Glucose Buddy App - Handy Tool for Diabetics

Ian C. Langtree - Writer/Editor for Disabled World (DW)
Published: 2011/03/04
Category Topic: Disability Apps - Academic Publications

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Synopsis: Handy Diabetes App Glucose Buddy makes it easy to keep track and record your glucose numbers carbohydrate consumption insulin dosages and activities.

Introduction

Handy Diabetes App Glucose Buddy makes it easy to keep track and record your glucose numbers carbohydrate consumption insulin dosages and activities.

Main Content

Glucose Buddy Diabetes iPhone Application for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iTouch, by Manny Hernandez, Founder of TuDiabetes.com

Glucose Buddy is a very handy app for persons with diabetes that allows you to log glucose, meds, activity, and food intake by manually entering glucose numbers, carbohydrate consumption, insulin dosages, and activities. Plus, you can use the ACCU-CHEK Testing in Pairs tool to see how specific events effect your blood glucose all from your iPhone or iPod touch.

The Glucose Buddy app is well designed and graphically oriented, with graphs, log-in reminders, and the ability to sync information to your online account. You simply enter your information then, you can view all of your data on your free glucosebuddy.com online account.

Glucose Buddy has been featured in American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Forecast Magazine, Mendosa.com, Diabetes Health Magazine, JDRF Newsletters, Wired Magazine, DiabetesMine.com, MedGadget.com, and MobiHealthNews. Glucose Buddy was the second diabetes app in the entire iTunes App Store which is now inundated with more than 30 Apps relating to diabetes.

Features of the App Include:

Bidirectional data propagation

Restore logs from your online account

Ability to Sync between multiple iOS devices (you only need to purchase it once for it to work across all your devices e.g. iPhone, iPad, iTouch)

The Glucose Buddy app is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and requires iOS 3.0 or later.

visit the iTunes App Store and download the latest version of the Glucose Buddy iPhone app at: itunes.apple.com/us/app/glucose-buddy-diabetes-helper/id294754639

Author Credentials: Ian is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Disabled World, a leading resource for news and information on disability issues. With a global perspective shaped by years of travel and lived experience, Ian is a committed proponent of the Social Model of Disability-a transformative framework developed by disabled activists in the 1970s that emphasizes dismantling societal barriers rather than focusing solely on individual impairments. His work reflects a deep commitment to disability rights, accessibility, and social inclusion. To learn more about Ian's background, expertise, and accomplishments, visit his full biography.

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