Diabetech

12/14/2019

News related to Diabetech this week - Sanofi is one of the partners behind the Onduo joint venture with Google (aka Verily). They realized that this stuff is hard. It's more than just downloading an app on your phone. The article states Sanofi are still in the game but shifting their focus. The timing could be good given the recent announcements of payers providing support for their members to enroll in the Onduo program.

More at the link:

New CEO Paul Hudson said during today's strategy presentation that the company had "over-invested" in the joint venture back in 2016.

03/09/2019

We're proud to be a part of this effort but I know they can do better.

Onduo, the joint venture between Sanofi and Verily begun in 2016, debuted its virtual diabetes clinic one year ago and now has more than 4,600 Type 2 diabetes patient users in the U.S. The effort looks to use technology to bridge the gap between doctor visits and help patients manage their diabetes daily with connected glucose monitoring devices, personal coaching, education and advice through its digital platform.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/sanofi-lays-out-connected-tech-ambitions-diabetes-updates-partnership-progress

Sanofi, which has been pushing digital integrated diabetes efforts for years, updated its progress and outlined its ambitions for connected technology in diabetes at a recent conference.

08/18/2018

10/05/2017

Before there was Dexcom, Abbot's Libre, Nightscout, Tidepool, MySugr, Diasend, Livongo and many others there was a company called Diabetech. Our diabetes technology lives on through a license we did with Telcare which is now a part of BioTelemetry, Inc. Listen and watch this interview with BioTelemetry's CEO Joe Capper to understand that the industry is finally on the verge of being able to help patients in new ways.

Actually those ways were pioneered by Diabetech and everyone else has built on that experience and body of clinical research. Just a decade or so ahead of our time.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/10/03/biotelemetry-ceo-apples-health-device-moves-to-boost-whole-industry.html

Jim Cramer spoke with BioTelemetry CEO Joe Capper, who said his medical device company will benefit from tech giants chasing connected health business.

08/18/2017

My other diabetes focused project: Sugar Surfing™. Please vote.

https://www.facebook.com/sugarsurfing/photos/a.631793873565612.1073741828.601230129955320/1397311560347169/?type=3&theater

Please consider voting for Sugar Surfing in the category of "Best Team Performance". Your support will help us to continue to spread the message behind dynamic diabetes management and the improvement that comes with it.

https://awards.wegohealth.com/nominees/13412

06/24/2017

Check out the latest feature of the new diatrends coaching platform: blood sugar conversations. Examples are available but you can start your own on at diatrends.net

Click on upload in upper right to go to the new system and you'll find the conversations feature in the Timeline report.

06/01/2017

We're looking for a few people willing to help us test our new diabetes coaching system.

If you use the Dexcom and already use their online Clarity application, or are willing to learn to use it, we have a need for people to submit your data using Clarity's .csv export feature.

At the moment, our need is limited to users who manage with mg/dL (USA and Belgium).

For more information please send an email to kevin@diabetech.net

Thank you!

02/02/2017

From the archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110204212304/http://challengediabetes.diabetech.net/2010/01/20/fallen-hero-now-a-competitor/

Shortly after my daughter was diagnosed in 2001 I learned about the juvenile diabetes research foundation and the great work they had been doing to find a cure for her diabetes. Over the years I held hope that their investments in promising research done by trail-blazing scientists would pan out bef...

01/21/2017

Here's a crazy idea. Health Care dollars for treating people with all forms of diabetes represent roughly 50% of every dollar spent by the federal government. What if we found a way to employ not only the patient in their own self-care but also create teams of non-paid caregivers and supporters to help each person with diabetes? I know it sounds crazy but that's been the message from Diabetech since we first proved the effectiveness of this model to AT&T in 2007, a decade ago. It's tricky and it takes a lot of experience to pull it off but this model of care can be delivered and at significantly less cost than growing the traditional health system.

01/20/2017

Whent AT&T realized they had a health care problem guess who they called? Diabetech got them into the know zone in less than 6 months followed up by a year long study of their emplyees and retirees with diabetes. Incredible A1c reductions. Behavioral change. Simple. Elegant. And most importantly... repeatable and scalable. Upgrading tech platform and committed to new patients in 2017!

01/07/2017

The new TOKEN demo prototypes are back from engineering and just in time for the next phase of Diabetech. This device listens to Bluetooth devices, captures their data and transmits blood glucose, location and 3-dimensional motion data to the cloud.

12/30/2016

Only a few hours left to participate in the 2016 diabetes survey. One random winner will be announced tomorrow from all of the completed survey participants. Winner receives a $100 USD gift card or equivalent. It takes 2 minutes to complete. Please share.

This survey is being used to inform the tech team at DiaTrends - a new Diabetech licensee. More information about Diabetech's decade and a half pioneering diabetes technology can be found online at diabetech.net Please answer all questions so we can create the best understanding of how to build our…

12/20/2016

Fourteen years ago today Diabetech filed its provisional patent application with the US Patent & Trademark Office. In that document we taught many others about how to create and deliver an innovative data-driven diabetes management intervention.

ABSTRACT
A novel remote monitoring, command and control system for enabling real-time disease management that includes a mobile wireless device which in one embodiment of the invention doubles as and replaces an existing tool within the patients' regimen so as to become a transparent tool within the list of paraphernalia relied upon by chronically afflicted patients and their extended team of caregivers. In the preferred embodiment, the device consists of a case with enclosures and is of a portable nature so as to accompany an individual easily. In another embodiment, the device simply enhances the remote connection to any wide area network for providing the capabilities of the system. Additionally, the system incorporates specialized analysis tools to facilitate any number of dynamic peer group comparisons in order to facilitate the easy and productive analysis across any sized population of inclusive patients with the data coming from any number of third party data management applications, logs, or other sources. Additionally, the platform is positioned as an open platform to facilitate the testing and utilization of an infinite number of third party predictive algorithms that can be used to improve the feedback of qualified recommendations to the patient for modifications in their actual or prescribed disease management protocol.

You can read the full text w images here:
https://www.google.com/patents/US20040133455

Much more to come in 2017 including many elements described in detail from the original patent.

A novel remote monitoring, command and control system for enabling real-time disease management that includes a mobile wireless device which in one embodiment of the invention doubles as and replaces an existing tool within the patients' regimen so as to become a transparent tool within the list of…

12/19/2016

Interested in helping design the future of diabetes care?

We're looking for people with type 2 diabetes who currently wear the Dexcom, Abbott or Medtronic cgm sensor.

If you qualify, we are looking to incorporate sample patient blood sugar data at the heart of a diabetes education and support system.

Your data will be made anonymous and assigned to a 'virtual' patient in our simulator.

Please send a download from your cgm to kevin@diabetech.net or email me if you have questions.

Thank you!

10/31/2016

Digital Health 'thought leaders' continue to demonstrate how uninformed they are about the health care industry. Not once was the role of the Clinical Research Organization (CRO) mentioned in this recent article. Pharma does not dictate how clinical trials are conducted. Principal Investigators and CROs do. And, CROs don't like digital health as it represents a level of complexity and disruption to their time honored tradition of asking patients to submit paper logbooks by fax. Some day that will change but not yet.

http://mhealthintelligence.com/news/is-pharma-ready-to-realize-the-value-of-mhealth

mHealth gives pharma new tools for clinical trials, medication management