Abbott Diabetes Care is a broad-based health care company devoted to discovering new medicines, new technologies and new ways to manage health. Abbott Diabetes Care focus in diabetes care is to help people with diabetes effectively monitor and manage this serious metabolic condition.
They offer diabetes care via innovative glucose monitoring systems, test strips and services for in the home settings. In diabetes care, Abbott concentrates specifically on developing products that reduce the discomfort and inconvenience of glucose testing, are easy to use, require small blood samples and provide fast results. Among the leading glucose monitoring products that help provide diabetes care are the FreeStyle family of products including FreeStyle Lite & FreeStyle Freedom blood glucose monitoring systems, all of which require tiny blood sample sizes, about the size of a pin head. These systems offer virtually pain-free testing on fingers and alternate sites such as the forearm, upper arm, thigh, calf or base of the palm.
Their other leading blood glucose monitoring brands are Optium Xceed, one of the first blood glucose monitor to offer ketone testing; and Precision PCx, a hand-held, point-of-care blood glucose monitoring system used in the hospital setting. They also offer sophisticated data management systems such as lancets.