Devil's advocate: diabetics do not want data logs, they want a better/longer healthy life. I do not have diabetes, but I would rather have an insulin pump that maintains glucose levels by itself than a meter that allows me to monitor them.
And yes, that pump will be imperfect, but it probably will do a better job than you can do yourself, let alone than you will do yourself.
I know that, traditionally, patients used glucose level measurements, stared at the numbers, guessed at what caused them and then tried to correct for similar future events, but AFAIK, that has never been very effective. It did give you some sense of being in control, but that was more an illusion than reality. e.g: your blood sugar is high. Is that because you drank a beer last night, because you went to bed late, because you did not sleep well, because you are stressed about something, because you had a fever two days before, because you took the bus to the train station?
However, except from the truly bloody obvious, that didn't help much maintaining blood sugar levels, unless you lived like a robot. Normal daily schedules simply vary too much to allow you to determine the true cause of atypical blood sugar level variations.
IMO, the time of stand-alone glucose meters has passed, and I do not see how having users process logs will help improve their lives. Reading individual measurements definitely will, but that is so that you can react at short notice, and adjust insulin intake.
And yes, that pump will be imperfect, but it probably will do a better job than you can do yourself, let alone than you will do yourself.
I know that, traditionally, patients used glucose level measurements, stared at the numbers, guessed at what caused them and then tried to correct for similar future events, but AFAIK, that has never been very effective. It did give you some sense of being in control, but that was more an illusion than reality. e.g: your blood sugar is high. Is that because you drank a beer last night, because you went to bed late, because you did not sleep well, because you are stressed about something, because you had a fever two days before, because you took the bus to the train station?
However, except from the truly bloody obvious, that didn't help much maintaining blood sugar levels, unless you lived like a robot. Normal daily schedules simply vary too much to allow you to determine the true cause of atypical blood sugar level variations.
IMO, the time of stand-alone glucose meters has passed, and I do not see how having users process logs will help improve their lives. Reading individual measurements definitely will, but that is so that you can react at short notice, and adjust insulin intake.