Meet the Top 3 Digital Diabetes Solutions 2023!

2 · Oct · 2023 | Innovation

The DCB Innovation Challenge 2023 is entering its next round in the category Digital Diabetes! After rigorous evaluation and deliberation, the jury chose the following three start-ups to move on to the bootcamp and finale!

Meet our Top 3:

Bridget McNulty (SA): Solving diabetes education in Africa, using WhatsApp

“Sweet Life has been creating easy-to-understand diabetes information for our community since we started in 2011, but over the past 3 years we’ve had a specific focus on testing out the most effective formats, language and languages (SA has 11 official languages). We now know how to solve diabetes education in South Africa and pave the way for it to be solved in Africa if we build the system in the right way. How? A WhatsApp chatbot.“

Greg Badros (US): Gluroo – Collaborative Diabetes Logger

“You already know how to use Gluroo: it’s a chat app! The messaging group is your GluCrew, and Gluroo provides high-quality integrations with CGMs and Pumps. Those integrations contribute to Gluroo’s diabetes Event Log – the GEL. That GEL is shared and synchronized in real-time across all the devices so everyone can stay in sync, in real-time.“

Katharine Kelly (UK): Spotlight-AQ − Improving Routine Diabetes Visits: Helping People with Diabetes Feel Heard and Doctors Feel Empowered to Care

“Spotlight-AQ is a novel validated infographic assessment platform highlighting user priority concerns and immediate mapped resources to meet those unmet needs. Truly personalised healthcare. Deliverable by any healthcare professional, in any setting with any person with diabetes; Spotlight-AQ fits seamlessly within the constraints of existing healthcare systems and structures.”

We are looking forward to entering this next round of our Innovation Challenge: a one week bootcamp in the Swiss mountains together with our three finalists in the category Diabetes Devices and the grand finale on 9 November!

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