iPhone healthcare and fitness applications review: Diabetes log
In the United States, 23.6 million people (approximately 8% of the total population) have diabetes. Death certificate data of 2002 has a record of 224,092 diabetes related deaths. Now this is really a sad picture.
Diabetes is not a killer disease, but when good control measures are not taken it becomes a life taker. The irony of the sickness is that most of those who suffer from this disease do not know that they have diabetes until they develop one of the complications.
What is the best known treatment for treating diabetes? Proper and timely medication and proper diet control are the only known ways of avoiding diabetic complications. This is exactly where the need of a simple healthcare application such as Diabetes Log comes in. The application is compatible with both the iPhone and the iPod touch.
The application has a very simple interface and ready to use sections where users can enter their medicine, food and glucose intake on hourly and daily basis. This Diabetes application is a convenient substitute for maintaining a paper base record and is a more accessible option being on the phone or the touch.
Jot down your data regularly and avoid life threatening complications using this application and make life easy for your doctor and most of all for yourself.
We are sure that applications specific for the various types of diabetes will be coming soon. This is the start. Moreover, sections including exercise and other necessary everyday activities that control diabetes will be included in the future update.
- App name :Diabetes Log
- App Category :Healthcare and Fitness
- Price:Free
- Developer : Distal Thoughts
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I can’t seem to download the diabetes app unless I get an account at the apple store. I don’t want them to have my cc# and info on file, the app is free so why do they need payment info?
Hi Michael,
To download applications from the App Store you need a login id, to create an App Store ID you need to sign up, for signing up you need to provide your CCard details and your mailing address, etc. This is what everyone does to access the App Store. When it comes to purchase, you are not charged if what you have purchased is not a paid application such as this diabetes log. This is a better option because you don’t have to fill your credit card details everytime you decide to purchase paid applications. Nothing to worry here, your CC details are safe with Apple.
I have type 2 diabetes and have to take both oral medication as well as injections. It would be really nice to have a way to add medications to the medicine category other than the ones that are offered.
Lynn,
There is an iPhone app called MedsLog that allows you to log all medicine consumption, as well as log your blood sugar level at each consumption or injection.
-Kyle
Lynn: This is on my list of features to add, and I’m sorry I haven’t gotten it in yet.
For everyone else, I have finally gotten a major update to Diabetes Log posted to the App Store, so it is much more useful, and a bit more stable. Please look at my website and send me email if you have any other comments.
Thank you, Kevin, for the review here. I very much appreciate it.
I’m having trouble exporting/downloading the log data into a spreadsheet. Anyone else have issues there? any help? thanks, much appreciated.