GGC : GNU Gluco Control Open source Diabetes tool for Windows , Mac OSX and Linux

10.05.2011 · Posted in Articles, Diabetes, Open source, Software

GGC ” GNU Glucose Control ” have been in active development since 2002 , built to be cross platform on the top of Java virtual machine .

It competes already with many professional apps with it’s features and easy to use end-user interface .

Developer note :

Built with Java .

Download note :

GGC is releasing many downloads included one bundled with Java and other is not bundled with Java but the most important download use it USB . GGC can be used on USB . Patient can carry up their records on USB memory stick .

For advanced users , they can build GGC from source .

Features included as it’s listed on GGC website :

Entering – Records :

Blood Glucose (BG) Values (in both formats)
2 different Insulins (Basal, Bolus)
Carbohydrates intake
Activity level
Urine tests
Comments
Adding food data (From Db)
Adding food data (by description)
Bolus Helper to determine Bolus dose
Simple Ratio Helper

Store your data in:

With help of Hibernate (see http://www.hibernate.org/) we now support wide variety of databases.
We have one “internal” database, which can be used out-of-the-box (we use H2 database for that)
Backup data and restore (full only)
Database versioning

Graphs:

One Day (shows a BG curve, avg BG, insulin and BU intake)
Course (shows you your values over a period of time)
Spread (shows data over a period of time, but plots the days over each other, so you can find accumulations)
Frequency (shows kind of a histogram for your BG values)
We are now using JFreeChart library for graphs (through ATech Graph Framework)

Nutrition database:

We have now tree nutrition/food databases.
USDA database. This is static database of nutrition data of US department of Agriculture.
User database. To add foods that are not USDA
Meals database. You can group USDA/User/Meal entries into meals

Print support:

We can now create PDFs with Simple and Extended reports. From within PDF Reader, we can then print-out our data.
Simple report. Gathers together data for BGs, Insulins and CHs and displays them.
Extended report. It shows every entry as it was written, with fully detailed data.
Printing of Food Menus (with different options)

Approximate your current HbA1c
Customize whole application
Three sub-projects were created: Meter Tool, Pump Tool and CGMS Tool (see page Sub-Projects)
Help framework integrated (Some help pages written)
USB Image of GGC
Application update: Client side is working, we need to implement server side
Tools integration: