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Ascensia Diabetes integrates its Eversense CGM with Apple Health

The Eversense E3 system. [Image from Ascensia/Senseonics]Ascensia Diabetes Care announced today that it has updated its Eversense Continuous Glucose Monitoring system app to integrate with Apple Health.

The Parsippany, N.J.-based company makes the Contour Blood Glucose Monitoring (BGM) system and distributes Senseonics’ Eversense CGM system. The new Apple Health integration will allow people with diabetes using Senseonics’ Eversense CGM systems to view glucose data within the Apple Health app. In addition, they can also see other health metrics on the iPhone’s health and wellbeing platform.

Eversense CGM is a fully-implantable CGM with a sensor that has a 6-month sensor wear duration. The system transmits data to the Eversense CGM app. There, users can view, analyze and share glucose data. In addition, it alerts users to changes and trends in glucose levels as well.

The new integration allows users in all markets where Eversense is availab…

Dexcom promotes Jereme Sylvain to CFO

Dexcom (NASDAQ: DXCM) announced today that it has promoted Jereme Sylvain to become a new EVP and CFO at the continuous glucose monitoring company.

Sylvain — who joined Dexcom in 2018 and was most recently SVP of finance and chief accounting officer — will report to COO Quentin Blackford.

Previously, Blackford had been serving as both COO and CFO of the San Diego–based company.

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How continuous glucose monitors have transformed the diabetes landscape

G6 applicator image from Dexcom

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are among the most potent diabetes management tools to emerge in recent decades.

FDA approved the first professional CGM in 1999, and the technology has evolved swiftly since then. Current models beam data via Bluetooth to smartphones (plus the Apple Watch) and the cloud, enabling patients to explore their blood glucose readings in an app or via downloadable PDFs.

“Decades ago, we were still checking urine sugars,” said Dr. Egils Bogdanovics, a Connecticut-based endocrinologist. “In the early 1980s, fingerstick blood glucose monitors came out. That was a big deal — a revolution in diabetes,” Bogdanovics recalled.

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How continuous glucose monitors have transformed the diabetes landscape

Dexcom G6 sensor and applicator [Image from Dexcom]Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are among the most potent diabetes management tools to emerge in recent decades.

FDA approved the first professional CGM in 1999, and the technology has evolved swiftly since then. Current models beam data via Bluetooth to smartphones (plus the Apple Watch) and the cloud, enabling patients to explore their blood glucose readings in an app or via downloadable PDFs.

“Decades ago, we were still checking urine sugars,” said Dr. Egils Bogdanovics, a Connecticut-based endocrinologist. “In the early 1980s, fingerstick blood glucose monitors came out. That was a big deal — a revolution in diabetes,” Bogdanovics recalled.

But the fingerstick blood glucose monitor provides more of a snapshot than a moving picture. “About 15 years ago, professional continuous glucose monitoring was introduced. Initially, it was just endocrinologists [who used it], and we used it in what we called …