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DarioHealth Corp.CIK 0001533998 · Surgical & Medical Instruments
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About DarioHealth Corp.
Source: Item 1 (Business) from the 10-K filed March 19, 2026. Description as filed by the company with the SEC.
Item 1. Business Overview
We are a vertically integrated health intelligence platform with a mission to power the behavior changes that drive better health. Unlike software-only digital health platforms, Dario owns the complete chain of value in chronic care management - connected FDA-cleared hardware devices that generate continuous physiological data, AI built on that proprietary data, and a behavior change and coaching layer validated through over 100 peer-reviewed clinical studies. We are committed to transforming healthcare by delivering a comprehensive and highly engaging whole-person health platform, which enables us to create a future where healthy change is effortless and accessible to all.
At the core of our mission and vision is engagement. We believe that most existing digital health solutions in the market fail to deliver improved health outcomes because users are not engaged due to a lack relevance, personalization, consumerization, and longitudinal data and information. We, and our acquired companies, first commercialized our digital behavioral health products in the direct-to-consumer (“D2C”) marketplace, and we continue to use the D2C marketplace as a sandbox and laboratory to innovation. These consumers pay for these digital health products out of their own pockets and are therefore the most value driven among all healthcare consumers. These consumers demanded that we deliver highly engaging user experiences that deliver strong clinical health outcomes for which consumers will pay. The bottom line is that if users are not engaged in digital solutions over a long period of time, they cannot change their behavior and they cannot get healthier – we first deliver engagement followed by sustained behavior change that then leads to measurable health outcomes and improvement. We believe that our D2C marketplace roots and continued focus delivers better user experiences, longer sustained engagement, stronger clinical outcomes, at the most affordable prices, that then delivers the highest return on investment (“ROI”) in the industry.
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Our whole-person health model includes the following five elements:
1. Physical Health: Focuses on the prevention and treatment of physical ailments; primarily cardiometabolic and musculoskeletal conditions.
2. Mental Health: Addresses emotional and psychological well-being, including stress management, as well as clinical anxiety and depression across all levels of severity.
3. Social and Environmental Factors: Considers influences like socioeconomic status, community resources, housing, and education.
4. Individualized Care: Tailored user journey and care plans that respect personal goals, cultural values, and life circumstances.
5. Integration of Clinical Services: Combines different healthcare providers and systems to deliver seamless care for both physical and mental health needs.
We have created our whole-person healthcare solution through both organic development and acquisitions of leading companies across several therapeutic areas. As a digital health consolidation leader, we have acquired companies that have spent over a decade and nearly $525 million, in combination with our own investment, to develop and deliver the most engaging whole-person health platform in the market to empower individuals to achieve their optimal health through data-driven, precision AI personalized care solutions that integrate the management of physical and mental health needs.
Leveraging advanced analytics, data-driven AI precision and personalization, a deep understanding of consumer behavior, user-centric technology, and a holistic approach, we provide tailored interventions that meet the unique needs of each user to deliver the health industry’s highest levels of user activation and sustained engagement. Our digital self-care solutions ensure optimal levels of clinical outcomes with the highest levels of clinical efficacy by empowering users to overcome the psychological, social, and physical barriers to effective and sustainable behavior change.
With our whole-person digital health platform, we address a broad range of health needs, including chronic condition management (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and musculoskeletal issues), behavioral health (e.g., stress, anxiety, and depression), and preventive care. By integrating digital therapeutics and well-being solutions with real-time data monitoring and access to professional care teams, we ensure an AI driven adaptive and continuous care experience that combines digital self-care, with virtual coaching, and virtual clinical care. As of 2025, our eligible user base spans millions of individuals worldwide, supported by partnerships with employers, health plans, pharmaceutical companies, and providers aiming to deliver instant access to the highest quality and most effective self-care and virtual human care that delivers the optimal level of clinical utilization to ensure the best value and outcomes to our users and customers.
Who We Serve
We serve four primary market segments that drive our business model. Our historic roots, as well as those of our largest acquisition, Twill, Inc. (“Twill”), began in the D2C market, which has forced us to create what we consider the industry’s most engaging and effective self-care whole-person digital health solutions; and we continue to operate in the D2C market in the U.S. and select international markets by providing our chronic condition management and patient engagement solutions across many different health conditions. In addition, we use the D2C market as an innovation laboratory to develop and test new features and benefits to ensure that these innovations meet our high engagement and outcomes standards before deploying them in the business-to-business (“B2B”) market. From our D2C origins, Dario and Twill expanded into similar B2B market segments over the past eight years such that these market segments now represent three-fourths of our current revenues. These B2B market segments include medium-to-large employers, national and regional health plans, and global pharmaceutical companies.
Our medium-to-large employer market segment is focused on employers with over 1,000 employees and currently includes three of the five largest global technology companies and one of the two largest employers in the United States. In total, we had 167 employer customers in 2025, up from 53 in 2024. We seek to provide solutions to their employees that address the primary areas of health condition focus on by employers for meaningful costs savings that can deliver high and sustainable returns on investment, which can exceed 5:1. In this market segment, we go to market through a direct sales force, consultants, brokers, and channel partners that sell our solutions to their health plan and employer customers.
During 2025, we experienced significant growth in our employer segment. Year-to-date, we added 85 new accounts, surpassing our internal annual goal of 40 new accounts for 2025. In the third quarter of 2025, we announced the addition of ten new self-insured employer contracts, including the largest employer client in our history, collectively representing approximately 107,000 covered lives. All five programs launched during the second and third quarters of 2025 and include our full cardiometabolic suite for diabetes, hypertension, and prediabetes management. In October 2025, we further expanded our employer footprint with the addition of six new employer clients across multiple industries, representing
tens of thousands of newly covered employees. Several of these agreements incorporate milestone-based and value-based pricing frameworks that tie payments to member engagement and clinical outcomes, supporting our continued expansion of value-based digital health offerings.
Our health plan customers include five of the nation’s largest organizations where we provide our solutions to their members both nationally and regionally. We have particularly specialized in providing its behavioral health offering to Medicare and Medicaid members, where we have established itself as the most engaging and effective solutions among these demographics. We are now leveraging this Medicare and Medicaid behavioral health specialty to expand access to its other chronic condition solutions to these populations. We go to market primarily through our own sales force and partners with large national health plans and other channel partners.
