ADA Exec Chat: Hiten Chawla, Medtronic's VP Of Global Marketing Discusses Diabetes Business Plans

At this year's American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting in San Francisco, medtech giant Medtronic made several key announcements including a collaboration with Tidepool Loop, the start of a new patient trial to develop its next-generation hybrid closed-loop system and another trial to improve its sensor technology. Medtech Insight met up with Hiten Chawla, Medtronic's VP of global marketing for its diabetes business, to learn more about these plans.

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At this year's American Diabetes Association (ADA) conference in San Francisco, interoperability of diabetes management devices dominated much of the conversation and Medtronic PLC's unexpected partnership announcement with Tidepool Loop, an open-source iPhone and Apple Watch app, speaks to that trend.

Hiten Chawla, Medtronic's VP of global marketing for its diabetes business, gave Medtech Insight an overview of the MiniMed 670G, the first and only US Food and Drug Administration-approved hybrid...

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