At-Home Digital Health Innovations Transforming Diabetes Care

If you’re looking for a silver lining in the COVID-19 dark cloud still enshrouding the world, consider this: The pandemic has turbocharged widespread acceptance of at-home digital health solutions. Forced to function in a world of social distancing, healthcare providers and physicians have quickly discovered how easily telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and digital therapeutics can improve patient care. 

Many of these digital health innovations are designed to address what the American Medical Association (AMA) calls “an epidemic of chronic diseases,” especially diabetes, which, in 2017, was an underlying or contributing cause of more than 270,000  U.S. deaths.  According to a 2020 CDC report, 122 million U.S. adults – one-third of the population - either have or are at risk of developing diabetes. And, in fact, the number of U.S. adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than doubled in the last 20 years.