Bring more meaning to your patients' blood glucose values

Using a structured way of checking blood glucose with a tool, such as the mySugr app or Accu-Chek 360° View tool, could help your patients reduce their HbA1c and have more meaningful conversations with their healthcare team during their diabetes appointments.¹

Using the mySugr app

By encouraging your patients to connect their Accu-Chek blood glucose meter to the mySugr app*, you could help them reduce estimated HbA1c (eHbA1c) and improve glycaemic management.²

The mySugr app stores important diabetes data from connected devices, integrations, and manual entries in one convenient place. It will be right at your patient’s side throughout their diabetes journey, helping them to stay motivated, confident, and ready to manage their diabetes.

• Analytics: Your patients can get a clear glimpse into what’s going on with their diabetes. The dashboard in the mySugr app shows an analysis of all the relevant data points as well as patterns in your patients' blood glucose. Simply swipe to the left and access diabetes data from the previous 7, 14, 30 or 90 days. The clear infographics help to identify areas where their management could be optimised.
• Reports: Your patients can access their data anytime, anywhere, and even send an overview directly to their healthcare team. The reports function within the app provides your patients with estimated HbA1c, blood glucose (BG) average, standard seviation, and activity time for the week.
• Integration: Your patients can choose to share their diabetes relevant data with via Accu-Chek Care. This secure online diabetes management system allows you to support your patients with even more ways to help optimise their diabetes therapy.

Using a paper based option

If your patient prefers a paper option, the Accu-Chek 360° View tool can help them review all their diabetes data to gain better insight, discover patterns, identify trends and refine therapy with their healthcare team. Using this tool with a healthcare professional's guidance may help your patients lower their HbA1c.³ If they prefer a digital option, check out the mySugr app. 

The Accu-Chek 360° View tool can help you address issues step by step, such as: 

• Hypoglycaemia 
• Hyperglycaemia 
• Values in target range

How to use the Accu-Chek 360° View tool

Using the Accu-Chek 360° View tool (see downloads below), your patients simply need to record their blood glucose readings, estimate their meal size and their energy levels before and 2 hours after breakfast, lunch and dinner, and before bed for 3 consecutive days. Then follow these simple steps to understand the results:

Step 1: Look for which blood glucose levels are out of target range 

Follow the order below and highlight:

• Low blood glucose (below target range)
• High blood glucose before meals (above target range)
• High blood glucose after meals (above target range)

Step 2: When and how often are blood glucose levels out of range? Is there a pattern?

They may see a pattern if their blood glucose is below or above their target range on 2 of the 3 days they used the tool.

Step 3: Why are blood glucose levels out of range?

Possible causes could be challenges with meal planning or carb counting, lifestyle factors such as exercise or stress, medications, the need to adjust insulin therapy, infusion site issues (if they wear an insulin pump) or others.

Step 4: What action can your patients take? 

Is there something they can change to bring their numbers into range?

With your help, they could fine-tune their meal plan or portion sizes, activity, medications, insulin-to-carb ratio, insulin sensitivity factor, insulin pump basal rates, infusion site management or other factors. If using the paper based tool, encourage your patients to bring the completed tool to their next appointment so they can discuss possible solutions with you.