Abbott Launches New LibreStyle LibreLink Smartphone Application for Glucose Monitoring

Abbott, a global care for health, announces the launch of FreeStyle application LibreLink on Android and iOS systems (for versions from iOS 11 for iPhone 7 and Android 5.0 and have NFC – Near – Field Communication enabled). The innovation allows technology users to monitor their glucose levels directly from their smartphones, as well as share technology data with their physicians, caregivers and healthcare professionals in the country. With the FreeStyle LibreLink application, it is enough for the user to approach the smartphone from his FreeStyle Libre sensor to record and visualize the glucose levels in real time, assess the glucose history of the last 8 hours, and see an arrow indicating the tendency of the glucose helping decision making by the user. In addition, the LibreLink FreeStyle application also includes a series of reports that show trends and patterns that help patients know if they are managing glucose properly. “The development of FreeStyle LibreLink follows our goal of increasingly innovating the treatment of diabetes, enabling more practicality, information and quality of life for people to live a fuller and healthier life. people of the many troubles to control diabetes through revolutionary technologies and instruments,” says Sandro Rodrigues , General Manager of the Abbott Diabetes Care Division in Brazil.

The FreeStyle LibreLink application comes with a number of benefits, such as the ability to display results on a larger, high-resolution screen, the use of text-to-speech capabilities to facilitate glucose readings (when enabled), of smaller insulin doses (0.1 unit versus 0.5 units available in traditional technology reader ⁶ ). It is worth remembering that FreeStyle Libre users can continue to make use of the technology reader to monitor their glucose levels. Among Brazilian users, the average monitoring with FreeStyle Libre is 14 times a day, which means three times more than the minimum recommended by the Brazilian guidelines for the traditional tests that require the finger bite. The system is available for adults in the Brazilian market since 2016 and for use in children from 4 years of age since 2017. FreeStyle LibreLink is available for free download at Google Play (Android) and Apple Store (iOS) stores. – Medical Buyer Bureau