For the largest technology companies, there’s an opportunity in health care that’s too big to ignore: diabetes technology.
to build integrations with consumer devices like Apple Watch and iPhone.
In an interview, Verily's chief medical officer Jessica Mega noted that Alphabet has been focused on diabetes for years. including when its health-care projects were primarily part of its Google "X" R&D lab. "If you look at the population in the U.S. and worldwide, we're talking about an epidemic that is on the rise," she explained.
These days, Verily has a group called Onduo that is looking into building a software and services layer around the disease. It's doing things like lifestyle coaching to help people optimize their food and exercise. And it's got a partnership with Dexcom to make a new continuous glucose monitoring device that is targeted to people with type 2 diabetes.
"Working with bio sensors is core to what we do here," said Mega. "But we're also looking at both the information stream coming in, and what it means to wrap around an ecosystem of providing care to patients." For Dexcom, maker of continuous glucose monitors, it's a very good thing that technology companies are entering the space. Dexcom's CEO Kevin Sayer told us that Dexcom was among the first wave of medical device makers to consider the potential of smartphone technology, and forge partnerships with non-traditional tech players.Dexcom developed one of the "first apps of this nature with a medical device classification to go straight to the phone," according to Sayer.
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