Lark Health, Smart Meter Collaborate on Digital Diabetes Management Program

Lark Health and Smart Meter are joining forces to improve the care and management of patients with type 2 diabetes across health systems. Lark’s clinically proven diabetes management program, Diabetes Care, combined with the proprietary cellular-enabled iGlucose glucose meter from Smart Meter, will improve health systems’ ability to manage patients with type 2 diabetes, company bigwigs said.
 
Lark’s Diabetes Care program delivers real-time value and helps close gaps in care for persons with diabetes. The artificial intelligence (AI) care coaching program empowers patients and provides 24/7 unlimited text-message care coaching. Lark’s Diabetes Care program tracks medical appointments, A1c tests, kidney disease screenings, eye exams, flu shots, blood pressure tests, and cholesterol tests to close gaps in care and improve patients’ health through care coordination, education, and engagement. In addition, Lark’s digital coaching also tracks medication adherence for patients, helping address barriers when medication adherence is reported at less than 100%.
 
Lark’s platform monitors glucose, activity, mood, nutrition, and sleep data, illuminating trends of physical and mental health and activity over time, and leverages those insights to provide real-time, text message-like coaching for the patient. Clinically defined crises, such as severe glucose spikes or barriers to medication adherence, can trigger Lark to connect members to a telephonic or virtual resource and to share relevant information, such as glucose levels and medication adherence patterns.
 
“While we know regularly tracking blood sugar levels is a critical component of managing type 2 diabetes, that data is often siloed and left out of the physician’s purview,” Lark Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Lynne Nowak said. “The combination of Lark’s engaging AI care coach with the accuracy and RPM technology of Smart Meter’s iGlucose monitor will increase adherence, improve glucose control, and support health systems in delivering efficient, cost-effective care to more patients. Our work with Smart Meter extends our mission of optimizing digital care to support those living with chronic diseases and emphasizes the power digital care technology can have on improving patients’ lives. We are also excited to help providers enter into more risk-based payment arrangements with confidence knowing their patients with diabetes are getting additional coaching support and achieving their clinical quality goals.”
 
Smart Meter’s iGlucose glucose meter helps patients quickly and easily test their blood sugar levels. It automatically sends glucose readings to the patient’s physician. The iGlucose meter provides accurate blood sugar measurements. It is the optimal solution for patients where continuous glucose monitoring is not an option due to CGM’s high cost and complexity. With iGlucose, the patient’s glucose data is reliably delivered to Lark and physicians from Smart Meter via the first and only private data network for remote patient monitoring.
 
“We are thrilled to be collaborating with Lark to deliver reliable glucose readings from our patient devices to Lark’s coaching solution,” Smart Meter CEO Casey Pittock stated. “Health systems will benefit from using this combination of technologies better to manage the care and treatment of patients with Diabetes.”
 
Lark Health is a digital health technology company that delivers scalable, accessible digital chronic condition prevention and management coaching. To-date, Lark has provided 2 million people with real-time, 24/7 personalized care coaching delivered through a text message-like interface. Lark’s scalable platform seamlessly integrates with health plans’ and employers’ existing healthcare infrastructure to support their chronic care prevention and management programs. Lark currently works with many of the largest health plans across five programs: Prevention, Heart Health, Diabetes Prevention, Diabetes Management, and Hypertension Management. Lark’s Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), the fastest-growing and lowest-cost DPP, has received Full Recognition from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 
 
Smart Meter supplies remote patient monitoring solutions. Millions of vital health data readings are reliably delivered across its platform enabling SmartPartners to provide real-time, better-informed health care. The firm’s proprietary, patient-friendly, cellular, U.S. Food and Drug Administration-registered monitoring devices are connected to an exclusive AT&T 4/5G IPSec private network to ensure an engaging patient experience for improved adherence.