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[Show HN] D Sharp: Mobile Diabetes Management (JQuery Mobile, MongoDB, NodeJS) (dsharpdiabetes.com)
11 points by dsharpdiabetes 5406 days ago
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Would love some feedback! Thanks everyone.

From a tech perspective, D Sharp is built using Express, Node-Canvas for rendering Flot graphs, MongoDB via Mongoose and JQuery Mobile.

Forgive my ignorance to the types of diabetes, is this service for people who self medicate to control their diabetes?
Our goal was to make it work for anyone with diabetes. Most apps target Type 2 diabetics who use diet primarily and really don't work well for insulin users (and even worse for insulin pump users).

You can configure D Sharp to handle oral medications, insulin via pump or pen needle/syringe, etc plus the general logbook functions for blood glucose, blood pressure, weight, diet, etc.

I think the most unique feature is that if you are taking insulin, D Sharp can calculate the insulin dose required to cover the carbs in a meal. It will even track your active insulin and adjust to avoid "stacking" multiple administrations, etc. In this way it provides a lot of the features of an insulin pump and makes them available to someone who is just using a pen needle.

Pretty sweet. I'll give it a try!
Lookin' good! Came here from IRC.