Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk and Glooko, a remote patient monitoring platform for diabetes are teaming up to develop digital health solutions for diabetes. As part of the non-exclusive collaboration, both companies will work together to create co-branded digital health solutions that will deliver personalized, digital services to support people with diabetes in areas including treatment adherence and blood glucose management.For Novo Nordisk, the integration of these offerings within its
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FDA Clears Wireless Integration of LifeScan’s OneTouch With WellDoc’s Diabetes Management Platform
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it has cleared the wireless integration of the OneTouch Verio Flex® blood glucose monitoring system with WellDoc Inc.'s clinically validated diabetes management platform, BlueStar®. The integration will create an integrated, connected experience for people with Type 2 diabetes and deliver value for healthcare providers. Integration DetailsUsing blood glucose data wirelessly and automatically transmitted from the OneTouch Verio Flex blood
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Medtronic Integrates With Fitbit to Understand How Exercise Impacts Glucose Levels
Medtronic has announced a partnership with connected health provider Fitbit to integrate health and activity tracking to physicians and care teams for patients living with diabetes. With this integration, patients with Type 2 diabetes will be able to monitor their glucose levels and physical activity data via Medtronic's iPro(TM)2 myLog mobile app. Together, the partnership will provide meaningful insight on how exercise impacts glucose levels for more effective diabetes care
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WellDoc, LifeScan Integrate to Create Type 2 Diabetes Management Platform
WellDoc has entered a commercial partnership agreement with LifeScan Inc., a Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Care Company (JJDCC), to deliver a best-in-class digital health solution for individuals living with Type 2 diabetes. The combined offering will seek to create a comprehensive, data-driven and payer-reimbursed program for Type 2 diabetes management.WellDoc’s BlueStar® diabetes management platform and mobile app is the first digital therapeutic approved by the U.S. Food and Drug
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UT Diabetes Project Granted $3M to Develop Diabetes Management Apps
The University of Texas System’s Project Diabetes and Obesity Control (DOC) recently received $3 million from the Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation to expand its innovative diabetes management apps in the lower Rio Grande Valley. The Board of Regents approved $15 million this week to continuing funding the project to develop apps that enable patients and physicians to improve the control of diabetes and patient care.Project DOC OverviewWith Project DOC (Diabetes Obesity Control), The UT System’s
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AMC Health, Glooko Partner to Deliver BYOD Solution To Patients With Diabetes
AMC Health, a provider of proven remote patient monitoring and engagement solutions and Glooko Inc., a population health platform for diabetes management has announced a partnership to help clinicians and patients improve diabetes outcomes at lower costs.Glooko is one of many FDA 510(k) cleared devices now integrated into AMC Health’s expanding FDA-cleared CareConsole® virtual care platform. Glooko is currently being used in 1,000+ health systems, health plans and employers in the USA, including
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Jamaica Hospital Launches Pilot for Virtual National Diabetes Prevention Program
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (JHMC) has announced a pilot program to offer a virtual National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP) platform to 66k New Yorkers. The program will deploy mobile coaching platform Noom to provide a user-centric, mobile coaching experience that engages and empowers individuals achieve their health goals and effortlessly monitor their progress in real time via their smartphone.With more than five million people in New York with prediabetes, Jamaica sought out a
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Medtronic Expands Diabetes Care Offerings with Canary Health
Medtronic and Canary Health, a provider of proven digital health self-management programs announced a partnership to expand their diabetes offerings. As part of the partnership, Medtronic will now resell Canary Health’s self-management programs through its sales channels to health plans and providers, and the two companies will jointly develop future solutions that leverage their respective expertise. The partnership marks Medtronic’s first big move into pre-diabetes care and will enable the
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Livongo Health to Offer Public Wisconsin Employees Access to Diabetes Management Program
Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company has teamed up with WEA Trust to provide public employees in Wisconsin access to its end to end diabetes management program. The goal of the partnership is to improve the quality of life and high cost of care for Trust members with diabetes.“Engaging members to track their diabetes regularly and then giving them real-time feedback is essential to managing care and cost, ” said Dr. Tim Bartholow, WEA Trust’s Chief Medical Officer.Partnership
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UCSF Researchers Connect Prediabetes App Data from Yes Health to Aid Type 2 Diabetes Prevention
Diabetes Center at UCSF and Yes Health, an all-mobile program to prevent type 2 diabetes are teaming up on a precision medicine initiative to aid development of personalized type 2 diabetes prevention and treatment strategies. As part of the initiative, Yes Health will develop opt-in tools that provide its users the opportunity to share real-time behavioral data, such as diet, exercise, and sleep patterns for UCSF researchers
According to the American Diabetes Association, 86 million
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