What You Should Know: - DNA Company acquires AI-based digital therapeutics app My Pain Sensei (MPS) to form My Next Health and is building a COVID-19 risk assessment platform to help people understand their risks of developing serious COVID-19 complications. - The acquisition combines functional genomics with conversational AI for patient self-management apps and disease tracking tools designed to inform clinician-patient interactions. Leading functional genomics provider The
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DreaMed Launches Virtual Diabetes Clinic to Help Type-1 Diabetics Control Their Condition in Quarantine
What You Should Know: - As COVID-19 spreads, DreaMed Diabetes unveils virtual diabetes clinic software to treat people with type 1 diabetes remotely. - The virtual clinic utilizes Dreamed Diabetes’ AI-powered solution, to improve the insulin management treatment by analyzing the patient’s insulin and glucose data in the platform's algorithm and to remotely advise doctors on treatment. - According to the CDC people with chronic medical conditions, including diabetes, have a higher risk
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6 Benefits of Telemedicine in Managing the Diabetes Epidemic
The American Diabetes Association reveals that 9.4% of the American population has diabetes, and with numbers that high nearly all Americans have a friend or family member with the disease. However, many Americans are not aware that telehealth can enable diabetic patients to manage their condition—treatment that would have otherwise been difficult to come by for rural patients with limited access to care. With such a high prevalence among the population, providing care regardless of proximity
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COVID-19: Glooko Offers Free Remote Care to Medical Clinics and People with Diabetes
What You Should Know: - Glooko today announced that during the COVID-19 pandemic they are taking action to serve the global diabetes community by providing a no-charge remote care solution that provides live patient-to-clinician connectivity. - To minimize the risk to people with diabetes during this time by broadening access to a remote medical appointment with healthcare providers, Glooko is offering its secure, privacy-protected remote care solution at no charge to medical clinics and
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Do We Know When Medical Devices Fail?
Since 2015, the FDA and the US Department of Homeland Security have been releasing warnings about products that due to their vulnerabilities threaten patient safety. This includes MRI machines and drug infusion pumps that supply patients with a wide diversity of drugs, including insulin, antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs, and pain relievers. The interconnectivity of smart devices with medical clinical systems leaves them vulnerable to security breaches just like any other networked computing
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Youth Suicide & Depression Crisis: Can Health IT Make A Positive Impact?
Perhaps it’s because we live in an age of competing epidemics and crises—opioids, impeachment, homelessness, insulin—that youth suicide trends don’t warrant a front-page headline every week.The numbing, knee-bending statistics say they should.Per the CDC, suicide rates among young people 10-24 years old rose 56 percent between 2007 and 2017. Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for that group after accidents like car crashes—paradoxical tragedies often caused by the excessive
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Can Digital Health Bridge The Low-Income Gap?
We’ve known for a few years that income correlates with health in a major way. From the length of life to stroke risk to self-reported health status, the more access, opportunity, and means of upward mobility a person has, the better their projected health outcomes.
Waves of organizations are stepping up to help put things on a better course. Accountable and managed care organizations like Upward Health are working with payers, providers, and local governments to bring doctors, nurses, and
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Lilly to Integrate Dexcom CGMs into Personalized Diabetes Management System
- Eli Lilly has announced a global commercialization agreement to integrate Dexcom’s continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices into Lilly’s personalized diabetes management system. - The personalized diabetes management system, currently in development to advance the treatment of diabetes, will integrate connected insulin delivery devices, software and analysis to equip people with diabetes and their healthcare providers with personalized information and guidance to help them better manage
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Using Patient Relationship Management Tools to Improve Preventive & Chronic Care
Every year, another 1.5 million people learn they have diabetes. The number of people in the U.S. managing chronic diseases has been growing steadily for several years. In addition, there is more and more pressure on providers to help patients manage these conditions to improve outcomes and avoid complications or readmissions.
The challenge providers face is that visits are short, often just 15 minutes, and patients struggle to retain the information given to them during the appointment.
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Walmart Brings One Drop’s Smart Glucose Meter to Retail Stores Nationwide
- One Drop’s wireless glucose meter kit and supplies for diabetes management are now available at hundreds of Walmart stores in the United States.- Retail expansion increases accessibility of healthcare technology and support for people with chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.One Drop, a New York City-based provider of digital therapeutic solutions for diabetes and other chronic conditions, today announced that its wireless glucose meter kit and supplies are now available at
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