Though over the years technology to treat diabetes has advanced to insulin pumps and sensors that do continuous glucose monitoring, manual finger pricks are still a required part of the process.
Now researchers, including a team at Illinois Institute of Technology, are researching how to use wearable tech to bridge that final gap, creating devices that could automatically monitor and regulate blood glucose levels.
Illinois Tech researcher Ali Cinar predicts that sometime within the next year medtech companies will get approval to begin marketing a device called an “artificial pancreas” which does this monitoring and regulation automatically through a sensor placed just under the skin.
