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Marc: Okay Here's a little more about how the device works. It can be used on its own. There's a version called the BGStar without the "I" where you can plug in a
glucose strip in and get a read out or connect it to your iPhone or Your iPod Touch, The device kind of ports on to the bottom there. It's the same thing, you stick
the strip in you use a lancet to puncture your finger and get a drop of flood. Attach it to the strip, checks your Glucose level and the device picks it up and the
app charts the data and allows you to share it with your Health care team.

Amy:
It sounds like a great idea. I wish there was something more definitive with M.S. that I could send to my doctor and document everything.

Scott:
It seems really well thought out and I think your answer isn't going to come until it gets used for a while. I mean it's got everything covered at first glance. It's
just going to be about how it works and how you make adjustments to it.

Amy:
Anything that works really well, I'm happy to tell the community at large.

Jackie:
I'm also happy to tell them about things that do not work very well.

Amy:
Oh, yeah- that's important too.

Scott:
I agree with everything everyone else has said and I also think that competition makes better products, so that other companies-- I wish I had my daughter's thing
here-- it looks like something the Flinstones use to check their blood sugar. If other people, I think the iPhone has done more technology than just what it brings.
What it does is pressure companies to keep up and feel like they're going to fall behind in a way that they can never recover from. I think that the most important
thing to get this app out there is to pressure other companies to do better.

Jackie:
I would definitely try it- if I was in this community, because I think people are sort of chomping at the bit for something, so I would try it and give it a go and see
if it did everything that it said it was doing.

Amy:
I think it's a little more progressive than what is- again it's hard to relate from the M.S. perspective but having some sort of device that records important
information. It seems like they're right on when it comes to designing this-- it's just like how Jackie said, we would apprehensively or waringly check it out and
hope that it is what it's supposed to be. I have a quick question- is this monitor free - because it should be. Because that will have an impact on who uses it. You
know, as with anything pharmaceutical I think there should always be well represented affordability and for people who can't afford it, financial support or there has
to be a way for them to prove that this isn't just a money-making venture, and in fact that they want to be there to support the community and will provide free
supplies to those who need it.

Jackie:
I don't know. if the device is only 60-dollars or so, and you can't afford it, but you have an iPhone or an iPad to plug it in to... I kind of feel like... I don't
know.


Amy:
Good point. I mean people can kind of max-out their life. When you have an iPhone, there are uses for it that are very important, but you can do without a monitor,
and maybe that iPhone is maxing out your monthly budget.

Scott:
It's like everything else- Everything can't cost even if it's 5 dollars a month. Once you start getting involved in 5 6 or 7 things that cost 5-dollars a month -
it's taxing.

Amy:
I'm coming from a community that is very angry at Pharma for the expense that they must pay for the rest of their life for an incurable disease that they have to
treat for the rest of their life. Maybe that's where I'm going with this thought, whenever there's a price tag associated with anything-- it better be good- and
there better be options if you can't afford it.