"Technology and Innovation: Simplifying Diabetes Management" What would you like to know?!
Technology and Innovation: Simplifying Diabetes Management
We're hosting a Live Interview this Friday, February 8th, with Lane Desborough on the TuDiabetes homepage.
Lane is Product Strategist for the Diabetes business unit of Medtronic. He spent the first 25 years of his career as a control engineer making oil refineries and chemical plants run more safely and efficiently, and helping the world’s energy situation. Then his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and Lane was propelled into a new career. He is now applying his expertise in closed loop systems, human factors, and systems engineering to the development of an artificial pancreas – a job he takes very seriously (and very personally).
What would you like to ask him?! Here are a few applicable questions to get your wheels turning:
- What’s the biggest difference between working in oil refining / power generation and working for Medtronic Diabetes?
- What’s the role of a product strategist for Medtronic?
- How does the real world of diabetes help inform product development decisions?
Please post your questions below by end-of-business on February 7th.
Tags: Lane Desborough, Live Interview, Medtronic, videochat
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Permalink Reply by Annabella on -
Has Medtronic looked into improving infusion sets so it is not a crap shoot when a new set is inserted as to whether absorption will be good or not. To me this is a major stumbling block for the artificial pancreas.
Will the artificial pancreas have learning algorithms so the code adjusts for a particular user.
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Permalink Reply by Manny Hernandez on -
Two questions for Lane,
1) How has your life as the parent of a child with type 1 diabetes influence what you do at Medtronic?
2) What lessons from your time working in oil and chemical plants have you found to be most useful as a Product Strategist at Medtronic? (how similar are these two worlds, if you may?)
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Permalink Reply by Bernard on -
I'd really like to see Medtronic propose de facto standards for biaates related data. Make them open and extensible and make sure they contain formats for bolus and basal delivery, bg readings and cgm readings.
As patients we ALL suffer from a surplus of software for different devices, none of which talks to one another. How can we ever hope to have a holistic view of what's going on with our diabetes until we have software that communicates via a common standard. Please, PLEASE work to make this happen.
Others have already talked about usability related issues. I've blogged about diabetes devices and device design (such as it is). I've helped smaller companies with design challenges, but I've NEVER been approached to review a design before it does to the FDA. That seems a real pity given my real world experience with these devices AND my experience in UI and UX development. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. Would Medtronic consider registering a panel of experts to review future designs? It wouldn't be the same as focus groups, but then I don't think the iPad, iPod or iPhone would have evolved from focus group discussions.
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Permalink Reply by TC on -
Doh! I missed it! My question would have been: When is the Medtronic CGM going to send updates to the internet so parents can monitor their children in real time from anywhere?
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