PHRQL’s Connect & Coach Wins 2013 Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge

After an exciting Demo Day yesterday in Washington, DC, PHRQL announced that its Connect & Coach™ was chosen as the winning concept of the Sanofi US 2013 Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge – Prove It!.

Connect & Coach is the first hybrid clinical and consumer application for Registered Dietitians and Certified Diabetes Educators to help educate the diabetes community. This morning, Sanofi US awarded PHRQL $100,000 to further develop its novel solution.

This year’s challenge asked innovators to think creatively about how best to harness data to address diabetes in the US. The CDC estimates that by the year 2050, one in three Americans will have diabetes, and an epidemic this massive in scale calls for unprecedented levels of rapid innovation.

According to the Challenge, Connect & Coach has shown tremendous potential to impact diabetes care by shifting nutrition counseling to the communities where it is needed most. The Challenge was impressed by the team’s mission to not just create an app, but an ecosystem for improving health outcomes through its platform at both the clinical and consumer level.

This year’s winner announcement marks another milestone for Sanofi US in supporting entrepreneurship to foster innovations in diabetes. Past winners of Data Design Diabetes, Ginger.io and n4a Diabetes Care Center, have achieved enduring growth and success following their participation in the Challenge.

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