What You Should Know:
- GuideWell partners with Livongo to provide Florida Blue
Members an end-to-end consumer-centric virtual care experience.
- Florida Blue will become one of the first health plans to provide health consumers with a single access point for whole-person care through Livongo and Teladoc’s best-in-class combined care experience.
Livongo,
the leading Applied Health Signals company empowering people with chronic
conditions to live better and healthier lives, today
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Virta Adds Prediabetes and Obesity Reversal to Services
What You Should Know:
- Virta is expanding its suite of treatment options to
include prediabetes reversal, obesity reversal, and type 2 diabetes management.
- By making this crucial expansion, Virta can scale its
treatment to support the tens of millions of additional patients with
prediabetes and obesity, as provide an on-ramp to reversal for those with T2D
that aren’t yet ready to reverse.
Virta Health, the
leader in type 2 diabetes reversal, today introduced the addition
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NIH Funds First Nationwide Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network
What You Should Know:
- NIH awards funding for Rare and Atypical Diabetes
Network, or RADIANT that will seek to discover the cause of
several unusual forms of diabetes.
- RADIANT plans to screen about 2,000 people with unknown
or atypical forms of diabetes that do not fit the common features of type 1 and
type 2 diabetes.
The National Institute of
Health (NIH), announced this week it is funding a nationwide study with The Rare and Atypical Diabetes
Network (RADIANT) that will seek
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Is Glucometrics The Missing Data in the Fight Against COVID-19?
Glucometrics – the system-wide analysis of inpatient glucose data – should be of fundamental interest for hospital administrators striving to improve the outcomes of their patients.
Why is this data so important? Proper glycemic control has been linked to improved outcomes and decreased length of stay time and time again across a myriad of conditions – whether it’s someone recuperating from a heart attack, battling pneumonia, or recovering from surgery.
The U.S. health system lacks
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Abbott Receives CE Mark for World’s Smallest & Thinnest Glucose Sensor in Europe
What You Should Know:
- Abbott has received CE Mark (European approval)
for its next-generation FreeStyle Libre 3 system for people with diabetes.
- FreeStyle Libre 3 is the latest advancement from
Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre family of products and featuring the smallest, thinnest
continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensor (~size of two stacked U.S. pennies)
and a more environmentally sustainable system design.
Abbott, the worldwide
leader in continuous glucose
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Ascensia Diabetes Care Partners With VisiQuate to Expand Beyond Blood Glucose Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Ascensia Diabetes Care and VisiQuate announced a
partnership to expand beyond blood glucose monitoring and provide holistic
diabetes management solutions.
- The overall solution will provide integration with
Ascensia’s existing devices and digital diabetes solutions to enable it to
capture data from patients who have consented to provide their information.
Ascensia Diabetes Care,
a Santa Rosa, CA-based provider of blood glucose monitoring systems
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FDA Approves Medtronic’s Insulin Pump System for People with Type 1 Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- Medtronic announced the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the MiniMed™ 770G hybrid insulin pump
system with smartphone connectivity and an expanded age indication to patients
with Type 1 diabetes aged 2 and up ― the lowest age indication by the FDA for
an automated insulin pump system.
- The new
MiniMed 770G system comes with the Guardian™ Sensor 34, the MiniMed™ Mobile app
(compatible with both iPhone and Android), and Roche Accu-Chek®
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One Drop Launches Digital Membership for Whole-Person Approach to Chronic Condition Self-Care
What You Should Know:
- One Drop has expanded its consumer offering beyond
diabetes management with data-driven tools and personalized support for people
living with diabetes, prediabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or
any combination of these conditions.
One Drop, a New
York City-based provider of digital health solutions
for people living with diabetes and other chronic conditions, today announced
the launch of its Digital
Membership, a new direct-to-consumer subscription
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Medtronic Acquires Smart Insulin Pen Company Companion Medical
What You Should Know:
- Today, Medtronic announced that it will
acquire Companion Medical, the manufacturer of InPen, a smart insulin pen
system paired with an integrated diabetes management app.
- The addition of Companion’s InPen system builds
upon Medtronic's strategic acquisitions of Nutrino and Klue to further
improve overall automated decision-making capabilities and optimizes dosing
decisions using algorithms and AI for patients.
Medtronic,
today announced the
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DreaMed Diabetes Supports Research on Efficacy of Virtual Diabetes Care
What You Should Know:
- DreaMed Diabetes, the developer of personalized, AI-based diabetes management solutions, will participate in a clinical study, led by Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation, to evaluate the efficacy of virtual treatment for diabetes patients. The research is funded by a grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.
- DreaMed uses AI-powered technology to seamlessly treat
patients remotely with its virtual diabetes management service by
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