UnitedHealthcare Launches Initiative To Use Wearable Technology For Enhancing Diabetes Management

UnitedHealthcare recently launched a new initiative that uses wearable technology and personalized support to help consumers with Type 2 diabetes manage their condition. The initiative seeks to accomplish this in part through the utilization of UnitedHealthcare’s Navigate4Me health navigation program.

Using a “virtual nerve center,” Navigate4Me channels in information from a number of sources that navigators can use in order to help members manage diabetes and other chronic diseases. Additionally, UnitedHealthcare will be partnering with Dexcom in order to pair members with coaches who will help them to effectively use Dexcom’s wearable glucose monitoring technology in order to . . .