about the complexities of the disease, which affects more than 25 million Americans.
Developed as a free download by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Diabetes Teaching Center and QuantiaMD of Waltham, Mass., the app is designed to help improve human health by turning the task of managing diabetes into an interactive game and bringing it to users of the Droid, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
The game follows a quiz-show format where players answer multiple-choice questions about diabetes and then see how their answers compare to other users in real time. Users are asked specific questions, ranging from "How does regular daily exercise affect insulin?" to "What happens when you combine dancing with alcohol?"
Numerous iPhone and Android apps related to diabetes already exist—both free and for sale. They do everything from track exercise to monitoring blood pressure or glucose to counting carbs to helping people adhere to a diet.
DiabetesIQ is an educational diabetes app, and helps people learn how to self-manage their diabetes. The app is intended to explore how lifestyle and diet decisions play out in terms of blood sugar. Its end goal is to connect the theory of managing diabetes to everyday reality.
Developed as a free download by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Diabetes Teaching Center and QuantiaMD of Waltham, Mass., the app is designed to help improve human health by turning the task of managing diabetes into an interactive game and bringing it to users of the Droid, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
The game follows a quiz-show format where players answer multiple-choice questions about diabetes and then see how their answers compare to other users in real time. Users are asked specific questions, ranging from "How does regular daily exercise affect insulin?" to "What happens when you combine dancing with alcohol?"
Numerous iPhone and Android apps related to diabetes already exist—both free and for sale. They do everything from track exercise to monitoring blood pressure or glucose to counting carbs to helping people adhere to a diet.
DiabetesIQ is an educational diabetes app, and helps people learn how to self-manage their diabetes. The app is intended to explore how lifestyle and diet decisions play out in terms of blood sugar. Its end goal is to connect the theory of managing diabetes to everyday reality.