DIABETES patients can expect something of a "revolution" in their care over the next five years as technology booms in their favour, according to forecasts from David Klonoff, medical director of the Diabetes Research Institute, Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in San Mateo, California, USA.
Pharmacists will become the prime monitors of some of this technology, he predicted.
Klonoff says GPS-based sensors worn by patients will be preprogrammed with dietary preference information and include continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) with alarms and personalized notifications.
CGMs will be portable, accurate, last longer, require less calibration, and yield more decision support.
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