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09-28-2006, 04:46 PM
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| | | BD to exit BG monitoring market
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09-28-2006, 04:59 PM
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| | I hope this means MM will provide a replacement meter (one that is actually RELIABLE) to anyone with a Paradigm.
The Link meter strips can be obtained directly from MM, if you can't find the strips at your local pharmacy. MM will be replacing the meters ASAP, but that might take some time, as no other meter on the market is designed to interface with the Paradigm. This news took MM by suprise today. (My wife will be bummed out, because she actually likes and uses the Link meter every day) http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/pro...8&ID=60613 49
The above article states that the BD meter will be sold through the end of 2007, so there will be plenty of time for MM to make the transition.
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09-28-2006, 05:39 PM
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| | | And then MM users can pay for an upgrade to get a pump that works with a new meter...my guess anyways.
This is not a huge surprise to me. BD meters suck and everyone knows it. |
09-28-2006, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Funnygrl This is not a huge surprise to me. BD meters suck and everyone knows it. | Agreed. I never liked the BD monitor that came with my MM pump. To top it all off, my insurance wouldn't cover the test strips. I would like to see a partnership with OneTouch.
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09-28-2006, 05:56 PM
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| | | I just got a new paradigm pump like 3 weeks ago. Surely when they change meters we will get some sort of software upgrade? UHG. I hate the BD meter so am glad it's going away, but I have been using it for the last 4.5 years b/c it beams my sugar to the pump (yes, I"m that lazy)
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09-28-2006, 05:59 PM
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| | | It will be interesting how many people will complain. I can guarantee you MM won't come up with a free pump upgrade for a new meter. So the ONLY option is to find a meter company and persuade them to modify their meter and software for it to transmit the same way the BD meter did. And well, there aren't many companies out there at all.
Lifescan is partnered with Animas and Dexcom. Abbott (Freestyle) is partnered with Cozmo. I don't think Accu-Chek has a company, but they do have a pump, so they are out. So what will MM do?
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09-28-2006, 06:04 PM
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| | | Maybe they'll make their own freaking meter. It's not like they don't have the technology or resources to do it.....I mean, seriously.
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09-28-2006, 06:08 PM
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| | | Jill...that's about the only option they have left. Even then, that's not an easy task and personally, something I don't see being done by 2007. It takes a few years to R&D that and then at least 6-12 months for FDA approval. But it may be all they can do.
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●Blue Ash, Ohio Police Dispatcher
●Type 1 diabetic for 25 years (11 months old)
●Animas pumper since December of 2002
~IR 1000 (Dec. 2002-Jan. 2005)
~IR 1200 (Jan. 2005 - ?)
●LifeScan OneTouch UltraSmart Diabetes is an Art, NOT a Science. You must master the control by skills and not by knowledge alone. |
09-28-2006, 06:13 PM
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| | | Jedi, you are right, it will take a least a couple of years to get a new meter to market, unless they already have one in the works we don't know about, but I seriously doubt it. I can't believe they didn't see this coming from BD? Surely BD gave them a heads up. Crazy.
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09-28-2006, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by jillsp Jedi, you are right, it will take a least a couple of years to get a new meter to market, unless they already have one in the works we don't know about, but I seriously doubt it. I can't believe they didn't see this coming from BD? Surely BD gave them a heads up. Crazy. | Here's hoping there's some sort of "fast track" means of getting a meter through the FDA's approval process... |
09-28-2006, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by RLK Agreed. I never liked the BD monitor that came with my MM pump. To top it all off, my insurance wouldn't cover the test strips. I would like to see a partnership with OneTouch. | Never. OneTouch is owned by the same company that owns Animas.
Jedi- Freestyle is also partnered with Insulet/Omnipod AND working on their own pump. |
09-28-2006, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Funnygrl Jedi- Freestyle is also partnered with Insulet/Omnipod AND working on their own pump. | Not to mention--Freestyle makes the Navigator. Can you imagine them partnering with MM, which already has it's own CGMS?  |
09-28-2006, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by spike Not to mention--Freestyle makes the Navigator. Can you imagine them partnering with MM, which already has it's own CGMS? | Didn't even think of that. Good point. |
09-28-2006, 07:24 PM
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| | | MM will probably buy the rights to the bd meter, taking up the manufacturing part, it would be cheeper for them to do that then to try and partner with someone else.....
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09-28-2006, 07:34 PM
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| | | LIttle Birdie told me
MM is in discussion with other meter companies and would like the FreeStyle!
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