of endocrinology and I've also been living with type 1 diabetes myself for about the

last 20 years and I wanted to talk a little bit today about diabetes and technology. So

we all know for people living with diabetes it's extremely important to check your blood

sugar regularly and record those results and up until recently that meant checking your

blood sugar but then kind of manually entering those results into a log book but that takes

time it's very easy to forget to do that and its really kind of out of touch and out of

date with how we live our lives today with all these kinds of technologies coming out/

so I'm really excited about this new generation of blood sugar meters that are coming that

are starting to link our blood sugars with our smart phone devices. So specifically the

OneTouch Verio Sync is a new meter that has just been release and it has a lot of unique

features. So what it does when a patient checks their blood sugar, it automatically, wirelessly

sends that information to their iPhone and then when they click on the app on their iPhone

it brings up this nice summary page where you can immediately see what your average

block sugar has been over the last 14 days. There's these nice color-coded graphs where

you can see what percent of time you've been in range or outside of your range and it actually

automatically puts it into that log book format for you so no more recording that manually

and a really, really nice feature is that by literally clicking on the screen and tapping

share you can email or text any of this information to your healthcare provided, family, friends,

anybody that you want involved in your diabetes management and having this all right there

on your iPhone, this device we use for everything in our lives, just makes it easier to kind

of interact with your diabetes and make management decisions. Then from the physicians side of

things having blood sugar is key to diabetes management. So it can be frustrating at times

when a patient comes to see me and they have their blood sugar meter but I cant download

the result or maybe they forgot their log book in the car but with the OneTouch Verio

Sync they can literally hand me their iPhone and we can go over all their blood sugar results

together. So I have all that information literally at the palm of my hand and not only is it

a benefit for face-to-face when I'm seeing people in my office but even after they leave

they can email me the results in a couple of weeks and I can continues to help them

via email to make more diabetes management decisions to get them to their goals faster.

So this product is available online now, the OneTouch Verio Sync and for more information

patients can go to onetouch.com.