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The Intelligent Glucose Controller is a program that allows diabetics to have full control of their diabetes. The program is designed to run on pocket computers and desktop computers. The Intelligent Glucose Controller has a simple but effective core that lets you enter data such as glucose levels, insulin dosage, carbohydrate intake, amount of exercise, etc. In other words: it's a complete diary. It is easy to browse through the data, display graphs, calculate statistics and generate reports that can be printed or e-mailed. Furthermore, the program can be used to generate a personalized advice on the insulin dosage that could be taken.
In addition to basic usage, physicians and developers can fully customize the program to the patient's needs without recompiling the program. For example, it is possible to change which variables are recorded. Also, modules can be added that calculate custom statistics, generate reports or give advice. It is also possible to translate the texts in the program to a different language.
The system uses a number of artificial intelligence techniques such as neural networks to predict the patient's glucose level given a certain begin situation. This is then used to generate an advice on, for example, the insulin dosage. The development of this part of the program is still in the early stages and still need to be tested thoroughly. However, the first results seem promising. The original report on this subject can be found here.
The Intelligent Glucose Controller is currently being developed for the PocketPC operating system and the current version is running without problems on an iPAQ 1940. However, the program is designed to run on various other operating systems.
I hope to be releasing a basic version of the program before the end of 2005. I'm currently looking at the possibilities to gather patient data, so that the advice-part of the program can be tested.