In 2018, Twill began to expand its offering to pharmaceutical companies, and in 2022 we entered into our first pharmaceutical company partnership. We now deliver these combined capabilities on our engagement platform to the pharmaceutical industry to provide three value propositions: 1) Top of the Funnel education and awareness to help companies find new patients for their treatments, 2) Mental and physical health support to improve medication adherence, persistence, and compliance, 3) Patient journey data analytics to better understand and target patients to get the right therapy to the right patient at the right time. We have provided our engagement platform services to a dozen global pharmaceutical companies across nearly as many medical conditions. We have a dedicated team with many years of experience selling into the pharmaceutical industry.
How We Generate Revenue
An increasing majority of our customers are focused on value-based health outcomes and are working with us to align outcomes-based contracts with innovative revenue models. We differentiate ourselves by our willingness to enter into risk-based agreements with performance guarantees that align financial incentives across employers, health plans, employees, and plan members.
Our multi-condition digital health platform enables customers to address multiple conditions through a single integrated platform, reducing duplicative spending and lowering in-year investment with less out-of-pocket cost per member. By managing co-morbid conditions within one platform, customers benefit from improved clinical outcomes, increased engagement, and incremental medical cost savings. This integrated approach drives a higher return on investment by delivering measurable health improvements across multiple conditions while reducing both in-year program spend and overall medical costs.
As a result, we deliver more value per dollar spent, with lower actual in-year investment and greater return through clinical improvements and medical cost savings across a broad set of conditions.
Across all market segments, we operate a digital health engagement platform subscription model priced on either a per member per month (“PMPM”) basis or a per engaged member per month (“PEMPM”) basis, and in some cases, customers may utilize both pricing options. These arrangements may also include milestone-based payments and performance guarantees. Our subscription model applies consistently across our products and therapeutic areas.
We have the following product offerings with the engagement platform subscription revenue models:
Dario Connect (Well-being) – Our free D2C user engagement offering activates users, educates them, and encourages them to take the next best action on their patient journey. It is a digital front door to all other Dario products, as well as to our customer’s other digital offerings. For pharmaceutical companies, Dario Connect is used to create engaged communities around specific health conditions to increase awareness and education so that they will seek access to the most effective medication prescriptions. Previous claims-based analysis of script conversion completed by third parties demonstrated a 10:1 ROI for pharmaceutical companies who subscribed to this service. For pharmaceutical companies, their subscription fees are a function of the therapeutic area, the complexity of the patient journey, number of patients targeted, and platform configuration required to meet the needs of these patients. Among employers, this offering is used to increase access to our product benefits among non-employee dependents, and the payment for this service is included in the subscription for the primary product purchased for the various conditions addressed. For health plans, it provides support to patients across a broad array of medical conditions.
Dario Mind (Mental Health) – Our behavioral health offering decreases the symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression by 25-30% in 8 weeks or less when used as directed. Many users will continue to use the product for many months and even years, with sustained engagement rates of close to 60% at 2 months, 40% at 12 months, and 30% at three years. Most of our customers see mental health condition prevalence among their employees at 20%. This is a digital first offering for empowered digital self-care that is then augmented with virtual coaching, and/or virtual clinical care from therapists and/or prescribers to address the needs of users across all levels of clinical severity. Customers can pay for digital self-care and virtual coaching on either a PMPM or PEMPM basis. When adding clinical care services, these can be paid for on a fee-for-service (“FFS”) basis, PMPM, or PEMPM basis, and is only offered through our B2B sales channel. We find prevalence of mental health conditions to be around 20% among employer and health plan populations, and more than 50% among some pharmaceutical company therapeutic areas of focus.
Dario Health (Diabetes) – Combining our proprietary blood glucose meter as well as our Dario Health digital self-care application and virtual coaching, together with unlimited testing supplies, including strips and lancets, to eligible members. Dario Health for diabetes delivers the highest level of A1c reduction among the leading digital health companies focused on diabetes, of between 1.4 and 2.3 points, depending on the patients’ initial baseline. This is offered through both our D2C and B2B sales channels. In the B2B sales channel, we see prevalence of this condition between 8-10% for most employers and health plans. Studies completed with a top 20 pharmaceutical company using claims data suggested total medical cost savings for patients using this solution reaching $5,000 per year. This is offered through both our D2C and B2B sales channels.
Dario Health (Hypertension) – We include our Digital Health self-care application, virtual coaching and our Dario branded blood pressure monitor and cuff, which is offered as a blood pressure monitoring system. Clinical research has demonstrated that more than two-thirds of users with Hypertension stage 1 levels experience a 13mmHg reduction in systolic blood pressure when used as directed. As hypertension is one of the most prevalent conditions among adults in the United States, we find that among health plans and employers this solution is useful to 35% or more of their employees and members. This is offered through both our D2C and B2B sales channels.
Dario Health (Weight management and GLP-1) – 42.4% of the U.S. population is overweight with about 30.7% being obese, meaning they have a body-mass index (“BMI”) of 30 or greater, creating the greatest level of prevalence among all of our product offerings. We believe that we have demonstrated that our digital self-care solution, with our Dario Health app and virtual coaching, delivers the industry’s highest level of digital self-care weight loss, at 10%, over 12 months. By educating users and helping them build healthier lifestyle habits such as changing their diet, exercise, and improving sleep behaviors, the solution is designed to help users lose weight and maintain that weight loss over time. Growing usage of GLP-1 medication has also increased interest in this solution. We are seeing that the costs associated with GLP-1 medication wastage becoming a significant area of focus for employers who are now also leveraging our Dario weight management solution as both a required lifestyle behavior change partner and, in certain programs, as a requirement for access to GLP-1 prescriptions. We have modified our core weight management offering to complement GLP-1 onboarding and offboarding, as well as GLP-1 prescription services, creating an integrated experience for members using GLP-1 medications. We offer standard weight management and GLP-1 solutions through our B2B sales channel.
Dario Move (musculoskeletal, or “MSK”) – Pain is one of the primary reasons for employees missing work and it is one of the key drivers of healthcare costs. Dario Move focuses on improving posture to help alleviate pain with its proprietary medical device used with its Dario Move application and virtual coaching. We find that prevalence among employers is nearly 25%. This solution is only sold on a B2B and D2C basis, and is generally combined with our other offerings, and can be paid for on either a PMPM or PEMPM basis.
Bundled Full-suite or Partial-suite – In response to market demand, we have evolved our commercial model to reduce contracting friction and administrative complexity associated with managing multiple point solutions. Employers and health plans are increasingly seeking to simplify vendor contracting, implementation, data integration, audits, and quarterly business reviews, while prioritizing vendors that have demonstrated the ability to reduce total cost of care while delivering sustainable health improvements and a positive member experience.
