Diabetech To Integrate Microsoft’s HealthVault
February 29th, 2008 by Kevin
Thanks to an initiative sponsored by Microsoft which opened for submission on Feb 25 described as a way to jump-start the online health ecosystem, we have accelerated our plans to complete the integration between Diabetech’s real-time Automated Diabetes Management System and Microsoft’s HealthVault platform. The timing couldn’t be better as it coincides with the commercial availability of several Diabetech programs and the launch of our new global GSM/GPRS wireless & mobile device platform.
“Hold on there! What about
and their $10M competition for Android applications (Google’s open mobile phone platform)?”
(In the event that clicking on the image tells you the clip is defunct, try this link: http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=1FJHYqE0RDg)
I can think of just a few apps we could build on Android that function as an extension to ADMS in the field of diabetes care and beyond.
Of course, Google beat Microsoft to the punch when they announced this back on Feb 18! I fully expect Diabetech to be in the mix with Android based apps as well but those are perhaps a little further out for us than today’s announcement.
We’ve always believed that it’s important for patient’s to have choice and control over their own health data. Likewise, it’s critical that providers have an environment that standardizes the way in which they deal with patient data. That’s where this likely combination comes in. By combining the flexibility of patient data collection with established protocols and an easy to use portal by the endocrinologists, diabetes educators and other providers needing or contributing to the overall patient record, everyone wins.
Not only will we see the various technologies coming together, we are also bringing a committed and geographically dispersed team of diabetes specialists with us given that we’ve already earned the incumbent position as their diabetes health care extender. This ensures that the technology will actually get used. Unlike the days of the bubble when nobody seemed to care about what happened after you built something, this time we already have a head start with an active subscription-based consumer driven patient community, regional health centers, endocrinologists and CDEs actively working more efficiently with their patients through our ADMS and even the prospect of insurance reimbursement for our Diabetes HouseCall program looming on the horizon led by the likes of Aetna and Cigna.
Over the next couple of months, Diabetech will be developing its contribution to at least two consortiums targeting new models of diabetes care delivery. The first is obvious given our pioneering and leading position concerning children and their families with type 1 diabetes as well as the schools and churches who also play a role in keeping these kids safe. In addition, Diabetech’s technology and programs will be proposed as a better way to care for kids and their mothers even before they are born as in the case of gestational diabetes. Through more effective screening programs and active management via remote patient monitoring, complications are likely reduced thanks to a proactive model including advanced patient-centric self-care tools and remote provider interventions.
Stay tuned for announcements including the diabetes specialists signing on to this initiative and an eventual announcement regarding Diabetech’s strategic partners on these proposals. For more details on the Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund initiative, head on over to Microsoft and get familiar with their offer.
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February 29th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Kevin
This all sounds very exciting. I think moving towards electronic health records means that you’re going to be slightly ahead of many healthcare providers, but they’ll get there.
I’ll be very interested in seeing what you’re cooking up for the mobile platform. Unfortunately that video is no longer available, so I couldn’t see what it was showing.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Thanks Bernard - it is exciting and to your point, we have invested heavily in discovering and developing relationships with the progressive physicians and health centers around the country. This platform won’t be for everyone but for the progressive providers it will offer them an opportunity to practice medicine in a way that they used to only dream of while simultaneously delivering superior care to their patients.
Sorry about the youtube link. I’ll see if I can dig up access to it via other means.