On the subject of AI, this may be of interest. I've just finished
summarising an article from the British Medical Journal about research
into Artificial Pancreas systems. An Artificial Pancreas isn't a
mechanical device that's implanted into someone, like a pacemaker - it's
basically a computer algorithm into which you feed the results of
continuous blood glucose monitoring, and it responds by telling you how
to adjust your insulin dosage. In a 'closed loop' system this
information is fed straight to your insulin pump, so that human input
shouldn't normally be required at all. The research paper I was
summarising indicates that although further research is required, these
Artificial Pancreas systems seem to be far more efficient at keeping
Type 1 Diabetic patients in the 'normal' blood-sugar range than
old-fashioned dosing regimes. They're especially efficient at night,
when old-fashioned dosing regimes tend to overload the blood with
insulin at the beginning of the night and leave it short by the time
morning comes.
There’s a very interesting open-source artificial pancreas system at
_https://openaps.org/_ , and there’s an article about it in the Guardian
at
_https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/20/diabetes-experience-i-built-my-own-pancreas_
.
Edward
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