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Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are making a significant impact on Type 2 diabetes management in British Columbia. Explore the benefits, challenges, and coverage options in our latest article.

Key Highlights

✅ CGMs track glucose in real time - no finger pricks needed.

✅ Shown to improve HbA1c, time in range, and quality of life.

✅ BC PharmaCare covers CGMs only for insulin users.

✅ Non-insulin users rely on private insurance or self-pay.

China has officially launched the world’s first AI hospital, developed at Tsinghua University. Known as Agent Hospital, it started with 14 AI doctors and now includes over 40 across 21 specialties, trained on hundreds of conditions and half a million synthetic cases. These AI doctors can handle 10,000 patients with 93% accuracy in days.

https://med-tech.world/news/chinas-ai-hospital-transforming-healthcare/

This isn’t just theory, AI is already being piloted at Beijing Tsinghua Chang Gung Hospital, supporting diagnostics, workflows, and even patient experience design. On the other side, DeepSeek AI, an open-source medical LLM, is now deployed in over 260 hospitals across China, helping with pathology, triage, and clinical decision support.

The bigger picture? China is pouring $1.4 trillion into AI by 2030 and positioning healthcare as a key priority.

But the rise of “AI doctors” raises tough questions:

Imagine a world where detecting type 2 diabetes (T2D) and its complications becomes faster, more accurate, and more equitable, powered by intelligent systems that support healthcare teams rather than replace them. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, these innovations may soon become a reality.

We wrote about this in our latest blog post - read more here (7 min) or listen to the podcast (5:34 min).

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Explore how AI tools like Microsoft’s Diagnostic Orchestrator are transforming type 2 diabetes care with earlier detection, improved equity, and cost savings.

🎧 Prefer to listen? Tune into the podcast version of this blog postMonica AI

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Disability now impacts 1.3 billion people worldwide, about 16% of the global population, including 100 million in the EU and 16 million in the UK. As populations age, these numbers are expected to rise even further. According to a recent report from the UK's Royal Society, technology must evolve to better meet the needs of disabled people.

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The Disability Technology report explores the potential for data-driven digital technologies to reduce barriers that disabled people encounter in their everyday lives.

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• Cronometer is more than a calorie counter. Cronometer is a powerful health and fitness app that makes it easy to track your diet and exercise habits.

• Chronometer is a Canadian Company located in Revelstoke, BC.

Cronometer:

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Eat smarter and live better. Cronometer is your personalized nutrition app to track macronutrients and micronutrients and count calories.

• It is an app to track your food intake, carbs, fibre, fat, vitamins, essential nutrients, etc. It has a database with over two million foods from around the world . You can even input your custom macros and track your macros and nutrients on the free plan. When a user adds items not currently in their database, Cronometeter has a very comprehensive process to confirm that the user information submitted is fact accurate . Cronometer requires the front and back of food labels including the nutritional information.