Sanofi US’s third installment of its diabetes crowdsourcing competition to find innovative approaches to improving the quality, delivery and cost of care for diabetes has selected five finalists.
The Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge, is held with Luminary Labs to address the needs of the 25.8 million diabetes population. The finalists for the competition include entries spanning data analytics tools, others designed to instigate behavior change, a recipe generator that selects meals to comply with individual dietary needs and tastes like a food version of Pandora, and a tracking tool to record insulin injections.
Allazo Health uses patient data and algorithms to not only anticipate which patients will have medication adherence issues, but also identifies the best intervention strategy for each customer and predicts how to influence patients. A graduate of the Blueprint Health accelerator, diabetes has been a focus for the two year old company, along with cardiovascular conditions.
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Go Cap is designed to serve as a replacement pen cap for pre-filled insulin pens that can read dose amounts and times, and communicate wirelessly via Bluetooth to a mobile phone or connected glucometer. It can be used as a personal health tracker as well as for broader population health purposes.
Zydoc’s MediSapien Diabetic Clinical Data Repository is designed to improve transparency and provide a way to do data analytics by breaking down silos of unstructured data, information dictation, transcribed text, legacy data, and semi-structured text from electronic health record and converting it into fully-coded structured data, according to its website.
Nudoro is a healthy recipe generator that likens itself to Pandora, generating recipes that comply with dietary restrictions and taste preferences.
Connect & Coach by Personal Health Recording for Quality of Life with an acronym that sounds like freckle. The health IT company spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. It develops enterprise-level electronic record systems and apps for pharmacists and nutritionists in grocery, pharmacy and hospital settings to help customers and patients better manage their health.
A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In the next few weeks, finalists will be groomed for the June 3 demo day with a boot camp in the last weekend of April and a mentorship program throughout May. The winning team will receive $100,000 and will be announced June 4.
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