Automated Insulin Delivery: How Artificial Pancreas “Closed Loop” Systems Can Aid You in Living With Diabetes

In recent years, diabetes technology has developed at a startling pace. New devices are being launched regularly that promise to reduce the burden of day-to-day demands placed on people with diabetes, making this a truly fascinating time to be using diabetes technology.

Perhaps one of the most exciting, interesting, and controversial topics in the diabetes technology space at the moment is the do-it-yourself artificial pancreas systems (DIY APS) movement. A community of people affected by diabetes, rallying under the social media banner #WeAreNotWaiting, are using their own expertise, experience, and knowledge to augment currently available technologies rather than waiting for commercial, regulated artificial pancreas technologies and devices to be approved and launched. The group hopes to more rapidly meet the needs, and better meet the expectations, of people living with insulin-dependent diabetes and their caregivers.

DIY APS have moved from the fringe of diabetes technology to something that is now firmly in the view not only of people with diabetes, …