Adjusting to life with diabetes is difficult. People with diabetes need to consider diet and lifestyle changes, count carbs, monitor sugar levels and regulate insulin intake, and remember to take insulin doses and whatnot—these often become sources of stress and constant worry. mySugr, a digital health company, is working to make managing diabetes simple and hassle-free. It aims to make the entire treatment process less difficult and stressful—enabling people with diabetes to live well.
Let’s know more about mySugr app.
mySugr and its story
mySugr, a digital health firm founded in 2012, promises to make living with diabetes easier by arming those who have it with the knowledge, skills, and self-assurance they require to make their everyday routines less complicated.
Its app is a top companion app aiming to make diabetes less miserable by helping you take control of your health. It aids in managing and monitoring diabetes by storing all necessary data on your smartphone for immediate use and helping you control your daily insulin intake.
What is mySugr and Roche’s relationship?
Austria-based mySugr became a member of the Roche family in 2017. Roche is the world’s largest pharmaceutical company and has evolved into a global industry leader. Throughout its 125-year history, Roche has been a global supplier of transformative innovative solutions across major disease areas. mySugr is a successful digital platform with more than 3 million registered users throughout more than 80 nations—and is still expanding.
By being a part of Roche, mySugr gains access to a strong global market presence for future endeavours. Combining Roche’s diabetes open care ecosystem and mySugr’s huge customer base, the startup makes diabetes care and management easy for patients.
The mySugr Quality Management System has EN ISO 13485:2016 certification and its devices—mySugr Bolus Calculator and mySugr Logbook—are Class IIa and Class IIb medical devices respectively, under EU legislation. According to FDA regulations, the mySugr Logbook is accessible in the United States as an exempt device.
mySugr’s products and services
mySugr App:
mySugr is created by people with diabetes, for people with diabetes. Having faced the diabetes beast themselves, they work with you to tame it! The app stores all your crucial diabetes data from integrated systems, connected devices, and manual entries in one place. Throughout your diabetes journey, the mySugr app supports you and keeps you inspired, self-assured and prepared to defeat diabetes.
Features of mySugr app:
- Logging important data like blood sugar, meals, activity, insulin, etc.
- Connect your diabetes device with the mySugr app to automatically log your blood sugar readings in the app.
- The mySugr Bolus calculator calculates the right amount of insulin for corrections and meal times.
- mySugr analytics shows you an analysis of all the important data points and your blood sugar patterns.
- It helps you keep track of your meals conveniently.
- You can easily download detailed reports of your data through the app and share them with your health provider.
- The app’s smart search option lets you search through your data using a wide variety of filters.
mySugr Coaching
mySugr coaching connects you to a mySugr coach. mySugr coach is a certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) who provides you support, advice, and assistance via the app, email or text message. This medical expert assists you with the analysis of your diabetic data, provides insights, helps you create new objectives, addresses your specific diabetes-related inquiries, and provide encouragement when you need it
You can use the mySugr app on your smartphone to send them a message whenever you need assistance or guidance, and they will reply within one business day. An introduction to the mySugr Coach service is provided in this 30-second YouTube video.
mySugr Coaching Bundle
The mySugr Coaching Bundle gives you access to mySugr PRO and coaching service.
mySugr Full Bundle
The Full Bundle gives you access to mySugr PRO edition and mySugr coach. Additionally, you get a FastClix lancing device, consumption-based Accu-Chek test strips, and an Accu-Chek Blood Glucose Meter delivered right to your house.
Vision mySugr aims to achieve:
mySugr strives to be the most dependable, helpful, and sympathetic brand in the world for diabetics. It assists consumers in overcoming the difficulties associated with daily diabetes therapy with cutting-edge products and human-centred experiences.
According to the World Health Organization, 422 million people have diabetes worldwide resulting in 1.6 million deaths annually. Diabetes can be controlled, and today’s inventors are working to use technology to lessen the burden of the disease.
Adham Kassab, international business leader at mySugr, said in a statement that when speaking to people with diabetes, it becomes clear that they genuinely want to carry the fewest therapeutic devices feasible and that those devices should be as unobtrusive as possible.
They want to utilise a gadget that is typically close at hand by controlling and monitoring insulin pumps via smartphone. Therefore, people with diabetes can use the mySugr Pump Control to simplify and increase their discretion when using an insulin pump in daily life.
How much does mySugr Cost?
With various Accu-Chek products, the PRO edition of mySugr can be activated without cost. Otherwise, a monthly fee of $2.99 applies.
The monthly package price for the coaching service from mySugr is $49.99. (available in the United States only and includes meter, test strips, mySugr PRO version, and the personalised coaching service).
mySugr Pros and Cons
Pros:
- A colourful, entertaining, and simple-to-understand display.
- The personalizable “Diabetes Monster” adds a touch of personality and delivers constructive criticism to promote diabetes habits like more frequent glucose checks, medication and exercise tracking, etc.
- Includes a convenient tagging tool to look for particular or spot trends and patterns.
- Pushing the large + button at the top of the screen to enter data is simple. To make sure you remember what you ate and drank, you can take pictures of it.
- Combines information from Accu-Chek Guide metres with Bluetooth functionality, as well as interaction with Apple Health and Google Fit.
- Available on both Android and iOS.
- Provides individualised diabetes health coaching for an additional monthly charge.
Cons:
- Unless you’re using one of the Accu-Chek connected meters—known as Accu-Chek Guide metres in the United States—your data must be manually entered.
- It currently only communicates with Accu-Chek Bluetooth-enabled glucose fingerstick metres rather than with other brands.
- Not all features are available in the basic free version; they must be purchased.
- It does not directly integrate with continuous glucose monitors like Dexcom or FreeStyle Libre.
- Because the FDA has not approved it, the bolus calculator feature is not available in the United States.
Bottomline
MySugr’s products and services are designed to make you live well with diabetes. They aim to help you exercise more control over your health and hopefully avoid serious complications.
Whether they’re helping people with diabetes test their glucose levels, explaining what foods to eat at a given time or helping users connect with community members with similar experiences, MySugr is making the lives of those who live with diabetes better.
