POPS! Diabetes Care is an Oak Park Heights company that offers a glucose sensor that integrates with your smartphone.
In Minneapolis, Perk Health offers Coach Chris, a virtual personal trainer with artificial intelligence that is customized to your personality.
Another Minneapolis company, Learn to Live, offers online cognitive behavioral therapy that lets people with mild to moderate mental health problems access help without worrying about being stigmatized.
"Digital health is part of everything now," explained Shaye Mandle, chief executive of Medical Alley, the state's med tech trade group, which now includes 47 small digital health businesses among its hundreds of members.
Minnesota's burgeoning digital health sector encompasses the state's largest and smallest companies.
Medtronic, the world's largest medical device maker, just announced a plan to distribute data from Garmin's vivofit personal activity tracker through its care management system.
Reemo Health, a 10-person software start-up in Minneapolis, analyzes senior citizens' movements gathered by a special wrist watch. Factoring in personal health histories, Reemo "differentiates between healthy and risky activity" and transfers the information to seniors, their family members and caregivers. The company's proprietary analytics should let more older Americans live safely at home for as long as possible, said company co-founder Al Baker.
Still, wristband technology is not the be-all of digital health. Mandle named four buckets into which digital health companies usually fit: