Re: Databetics

[Damon Muma]

Great! Yes.. all your points are good ones, and feedback like that is exactly what I was looking for. I'd momentarily brain farted on extended boluses.. I think I might include those under bolus, with optional fields for specifiying duration etc..  I know medtronic pumps have dual wave and square wave boluses.. not sure about other ones, but in general they would map to 'bolus' at a basic level.

I hadn't even realized insulin strength was something to consider as I've never run into that..

As far as carbs vs exchanges.. I wonder if in the storage side of things g of carbs would still make sense.. Afaik, an 'exchange' maps to 15g of carbs, so it could just be a distinction on the input side of things rather than storage (I'm in Canada and I know we used to do exchanges, and I've come to understand that 1 exchange = 15g carb. Will have to research if that's the same in Europe.

I mentioned I thought of having comments as just a separate field with an optional linkage to another type of entry (bolus/basal etc) but that somewhat depends on the format we end up using. I think somewhat 'soft' data.. like whether you were eating out (great idea) if carbs were estimated etc etc is a great idea, and what frustrates me about most currently available systems.. they act like you are infallible. I like the idea of a system that understands you may make mistakes and works with you to try and take advantage of the data it has the best it can.

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Bernard Farrell <bernard...@gmail.com> wrote:

Damon

I looked at the data format doc you'd started. My suggestions/comments are marked in red. Please feel free to take them or leave them, I won't be offended.

Bernard

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On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Damon Muma <dam...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Bernard..

It's been a while, but I am thinking of getting back into doing work on my Sanguine diabetes manager.

I had the thought that a great foundation for something like that would be an open standard for diabetes information exchange.. to that end I registered http://opendatabetes.com and wrote about what it could be on my Sanguine blog (http://sanguinediabetes.com/opendatabetes) 

Then I found databetics.com, which seems defunct, but I tracked back to you thanks to whois info ;)

It looks like we had just about the same idea! I'm wondering if anything ever came of that?

I also was pointed to this http://www.diabetesmine.com/2012/11/the-diabetes-technology-society-embracing-standards-at-last.html and thought  that may also be covering similar ground. Amy Tenderich (is that who is behind the @diabetesmine twitter?) said her group is working on a white paper.. though I'm not sure if that's covering the same ground as well. I would love to see how I can be involved or help..

Since Sanguine is now going to be a web app (I have *no* desire to work in flash builder again :p) the data model is potentially going to be redone and I really really like the idea that a diabetic owns their treatment info rather than proprietary specialized systems so I want that to be the basis of getting back into it.

Hope you are having/had a wonderful holiday time!

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