Tag: Glooko

ELYRIA, Ohio – Invacare will close its production and distribution facility in Sanford, Fla., at the end of September 2023, in a move that will impact about 90 associates, according to a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  The company will move the manufacturing and distribution activities that take place at the Sanford facility to other locations or have them conducted by third parties.   “This decision is supportive of the company’s...

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Glooko, Inc. has entered into a partnership with Hedia, integrating its insulin dosing technology into Glooko’s diabetes management platforms for healthcare providers and people with diabetes. “We are very pleased to partner with Hedia to offer this algorithm-driven innovation for personalized healthcare for diabetes patients and their healthcare teams,” said Russ Johannesson, CEO of Glooko. “The robust clinical data supporting Hedia’s efficacy...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – Glooko will partner with Eli Lilly for a strategic digital health collaboration using Eli Lilly’s connected insulin pens, the Tempo Pen and Tempo Smart Button. Through the agreement, the Tempo Smart Button will pair with Glooko’s software to integrate personalized health care data from the Tempo Pen, allowing it to be viewed and analyzed alongside other relevant data from other devices, fitness trackers and food logs. “Lilly is...

I got my first COVID vaccination in early April and immediately slacked my co-workers to share an image of my “Crushing COVD-19” sticker. Along with the obligatory congratulatory emojis, came the obligatory jokes about government chips and tracking. As a person with diabetes, I’m used to tracking. I track my numbers, my insulin doses and my carbs. In turn, my Freestyle Libre sensor tracks me and sends data wirelessly to the Diabetes Center from my iPhone (no more arriving at...

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Glooko saw its remote monitoring business take off in 2020 and plans to use recent funding to increase adoption of its platform by diabetes patients and their health care providers.  The company, which provides a software-as-a-service application and accompanying mobile app, will ramp up its marketing, among other efforts, after raising $30 million in Series D funding.  “Remote monitoring is a solution we’ve...

WASHINGTON – CMS has published an adjusted fee schedule for oxygen therapy for April 2021 that no longer includes a percentage reduction to meet the budget neutrality requirement.  The adjustments result in an increase in fee schedule amounts ranging from $6.72 to $8.19 in former competitive bidding areas; $5.17 to $5.43 in other non-rural areas; and $4.14 to $6.82 in non-contiguous and rural areas, according to the VGM Group.  The fee schedule amounts are not retroactive...

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Glooko, a provider of remote patient monitoring and chronic care management solutions including diabetes and obesity, has raised a $30 million Series D round of funding.   The company will use proceeds from the funding to accelerate organic growth and strategic initiatives across its product line of digital health solutions, including increasing adoption of is remote patient monitoring platform, widening commercialization of products...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Glooko has received joint ISO 13485 certification from Intertek Testing Services NA Ltd. for both its Mountain View, Calif., and Gothenburg, Sweden, sites. This certification demonstrates the company's commitment to establishing a compliant quality management system that meets customer, safety and regulatory requirements for medical devices. “Our certification to ISO 13485 is an important milestone that confirms our quality management system has met internationally-recognized...

Julie Piriano will be chair of RESNA's Professional Specialty Board effective Aug. 1. Piriano, director of rehab industry affairs at Pride Mobility, is highly active on legislative and regulatory issues for the complex rehab industry and has been a member of RESNA for more than 20 years�Stephen Lien has been named CFO at Glooko, a diabetes data management company. Lien has extensive experience in senior leadership roles, most recently as CFO of PipelineRx, a healthcare SaaS technology company offering...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Connecting lifestyle data from personal devices with clinical data from electronic health records will offer a fuller understanding of patients with Type 1 diabetes and, ultimately, lead to better treatment, says Russ Johannesson, CEO of Glooko.“We think this is really going to be valuable in enhancing their effort and improving research,” he said. “The ability to see all of this data in context is relatively new.”Glooko recently partnered with...