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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Glooko, Diasend Merge to Create International Diabetes Management Platform
Diabetes management platform companies Diasend and Glooko announced that it will merge into one company under the Glooko name to deliver the world’s premier diabetes management platform focused on making diabetes management easier for people with diabetes and the teams who care for them. In addition to its merger, the companies have raised $8M in equity financing, led by global venture capital firm Canaan Partners, to accelerate integration and sales efforts. Other investors include Social
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Google’s Verily, Sanofi Launch $500M Diabetes Joint Venture Onduo
French pharma company Sanofi and Verily Life Sciences LLC, (formerly Google Life Sciences), an Alphabet company are teaming up on a $500M joint venture named Onduo to develop a comprehensive diabetes platform. Based in Kendall Square in Cambridge, the Onduo joint venture will combine devices, software, medicine and professional care to enable simple and intelligence disease management for patients. Joshua Riff, M.D., M.B.A will serve as Onduo’s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer. As part
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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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Anthem Blue Cross Taps Solera Health for Diabetes Prevention Platform
Anthem Blue Cross has launched a diabetes prevention program to educate, treat and support its members who are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Pre-diabetes is a condition in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be considered diabetes. The yearlong program, provided in conjunction with diabetes prevention program integrator Solera Health, offers healthy lifestyle coaching and weekly classes to teach members the skills needed to lose weight, become more
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AMA, Omada Health, Intermountain Healthcare Launch Digital Health Program to Reduce Type 2 Diabetes
The American Medical Association (AMA), Omada Health, and Intermountain Healthcare today announced a digital health initiative aimed at reducing the alarming number of adults who develop type 2 diabetes. The new partnership will create a roadmap for large health care organizations across the country to adopt proven online behavior change interventions for at-risk patients, and integrate those programs into provider referral and clinical workflow. The collaboration marks the first time that the
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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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Solera Health Nabs $4M to Scale Its Diabetes Prevention Platform
Solera Health, a technology-enabled personalized preventive health network has raised $4 million in Series A1 funding with participation in the round includes BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners (BCBSVP), Sandbox Industries and SJF Ventures. In November 2015, Solera closed a $3 million Series A round, bringing its total capital raised to $7 million.The company will utilize the funding to scale its operations to meet the growing demand by health plans for the National Diabetes Prevention
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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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