To address these needs, we offer bundled subscriptions across our full-suite or partial-suite of solutions, enabling customers to consolidate multiple condition programs under a single contract and simplified pricing structure. Pricing for
bundled offerings is typically on a PEMPM basis, which is increasingly preferred by customers as it places Dario at risk to drive meaningful member engagement and deliver desired clinical and economic outcomes. From a member perspective, bundled offerings also simplify the experience by providing access to multiple programs through a single application, eliminating the need to enroll in and managing multiple separate programs. Bundled subscriptions may also include additional Dario or partner clinical network services offered either on an FFS basis or incorporated into the subscription pricing.
While bundled offerings provide pricing and scale efficiencies, our individual condition solutions remain available for customers who prefer single-condition purchases. As one of the few whole-person digital health platforms offering an integrated suite of cardiometabolic, behavioral health, and musculoskeletal solutions, we believe our ability to bundle services while preserving customer flexibility provides a competitive advantage.
Why We Have Confidence in Our Digital Offerings
We have developed a comprehensive body of research, encompassing over 100 studies, that have demonstrated the transformative potential of our digital health solutions in advancing clinical care. Our research program is conducted under physician-led clinical governance, overseen by the Company’s Chief Medical Officer, to ensure rigor and consistency. We believe that these findings emphasize the platform’s ability to deliver long-term sustainable outcomes, including durable results over four years, while showcasing scalability with outcomes for more than 1.2 million members. Critically, the data underlying these studies comes from objective, continuous physiological measurements generated by Dario’s own connected devices - not self-reported inputs or app engagement proxies. This distinction is fundamental: Dario’s AI and clinical evidence base is trained on real-world clinical data that competitors without a decade of hardware deployment and clinical study cannot replicate.
Since our inception, we have established ourselves as a pioneer in the digital health sector, being the first to analyze multi-condition impacts by exploring relationships such as blood glucose and blood pressure, as well as blood glucose and weight monitoring. This work spans diverse clinical domains, including diabetes, hypertension, weight loss, pain, depression, and anxiety. Among diabetes users, significant improvements were recorded, i.e. those with a baseline HbA1c greater than 9, with a 2.3-point reduction in HbA1c compared to a 1.8-point reduction among non-Dario users.
Additionally, our members achieved substantial cost savings of $5,077 per person annually, driven by reductions in all-cause healthcare resource utilization and office visit costs.
These outcomes are underpinned by the demonstrated effectiveness of behavioral engagement, which serves as a critical driver of improved clinical results. Collectively, these achievements position us as a leader in digital health, delivering enhanced care and meaningful economic value.
The Company’s clinical research strategy, evidence standards, and outcomes reporting are directed by our Chief Medical Officer. The following provides a summary of many of our clinical research findings that support our claims to improving user clinical, health, and economic outcomes.
● 28% reduction in depression and anxiety symptoms.
● 2.0 reduction in A1c.
● 10% reduction in weight.
● 10% reduction in blood pressure.
● 10% improvement in medication adherence.
● 50% reduction in pain.
● $2,323 annual medical cost savings from behavioral interventions.
● $5,077 annual medical cost savings from cardiometabolic interventions.
Competitive Strengths
Our competitive advantage stems from our origins as a D2C company, which requires us to build highly engaging self-care digital behavioral programs and integrated medical devices from the outset. Over more than a decade and more than
$500 million invested in technology, we have completed over 100 clinical, real-world evidence studies (“RWE”), and outcomes studies across our whole-person health offerings, demonstrating first-in-class clinical and health outcomes driven by sustained user engagement and clinically validated behavior change.
From an initial focus on diabetes, we have expanded to include hypertension, obesity and weight management, musculoskeletal pain, stress, anxiety, and depression, all delivered through a single digital health platform that can be bundled or sold individually. By collecting billions of data points across these conditions over more than ten years, we have developed and commercialized AI-driven personalization that amplifies our clinical and economic performance. Claims-based analyses of our users demonstrate that we deliver among the highest ROI for customers, including employers, health plans, and pharmaceutical companies.
D2C Roots Ensured Highest Levels of Engagement
Unlike most of our competitors, we have always operated in the D2C market, and we continue to operate in both the D2C market as well as the B2B market, where the former drives rapid innovation cycles that require accelerated deployment of new features that can then be provided to our B2B customers. This ensures that our whole-person health platform continues to be highly intuitive and engaging so that it drives high user satisfaction and sustained engagement, ensuring better adherence to care plans that deliver the highest levels of quality outcomes and the industry’s leading ROI. Across all our offerings, we have had over 5 million users with billions of datapoints that have enabled the company to A/B test thousands of product features and functions and measure which deliver the highest levels of engagement.
Clinical Validation of The Highest Levels of Health Outcomes
Over more than a decade, we have completed over 100 studies, including randomized controlled trials (“RCTs”), RWEs, observational studies, interventional studies, and insurance-claims-based analysis. These have demonstrated our ability to generate best-in-class clinical and economic outcomes. Such studies provide the supporting evidence and confidence for us to provide at-risk offerings, performance guarantees, and value-based care.
Integrated Whole-Person Digital Health Platform
During the past five years, employers, health plans, healthcare providers, and pharmaceutical companies have expressed “point solution fatigue,” and have begun to prune the number of point solutions vendors and instead consolidate their digital health offering with vendors that provide a whole-person portfolio that covers all the major health conditions that drive their healthcare spending. Our whole-person digital health platform addresses these primary therapeutic areas of focus among employers, health plans, health systems, and pharmaceutical companies. These include all areas of cardiometabolic health (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, overweight/obesity), behavioral health (e.g., stress, anxiety, and depression), and musculoskeletal pain. In addition, we are partnering with clinical healthcare providers to add virtual clinical care to our digital health offerings and virtual coaching. By integrating all these onto our whole-person digital health platform, we enable a hyper personalized, seamless, and individualized experience across all relevant health needs that ensure high levels of user engagement to deliver robust clinical outcomes that exceed those of nearly all competitors across all medical conditions.
AI and Data-Driven Personalization
Our proprietary AI is not a product feature - it is the engine of our platform, trained on 13 billion proprietary data points generated by our own connected hardware devices over more than a decade. Unlike AI built on publicly available or self-reported data, our models are grounded in longitudinal, condition-specific, clinical-grade data that grows more defensible with every new member enrolled and every new device deployed. These algorithms were developed initially based upon our D2C experience with millions of users who pay out-of-pocket for our digital self-care solutions. By leveraging billions of data points with our D2C offering, we optimize our user recruitment, activation, and engagement algorithms for first-in-class engagement. We apply our AI, developed in the D2C market, to our B2B businesses to optimize the B2B businesses to enable us to outperform competitors in each market segment in engaging users and delivering valuable outcomes.
