Wireless control of blood glucose

For point-of-care coordinators, nurses and intensive care personnel, the task of keeping control of their patients’ blood glucose levels becomes more challenging with the increasing number of glucose tests performed in hospitals. One reason for this is the increase in cases of diabetes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) expects the global prevalence of diabetes to increase by 110% over the next decades, which means that 366 million people will suffer from diabetes by 2030. Also, the implementation of tight glycaemic control (TGC) protocols increases the number of measurements and the complexity of data processing.

“Integrating point-of-care devices and the hospital IT network is a designated goal of Roche,” said Dirk Ehlers, head of Roche Professional Diagnostics. “Transferring the blood glucose information into the medical record quickly saves time for patient care and reduces costs.”

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