The iBGStar device from Sanofi and its partner device maker AgaMatrix (AgaMatrix's Nugget) will arrive in the stores by May 15 — Apple's online store and Walgreens.com are already selling the device. Apple is offering the iBGStar for about $100while Walgreens has priced it at about $75. (An iPhone or iPod touch is not included, of course, and while the meter works without the device, much of its value would be lost without one.)
Since Apple will not be selling testing strips for the device, its iBGStar package includes 50 strips, which explains the higher price. Walgreens' iBGStar package includes just 10 strips, but additional strips can be purchased at Walgreens or from the store's website.
Sanofi's iBGStar is tiny. Some of the other bloggers and diabetes community leaders that attended Sanofi's demo day this week noted that the device's size alone is an impressive feature.
The device's companion app, called iBGStar Diabetes Manager App, launched on Apple's AppStore early last month. The app helps users analyze their glucose patterns over time, track eating and other activities that may have influenced their levels, and email data to care providers or others. The collected information is also displayed as scorecards that show individual test results in different colors that are coded to indicate high, low and within range blood glucose results. Readings from the iBGStar device are automatically loaded into the app when synched, and those readings are "locked" in — users are not able to edit them. Those readings also are indicated by a lock symbol on the corner of their scorecard, while any manually entered readings are marked with an "x" to indicate that they are editable and were manually entered. Sanofi expects that information to help care providers who might like to know which readings came from the device and were not edited.
Sanofi acknowledged that it is targeting a very specific group with an iPhone or iPod touch-based glucose meter. The company believes the number of potential users is about 1.6 million in the United States.
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