LifeScan ups its diabetes app game
CHESTERBROOK, Pa. — The new OneTouch Reveal mobile app, introduced Friday at the 77th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, includes several user-inspired features — including blood sugar and activity timelines transformed into quick visual snapshots — that allows people to see their results and connect their actions with trends.
"Self-monitoring of blood glucose is still the most accurate, effective and accessible way people with diabetes can track their blood sugars," stated Brian Levy, chief medical officer, LifeScan. "Now with our new OneTouch Reveal mobile app and digital platform, we can use enhanced connectivity and the new user experience to help patients use that information to make meaningful decisions and take an active role in their diabetes management," he said. "It's this interconnected diabetes management system that changes the way patients see their blood sugar and enables physicians like me to help them find the right track to better diabetes self-management."
In addition to the timeline and visual logbook, new features include a fingerprint login, an events newsfeed featuring diabetes-related articles, set reminders, averages for 14-, 30-, or 90- day time periods, and a break out of pre- and post-meal tagged results. The OneTouch Reveal mobile app also utilizes ColorSure technology, which highlights patterns that show users a bigger picture.
People with diabetes can also use the new OneTouch Reveal mobile app to share blood glucose and other relevant information with family and friends, and they can optionally connect and upload data to and from a variety of LifeScan partners and their offerings, such as the Apple Health app, retail incentive programs and even participating healthcare systems.
"We designed the new interface with engaging social networking apps in mind to appeal to patients new to digital diabetes apps, and to delight current OneTouch Reveal users," reported Saleem Ahamed, VP global franchise organization, LifeScan. "Users can quickly see the important events in their blood sugar right up front, like a news feed; and the meter and app pairing are now as simple as consumers have come to expect from popular devices like fitness trackers."
With more than 312,000 total downloads and 34 million plus blood glucose readings, the OneTouch Reveal mobile app is one of the top downloaded diabetes apps globally. In a clinical study, eight out of 10 people who have used the OneTouch Reveal mobile app agree that it helped them better manage their blood glucose.