A company called Informed Data Systems launched the One Drop iOS app for people with Type 1, Type 2, pre-diabetes and diabetes caregivers. Available as a free download, the application enables users to easily log the core behavioral and biometric components of diabetes — including Glucose, Food, Insulin and Physical Activity — in one place, and anonymously share that information with a community, delivering actionable, data driven insights to everyone on the platform.
“As a person with Type 1 diabetes, I know firsthand that people with diabetes are really the ultimate ‘quantified selfers’,” said Jeff Dachis, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of One Drop, “And yet to manage each day we are still dealing with non-integrated, disconnected tools and technology, data sources locked in silos, and a healthcare universe that unwittingly disempowers, and demotivates.”
With One Drop, users can see the relationships that food, insulin, and activity have with their glucose levels.One Drop features simple photo food logging, one touch DropDial data entry, automatic activity logging from the phone’s built in pedometer and automatic community sharing. Positive affirmation with “likes” and “stickers” are also there, and so are notifications, alerts, notes and tips.
All this data comes together and is clearly linked so that users can see the relationships that food, insulin, and activity have with glucose levels, and learn how others in the One Drop community navigate their daily lives.
According to Oded Kraft, former Vice President of Products at Medingo (acquired by Roche), the meaningful context to numbers One Drop boasts is something missing from the current diabetes marketplace.