The Industries Highest ROIs
We have done claims-based analysis of our various offerings with our customers to measure the clinical and economic outcomes that results from using our whole-person digital health offerings. These studies support our claims for providing the digital health industry’s strongest ROIs by decreasing medical costs, increasing medication adherence, and activating and engagement users in the healthcare system more effectively than alternatives. In addition, our offerings deliver impressive improvements in worker productivity by decreasing absenteeism, presenteeism, and healthy engagement in work. The key to these costs savings is that we collaborate with employers, payers, pharmaceutical companies, and providers to deliver comprehensive care solutions and improve accessibility. Across all these market segments, we power behavior change by providing digital first self-care, complemented with virtual coaching care, and then the optimal level of clinical care delivered through our clinical provider partners to accelerate access to care and improved whole-person health outcomes, at the lowest possible cost.
Our Growth Strategies
We have four core growth strategies that leverage all aspects of our whole-person digital health platform. After the acquisition of Twill in 2024 and integrating its commercial offerings and technological platform with ours, we are now prepared to execute our growth strategies to both drive top line growth and to do so with greater operating efficiency that we believe will enable profitable growth.
Dario Health Comprehensive Cardiometabolic Health
Our core offering is our Dario Health cardiometabolic suite that provides FDA cleared devices and a digital behavioral health experience that enables users to decrease the symptoms of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. Our primary market for this offering is medium-to-large sized employers that are seeking to control their chronic disease healthcare spending. We also work with large regional health plans to provide this offering to their members and self-insured employer customers. We provide virtual coaching to all of these users and provide access to virtual clinical services to these users as well. We find that among employees of most employers, the prevalence of diabetes is about 10%, while hypertension is 35%, and obesity and being overweight is between 35-75%.
Dario Connect is offered with Dario Health as a free digital experience that engages users across many different medical conditions within large health plan environments. Users of Dario Connect participate in digital communities to learn more about their health condition, treatment options, learn from healthcare experts, including clinicians, and explore ways that they can improve their overall health. Dario Connect can act as a gateway and digital front door to get access to all of our whole-person digital offerings, as well as to get access to our customer products and services. Users can also get access to our virtual clinic partners and services through Dario Connect. Dario Connect is also the product that we configure for pharmaceutical companies to provide Top of Funnel awareness campaigns to help them find new patients.
Dario Mind Comprehensive Behavior Health
We have expanded our Dario Mind offering to include not only the industry leading self-care digital mental health application to decrease the symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression, but also to provide access to virtual coaching, and virtual clinical services including virtual therapy and virtual clinical consultations, prescribing, and medication management. These clinical programs and outcome strategies are developed and overseen under the leadership of our Chief Medical Officer. We are the only provider in the market with a comprehensive whole-person digital health offering supported by RCTs that demonstrate the clinical efficacy of its digital cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness interventions. This offering has been deployed globally in 10 different languages among some of the world’s largest employers and health plans. We find that among most of our employer clients, over 20% will have a meaningful mental health challenge that requires some level of treatment and support that Dario Mind can provide. In addition, we have several large pharmaceutical companies that provide Dario Mind to patients to address their comorbid stress, anxiety, and depression associated with their underlying medical condition. By addressing these symptoms, and providing imbedded psychoeducation about their condition, we have seen medication adherence rates increase by 10-20% over 6–12-month periods.
Bundled Full Suite Offering for Body and Mind
We offer the most comprehensive whole-person digital health offering in the market and can offer it as a bundled full-suite offering to employers and health plans where these customers can pay for the full bundle under any one of several revenue models such as PMPM, PEMPM, and milestone value-based. All clinical programs within this bundled offering operate under our medical governance and clinical oversight. This full suite bundle includes Dario Mind, Dario Health, and Dario Move. When pricing a bundle, we consider condition prevalence and the size of the eligible population, recognizing that the average member uses approximately 2.4 Dario programs at a time. As a result, we effectively charge for a single program while delivering more than twice the program value, with corresponding clinical improvements and downstream medical cost savings that directly delivers in-year return on Dario investment for the customer.
GLP-1 Opportunities with Employers and Pharmaceutical Companies
According to the Center for Disease Control, 41.9% of Americans meet the BMI level of 30 for an obesity diagnosis. In the past few years, pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have launched expensive, blockbuster GLP-1 drugs for patient who have been diagnosed as obese that have demonstrated the ability to decrease BMI by 10-20%. Due to the success of these drugs in decreasing BMI, there are now nearly 100 drugs in the pipeline among these two pharmaceutical companies and their competitors that address many of the side effects that these drugs have with regards to tolerability, fatigue, and muscle loss. Clinical appropriateness, tolerability, and patient safety guide our GLP-1 support strategy. GLP-1 therapies initially entered the market as self-injections, which created a barrier to use for patients who were reluctant to self-inject. However, the FDA’s December 2025 approval of Novo Nordisk’s once-daily oral Wegovy (semaglutide) has helped reduce this barrier. Research indicates that 26.2% of patients discontinue GLP-1s at 3 months, with an additional 30.8 doing so at 6 months, and 36.5% at 12 months; with only 25% remaining on the medication after two years. Once a patient discontinues use of the GLP-1, the typical patient regained two-thirds of their weight within one year. For this reason, employers are eager to have their employees engaged in an effective digital behavioral health program while they are on a GLP-1 that will increase their weight loss while on the medication and keep the weight off after discontinuation by helping the patient develop new, sustainable healthy habits and manage side effects. Along with offering behavior change support, Dario launched its first eligibility client and its adherence offering that balances cost controls with enhanced rigor around ensuring GLP-1 program participants complete behavior change activities most correlated to weight loss within its program to access initial GLP-1 prescriptions and in some cases to ensure ongoing adherence to program activities. Presently, an increasing number of our employer customers now subscribe to its GLP-1 offering, and we see this as an important growth engine in the future. We have also found interest among pharmaceutical companies in providing our GLP-1 solution to support patients on their medication in developing healthy habits to improve outcomes.
