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I have reviewed a lot of diabetes management programs with an emphasis on my own personal needs. I am a type 2, managing with diet and exercise, and I often test new foods by doing postprandial curves and measuring the area under the curve. Thus I was looking primarily for a program that would (1) download my Profile and OneTouch II meters, (2) allow me to sort the downloaded results according to the 15 Profile Event Codes, (3) graph curves selected by Event Codes as well as by date, and (4) print the graphs. A convenient data dump for printout as a permanent record and a nutritional program were also of interest to me. As a non--insulin user, I was not able to review the various programs' capabilities for handing insulin or pumps. Furthermore, I often rejected a program because the logbook won't handle more than 4 or 6 entries a day, because I need that feature. The programs I rejected I tended not to spend as much time with. But insulin users, or people who want to measure their blood glucose at four predetermined times a day and then manipulate that data in various ways might find that a program that I hated is just what they want. Or a person using a meter that doesn't download to a particular program might find that a program I loved doesn't work for them. Keep this in mind as you read these reviews. They are very biased toward my own needs. As always, YMMV (your mileage may vary).
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SUMMARY
The target of this program is not the home user. It seems
to be a system whereby patients use touch tone phones to call in their
BG and meds and activity and then the program calculates their insulin
doses. Thus it requires that some central facility has the system to
enter the data manually and then let the patient know how much insulin
to take.
