Google Broadens Diabetes Reach With Dexcom Partnership
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
DexCom Inc. is partnering with Google Inc. to develop smaller and cheaper continuous glucose meters (CGM) that would broaden their target market from a current focus on type 1 diabetes patients to the broader population. The partnership also may include using Google's cloud servers to collect and analyze glucose-meter data from patients to improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
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