Next we will have sperm count and bowl movements

See, just because YOU don’t see an immediate functionality improvement doesn’t mean that they were wrong.

If these features are able to help out medical costs for a lot of people, they will help out others, who don’t care about the feature, with the cost of their medical care.

I am also basing these benefits on people living in countries where you have to pay for healthcare.

I’m on the Medtronic guardian sensor, I asked my endo about switching over given all the positive things I’ve heard. Her reaction was “your a1c is under 7, why are you going to change what works” so I’ll stick with it for now.

Does the Dexcom automatically adjust basal rate based on bgl? Right now the guardian does and with the next version can auto bolus correction doses.

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Which CGM are you on? The Dexcom G6 not needing calibration has been a dream.

No. It’s a trailing indicator of Samsung following Apple’s mobile device direction.

It is related to the cost of medical care which is medically related.

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Neither will get it to work, this has been the holy grail of the field since at least the 90s so they’ve almost tried everything by now

Had ecg on my watch 4 and 5 pro in the US.

Only BP is restricted.

Being able to calibrate my CGM when I’m not near my glucose monitor would be very convenient. It doesn’t even need to be that accurate CGMs are often off +/- 20

As usual I’m asking where the data goes.

I’m assuming everywhere.

Just Googled rockley photonics and it seems they went bust :(. Hopefully the tech is already out here and someone will continue to develop it

it is as difficult/painful as inserting and removing a small needle every few days. i'm sorry if this doesn't help, but i don't know how else to describe it.

Looking at this from strictly a numbers perspective:

Diabetics are fucking expensive for insurance companies to cover. If this helps diabetics control things better, that leads to diabetics being less expensive to cover, which leads to lower premium pricing for everyone.

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Read the article. Samsung is developing OLED sensors that will allow displays to be more sensitive, including the ability to detect finger prints and pulse. Anything else is a statement of what it “could possibly do.” The displays aren’t expected to be available until 2025.

Was so confused why is the article is showing the back of a smartwatch while referring to the front of a screen.

What is it if yiu don't mind me asking? Also from Canada. Got the 5 Pro.

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Nof yet. Read the article. The new OLEDs they’re talking about aren’t out until 2025, and the only seemingly confirmed features are fingerprint scanning and blood pressure, though it’s probably more like pulse monitoring. Anything else is a statement about what it could “possibly do”

>process of inserting and removing the thing every few days

How difficult/painful is that?

> Absolutely zero chance Samsung has that in their watch in the next five years.

I’d tend to agree.

> And even then, I’m sure it’ll have a disclosure that it shouldn’t be used for medical treatment purposes.

Apple has the same disclosures now. That’s just a liability boilerplate they’d put on there regardless of how accurate a given sensor is.

Are you really trying to argue that getting rid of the phone jack counts as adding a feature?