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Clinics and Health Systems using Tidepool with more than 250 patients in their Clinic Account Workspace are encouraged to explore the opportunities included with Tidepool+ Professional, our premium offering with a growing list of expanded features and functionality.

Every day at Tidepool, we move closer to achieving our goal of interoperability and patient choice, actively leading efforts to enhance device integration and functionality. Today, we are excited to announce a new milestone in our interoperability journey - a new partnership with Sequel Med Tech, LLC. 

The Tidepool Big Data Donation Project (TBDDP) enables people with diabetes using the Tidepool platform to opt-in to donate their data to help fuel the next generation of diabetes research and innovation. But what happens after you click ‘donate your anonymized data’? We had the opportunity to connect with researchers who have used the datasets we have created with your generously donated data, and here's what we learned.

The past, present, and future of telemedicine in diabetes care have seen remarkable progress. In this blog post, we delve into Tidepool's role as a resource for patients and providers that lean on telemedicine to provide equitable access to care.

A deep dive into what Tidepool Loop on Android means for the diabetes community and for the team here at Tidepool.

The groundbreaking clearance for Tidepool Loop paves the way for us to give users and providers the freedom and flexibility to select the settings that work best for their particular situation.

Tidepool believes in radical transparency. We wanted to share with our community this opportunity to review their personal online security practices.

Celebrating our 10th birthday with a walk down memory lane.

A brief overview of the physiological impact of fasting with type 1 diabetes during Ramadan.

Inside scoop on the nuances behind the FDA’s interoperability regulatory pathway, and how that interacts with Tidepool Loop’s regulatory clearance.

With the exciting announcement of clearance for Tidepool Loop, we wanted to share an update that we know is going to be one of the first questions our community cares about: What devices will I be able to use with Tidepool Loop when it launches?

Tidepool has received FDA Clearance for Tidepool Loop, the first ever community led innovation in the diabetes space to be FDA cleared!

A brief overview of the history of Tidepool Loop to catch you up to speed on why and how we got to the clearance of Tidepool Loop, the first fully interoperable automated insulin dosing app that originated as a patient-led initiative.

The evolution of the Tidepool Data Platform is here with the launch of Tidepool+.

Sharing the impact of attending conferences over the summer after a long hiatus in being able to connect in person with our community.

Detailing the significant updates and releases the Tidepool team has been working on over the summer in order to expand the potential of Tidepool for Clinicians.

Detailing new updates and improvements made to support clinician workflows in the form of Clinic account administration.

For part 5 of our Ramadan with diabetes blog series, Mohammed shares his insight as a medical student and diabetes educator observing Ramadan in Palestine since he was 12 years old.

For this last post in our series, we sat down with one of the younger members of our community. Ayla and Saira sat down to talk a little about how her diagnosis with diabetes impacts her experience as a child participating in Ramadan, along with the power of the diabetes community.

For part 4 of our Ramadan with diabetes blog series, Raza shares his experience in adjusting how he observes Ramadan as someone who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as an adult.

This is the third of a mini blog series that will include the perspectives of different members of the community that celebrate Ramadan in their own way - because we know there is no one size fits all approach to anything related to diabetes. Fatima shares her experience with shifting her priorities for Ramadan over the years since her diagnosis with type 1 diabetes as a teenager.

This is the second of a mini blog series that will include the perspectives of different members of the community that celebrate Ramadan in their own way - because we know there is no one size fits all approach to anything related to diabetes. Sarah shares her insight on how her diagnosis with type 1 diabetes at 14 years old impacted how she spends Ramadan.

This first in a mini blog series that will include the perspectives of different members of the community that celebrate Ramadan in their own way - because we know there is no one size fits all approach to anything related to diabetes. Dr. Himala Kashmiri from Children's Health of Orange County shares his insight as a clinician on fasting with diabetes.

The nuances that come with managing diabetes in conjunction with the challenges that come with age are often overlooked. We recently conducted a webinar with a panel of experts including Dr. Irl Hirsch, Dr. Michelle Litchman, Dr. Nancy Allen, and Joanne Milo to share their insights on the unique challenges of the aging population with diabetes.

