SweetSpot announces initiative to monitor blood glucose levels in veterans with diabetes

SweetSpot Diabetes Care, Inc. today announced an initiative to remotely monitor blood glucose levels in veterans with diabetes, which will be funded by an award from The U.S. Department of Veteran Affair's industry innovation competition known as VAi2. Aimed at improving care and reducing complications in patients with diabetes, the SweetSpot initiative will begin with a trial in Dayton, OH.

With SweetSpot, veterans with diabetes can stay at home and send data from their blood glucose testing devices to VistA - the VA's electronic medical record system. Health care providers can monitor this data and will be alerted when readings indicate a patient may be headed for complications that arise when glucose levels are poorly controlled.  SweetSpot's presentation of a patient's blood glucose data can also help a patient get care in a local setting with support from a specialist – lowering the cost of care while preserving the quality and improving convenience for the veteran.

"Our mission is to improve the lives of patients with diabetes and we are especially eager to do so for veterans," said Christopher Logan, chief executive officer of SweetSpot, "The VA is a leader in using information technology to improve health care while looking for efficiencies. We are excited to be working with them and look forward to serving the nearly one million veterans with diabetes."

"Cloud Computing holds tremendous promise for a huge, distributed medical system like the VA," said Adam Greene, SweetSpot Founder and Chief Technology Officer, "We look forward to being one of the first cloud technologies to be certified to operate by the VA."