Dario Flywheel Integrates All These Growth Strategies
Our strategy is to integrate all these growth strategies into a united whole through its flywheel as diagramed below, which shows how its B2B and D2C strategies feed one another to create greater value as follows:
More B2B Clients: By getting more B2B customers it increases the number of users on the platform, which increases the data collected and used, increases the value to third-party and inhouse virtual clinical care networks, increases cross condition and cross client monetization, such as from behavior health to cardiometabolic health, which increases the average revenue per user.
More Users: User come from both our B2B and D2C market strategies, which drives our data driven innovation, and our value to virtual human care services.
More Value Per User: Data and associated AI, machine learning and analytics is what drives improved personalized user experience, which drives better outcomes, increased trust, more clients, and more users. In addition, our whole-person health model creates more value per user by providing access to different kinds of care and access to virtual clinical care.
Better Health Outcomes: As the users increase, the clients increase, the data increases with greater personalization, and expanded access to virtual human care, users achieve better health outcomes, that increase trust among both customers and users, which then increases the data, cross condition referrals.
Sales and Marketing
We employ a multi-channel sales and marketing approach designed to effectively reach diverse stakeholders.
Employer Sales
We employ a hybrid approach to the employer market due to its size and complexity. This means that it works with brokers and consultants as well as employing a direct sales force. Most medium-to-large employers go through a two-to-three-year request for proposal (“RFP”) cycle where they evaluate digital health vendors to select new ones based upon the value of their offering. Our value proposition with employers is to engage their employees at the highest levels, with effective, evidenced-based behavioral interventions that deliver meaningful clinical outcomes, and show compelling evidence of ROI at twice the industry average. We can contract directly with an employer or enable the employer to leverage their existing health plan benefits to pay for our services.
Health Plan Integration
We partner with payers to integrate our solutions into their benefit plan offerings. We can also provide our services on either a direct basis or through its claims-based billing. Health plans are a channel to employers as well as a channel to Medicare Advantage members. We have our own direct-to-health plan sales force but will also leverage consultants and brokers where appropriate. Marketing is focused on industry conferences, and highly targeted outreach.
Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing
Many pharmaceutical companies work with consultants to identify how they can leverage digital health to complement and provide companion digital health services to support patients on their medications or to find new patients for their medications. We will often work with these consultants to design solutions with its engagement platform for their pharmaceutical clients. In addition, our pharma sales team will reach out to executives at pharmaceutical companies in the targeted areas we have identified to market and sell subscriptions to its engagement platform to these companies. Its primary areas of focus are oncology, rare disease, cardiometabolic health, dermatology, and mental health.
Dario AI Creating a Hyper-personalized Digital Health Future
We are successfully integrating AI to enhance patient care, streamline operations, and drive continuous innovation on our whole-person digital health platform. Our mission has been to empower individuals with personalized, data-driven health solutions while continuously improving clinical outcomes and healthcare efficiency. AI has been instrumental in harnessing the power of data to deliver precise, proactive, and personalized care.
We employ curated generative AI models trained on our decade of user journey data on millions of users and large content library to derive proprietary insights not otherwise attainable from publicly available data to drive significant competitive advantages in engagement, clinical and financial outcomes. We apply these insights to the Dario experience to create a sustainable competitive advantage.
Data and AI as a Strategic Asset
We have built an extensive repository of health data over a cumulative 25 years. This wealth of information serves as a critical asset, fueling AI-driven insights that enhance decision-making, predict health risks, and optimize patient engagement. Our proprietary datasets span multiple health conditions, providing a unique foundation for developing advanced AI models tailored to real-world patient needs.
25 Years of Cumulative Experience, With Billions of Proprietary Data Points
Our AI capabilities are built upon a rich foundation of proprietary data and research, including:
● Large available member datasets: Billions of data points from providing its products to over 5 million users over a cumulative 25 years.
● Multi-condition focus: Addressing multiple therapeutic areas Cardiometabolic (diabetes, hypertension, weight management), Behavioral Health (stress, anxiety, depression), and musculoskeletal pain with over 75 million physical and behavioral health measurements collected through our medical devices and billions of data points through its applications.
● Uniquely matched datasets: Enriched with metadata such as biomedical and behavioral, as well as location, nutrition, and other timely and relevant health information for deeper insights.
● Extensive AI research: Over 8 years of AI advancements, including the development of large language models, conversational AI chatbot, and advanced machine learning and deep learning algorithms, delivering over 15 million behavioral health interventions and 25 million digital behavioral health virtual coaching interactions.
● Direct access to claims data: Utilized on an anonymized basis in-house to train proprietary models for optimized care delivery and outcomes.
● Open architecture: Enabling integration with client-provided care modalities, seamlessly connecting them to Dario’s digital care pathways.
Core AI
Capabilities and Applications
We deliver measurable commercial value by leveraging AI-driven personalization, human expertise, and connected devices to engage users and drive sustained behavior change across the conditions that matter most to its customers, including diabetes, hypertension, weight management, behavioral health, and musculoskeletal health.
We have developed, and made strategic technology acquisitions to enhance, a suite of AI-driven capabilities that leverage years of implementation experience and the Company’s native data assets to support personalized digital health solutions.
These capabilities are deployed across Dario’s platform and support member engagement, content delivery, clinical insights, and operational efficiency.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, we enhanced our digital health platform with DarioIQ, a proprietary AI layer that is intended to support more personalized and efficient member experiences across our solutions. DarioIQ has been initially introduced within our D2C offerings in order to evaluate safety, performance, and member response in a controlled environment before making the capability more broadly available to our B2B customers as an optional feature.
DarioIQ is designed as a clinically aligned, conversational layer that operates alongside our existing data- and experience-driven applications. The system is intended to interpret member data, surface relevant insights, and support more tailored guidance while working in coordination with our human-centered care model rather than replacing it. Over time, we expect DarioIQ to be integrated more deeply across our portfolio of chronic condition solutions as we validate additional use cases.
The DarioIQ platform incorporates multiple AI-driven components that are designed to deliver member-facing support, maintain engagement, and generate decision-support insights for our customers. These components are built on proprietary and curated healthcare-intelligent data assets and are developed within our existing privacy, security, and compliance framework, including processes intended to align with applicable healthcare data protection regulations.
Key elements of the DarioIQ architecture include:
● Advisor – a member-facing component intended to provide personalized guidance and educational support based on an individual’s profile and interactions.
● Sentinel – an engagement layer designed to identify appropriate moments for outreach and surface timely prompts to help maintain member participation.
● Strategist – an analytics and decision-support layer that aggregates member-level information to generate insights and value measures for our customers.
