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Unlocking the power of sensor data in type 2 diabetes care

Mar 3, 2025

By GABRIELLE GOLDBLATT

Highly relevant, high-resolution data streams are essential to high-stakes decision making across industries. You wouldn’t expect an investment banker making deals without full market visibility or a grocery store to stock shelves without data on what’s selling and what’s not—so why are we not leaning more into data-driven approaches in healthcare?

Sensor-based measures, data collected from wearables and smart technologies, often continuously and outside the clinic, can drive more precise and cost-effective treatment strategies. Yet, in many cases, they’re not used to the fullest potential – either because they’re not covered by insurance or they’re treated as an add-on rather than an integral input to disease management. As a result, we lack sufficient clarity of the true value of treatments, making it difficult to discern which are high quality and which drive up the already sky-high cost of healthcare in the U.S.

Take type 2 diabetes (T2D), for example, which impacts upwards of 36 million Americans. Many people with diabetes also face comorbidities like cardiovascular disease, obesity, and kidney complications, which increase treatment complexity and costs. The range of treatments available to manage and treat T2D has grown significantly in recent years, from established therapies like metformin and insulin to newer options like virtual care programs and GLP-1 receptor agonists, which offer benefits that may extend to comorbidities.

This expanded treatment landscape promises to improve the standard of care, but it also makes it difficult for treatment options to stand out in an increasingly crowded market. This leads to treatment gaps, worsening comorbidities, and an annual burden of over $400 billion on the healthcare system.

THCB Gang — DiME Special Episode 141, Thursday October 24

Oct 24, 2024

Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday October 24 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack, (@GoldsackJen) , the VA’s Cole Zanetti (@ColeZanetti); and the Chief Commercial Officer at Curai Health Nicole Bell (@bellnicolee). There’ll likely be chatter about #HLTH2024 but also a lot of focus on the new announcement about the DiME Seal. Which is not about a those lovable animals that you see basking on rocks or ice flows, I understand…

You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels.

Harnessing Digital Innovation to Unlock Cancer Discoveries

Apr 19, 2024

By DOUG MIRSKY & BRIAN GONZALEZ

What if digital innovations could be the key to reducing the burden of cancer? CancerX was founded in 2023 as part of the Cancer Moonshot to achieve this goal. By uniting leading minds across industries such as technology, healthcare, science, and government, we are breaking down silos and leveraging digital innovation in the fight against cancer. With ambitious goals to cut the death rate from cancer by at least 50% and to improve the experience of people who are affected by cancer, digital innovation is critical.

As a public-private partnership co-hosted by Moffitt Cancer Center and the Digital Medicine Society, CancerX has created a unique ecosystem and community of public and private innovators. We are focused on fostering innovation and collaboration to accelerate the pace of digital tools to help patients across their entire cancer journey. We unite experts across industries and the government, leveraging the success of the Department for Health and Human Services’ InnovationX model; a public-private partnership approach that has driven breakthroughs in kidney care, Lyme disease and COVID-19. In collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), CancerX is in sync with the US government in our common Cancer Moonshot goals to boost government-wide engagement with industry muscle. This type of multidisciplinary partnership is necessary to change the landscape of cancer treatment and care.

At the one year anniversary of CancerX, we look back on a very fast pace in building up our three pillars of work, demonstrating the ways that digital innovation is contributing to fighting cancer:

Pre-Competitive Evidence Generation – A rolling series of multi-stakeholder initiatives to develop evidence, best practices, toolkits, and value models to drive the success of the mission.
Demonstration Projects – These implementation projects pilot novel, mission-aligned approaches to demonstrate their value and sustainability for scale to drive broad adoption.

Startup Accelerator – This program provides mentorship, education, and exposure to funding and clinical partnership opportunities to a start-up cohort aligned with the mission.

And we are already deeply underway with efforts across each of the three pillars.

THCB Gang Episode 91, Thursday May 12

May 12, 2022

Following last week’s extraordinary special on cancer & navigation, this week’s #THCBGang on May 12 was a deep dive into digital health. Including data, education, business models and the knowledge gap; and of course quite a bit of discussion about the future of the data and digital health around abortion.

Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) were WTF Health host & Health IT girl Jessica DaMassa (@jessdamassa), privacy regulation expert Deven McGraw (@HealthPrivacy); & surgeon & startup guy Raj Aggarwal (@docaggarwal). Special guest this week is Olympic rower for 2 countries and all around dynamo Jennifer Goldsack, (@GoldsackJen), CEO at the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe).

You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels.