Jeff Dachis is a genuinely smart guy. Helium's the co-founder and former CEO of Razorfish, the world's leading global digital marketing solutions party, and a "serial enterpriser" who advises investors on a number of companies that wield technology to disrupt long-standing industries.

Now, he's also one of America — diagnosed with type 1 LADA diabetes about 18 months past. Non surprisingly, helium most immediately went to work on a Titanic Melodic theme to interrupt diabetes care and the system supporting it.

That idea is titled OneDrop, his newest startup company based in New York that hopes to remake the glucose meter into something "cool and badass," while creating a simple, affordable subscription service for diabetes supplies, plus a mobile management platform that will make our information more important for America AND allow common learnings from all the collected data on line sugar trends in real life.

"We hope to radically simplify (PWD's) lives in the process," Dachis says.

Watch OneDrop's debut video from the super-techy San Francisco-founded LAUNCH Fete event March 4, 2015:

Cue chuckle: Right, new guy with big tech background thinks he has information technology all figured out…

I spent over an hour with Dachis on the phone next-to-last calendar week, learning about his feeler. He's certainly aflame, and also humble enough to say, "Look, I'm a newbie. I'm not pretending to have all the answers… But we are gonna make a hard run at making the lives of people with diabetes some better."

You can't fence with the end, at least…

Here's what I learned about the OneDrop concept:

Badass-ing the Meter

Speaking our terminology in terms of diabetes contrive, Dachis says he wants to overhaul the design of traditional glucose meters, to address the emotional component of being dependent happening a medical device, and give people some of that "cool gear" buzz.

"Outside now the contrive (of most meters) is crappy and gloomy. IT doesn't hit you feel good about what you'ray doing. We want to make the information capture experience almost overjoyed or empowering. As in, life is to be lived!" he says.

Their initial prototype, shown in the launch video, is a stick-elan meter with color sort and a cunning arm-case that appears to be hard plastic or even leather. Dachis says this is not the final design, but it exemplifies the direction they're headed: diabetes badass.

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The cadence connects to a phone app with expectant, bright, color-coded circles for soft logging of solid food, meds, and exercise alongside glucose values. The app is also placed up for users to snap photos of their meals, to help keep track of portions and learn from previous dosing decisions.

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Big Data Ambitions

The big idea is to make this all open and shareable – including location data so the community can see who's doing what nearby (reminiscent of the HelpAround app).  Dachis envisions a residential district in which hoi polloi can view and comment on each others' results, and Sir Thomas More importantly, all of these thousands of data points on hoi polloi's real-life history D-experiences can finally be compiled and analyzed.

Dachis cites his live working with enormous sums of Big Data and algorithms that allow us to put pieces unneurotic in slipway that were impractical until now:

"Until recently, you didn't stimulate a ton of data on how people were actually living their day-to-day lives with diabetes, or whatsoever other facial expression of their lives for that affair — you didn't wealthy person a Waze program that gives us the ability to transfer traffic data in time period to enable people to safely, effectively, and efficiently come on their travel to the airport or wherever they're going.

"Now collectively we have the power to share that data about how we unfilmed our lives, how we get to the airport, or how we test our glucose or what sort of food we eat with each other in near real-time.

"When I was diagnosed I thought, there has to be somebody who's cracked this inscribe already – there has to be the unagitated cogwheel, the stuff that's going to blend Internet of Things, Quantified Self-ers, Motorized Computing and Big Data into something that would live useful for people to learn from each other.

"Maybe there is, but I didn't have information technology readily ready to me, and I wasn't fair on where that overindulge was in the marketplace. So I started thinking about the trouble and OneDrop is really the result of that."

This is what Dachis and his "ragtag team" of 10, located in New York and Austin, TX (where Dachis' family resides), are impermanent on now.  They're nescient as to where the data comes from, meaning they hope to eventually integrate with CGMs, Tidepool and whatever unusual diabetes data platforms or sources, and are start to search those partnerships now.

Effectual Stories

Everything users log in the OneDrop app will be automatically and anonymously shared with the community — eventually allowing us to capture and compare multitudes of "stories" for collective learning.