In addition, we have developed DarioSHIFT, an operations initiative focused on using AI agents and tools and agentic AI capabilities to improve the efficiency and scalability of our business operations. DarioSHIFT is intended to support functions such as sales development, member services, software development and responses to requests for proposals by automating routine tasks, optimizing workflows and accelerating certain development activities.
DarioSHIFT has already successfully deployed several AI tools and is currently expanding deployment of AI agents across multiple use cases, including sales development representative optimization, member services optimization, developer tools and RFP response support. Early use cases have shown a positive impact on how AI agents take on repeatable, process-driven activities so that our teams can focus on higher value and more complex work. These early-stage learnings are intended to inform how we may redesign workflows, staffing models and support technology over time. In addition, we already have several agents in regular use with demonstrative impacts, particularly within software development workflows, such as an AI-enabled scrum master agent that evaluates user stories against defined quality criteria and surfaces recommendations automatically, which we believe will contribute to increased developer velocity and more efficient use of resources over time.
To help manage the risks associated with AI deployment, we are developing DarioSHIFT under the oversight of a Center of Excellence intended to promote safe, scalable and compliant implementation of AI capabilities across the organization. This governance model is designed to align AI-related initiatives with our existing data privacy, security, clinical quality and compliance frameworks, and to provide a structure through which new use cases can be evaluated before broader adoption. As with all forward-looking initiatives, there can be no assurance that DarioSHIFT will achieve its intended benefits, and we expect to continue iterating on its design as we gain additional experience.
On Dario’s AI Roadmap
Looking ahead to 2026, we plan to continue the rollout of DarioIQ through a phased, risk-managed roadmap. We expect to broaden availability within our D2C offerings, explore additional condition areas, and initiate targeted deployments with select employer and health plan customers, subject to ongoing evaluation of safety, performance, and customer needs. In parallel, we intend to refine DarioIQ’s capabilities, safeguards, and integration points across our platform as we gather additional operational experience, clinical and engagement data, and stakeholder feedback. We will also continue to mature DarioSHIFT with the meaningful usage and deployment of AI agents and tools and monitor the impact on operational costs and revenue ratios.
Competition
We operate in a highly competitive digital health market, characterized by rapid innovation and evolving consumer expectations. During the past five years, employers and health plans have expressed “point-solution fatigue” and have begun to decrease the number of their point-solution digital health vendors, and to consolidate their digital health vendors among those that provide multiple, integrated offerings. This has driven substantial industry consolidation and has enabled us to differentiate itself as a consolidation leader among competitors as it provides a whole-person health care solutions covering six different medical conditions.
We see two primary dimensions emerging: economies of scale and economies of scope. The first dimension is an increased focus on ROI driving by economies of scale. Recent surveys of employer’s priorities indicate that they want digital health solutions that have much lower costs that can be broadly deployed among their populations and deliver much higher ROIs than they have accepted in the past. A 2:1 ROI is no longer adequate to meet the needs of employers and health plans. For this reason, we have leveraged our AI investments, superior user engagement, highly effective user behavior change, and access to virtual digital care and services to deliver the highest ROIs in the industry that generally exceed 5:1. As AI capabilities become more broadly available, we believe the primary competitive differentiator will be the quality and proprietary depth of the underlying data - not the software layer itself. Our hardware-generated, longitudinal clinical dataset represents a structural advantage that pure software platforms cannot replicate through technology investment alone.
The second dimension is driven by economies of scope that increases simplicity by decreasing the number of digital health vendors that deliver an increasingly broad scope of digital health offerings. This simplifies contracting, reporting, value creation, access to users, and the creation of value for users, employers, and health plans.
With these two emerging value creation dimensions that are driving competitive advantage, we see the following companies as their primary competitors:
Broad-based Digital Health Platforms
Companies such as Teladoc Health, Inc. and MDLive, an Evernorth company, offer a full array of integrated virtual care solutions for primary care, chronic and behavioral health. While these companies have both scale and scope, they have not yet developed an operating model that deliver their services profitably at scale.
Cardiometabolic Health Platforms
There are other more narrowly focused companies such as Omada Health, Inc., Vida Health, Inc., Virta Health Corp, and Welldoc, Inc. that focus on the B2B market. And other D2C oriented companies such as Ro, Inc., Hims & Hers, Inc., Weight Watchers International, Inc., and Noom, Inc., that compete with us in the cardiometabolic and GLP-1 space. Most of these companies lack the whole-personal digital health scope that we offer, and still deliver ROIs that are half of what customers expect and demand.
Behavioral Health Providers
Specialized mental health platforms like Spring Care, Inc., Lyra Health, Inc., Headspace, Inc., BetterHelp, Inc. (a division of Teladoc), Calm.com, Inc., and Talkspace, Inc., compete in the B2B behavioral health marketplace. All these companies primarily focus narrowly on behavioral health rather than multi-condition support.
Wearable Technology Firm
While we integrate with many wearable technology firm’s devices from companies such as Fitbit, Garmin, and Apple, these companies also provide some D2C offerings that could be considered as competitors to our D2C products. However, these companies do not truly compete in the B2B employer, health plan, and pharmaceutical marketplace with competitive comprehensive behavioral and cardiometabolic offerings. As such, we do not see these companies are true competitors.
Traditional Healthcare Systems and Health Plans
While many health systems may have their own home-grown solutions for many of the conditions that we address, few really provide a commercially competitive offering beyond their own network. The same is generally true for most health plans, which primarily focus on vendors like us to provide chronic and behavioral health solutions to their members.
Given this competitive landscape, we differentiate ourselves through our integrated whole-person health approach, AI and data-driven personalization, and commitment to user-centric design to deliver industry leading levels of sustained user engagement. Our focus on measurable outcomes and strong partnerships positions us as a leader in the digital health market that can deliver the economies of scale and scope that delivers the highest ROI and easiest delivery of its individual or bundled solutions.
Recent Developments
Strategic Review Following Multiple Unsolicited Inbound Expressions of Interest
On September 25, 2025, we announced that our board of directors has initiated a comprehensive strategic review to maximize shareholder value following multiple unsolicited inbound strategic inquiries from interested parties. In relation to this review, our board of directors has established a special committee (the "Special Committee") of independent directors and engaged Perella Weinberg Partners LP as financial advisor. The Special Committee will consider a full range of potential opportunities including a sale, merger, strategic business combination, or continued execution of our strategy.