Dr. Anne Peters, Professor of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Director of the USC Clinical Diabetes Programs, shares how different variables can impact her work as a provider with patients across different groups.

Managing blood glucose levels while participating in athletic endeavors can be difficult. Courtney Duckworth shares her experience as a runner with diabetes and how she trained for the Boston Marathon while completing her third year in medical school.

Every diabetes story is different, which means that every person that interacts with the Tidepool ecosystem is also different. We were recently contacted by our users and financial supporters who wanted to briefly share their specific Tidepool “Why”, both as a user and as a donor that helps make it possible for us to carry out our mission every day, with us and all of you.

Tidepool is working to make the telemedicine process easier for both providers and patients alike. We asked our friends at Steady Health to share their expertise on telemedicine.

We're checking in with Sarah Meerts and Dave Musicant from Carleton College to learn more about their research efforts, the impact of your donated data, and how it has been put to good use.

Mark Heyman, a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist who has been living with diabetes for over 20 years, shares some advice for navigating stress and insights into how data can empower change.

In response to our recent announcement of financial support for the Tidepool Period Project from AWS, we want to expand a bit on the Tidepool Period Project. We hope you’ll join us in imagining the possibility of what we can accomplish through it.

Before we asked people with diabetes to share their data and tag their periods as a first step of the Tidepool Period Project, we had lots of conversations about the potential impact we could have exploring the relationship between menstrual cycle data and diabetes device data. Maya Friedman and Abby Bayer-Pratt from the Tidepool team are here to share some of our takeaways.

We asked the women who help lead Tidepool to share their story and offer some advice for women looking to join a nonprofit organization, a software company, a company developing medical technology, or in our case: all of the above! Here's Izzy's story.

We asked the women who help lead Tidepool to share their story and offer some advice for women looking to join a nonprofit organization, a software company, a company developing medical technology, or in our case: all of the above! Here's Kelly's story.

We asked the women who help lead Tidepool to share their story and offer some advice for women looking to join a nonprofit organization, a software company, a company developing medical technology, or in our case: all of the above! Here's Janet's story.

Janet Kramschuster, Tidepool’s VP of People and Finance, is an avid endurance athlete. Most recently, she completed an Ironman 70.3 race. That’s a 1.2 mile swim, followed by a 56 mile bike ride, and finishing with a 13.1 mile run. Inspired by her efforts, we’ve asked Janet to reflect on this accomplishment and share her perspective on how far she’s come since her diabetes diagnosis over 34 years ago.

We asked the women who help lead Tidepool to share their story and offer some advice for women looking to join a nonprofit organization, a software company, a company developing medical technology, or in our case: all of the above! Here's Sabrina's story.

We asked the women who help lead Tidepool to share their story and offer some advice for women looking to join a nonprofit organization, a software company, a company developing medical technology, or in our case: all of the above! Here's Melissa's story.

As we wrap up our month of focusing on diabetes and school, we’ve connected with Ridha, a sophomore at the University of California, Davis and share her diabetes experience. Ridha was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2007 and is currently a member of the Voices of College Diabetes Network program.

Revisit Tidepool's latest webinar focusing on making sure children with diabetes can thrive at school, featuring Dr. Alan Cortez, a Pediatric Endocrinologist, Stacy Seiler, a Credentialed School Nurse living with type 1 diabetes, and Saira Kahn-Gallo, parent of two young children with type 1 diabetes.

The Tidepool team is full of personal experiences with school and diabetes (as caregivers, as CDCES’s, as people with diabetes) so we decided to pool together their collective tips and insights to share with the larger community

We've gathered a list of valuable resources for folks sending someone with diabetes back to school or heading back to school with diabetes themselves from across the diabetes community.

Tidepool Uploader now supports uploading diabetes device data from ReliOn and Glucocard blood glucose meters.

Our dear friend, former Tidepooler, and amazing contributor to the Loop community Katie DiSimone has been diagnosed with Glioblastoma (GBM). The community is rallying in support of Katie and her family.

