03 Mar 2022 | 03:45 PM GMT

Sprint: Virtual Care for T2-Diabetes and Obesity (Part 2)

About this Meeting

Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975, with more than 650M obese people across the globe. As a result, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2-diabetes) has increased dramatically, currently being more than 95% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes. As obesity and T2-diabetes are considerably attributed to reversible behaviours, there is a big opportunity to remotely prevent and manage these diseases and also enable regular, ongoing monitoring. Actually, T2-diabetes and obesity are two of the cardiometabolic diseases where digital health has the highest penetration and has shown more clinical and economic evidence so far.  

 In this series of 2 meetings we will discuss with other senior leaders the following topics: 

 Session 1 (February 10th): 
  • Current Virtual Care solutions for T2-Diabetes & Obesity: pain points along the patient journey that are being addressed by existing virtual care programs (prevention, remote blood glucose monitoring & insulin dosing, disease management tools, education, etc)? 
  •  Unmet needs/gaps: what is lacking in the current landscape of solutions?  

 Session 2 (March 3rd): 
  • Best routes to market for virtual care companies in obesity and T2-Diabetes? 
  •  Adoption and last-mile delivery challenges: industry perception and reception of these products and last-mile distribution challenges.