Strategic Collaboration to Enhance Fall Risk Prevention and Mobility Insights
On October 6, 2025, we announced a strategic collaboration with OneStep, a FDA-listed digital health company that delivers clinical-grade gait and mobility analysis using only smartphones. The collaboration expands our multi-condition digital health platform with advanced fall-risk assessment and prevention capabilities designed to support high-risk populations, including individuals with obesity and Medicare Advantage members experiencing frailty and balance challenges.
Clinical Studies
Evidence Generation Strategy
Strategic Investment in Clinical Research
We have made sustained, strategic investments in clinical research and real-world evidence generation to support the validation, differentiation, and long-term value of its digital health platforms. Over the past eight years, the company has invested approximately $8 million in clinical studies and evidence development.
Scope and Breadth of the Evidence Base
We have built one of the most extensive evidence bases in digital health, spanning diabetes, cardiometabolic disease, weight management, musculoskeletal health, and behavioral health. The research portfolio includes over 100 publications, abstracts, and conference presentations across leading medical, scientific, and health-economics venues, such as American Diabetes Association (“ADA”), the Journal of Medical Internet Research (“JMIR”), Frontiers, Advanced Technologies And Treatments For Diabetes, and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (“ISPOR”). Studies encompass retrospective cohort analyses, pragmatic and quasi-experimental designs, randomized controlled trials, machine-learning–driven analyses, and claims-based economic evaluations conducted across employer, health plan, and life-sciences populations.
Real-World Evidence and Clinical Outcomes
A central pillar of the research strategy is real-world evidence generation, leveraging large-scale longitudinal data from the Company’s platforms to evaluate clinical effectiveness, engagement, and healthcare utilization in routine care settings. Across multiple real-world studies, use of the Dario digital diabetes and cardiometabolic solutions has been associated with clinically meaningful and sustained improvements in glycemic control, reductions in hypoglycemia events (including among older adults), improvements in blood pressure and weight, and favorable outcomes across diverse demographic and high-risk subpopulations. Claims-based analyses have also demonstrated associations with reductions in healthcare utilization and total cost of care in certain populations.
Multi-Condition Management and Specialized Programs
The evidence base extends beyond diabetes to include studies evaluating GLP-1 therapy support and weight management, emphasizing the role of behavioral engagement and personalization in adherence and durability of outcomes. In musculoskeletal health, peer-reviewed and conference studies demonstrate associations between posture and biofeedback technologies and reductions in pain, ergonomic risk, and functional impairment. In behavioral and mental health, randomized and real-world studies show improvements in stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms, wellbeing, and productivity, as well as favorable economic impact from payer and employer perspectives.
Advanced Analytics, Personalization, and Data-Driven Insights
Dario integrates advanced analytics and machine learning into its research and product development to personalize interventions, predict outcomes, and optimize care pathways at scale. Consumer and D2C data analyses further support employer and health plan value propositions and inform engagement and product strategy.
Independent Validation and Scientific Leadership
To enhance credibility and transparency, Dario periodically engages independent third-party evaluators and external partners to assess clinical and economic outcomes. Findings are disseminated through peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences, reinforcing the Company’s scientific leadership and contribution to the digital health evidence base.
Notable Findings
Consistent with the Company’s evidence-generation strategy described above, Dario’s clinical and real-world evidence portfolio includes peer-reviewed publications and scientific presentations spanning the cardiometabolic, behavioral health, and musculoskeletal conditions addressed by our platform. The studies below represent a sample from our broader research portfolio and illustrate findings across clinical outcomes, healthcare utilization and economic impact, engagement and predictive analytics, and outcomes in behavioral health and musculoskeletal programs. Results reported in these studies represent associations observed in retrospective, observational, or pragmatic study designs, and outcomes vary by population, engagement level, and context.
Clinical Outcomes in Cardiometabolic Health
Impact of Digital Diabetes Solution on Glycemic Control in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the United States—Retrospective Cohort Study (Sanofi; ADA 2023).
A retrospective cohort study comparing Dario Diabetes Solution (“DDS”) users with matched non-users receiving usual care demonstrated greater HbA1c improvement among DDS users at six months, including among individuals with higher baseline HbA1c levels. DDS users were more likely to achieve a ≥1% HbA1c reduction and showed greater improvements among individuals with baseline HbA1c greater than 9%.
Use of Digital Diabetes Solution and Risk of Severe Hypoglycemia in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus—Retrospective Cohort Study (Sanofi; ADA 2023).
A related retrospective analysis in adults with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes reported that a greater proportion of DDS users achieved HbA1c levels below 8% compared with matched non-users, with no increased risk of severe hypoglycemia reported.
Digital Intervention Messages for High Blood Pressure (JMIR Cardio 2025).
A real-world retrospective study of 408 users evaluated targeted digital intervention messages for high blood pressure events. Users receiving the intervention experienced greater reductions in monthly average systolic blood pressure compared with a control group, with higher levels of lifestyle activity associated with greater improvements.
GLP-1 Adherence and Post-Discontinuation Outcomes (ADA 2025).
A study presented at the ADA evaluated the role of a digital health platform in supporting GLP-1 medication adherence and outcomes following treatment discontinuation. The Study showed that lifestyle-related digital engagement activities, including meal and physical activity logging, moderated reductions in monthly average blood glucose, and blood glucose and weight remained stable during the six months following treatment discontinuation.
Digital Health Intervention to Improve Influenza Vaccination Awareness Among Adults with Diabetes—Pragmatic Randomized Study (JMIR 2025).
This pragmatic randomized study evaluated a digital intervention designed to improve awareness of influenza vaccination among adults with diabetes and demonstrated the potential of targeted digital messaging to support preventive care behaviors in real-world populations.
Healthcare Utilization and Economic Outcomes
Comparison of Healthcare Resource Utilization Between Digital Diabetes Solution Users and Non-Users—12-Month Retrospective Cohort Study (Sanofi; ISPOR 2023).
This claims-based analysis reported lower inpatient hospitalization rates and lower overall healthcare resource utilization among DDS users over a 12-month period, while emergency department visit rates were reported as similar between groups.
Observational Medical Cost Analysis in Employer Populations (ISPOR 2025).
An observational analysis presented at the ISPOR conference evaluated medical cost outcomes among an employer population participating in the platform. The study reported reductions in total medical and inpatient costs on a per-member-per-month basis, with the largest reductions observed among individuals with multiple cardiometabolic conditions.
Engagement, Personalization, and Predictive Analytics
Predictive Modeling Using Clinical Biomarkers (ADA 2025).
