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  • FDA approves Ascensia’s app-enabled blood glucose monitoring system

    PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Ascensia Diabetes Care announced Monday that the Food and Drug Administration had approved the company’s Contour Next One blood glucose monitoring system. The blood glucose smart meter can connect to mobile devices via Bluetooth to facilitate easier management within the Contour Diabetes app. 
     

  • Free screenings help break barriers to care

    With the advent of complimentary health screenings available through a growing number of retail health fairs — such as CVS Health, Walmart and Sam’s Club and ShopRite, to name a few — more and more consumers are learning for the first time that they may be diabetic or prediabetic from their neighborhood pharmacist as opposed to their primary care doctors.

    (To view the full Diabetes Report, click here.)

  • Apps, tech differentiate new meters

    More and more, meter manufacturers today are differentiating their offerings not by the traditional micrometers of blood necessary for a viable glucose reading or the value inherent in the cost of test strips, but in the accompanying adherence app or other technologies that will help diabetes patients better navigate their disease states.

    (To view the full Diabetes Report, click here.)

  • Mobile app helps patients, cos. increase adherence

    Diabetics are most adherent around meal times, especially during breakfast and toward the beginning of the week, according to a review of Medisafe’s more than 160,000 diabetes patients who utilize its adherence tool in an effort to better manage the condition.

    (To view the full Diabetes Report, click here.)

  • Diabetic consumers spend 35% more on OTC products

    Today’s diabetes patients represent a coveted consumer base for retail pharmacy no matter how you characterize that diabetes spend. For example, consumers with diabetes spend 35% more on OTC products than the average consumer, noted Jeff Gregori, group VP consumer and shopper analytics for Nielsen, during a presentation at the 2016 National Association of Chain Drug Stores Total Store Expo.

  • Best of both worlds: ADA pairs its database to the computing power of IBM Watson Health

    What do you get when you pair the world’s largest database on diabetes metrics with a big data super computer that will mine, analyze and optimize that data?

    (To view the full Diabetes Report, click here.)

  • Apps help Type 2 patients self-manage disease

    Cardiff University in October found that smartphone apps could offer patients with Type 2 diabetes a highly effective method of self-managing their condition.

    (To view the full Diabetes Report, click here.)

  • Disease still prevalent despite ebbing diagnoses

    Even though the number of new diagnoses each year is trending down, diabetes is still a prevalent chronic disease in the United States.

    (To view the full Diabetes Report, click here.)

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