{"id":177379,"date":"2023-12-04T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/alexa-titrate-my-insulin-ai-app-boosts-glycemic-control-in-randomized-trial"},"modified":"2023-12-04T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:23:13","slug":"alexa-titrate-my-insulin-ai-app-boosts-glycemic-control-in-randomized-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/alexa-titrate-my-insulin-ai-app-boosts-glycemic-control-in-randomized-trial","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alexa, Titrate My Insulin\u2019: AI App Boosts Glycemic Control in Randomized Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alexa-titrate-my-insulin-ai-app-boosts-glycemic-control-in-randomized-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beyond glycemic benefits, users of the app also reported significantly less-related emotional distress than standard care (&minus;1.9 vs 1.7 points in composite survey scores, <em>P <\/em>=0.03).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently working on making technology like this accessible to patients outside of research settings because we think it can really help patients in underserved areas who need high-touch care to get their under control,\u201d Nayak said.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers developed their custom voice-based AI app and had it powered by Alexa (Amazon wasn\u2019t involved with the study). The software was equipped with titration algorithms by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endocrinepractice.org\/article\/S1530-891X(20)35066-7\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American College of Endocrinology<\/a> and included emergency protocols to handle hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond glycemic benefits, users of the app also reported significantly less-related emotional distress than standard care (\u22121.9 vs 1.7 points in composite survey scores, P =0.03). \u201cWe are currently working on making technology like this accessible to patients outside of research settings because we think it can really help patients in underserved areas who need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}