Health Tech With a Human Touch
David Weingard on the value of personalized diabetes care
“I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 36,” said David Weingard, founder and CEO of Fit4D, a StartUp Health company. “I was fortunate to meet a great diabetes educator, a clinician who, through human touch, taught me how to manage my diabetes, and gave me the support I needed.”
Weingard was speaking with Unity Stoakes, president of StartUp Health, at the StartUp Health Village in New York City. He discussed his own experience with one-on-one diabetes coaching, and described how it led him to found Fit4D.
“The human touch is really what helps people self-manage,” said Weingard, “but it’s the technology that enables it to scale.”
At StartUp Health, we’re working with a range of extraordinary entrepreneurs like David Weingard who are transforming diabetes care for people around the world. Known as Health Transformers, these extraordinary entrepreneurs are building companies like Fit4D, Edamam, and Kingfit to empower people to adopt a healthier lifestyle. In our Moonshot Academy, we’re giving these Health Transformers the coaching and support they need to achieve our Nutrition and Fitness Moonshot.
“People have to be educated,” said Weingard. “They have to want to eat right, take their medications, exercise, and learn to self manage.”
In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Weingard discusses the importance of a more personalized approach to diabetes management — what he refers to as “the human touch.”
“You can take care of yourself,” Weingard said. “You can live a rich life with diabetes. You just have to know how.”
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