The Challenge Voice
Welcome to the official blog of the Alexa Diabetes Challenge. Read the latest news and announcements and go behind-the-scenes with the Challenge team.
August 25, 2017

5 Teams Changing Diabetes Management: Meet T2D2

This is the fifth post in our Q&A series

A Q&A with Elliot Mitchell, Biomedical Informatics PhD Student at Columbia University. His team developed T2D2: Taming type 2 diabetes, together, a virtual nutrition assistant that uses machine learning to provide in-the-moment personalized education and recommendations as well as meal planning, and food and glucose logging.
August 23, 2017

5 Teams Changing Diabetes Management: Meet Sugarpod

This is the fourth post in our Q&A series

A Q&A with Anne Weiler and Mike Van Snellenberg, co-founders of Wellpepper. Their team developed Sugarpod, a multimodal diabetes care plan solution that provides tailored tasks based on patient preferences, delivered via voice, mobile, video, web interactions; includes a smart foot scanner that detects and alerts patients about potential foot problems.  
August 21, 2017

5 Teams Changing Diabetes Management: Meet PIA

This is the third post in our Q&A series

A Q&A with Rachna Dhamija, Founder and CEO of Ejenta. Her team developed PIA: Personal intelligent agents for type 2 diabetes, a connected care intelligent agent that uses NASA-licensed AI technology integrated with IoT device data to encourage healthy habits, detect at-risk behaviors and abnormalities, and alert care teams.
August 17, 2017

5 Teams Changing Diabetes Management: Meet My GluCoach

This is the second post in our Q&A series

A Q&A with Aashima Pathak, Regional Director at HCL America, Inc. Her team developed My GluCoach, a holistic management solution that blends the roles of voice-based diabetes teacher, lifestyle coach, and personal assistant to serve the individual and specific needs of the patient.