He defines a story as "all of the activity that happens between two proficient glucose readings." Data patterns in fitness, food, insulin and glucose will come forth from these stories, he says. "Those are the patterns we'ray deriving insights from." Users wish be as wel equal able to anonymously follow specific other users, whose patterns may peculiarly pursuit them.

Dachis is convinced that "being more aware past logging and so sharing and learning from it will yield a radical kind of information that hasn't been present in the diabetes community up to now. For example, I could experience: How do other people handle weddings or birthdays? Operating theater eat burritos? How do they get on about their daily lives with diabetes?"

Disrupting Healthcare

OneDrop's other big ambition is to disrupt the legacy healthcare organization in that country that's concentrated on treating illness rather than keeping people healthy. He'll do this not only by putting the power of information into patients' hands, but also slashing the toll of supplies by doing what Dollar Trim or Harry's Razors have done for the Earth of paring supplies – introducing a low-cost subscription model that cuts impossible the middle men.

The inside information on pricing and indemnity reimbursement scheme are a bit blurry here, but Dachis claims they nates navigate the market scorn the hurdles.

Helium says that in markets where people can afford their sleek parvenue meter and strips, patients leave pay back out of air pocket, and that through successful utilize, they'll gradually show the efficacy and past insurance companies will want to cover it. {Oooh, how we hope it's that easy!}

Other companies making a similar take on let in Livongo, only the difference there is that the Livongo InTouch meter is connected to a Call centre for live access to healthcare professionals, which presumably is an incentive for Payers to flummox on control board. "But you sole have admittance to your own data, you're not really sharing it with anybody other" whereas OneDrop is focused on sharing and learning, Dachis points out.

Whether He can pull off disruption OR not, we couldn't agree more with his assessment of the critical need:

"The existing incentives for doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies are so perverted. Doctors and hospitals are paid by procedure, and the more than expensive the break. And pharma gets paid by the more you usance drugs, the best… The system isn't designed to keep you fit and victimization less drugs."

OneDrop App (and AppleWatch)

Let's be unclouded that this is very premature days for OneDrop; their presentation at Jason Calacanis' inauguration conference Set up was by invitation of the personal organizer himself – who loves to have the absolute most cutting-edge stuff conferred, flat if it's still more often than not in idea phase.

The Bluetooth-enabled OneDrop meter International Relations and Security Network't yet fully designed, but they're hoping to bring IT to market by the end of 2015, or early 2016.

Meanwhile the app, which "is all manual right now" is in exploratory, scheduled to launch in mid-April. It wish be unloosen and initially available for iPhone only, with Android coming later. An Apple Watch version bequeath launch at the same time.

"It allows logging, sharing, and invites users to follow people. The logging function is similar to other apps, except a trifle more intuitive to use. And it has pic capturing for meals. The idea is simplified logging in all single place, and eventually the relationships, patterns and stories emerging leave enable people to make better choices," Dachis says. Note that the phone itself will function as an accelerometer, automatically capturing movement care walking (other workouts wish need to be manually logged).

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Dachis is happy to be enclosed in the Apple Watch, but likewise realistic about its constraints. "IT'll be a relatively limited place to get notifications, and glance at how your solar day is progressing with the health data you've entered manually on the phone," he says. Equivalent OneDrop itself, the Watch's primary exercise testament be to make measurement super-user-friendly so people can be continuously mindful of their health parameters.

In short, OneDrop's aim is to reduce complexity and help people manage what they measure, Dachis says.

"When I was diagnosed, I got 12 minutes with a nurse practitioner – I didn't even get to see the endo. They gave me a folder, an insulin write, and a prescription and sent me on my way. I was really angry! I thought, 'this is healthcare?'

"Now for the first metre, with the Internet of Things, the Quantified Self movement, Mobile Computing and Elephantine Data maturing, the beginnings of real data-driven health care are coming to fruition. I'm hoping we can provide tools tapping our own data that we can use to living each early well."

We're decidedly anxious to see where OneDrop lands.