Ford and Medtronic combine on a new project

Imaging driving around in your car and you hear a beep. That could be your car telling you that are going low!

On Thursday, Ford and Medtronic teamed up to provide voice-controlled devices to help monitor blood glucose while you are driving.

This is so sweet!

Ford has developed a system in their new Sync cars to be able connect to Medtronic’s glucose monitoring devices via your Bluetooth and share glucose levels and trends through  audio and a video display in the dashboard. The system will provide alerts if  levels are too low. Low glucose levels can cause people with diabetes to lose  consciousness, and there have been cases in which car crashes were blamed on  such an occurrence.

“Diabetes in particular is a chronic disease where frequent monitoring of  blood glucose levels throughout the day is critical,” James Dallas, senior vice president at Medtronic, said in the statement. “We can help patients actively manage their health via access to  real-time data on phones, hand-held devices or even in their cars.”

What do you think about what Ford and Medtronic is doing?  Will this help PWDs in knowing their blood glucose numbers while driving, rather than fumbling around with a glucometer and having a hypoglycemic episode and ending up in an accident?

Let us know!

Checking blood sugars could be simple as a beep or a voice from the dashboard. Winning!