Just a quick note about two TGA notices that came out this month: Tandem t:slim X2 pump A Product Defect Correction was published, talking about software errors affecting battery life and insulin delivery. This is affecting pumps with software version 6.4.1 or earlier. 6.4.1 was the version of Basal-IQ which came out in 2020 as part …
Last week I wrote about the announced expansion to the NDSS CGM Subsidy. If you haven’t read that article yet, please do before continuing. There’s still some time to go before we find out for sure what will happen, but some things are getting clearer. I’m not sure the Health Department and NDSS necessarily know …
Last month I mentioned that I had modified the parameters I was using for the insulin activity/IOB modelling in my AID/loop system. Specifically, for Lyumjev and for Humalog I’m now using 9 hours in the exponential IOB model. I showed statistics from two 4-week samples of Lyumjev, and then a 7-day sample using this timing …
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) technology is a tool that enables a lot. Including the Automated Insulin Delivery I rely on. But it’s been very expensive. In the lead-up to this week’s Federal Election, there has been bipartisan support for a promise to extend the current NDSS CGM Subsidy program to cover all Australians with Type …
Omnipod DASH pods were introduced to Australia last August, but while the company continues to work towards getting them subsidised like other insulin pumps through a combination of NDSS and private health insurance, we’re still left having to fund them as self-payers. They’re expensive A box of 10 pods (one month’s supply if you’re using …
The DANA R and RS pumps have always been interesting to AndroidAPS users, as the pumps have Bluetooth and can be controlled from a phone. The DANA R was the pump used by the original author of AndroidAPS. The RS pump is a similar design, but with upgraded Bluetooth LE. It received TGA approval in …