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by bleair 2612 days ago
In short, real humans and these medical devices are inexact. The device must choose “How much insulin should be dosed?”. Lawsuits argue medical devices should be flawless, so no company will bring out a device that could be pointed out as causing an incorrect amount of drugs being delivered The open source insulin pump and continuous-glucose-monitors as a feedback systems are just incredible BUT they require the user to be very aware of what is easy and reliable and what can be flaky (see all the details about pod screamers - e.g. the pod can’t continue, or drift in cgm data)