Digital Ten: Digital health news you need to know (21 February 2020)

FirstWord MedTech's Digital Ten is a fortnightly round-up of the 10 most read and noteworthy headlines related to digital health, including industry deals, alliances, collaborations, innovations and R&D news. Insulet, the company behind the Omnipod tubeless wearable insulin delivery system, is partnering with Abbott to integrate the latter's Freestyle Libre continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensor with its new-generation Omnipod Horizon automated insulin delivery (AID) system onto a digital platform. The companies will make their respective technologies compatible so they can be paired and share CGM and insulin dosing data on a digital platform. Abbott has similar partnerships with Novo Nordisk and Sanofi, in which the CGM tech will be developed to share data with the drug companies' connected insulin pens. Abbott also counts Bigfoot Biomedical and Tandem Diabetes Care among its insulin delivery partners.