Last week Salt Lake City-based mobile personal emergency response (MPERS) provider ActiveCare inked a deal to acquire 4G Biometrics, a company that offers near real time blood glucose monitoring to insurers and self-insured employers. According to an SEC filing, the pricetag on the all-stockdeal will be equivalent to 6.6 times a six month sales period ending in September. While this is likely not...
Dr Neal Sikka, GWU
The McKesson Foundation announced the winners of six research grants it has awarded as part of its Mobilizing for Health initiative. The grants include $1.3 million in funds in total and each of the awardees will receive grants of around $250,000 for their mobile phone-enabled research project centered on diabetes management. The projects that the Foundation awarded make use...
Last week London-based mobile diabetes management company, Cellnovo announced a whopping $48 million second round of funding. While the company has been long known as the developer of a wireless-enabled insulin pump, in recent years it has stressed its software competency, and even made analagous comments between its offerings and Apple's iTunes Store.
This week Medcity News pointed its readers...
