MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - iHealth Lab, a provider of mobile health devices and apps, on Thursday partnered with mySugr, a provider of digital health solutions that make daily life easier for people with diabetes, on fully integrating the mySugr Logbook diabetes app with the iHealth Wireless Gluco Smart-Monitoring System.
"Management of diabetes is not about managing data, but about managing patients. That is why it is so exciting for iHealth to work with mySugr on a platform that is designed by diabetics, for diabetics," stated Uwe Diegel, CEO iHealth Europe. "Connected health is not just the future of medicine, it is already a reality, and using connected health as a tool to empower people with diabetes with user centric applications will help us to transform the diabetic patient into an actor of his own health."
The mySugr Logbook is a popular smartphone application that helps people with diabetes improve self-management through elements of gamification, design and immediate feedback through a personalized diabetes monitor. mySugr Logbook is an FDA-registered risk class I medical device and carries an equivalent CE mark in Europe.
The FDA-approved iHealth Wireless Gluco Smart-Monitoring System is a portable smart glucometer that syncs with a smartphone or tablet. Diabetics can use the iHealth Wireless Gluco Smart-Monitoring System device and test strips to automatically record glucose readings within the mySugr Logbook app for the most accurate glucose results while eliminating the need for manual records.