Day 3

Attendance:
Haley Barrs
Brad Bostwick
Jamie Burns
Lindy Dugger
Kyle Dunaway
Allison Johnson
Hyong Ji (Julia) Kim
Allan Lansche
Hammy Mercer
Rejon Noah
Jeremy Rowland
Nicole Sanhamel
Steven Savage
Amber Stahl
Blake Williams

Today we started off by talking about possible product names. We decided on calling our product Insulend. Then we talked about where we would sell our product. We decided that we should make an online website where the product could be researched and purchased. We also thought that health care magazines should have advertisements for Insulend, along with the website. Health care providers should also sell the product and have the abilities to explain its usefulness to users.

Currently, the devices needed to maintain diabetes can be expensive and somewhat of a hassle to obtain. The refills for the tubs cost an average of around $1000 a year and this can be very expensive for patients, especially those without health insurance. Users also have to order products ahead of time because it takes about a month to receive them in the mail. One group member said she ran out of her product during Christmas time and was without it for about two whole months. Users need to plan out when they need to purchase more insulin tubes so they don’t run out in time of need.

We thought it would be important to prevent this so that a diabetes patient would never be without their medication. We also came up with the idea of a one-time injectable chip. This would be a tiny chip that would be able to detect the glucose and carbohydrate levels in a person’s body. It would also be able to create a proper diet and exercise plan uniquely designed for each person. It would tell the person how much exercise they could do without it being too stressful.

This chip would put everything into one place. It would be more convenient and assessable than the diabetes products today. Insulend would also be more efficient and user friendly for everyone. The website will be a membership website where the user will have a special access code they can find on the product after purchase. We don’t think everyone should be able to have access to this site. It would be named myinsulend.com and users could chat with each other about their usage and concerns with the product. We think it would be nice for them to have easy access to other diabetes patients so users don’t feel as alone.

We ended out group meeting talking about how we would advertise our product. We decided it would be best to advertise in hospital and health care magazines. One member also brought up the idea of putting inserts into similar packaged products. We also talked about the fact Insulend would notify the user and their doctor when fluid levels got too high or too low in the body. The doctor would also have on call availability to give the user advice and consolation in their time of need.

We decided this chip could be compatible with many different devices (with Bluetooth). It would also be in different shapes and colors for personalization.

Nicole

Day 2

Attendance:
Haley Barrs
Brad Bostwick
Jamie Burns
Lindy Dugger
Kyle Dunaway
Allison Johnson
Hyong Ji (Julia) Kim
Allan Lansche
Hammy Mercer
Rejon Noah
Jeremy Rowland
Nicole Sanhamel
Steven Savage
Amber Stahl
Blake Williams

We started today off by calling role. Then we discussed our findings over the past weekend. Each group member had a chance to talk and contribute their ideas. One member thought it would be helpful to have a device that would take pictures of food and send them to a nutritionist. From there, the nutritionist would look at the pictures and respond back with a proper serving size for the types of food consumed. We decided this would be good for a long term approach if the person commonly ate the same things.

Another group member also brought up the idea of a watch device that could detect amounts of bodily fluids. There is currently an invention like this on the market. It works by a needle like injection into the skin which is covered up by the watch. We thought it would be a good idea to have the watch come in different colors so that kids and customers would be happier with the option of personal preference. There is also a tattoo product that detects bodily fluids in a similar way.

We think its highly important to have a device that effectively measures glucose levels and bodily fluids because of the diabetic risk of kedoesodis. This is a process in which the whole body shuts down because the body has too much sugar. The person dehydrates and throws up non-stop. This is when the body releases keytones because of the excess amount of sugar and the person usually has to go to the bathroom a lot.

There is now also a problem with young girls developing diabelimia. These girls let their blood sugar run really high and then their body lets them release keytones which in turn causes them to lose weight. This is very unhealthy and a matter of great concern.

We also discussed the idea of a pacemaker that attaches to the heart. We thought it might be a good idea to develop a device that attaches to the pancrease for diabetes. The idea of scorpion venom was also brought up. It would be carefully injected into the pancrease because it would be deadly if it got into the bloodstream.

Kids these days are self-conscious about their appearance. They are often ashamed of the image of using odd devices while other kids do not have to. It would be helpful to have something that kids would not be embarrassed to use. We also thought of the idea of having a green and red zone so it would be easy for kids to read.

It would also be nice if more restaurants provided monitors online that lets you know exactly how much of what is in each food. Subway is a restaurant that currently provides this service. Carbs, illness, and pregnancy make blood sugar rise. It would be useful to take these individual characteristics into account.

We thought that the best device overall would be a universal monitoring system that could take pictures and/or send text messages. It would have something like an electronic book that would be user friendly and have internet access. The user could input whatever they are eating and the data base would spit back out the correct serving size and appropriate amount to eat. It would also tell the user the amount of carbs and sugars in each food. This device would calculate the math for you and also send a text message to the person and their doctor when sugar levels and got too high or too low. It would also help to have a device that would give a specific diet plan to each person. Maybe this device could be something like an iphone...

<3 Nicole