As the Grand Tour nears the finish,
my thoughts go out to the riders who have trained and prepared for this
one-of-a-kind diabetes endurance exercise study and charity event. Continua
Health Alliance is proud that its Design Guidelines have provided the framework
to transmit and store the physiological data from the riders. Mobile networks are being used to transit the data throughout the ride, allowing the riders and
all of us to track their health.
Clint with Eddie Merckx, who sent the riders off in good style from Brussels! |
I was lucky enough to attend the start
in Brussels, but the real excitement is taking place as
the riders accumulate miles, enjoy beautiful vistas and challenge their fitness
on the way to Barcelona. A subset of the riders is participating in a clinical
study that will make it possible for all of us to join in the event and learn
from their experience. These cyclists are sporting wearable sensors that
relay their location, blood glucose and heart rate information through a
series of channels to a web portal where you can track their progress. The real-time availability and capture of this information is what
makes this event uniquely thrilling for the riders’ friends and family, cycling
and mHealth enthusiasts and the many thousands of people who have, or care
about someone with, diabetes.
I want to thank all of the participants for
bringing attention to the issue of diabetes management, and especially those
willing to take part in the study to demonstrate the value of mhealth and help
explicate the relationship between blood glucose levels and endurance exercise.
In addition to rigorous training, these riders had to learn about and become
accustomed to the mHealth technologies they're using during the Grand Tour.
You can get an idea of how intense their training
has been by looking through recent Twitter posts from some of the riders. You
may also want to follow them on Twitter right now to get their personal
perspectives on the Grand Tour experience, or to send messages of support. A few
riders I’ve been watching this summer:
• Ian Hay on Twitter, @ikisai, riding for Orange Healthcare
•
Paul Buchanan, tweeting for Team Blood Glucose
•
Team BG member Rob Woolfson
Clint McClellan
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Clint McClellan is President and Chairman of the
Continua Health Alliance, an international non-profit organization and the
leading organization convening global technology industry standards to develop
end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity for personal connected health.
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