Ascensia Diabetes Care announced today that it has updated its Eversense Continuous Glucose Monitoring system app to integrate with Apple Health. The Parsippany, N.J.-based company makes the Contour Blood Glucose Monitoring (BGM) system and distributes Senseonics’ Eversense CGM system. The new Apple Health integration will allow people with diabetes using Senseonics’ Eversense CGM systems to […]
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BrightInsight raises $101M for its pre-built digital health platform
BrightInsight announced today that it’s raised $101 million in a Series C round led by VC firm General Catalyst. The money will go toward more hiring and further accelerating the work BrightInsight is conducting with customers to support their digital health product launches. The San Jose, Calif.–based company offers a turnkey digital health platform for […]
Looking back at two decades of CGM advances
Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) have transformed how many people with diabetes manage blood sugar, but attempts to monitor blood glucose have a long history. Attempts to manage glucose kicked off in earnest when researchers began measuring glucose in urine in the mid-1800s. Scientists’ ability to do so steadily improved over the years, but urine glucose […]
Teva Pharmaceuticals’ stock sinks 6.5% on Q3 results
Teva (NYSE: TEVA) reported third-quarter results today that matched analysts’ consensus forecast. The company will maintain its guidance for the rest of the year. Teva, which has dual headquarters in Israel and Parsippany, N.J., reported a loss of -$4.3 billion or -$3.97 per share on revenue of $3.9 billion for the quarter ended September 30, […]
Tandem Diabetes Care acquires Sugarmate mobile app
Tandem Diabetes Care (NSDQ:TNDM) said today that it has purchased Sugarmate — as mobile app that helps people better manage their diabetes. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Nearly 30,000 people relying on insulin pumps or multiple daily injections presently use the Sugarmate app. Sugarmate cofounder Josh Juster will join Tandem as a VP […]
Insulet’s Omnipod Dash Personal Diabetes Managers have a glitch
Insulet (NSDQ:PODD) is issuing a voluntary medical device correction for all of the smartphone-like Personal Diabetes Managers that came with its next-gen Omnipod Dash insulin management system, the company announced today. During its ongoing quality management process, Insulet officials discovered that the PDMs on rare occasions will suggest an inaccurate bolus amount based on a blood […]
How connected health can optimize patient and provider experience
Connected drug-delivery devices provide quantitative data on medication uses that may improve patient engagement and a move toward value-based payments. Iain Simpson, Phillips-Medisize Healthcare has become increasingly digitalized in the past decade, with the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHR), connected devices in hospitals and laboratories, and smartphones and tablets to support healthcare professionals. […]
Log Pharma Packaging launches smart packaging
Log Pharma Packaging said today that it is launching its ActiveGuard Connect smart packaging solutions. ActiveGuard Connect is designed to address the lack of patient adherence to prescription medicine or supplementation of nutraceuticals. It is comprised of an integrated desiccant chamber designed to link and synchronize with a patient’s smartphone. The smart packaging product enables […]
Bayer leads One Drop’s $40m Series B, inks deal to expand past diabetes
Bayer (ETR:BAYN) led a $40 million Series B round for glucose monitor maker One Drop, licensed its platform for treating conditions beyond diabetes and put its pharma president on the One Drop board. New York City-based One Drop developed a compact blood glucose monitor, pairing it with an app designed to provide behavioral cues and one-on-one coaching. […]
Senseonics touts BCBS reimbursement wins
Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) said today that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Idaho now provide coverage for the implantable Eversense continuous glucose monitor. The company’s Eversense device includes a fluorescence-based sensor, a mobile app and a transmitter. Senseonics’ touts its system as being the first with a long-term, implantable CGM sensor, as well as the first […]
