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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LMC Diabetes & Endocrinology Launch Digital Diabetes Platform for 30k Patients
LMC Diabetes & Endocrinology (LMC), the largest diabetes specialist care provider in Canada is teaming up with ViiMed to launch a digital diabetes platform for more than 30,000 patients. Delivered via telehealth and remote patient monitoring, the digital diabetes education and management program will expand access to care and help patients self-manage their condition for better outcomes. Providers can foster greater patient engagement and satisfaction, save time, and reduce operational costs
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Yes Health and Solera Health Partner to Provide On-Demand Mobile Diabetes Prevention Tools
Yes Health, an all-mobile program to prevent type 2 diabetes has teamed up with Solera Health, an integrator of chronic disease prevention and management solutions to provide on-demand mobile diabetes prevention tools and resources to millions of eligible health plan members. The strategic partnership will enable qualified, at-risk patients with access to Yes Health's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), as a covered medical benefit.Under
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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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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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