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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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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Livongo Health Pulls In $45M to Expand Diabetes Management
Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company that is empowering people with chronic diseases to live better has raised $44.5 million in Series C funding from investors including Merck Global Health Innovation Fund; Cowen Private Investments; Sapphire Ventures; Zaffre Investments, the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts; Wanxiang America Corporation. Existing investors General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), DFJ, and 7wire Ventures. also
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Healthstat, Livongo Health Partner for Diabetes Management
Healthstat, Inc., a provider of employer health and wellness programs, has partnered with Livongo Health to deploy Livongo for Diabetes throughout its nationwide onsite clinic network.Livongo provides people with diabetes with an end-to-end solution that includes:- A connected glucose meter with two-way messaging and data transfer messaging in real-time- Personalized analytics that provide context-aware insights- Coaching with Certified Diabetes Educators by phone, text, email, and mobile app
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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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WellDoc, Lifespan Partner to Deliver Diabetes-Focused Digital Health Solution
WellDoc, a digital health technology leader, today announced a collaboration with LifeScan, Inc., a business within the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Care Companies to deliver a best-in-class digital health solution for patients living with Type 2 diabetes.
Under the collaboration, WellDoc’s BlueStar product, the first FDA-cleared digital therapeutic for adults who live with Type 2 diabetes, will be integrated with LifeScan’s OneTouch Verio Flex™ Bluetooth® Smart blood glucose monitoring
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Welkin Health, Minnesota Children’s Hospital Partner to Deliver Better Diabetes Care to Children
Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in patient relationship management, has been chosen by Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota as a partner for a multi-year study aimed at improving care for children with type 1 diabetes. Children’s Minnesota is using the configurable Welkin software to improve its care team’s efficiency when communicating with patients and their families remotely.
Diabetes Study Details
The Children’s study is designed to
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Glooko Launches Office Kiosk for In-Clinic Diabetes Care
Glooko Inc., a unified platform for diabetes management, today announced the official launch of its “Glooko Office Kiosk” package to redefine in-clinic diabetes care experience for patients with diabetes and healthcare professionals by bringing insights that drive teachable moments to patient-clinician interactions
For the first time, Glooko Office Kiosk enables diabetes data from popular blood glucose meters, insulin pumps, and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) to be synced to an Android
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