Diabetes Software for Pocket PC?
Does anyone have any recommendations for diabetes tracking software that works on a Pocket PC?
I have been using DiabeticPIM for a long time, and for the most part, really like it. It has most everything I need, and I found the food database to be excellent. It is easy to use, and has some nice reporting features that I publish on my website. They also recently released a desktop component, which is very nice as well.
However, I'm not sure how active the developer is. I am having a problem where when I purge my past data, it wipes out my basal rates too! Then I have to re-enter them, which creates a "Basal Rate Change" entry in my logbook. Makes people think that I'm mucking with my basal rates every week or so! I wrote the support address on 12/29/04, and have not heard anything back yet. I've also sent in a number of suggestions for features/enhancements, and didn't get any response their either. Not that a response is required for enhancement requests, but it certainly is for support requests!!
One of the features I'm missing, is the ability to have different ratios for different times of the day. For example, during the day, I take 1 unit of Humalog to cover 8 grams of carbs. However, in the morning, that ratio is more like 1 unit of Humalog to cover 5.8 grams of carbs. So, even using this software, I still have to pull out the calculator for breakfast.
I have a number of features that I think are required (some higher priority or importance than others), and some others that are just desired. I intend to compile a list of those things, then compare that against the software's that are available, and see what best matches up.
There does not seem to be a whole lot of people developing software for tracking diabetes (type 1 or 2). There is a handful, but not enough to make things competitive. I want something in the league of Pocket Informant and SBSH's Pocket Breeze - you know, quality robust all encompassing software.
If you know of any, or have something you particularly like, drop a comment on this post.
I'll add another post when I find something I like (or settle on). Maybe I'll compile my list of features that I want, and start marketing the idea to some of the prominent pocket pc developers out there... See if I can talk anyone into taking the project on! That's pretty ambitious, and who knows if I'll take it that far - but big things start with little ideas.
I have been using DiabeticPIM for a long time, and for the most part, really like it. It has most everything I need, and I found the food database to be excellent. It is easy to use, and has some nice reporting features that I publish on my website. They also recently released a desktop component, which is very nice as well.
However, I'm not sure how active the developer is. I am having a problem where when I purge my past data, it wipes out my basal rates too! Then I have to re-enter them, which creates a "Basal Rate Change" entry in my logbook. Makes people think that I'm mucking with my basal rates every week or so! I wrote the support address on 12/29/04, and have not heard anything back yet. I've also sent in a number of suggestions for features/enhancements, and didn't get any response their either. Not that a response is required for enhancement requests, but it certainly is for support requests!!
One of the features I'm missing, is the ability to have different ratios for different times of the day. For example, during the day, I take 1 unit of Humalog to cover 8 grams of carbs. However, in the morning, that ratio is more like 1 unit of Humalog to cover 5.8 grams of carbs. So, even using this software, I still have to pull out the calculator for breakfast.
I have a number of features that I think are required (some higher priority or importance than others), and some others that are just desired. I intend to compile a list of those things, then compare that against the software's that are available, and see what best matches up.
There does not seem to be a whole lot of people developing software for tracking diabetes (type 1 or 2). There is a handful, but not enough to make things competitive. I want something in the league of Pocket Informant and SBSH's Pocket Breeze - you know, quality robust all encompassing software.
If you know of any, or have something you particularly like, drop a comment on this post.
I'll add another post when I find something I like (or settle on). Maybe I'll compile my list of features that I want, and start marketing the idea to some of the prominent pocket pc developers out there... See if I can talk anyone into taking the project on! That's pretty ambitious, and who knows if I'll take it that far - but big things start with little ideas.
posted by Scott K. Johnson | 9:42 AM
1 Comments:
Scott: I have not found a good Diabetic Software program. Either the nutrition database is lacking, the designer does not really understand diabetes managment or the software is either defective or breaks all the time.
For example, a piece of software I recently tried a trial Diabetes Diary for Pocket PC, might have worked had it not been so badly engineered it would not run on Pocket Windows 2003.
Other software products do not seperate the food by meals. Others still require the use to copy the food information into the log. Others have no insulin dosage input or worse yet report standard dosages of insulin - default 10.
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