Last week, Omada Health, a San Francisco digital health startup, announced that it is partnering with the American Medical Association and Intermountain Healthcare, the Salt Lake City, Utah-based health system, to prevent the onset of diabetes in adult patients.
It marks the first time that the American Medical Association has announced a formal partnership with a digital health company, a development that was news in itself.
But it’s also important to review why Intermountain Healthcare, the largest private employer in the state of Utah, chose to go the digital route in preventing its prediabetes patients from developing full-blown type 2 diabetes. [Rest of story]