Welcome to a quantified Life. In this presentation held at the QS Vienna meetup #1, which took place 25.6.2014 at the IBM Vienna HQ, I talk a bit about what I use and how life with my diabetes tools tends to be. I also show a few basic screens from the mySugr products Companion and Analysis. I decided to also add some notes in the slides, hope you don't mind

1. A QUANTIFIED
LIFE
Welcome to the life of a quantified self – of a person with diabetes.
One of the involuntary quants.

2. 30 YEARS WITH DIABETES
1.8 L BLOOD
547,500 U INSULIN
75,000 BG TESTS
Life with type 1 diabetes, is a bit data driven.
You could say, that we are the original quants!

3. Healthcare as industry and concept, is awesome!
But there are some issues looming:
• Fewer docs
• More people sick
With modern tools, medicine can become better

4. PREVENTION
EFFICIENCY
PHILOSOPHY
A few fields we need to address as a society:
• Prevent issues before they arise
• Make it easier and faster for our docs to do their job, as well as the right job on the right person
• Address something greater than just a problem, address the cause of the effect. Change the philosophy of us as a population

5. In diabetes, there are three things needed to make the management successful:
• The basic knowledge
• The basic tools
• The right attitude

6. #qs
To affect change in yourself, us Quants also need the same things, right?
• The basic knowledge
• The adequate tools
• And a community through which we can learn.

7. HEALTHCARE IS SLOWLY
BECOMING THE DOMAIN OF
THE PEOPLE IT AFFECTS
The age of the internet, has now also infested healthcare.
Democratisation, is what is going on – of knowledge, ability and willingness to build and share our work.

8. HEALTHCARE IS SLOWLY
BECOMING THE DOMAIN OF
THE PEOPLE IT AFFECTS
The normal person need no longer be passive, the 1% are engaged and actually changing stuff.
And these 1%, is the QS community.
!
So why am I here?

9. JOINED BY OUR NEW ADVISOR
• CE Marked
• FDA Approved
• ISO 13485 certified
TIM FERRISS
Entrepreneur, Author,
Advisor
Archer, Investor, Dancer
TWITTER
EVERNOTE
FACEBOOK
MYSUGR
As Tim, one of the early protagonists in the movement joined our board of advisors:
“Type 1 diabetics are the true champions of the quantified self-movement.”

10. What I use:
• Moves – good notifications to remind me to move more, oh and fun!
• Misfit Shine – optimize sleep, see the effect at once
• Runtastic – go from slob to half marathon runner in 6 months

11. My realtime diabetes tools:
• A Dexcom CGM
• A Medtronic insulin pump

12. My normal diabetes tools:
• An iBGStar blood glucose testing device
• An Abbott Freestyle Lite blood glucose testing device

13. HEALTH
And the mySugr stuff, since well, it was built by my team to meet mine and other ‘betics needs :)

14. Starting with the mySugr Companion – a quirky, motivating logbook which makes the data useful in day to day life
First part:
• A dashboard over my data: blood glucose, meals, injections and stats

15. • A simple analysis tool in the Companion app

16. • Motivating challenges which help me focus and take the next step

17. HEALTH
I also use the web analysis tool on a weekly basis.

18. Zooming in on the graph, I can see a few patterns: late at night, I’m often high, as well as before lunch

19. My base stats are summarised

20. And I can review how I handle different meals:
• Often low before breakfast!
• And in 40% of the cases also high after breakfast…

21. Diabetes is often said to define a person with diabetes, yet we are now more and more in control of it.
What is often forgotten, is that this is what I want to be.
Not a perfectly compliant unit. I just want to be happy and healthy.
Except for rich, and a bloody astronaut ;)

22. We say that we live with a monster at our side.

23. One with many faces.

24. But we can tame it, piece by piece.
Flip it, and even make it a positive force in our lives.
!
Until we have a cure, it is for us to make our situation understandable, make us able to cope, and maybe even enjoy it.
!
Sometimes…
We succeed in making the monster change its’ mind.
Sometimes it becomes a friend.

25. fredrik.debong@mysugr.com
+43 699 110 33 609
Thank you! :)
Thank you, for staying with me for so long