Listen to Tapani Otala, Tidepool's VP of Engineering, dig into the technology that powers Tidepool's open source software and how MongoDB plays a crucial role in our engineering stack.

Tidepool fully supports uploading and viewing data from Tandem's t:slim X2 insulin pump with Control-IQ technology.

Saira Gallo, Tidepool Development Associate, shares her perspective on fasting during Ramadan and how she uses Tidepool's tools to help her follow this pillar of her faith.

Abby Bayer-Pratt discusses some of the motivation behind and potential of the Tidepool Period Project, supporting people with diabetes who menstruate.

We are proud to share our completion of our FDA submission of Tidepool Loop, an automated insulin dosing app intended for the management of type 1 diabetes.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Tidepool's CEO and Founder Howard Look reflects on the year we've had and what he (and Tidepool at large) is thankful for in 2020.

Our diabetes data tells us a story of where we’ve been, and where we have the potential to go in our lives. Here's how you can use data to help consider where to make the biggest impact on your diabetes.

Tidepool talks to Dr. Jennifer Sherr — a pediatric endocrinologist and assistant professor at Yale New Haven Health. She describes her experience using Tidepool as a pediatric endocrinologist and why she supports Tidepool.

Award-winning actor Victor Garber shares his experience with DIY Loop, his vision for the future of diabetes technology, and his hope that together, we can pave it forward.

Imagine a world where you can decide which devices you want to use because they’re the devices: You think will help make your life better, or that will help put diabetes in the background so you can get back to living. Tidepool has worked to bridge the gap of the How so you can get back to your Why.

Mariana Gomez was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in a country where, to this day, there is no access to basic tools like insulin and glucose meters for everyone. Now, she's a diabetes influencer in Latin America and a Tidepool user. Read her story.

Since our founding in 2013, Tidepool has been at the forefront of championing regulatory change and inter-industry collaboration. Here are three ways we’ve meaningfully impacted how diabetes innovations are developed and regulated today.

Eileen Faulds describes her experience using the Tidepool Clinical Study Platform as a diabetes researcher at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and why she uses Tidepool’s software.

We last updated you in February about the internal development work on Tidepool Loop, our automated insulin delivery project based on a DIY community innovation. These last seven months have seen remarkable progress. Let’s walk through some of what we’ve accomplished.

Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Saleh Adi discusses guidelines to help healthcare providers optimize insulin-to-carb ratios (ICR) with their diabetes patients. Drawing from his decades of expertise, he highlights example use cases and ICR optimization techniques.

Our design team has been hosting a weekly design critique meeting which is open to anyone who is engaged in the practice of design and user experience at Tidepool. The aim is to do things in a new way and bring in new voices to solve problems.

Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Adi discusses guidelines to help you optimize ISF settings with your diabetes patients. Drawing from his decades of clinical practice, he highlights example case studies and ISF or correction factor optimization techniques.

Software engineer Derrick Burns talks about how Tidepool designed and implemented a tool to generate our Kubernetes manifests.

Drawing from his decades of experience, Chief Medical Advisor and pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Saleh Adi discusses guidelines for basal testing and optimization that healthcare providers can employ with their patients with diabetes.

Our UX designer Paul chats about his diabetes story, love for design and accessibility, and above all — his passion for amazing user experiences.

This International Sisters Day, we’ve asked two of our Tidepool employees to talk about how living with a sister with diabetes has impacted their lives.

Our software engineer Derrick Burns discusses how we provision our Kubernetes clusters.

Chris McGee shares his diabetes story and how he came to do "computer wizardry stuff" (otherwise known as front-end development) at Tidepool.

Our software engineer Derrick Burns talks about logging, accessing, and aggregating the right data in the Tidepool Platform.

How we migrated our production Mongo database from our self-hosted servers to Atlas MongoDB and how our performance has improved as a result.

As humans, we have a responsibility to make this impact on the broadest, most equitable scale possible. As Tidepoolers, we have a responsibility to be radically transparent about where we are, to set a meaningful target for where we want to be, then to take meaningful action that gets us there.

