Hacking Diabetes

Ed Damiano

October 23, 2015

Edward Damiano is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. His expertise and training are in the areas of mechanical and biomedical engineering, applied mechanics, and applied mathematics. Ever since his 14-year-old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes ... Read More »

MySugr – Fredrik Debong and Frank Westermann

June 27, 2015

What is mySugr? We tame the diabetes monster! In brief, we’re a diabetes service company. Our apps, web service and Diabetes Academy are mutually compatible solutions to ease the daily therapy routine. Who’s behind mySugr? We’re a startup that was ... Read More »

Bigfoot Biomedical – Jeff Brewer, Bryan Mazlish, Lane Desborough, Jon Brilliant

June 11, 2015

Founded by a group of four fathers of children with Type 1 diabetes, Bigfoot Biomedical is hoping to market the worlds first artificial pancreas. The new startup recently acquired the insulin pump company Asante and plans to fine tune algorithms ... Read More »

DiabetesMine D-Data Exchange

June 3, 2015

The DiabetesMine™ D-Data ExChange is a gathering of key innovators creating applications and platforms that leverage diabetes data to produce healthier outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, increase transparency to policy decision-makers and care teams, and improve prospects for patient engagement. It was created ... Read More »

Anna McCollister-Slipp

May 30, 2015

Anna McCollister-Slipp is co-founder of Galileo Analytics, a Visual Data Exploration and advanced data analytics company focused on democratizing access to and understanding of complex health data. In addition, she serves as Chief Advocate for Participatory Research at the Scripps Translational Science ... Read More »

Diatribe – Kelly Close and Adam Brown

May 30, 2015

diaTribe is a program of The diaTribe Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to improving the lives of people living with diabetes and prediabetes and advocating for action (learn more here). Here at diaTribe, we are passionate about diabetes – understanding it, writing about it, ... Read More »

One Drop – Jeff Dachis

May 30, 2015

This interview with One Drop founder Jeff Dachis was conducted by the team at Job Portraits during preparations for the LAUNCH Festival. Briefly, what are you making? One Drop is a diabetes management platform that helps people navigate diabetes together. Why this problem, ... Read More »

Galileo Analytics – Anna McCollister-Slipp

May 30, 2015

Galileo Analytics is a visual data exploration and advanced analytics platform, aimed at democratizing the process of doing sophisticated health data analytics. Type 1 diabetes patient Anna McCollister-Slipp co-founded Galileo Analytics in 2010 amidst frustration with stagnation in health care ... Read More »

Strip Safely – Bennet Dunlap and Christel Marchand

May 30, 2015

StripSafely is an ad hoc Diabetes Online Community (DOC) collaboration to help the general public understand that there are inaccurate blood glucose test strips and meters on the market, and they’re putting patient lives at risk. We hope to get folks ... Read More »

Amy Tenderich

May 30, 2015

Amy Tenderich is a journalist, blogger, and patient advocate who started DiabetesMine.com after her diagnosis with type 1 diabetes in 2003. Her site has become a leading online destination for people with diabetes and one of the top health blogs around the ... Read More »

Karmel Allison

May 29, 2015

Karmel Allison was born in Southern California, diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of nine, and educated at UC Berkeley. Karmel now lives in San Diego with her husband, where she is loving the sunshine, working in computational ... Read More »

Scott Hanselman

May 29, 2015

Scott is a web developer who has been blogging at http://hanselman.com for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has three podcasts, ... Read More »

Perceptus – Ken Stack and Gustavo Munoz

May 21, 2015

Perceptus is the project of Ken Stack, a father of a T1D patient, and Gustavo Munoz, a T1D patient since 2005. Why Do We Exist? Educating patients through autonomous data visualization tools. Education is crucial in the treatment of complex and ... Read More »

CGM in the Cloud – Facebook Group

May 21, 2015

CGM in the Cloud is a Facebook group for those who want to share their experiences with open source solutions to send data from the Dexcom G4 to the cloud so that it can be accessed anywhere…so our kids/friends/parents can ... Read More »

Stephen Black – X-Drip

May 21, 2015

Stephen Black is a T1D patient and an active contributor to Nighscout. He is the creator and primary driver of X-Drip, which enables users to access Dexcom data through any Web-enabled device – with or without the need for a ‘receiver’. X-Drip pulls ... Read More »

The patients, parents and advocates behind the #WeAreNotWaiting movement to access and utilize medical device and health data to improve life with diabetes.