enhance-d: Enhanced Diabetes Self-Management

by Svea Krutisch | Sep 7, 2023

enhance-d: Enhanced Diabetes Self-Management

Diabetes technology generates a lot of data, but rarely is all this data used to inform action. DCB supports enhance-d in combining real-time diagnostics across every aspect of the digital diabetes experience with AI-powered analytics and visualisations to see, diagnose and explain glucose self-management.

Making Sense of Diabetes Data to Inform Self-Management

Diabetes management is influenced by many different factors at all times, including nutrition and exercise. Advances in technology are making data capture of all factors easier than ever before – but how can people with diabetes inform their actions based on this huge amount of data?

enhance-d combines real-time diagnostics across every aspect of the digital diabetes experience with AI-powered analytics and user-friendly visualisations to see, diagnose and explain glucose management. Based on the team’s previous experience working with professional athletes with diabetes, they are familiar with the challenge of creating optimal training plans considering all influencing factors. With enhance-d, their goal was to develop a solution that could generate a simplified overview for everyone, whether professional athletes or individuals simply starting regular exercise.

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enhance-d stands for improved self-management for people with diabetes using a simple digital solution. CGM and other portable data allows an understanding of how pharmacologic, behavioural, dietary and activity-based interventions contribute to changes in glucose profiles – and how users can take action based on these findings.

Project Team: Federico Fontana (Founder & CEO), Sam Scott (Founder & CSO), Fabio Saviozzi (Founder & CCO), Felipe Mattioni Maturana (Founder & CTO).

Project support: DCB supports enhance-d financially with 150’000 CHF as well as with access to our network of experts and our knowledge in product development.

enhance-d founders Fabio Saviozzi, Sam Scott, Federico Fontana and Felipe Mattioni Maturana

Links

enhance-d website

enhance-d.com

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SmartStart Health: Unlocking life-changing benefits of CGM in diabetes

by Greta Ehlers | Jan 11, 2023

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SmartStart Health: Unlocking life-changing benefits of CGM in diabetes

DCB and SmartStart Health collaborate to develop and validate a world-first patient education mobile app to increase knowledge and improve outcomes among people with diabetes using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).

Overwhelming amount of CGM data

When people with diabetes/caregivers start using CGM to gain tighter diabetes control, they face a steep learning curve, regardless of how many years they have lived with diabetes. They’re overwhelmed by hundreds of data points per day, trend arrows and fine-tuning settings for alerts and alarms. They are aware that CGM can be a powerful tool for minimising high and low blood glucose levels and improving their quality of life, but they aren’t sure how to achieve these outcomes. Without timely support to use CGM effectively, people with diabetes/caregivers may see CGM data as clear documentation of diabetes management challenges they feel they cannot overcome.

SmartStart CGM as an innovative solution for CGM education

Education is important for people using CGM to be able to understand and use CGM data to make appropriate treatment decisions that lead to quality of life benefits as well as improvements in diabetes outcomes. SmartStart Health is rising to the challenge of CGM-specific patient education with SmartStart CGM, a user-friendly smartphone app. Supported by DCB, diabetes centres in the US and Switzerland will evaluate the new scalable solution in a proof-of-concept study. The partnership aims to analyse the results in Q3 2022 and publish by mid-2023.

The SmartStart CGM app is designed to inform and empower users with interactive micro-learning based on real-world scenarios that reflect the reality of living with diabetes. A telehealth portal for healthcare professionals will enable clinicians to assess patient engagement with the programme.

Project team: Melissa Holloway (Founder & CEO), Kieron Heath (Operations), Effra Digital (Technology consultant), Will Hargreaves (Business development), Jamie Welsh (Content development)

Funding: DCB supports SmartStart Health with 100k CHF funding

Melissa Holloway, CEO and Founder of SmartStart Health