With Father's Day coming up in the US this weekend, we want to acknowledge the dads in our community by checking in with the dads here at Tidepool. Here's how their perspectives have changed while sheltering in place.

In our recent Tidepool for telemedicine webinar with Mark Harmel, MPH, CDCES, he mentioned using Zoom for telemedicine visits. We took a look at the features that he thought made Zoom a solid choice, as well as what you might look for in evaluating teleconferencing tools for telehealth.

We stand in solidarity with the advocates on the front lines fighting for a better tomorrow, and in support of the countless organizations assisting to advance the fact that black lives matter.

Tidepool deals with personal and private health information. By encrypting the traffic using mutual TLS, a service mesh can protect traffic between services from being read.

Pediatric endocrinologist, Dr. Saleh Adi, talks about using Tidepool's diabetes data management software to help healthcare providers successfully transition to telemedicine.

Even when you've been managing diabetes for years, accidents can happen. This is when we have the greatest opportunity to band together and harness the power of community. Read Manny's story about how he inserted his new cannula before priming his insulin pump.

Private data comes in many forms at Tidepool, all of which must be stored and transmitted safely and securely.

With Mother’s Day on the horizon we want to celebrate the mothers who are balancing their commitment to the Tidepool team with the added responsibility that has come from restrictions surrounding Covid-19.

Tidepool Product Designer Paul Forgione shares how he thinks about accessibile design and a list of tools and resources that were used to develop Tidepool's accessible color palette.

When we had to move from in-person to telemedicine it was daunting at first but ended up going quite well. Here are some things we learned to best prepare for your upcoming telemedicine visit.

Detailing how Tidepool engineers deploy software continuously with GitOps, as part of the ongoing backend monderization efforts with Kubernetes.

Abby Bayer-Pratt, RN, BSN, CDE shares her story of becoming a Certified Diabetes Educator and Registered Nurse was only the beginning of her Tidepool story.

In our latest engineering blog post, software engineer Derrick Burns explains why Kubernetes-native Gloo is a great API gateway for Tidepool.

Let's talk about Tandem Diabetes Care’s t:slim X2 with Control-IQ™, and how we're working to offer you support for this technology.

A letter from Howard Look, Tidepool President and CEO about Tidepool's support for telemedicine and remote care.

Adam Brown shares his diabetes journey, experience using DIY Loop, and why he joined Tidepool with a focus on access.

Tidepool puts a big focus on culture and employee wellness as part of our work to support an entirely remote and distributed team.

A thorough look at the tools and technology that support Tidepool's fully remote and distributed team.

Detailing the process of migrating our backend services for the Tidepool platform to Kubernetes.

Ed Nykaza, PhD, Lead Data Scientist at Tidepool, shares his daughter's diagnosis story and how she represents his inspiration and motivation for the work he does at Tidepool.

Sharing the latest on the process and progress of developing Tidepool Loop, including our collaboration with Insulet and Dexcom.

With excitement and gratitude, we are pleased to announce that over 10,000 anonymous diabetes datasets have been donated through the Tidepool Big Data Donation Project.

Becky Cooney, Quality Assurance Engineer at Tidepool shares her daughter's diagnosis story and how diabetes has helped foster a larger community of parents and families impacted by diabetes.

A look at Tidepool team retreats and how we’re growing beyond Airbnbs and homemade bacon. This fall, our offsite is a little different.

Medtronic joins the team of innovators working with Tidepool to develop and deliver Tidepool Loop.

Tidepool has officially partnered with Dexcom to integrate their G6 interoperable continuous glucose monitoring system (iCGM) into the Tidepool Loop ecosystem.

We’ve given Tidepool Mobile a significant update — start uploading insulin, carb and blood glucose data from Apple Health.

Aaron Neinstein, MD shares his thoughts on the moment he first saw MDI data and CGM data in the same place in Tidepool.

Companion Medical CEO and President Sean Saint shares a bit of information about InPen, and the new possibilities of integrated diabetes care and data interoperability.

The diabetes community has celebrated a tremendous step forward. Here’s what the FDA's new ACE Pump indication means for people with diabetes, Tidepool, and Tidepool Loop.