Clinical testing begins for a diabetes app developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) An advanced smartphone application developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to help diabetics better manage their weight and blood sugar and assess the status of chronic foot ulcers is entering a pilot clinical study at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Named 'Sugar,' the app was built by an interdisciplinary engineering and technology team at WPI in partnership with diabetes, behavioral and wound-care specialists at UMass Medical and fun...