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of focusing only on biomarkers measured in blood version of the organ does on its own; and it enables
or genomic markers analysed by geneticists, vocal diabetes patients to live an easier life in a sustainable
biomarkers which are easy to detect, record and way. It is the biggest step towards a new are in
analyse will be used more and more for detecting diabetes management in years.The breakthrough
and preventing diseases. happened years after the #wearenotwaiting
movement started to campaign for the introduction
What if coronary artery disease could be of such artificial pancreas on the market. One of the
identified over a phone call? leading figures of the movement, Dana Lewis also
told me how an artificial pancreas eases everyday
An Israeli company, Beyond Verbal deals with emotion life. In 2017, this new way of diabetes management
analytics and provides voice analysis software. It will spread around; and it will become a life-changing
has announced that its algorithms were successful milestone in many patients’ lives when they first start
in helping to detect the presence of coronary artery to use the device.
disease (CAD) in a group of patients.
The development of Diabetes care does not end
The research was presented at the American Heart there. Google patented a digital contact lens that can
Association Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, measure blood glucose levels from tears as an added
Louisiana in December 2016; carried out in cooperation benefit. Google launched a partnership with the
with Mayo Clinic. It involved a double-blind study with pharmaceutical company Novartis; and while there is
120 patients undergoing both an angiography and rather silence around the state of the developments,
a voice analysis; and a group of controls. Beyond there are rumors about it becoming available for trials
Verbal used a smartphone app to measure their in 2017.
voice signal prior to a coronary angiograph. One
voice characteristic in particular indicated an almost
20-fold increase in the likelihood of CAD. Yuval Mor, Digital Health and the Future of Diabetes
CEO of Beyond Verbal said that these vocal features Management
are not audible by the human ear alone !. Future of diabetes management, patient engagement
and interaction, and clinical practice.
Digital Diabetic Health Mobile devices, Wearable devices
A new era in diabetes care
10,000 health and wellness and medical apps
In 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration available across the Apple and Google app stores
approved the world’s first artificialpancreas. The
device monitors blood sugar and supplies insulin Roche’s Accu-Check Connect diabetes
automatically. It basically replicates what a healthy

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