Should I wish upon a star, I would wish for…
I like a lot
of things about the Snap. But are there things it needs to be better? Damn
straight. It needs:
To be able to talk to the Dex G-4 CGM
transmitter.
It also needs
a meter that talks to it. It would be even better if several different meters
talked to it.
It needs to
accept a Novolog penfill. Humalog is “off formulary” on many health plans.
Including mine.
It needs
download capability to a computer. Not for the pumpers, we never bother, but our
educators and doctors like to do it.
It needs a
brown leather belt case.
All things
I’m told Asante is working on. Except the brown leather case.
I also wish
they’d fix the few bone-headed menu items we talked about, although the more I
used it, the more I got used to how it’s laid out, and I developed workarounds
to compensate. Still, I shouldn’t have had to do that. Why couldn’t the entire
menu order be user programmable? Like those online surveys where you slide
things into the order that’s most important to you. It would let each pumper
personalize the Snap’s controls in a way that made the most sense to him or
her. No two of us use our pumps the same way. Our diabetes varies. Our diabetes
“control” modus operandi varies. Our pumps should be variable, or at least
customizable, too.
And to make
it the “perfect” pump it also needs:
Basal
programing that automatically changes by day of the week.
Corrections
that intensify with altitude of blood sugar. I guarantee you that the
correction factor that works to fix a blood sugar of 200 won’t be enough to fix
a 400.
IOB needs to
be on the home screen, along with a time/percentage remaining indicator.
We need an
easy place to look up when the next body site change should happen.
It needs
faster BGL scrolling, or the ability to scroll BGL numbers by fives.
It needs a
well-written and funny user’s manual.
And lastly,
it needs a data base of pictures of naked mermaids and cheerleaders. Because
who wouldn’t want that?
But other
than all of that, it’s a pretty damn good package.
Next week: So will I keep it?
posted by Wil | 6:00 AM
3 Comments:
Wil, how would you compare it overall versus the t:slim?
I am testing the Asante Snap now (in NE market) and I agree with every one of your comments.
Do any pumps allow for insulin correction factors based on BG level?
The bg scrolling should either go faster period, get progressively faster the longer you hold it down or go in fives.
Especially when your BG is sky high, and you are pissed off, you just get even more angry waiting for the number to scroll to a billion or whatever it happens to be! And being POed will lead to stress hormones which will keep your BG high. Such is the life of a T1 Pumper.
Stay tuned. I think you will really like what we have cooking in the Asante kitchen.
Mark Estes, the boneheaded snap engineer.
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