Yes, the Omnipod DASH is soon to be subsidised through NDSS. People have been asking for this for a while (pretty much since the pods were introduced a year ago). The new subsidy will apparently become effective on the 1st of December. Hopefully this means that the appropriate registration forms can be processed and training …
In the last day there have been some sensational claims on networks like 9News about Omnipods possibly catching fire. Luckily this is just tabloid journalism at its “finest”, including bogus claims that the wearable device may catch fire. I’ll try to clarify. There is no “product recall”. There is no risk that the pods will …
For years many of us have been wearing these devices and carrying phones in our pockets talking to them. And we’ve usually worked out what we need to to do let everything operate smoothly. Now with more people starting to use them (with the recent expansion of the CGM Subsidy and the launch of AID …
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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 …
Yes in many parts of Australia Daylight Saving Time is finishing on Sunday morning, the 3rd of April 2022. At 2AM your clocks may jump backwards and repeat some of the night. You may get a bit of extra sleep. But this can sometimes play havoc with our diabetes tech if we don’t handle it …
It should be fairly obvious that over the years I’ve been an avid consumer of science fiction (both as books and movies). At the very start of this blog you can find a discussion of JARVIS (from Iron Man) which was my CGM controller. Soon after I introduced GERTY (from Moon) which was the pocket …