This study described a machine learning–based predictive model integrating digital behavioral data with clinical biomarkers to support personalized diabetes management. Predictive variables included blood glucose patterns, measurement frequency, step count, and food and activity tracking, demonstrating the potential of combining behavioral and clinical data to forecast future glycemic outcomes.
Machine Learning Decision Trees for Glycemic Response Stratification (ADA 2025).
Machine learning decision trees were used to identify glycemic response patterns among individuals with type 2 diabetes. The model stratified users by insulin use and years since diagnosis, with stronger early improvements observed among individuals with higher engagement in glucose monitoring.
Machine Learning and Demographic Factors in Blood Glucose Management (ADA 2025).
This analysis examined demographic influences on blood glucose outcomes within the digital platform. Age was identified as a key factor influencing glucose variability, while gender, BMI, and ethnicity did not significantly moderate outcomes. Members over age 60 demonstrated increased engagement in lifestyle activity tracking during early program participation.
Additional Outcomes in Behavioral Health and Musculoskeletal Care
Digital Therapeutics for Depression and Anxiety—Real-World Outcomes (JMIR 2023).
A retrospective real-world analysis reported significant reductions in depression and anxiety symptoms during early engagement with a digital therapeutic program, with improvements maintained over time. Coaching interactions and breathing exercises were associated with enhanced outcomes in specific symptom domains.
Posture Biofeedback Training for Back Pain—Retrospective Cohort Study (Frontiers in Physiology 2022).
A real-world evidence study of posture biofeedback training demonstrated substantial reductions in back pain over an eight-week period, with a majority of participants achieving clinically meaningful improvement.
Government Regulation
The following is an overview of the regulatory authorities in the jurisdictions we operate in.
United States Regulation Generally
In the United States, medical devices are subject to extensive regulatory control at the federal level by the FDA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”) and its implementing regulations. Under Section 201(h) of the FDCA, a medical device is an article, which does not achieve its intended purpose through chemical action or metabolism in or on the body and, among other things, is intended (i) for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease, in man or other animals or (ii) to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals. The Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System is classified as a medical device and subject to regulation by numerous agencies and legislative bodies, including the FDA and its foreign counterparts. FDA regulations govern, among other things, device design and development, nonclinical and clinical testing, manufacturing, packaging, labeling, storage, pre-market clearance or approval, establishment registration and device listing, advertising and promotion, sales and distribution, recalls and field actions, servicing and post-market surveillance. A number of U.S. states also impose licensing and compliance regimes on companies that manufacture or distribute prescription devices into or within the state.
The FDA classifies medical devices into one of three classes. Classification of a device is important because the class to which a device is assigned determines, among other things, the necessity and type of FDA review required prior to marketing the device. Unless an exemption applies, each medical device commercially distributed in the United States will require a clearance through the pre-market notification (or 510(k)) process, De Novo classification, or pre-market approval (“PMA”) from the FDA.
Class I devices are those for which reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness can be maintained through adherence to general controls, which include compliance with the applicable portions of the FDA’s Quality System Regulation (“QSR”), as well as regulations requiring facility registration and product listing, reporting of adverse medical events, and appropriate, truthful and non-misleading labeling, advertising, and promotional materials. The Class I designation also applies to devices for which there is insufficient information to determine that general controls are sufficient to provide reasonable assurance of the safety and effectiveness of the device or to establish special controls to provide such assurance, but that are not life-supporting or life-sustaining or for a use which is of substantial importance in preventing impairment of human health, and that do not present a potential, unreasonable risk of illness or injury.
Class II devices those for which general controls alone are insufficient to provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness and there is sufficient information to establish “special controls.” These special controls can include performance standards, post-market surveillance requirements, patient registries and FDA guidance documents describing device-specific special controls. While most Class I devices are exempt from the pre-market notification requirement, most Class II devices require a pre-market notification prior to commercialization in the United States; however, the FDA has the authority to exempt Class II devices from the pre-market notification requirement under certain circumstances.
Class III devices are intended to be life sustaining or life supporting, devices that are implantable, devices that present a potential unreasonable risk of harm or are of substantial importance in preventing impairment of health, and devices that are not substantially equivalent to other lawfully marketed devices and for which safety and effectiveness cannot be assured solely by the general controls and special controls.
Pre-market Notification (510(k)) Clearance Process. Manufacturers of most Class II devices must submit premarket notifications to the FDA under Section 510(k) of the FDCA (21 U.S.C. § 360(k)) to obtain the necessary authorization to market or commercially distribute such devices. To obtain 510(k) clearance, manufacturers must submit to the FDA adequate information demonstrating that the proposed device is “substantially equivalent” to a “predicate device” that is already on the market. A predicate device is a legally marketed device that is not subject to PMA, meaning, (i) a device that was legally marketed prior to May 28, 1976, or pre amendments device, and for which a PMA is not required, (ii) a device that has been reclassified from Class III to Class II or I, or (iii) a device that was found substantially equivalent through the 510(k) process. The FDA typically issues a decision within 90 days of receipt of a 510(k) submission but may stop the review clock for up to 180 days to request that the applicant respond to the agency’s requests for additional information about the proposed device. If the FDA agrees that the device is substantially equivalent to the predicate device identified by the applicant in a premarket notification submission, the agency will grant 510(k) clearance for the new device, permitting the applicant to commercialize the device. Premarket notifications are subject to user fees, unless a specific exemption applies.
After a device receives 510(k) clearance, any modification that could significantly affect its safety or effectiveness, or that would constitute a major change in its intended use, requires a new 510(k) clearance or could even require a premarket application approval. The FDA requires each manufacturer to make this determination in the first instance, but the FDA can review any such decision. If the FDA disagrees with the determination, the agency may retroactively require the manufacturer to seek 510(k) clearance or premarket application approval. The FDA also can require the manufacturer to cease marketing and/or recall the modified device until 510(k) clearance or premarket application approval is obtained.
De Novo Classification. This device regulatory pathway allows a manufacturer whose novel device is automatically classified into Class III to request that the FDA classify such device as Class I or Class II based on evidence that the device in fact presents low or moderate risk, instead of following the typical Class III device pathway requiring the submission and approval of a PMA application. If the manufacturer seeks reclassification into Class II, the classification request must include a draft proposal for special controls that are necessary to provide a reasonable assurance of the safety and effectiveness of the medical device. The FDA typically issues a decision within 150 days of receipt on a De Novo classification request but, as with 510(k) submissions, may stop the review clock for up to 180 days to request that the applicant respond to the agency’s requests for additional information. If FDA grants the De Novo request, the device may be legally marketed in the United States. However, the FDA may reject the classification request if the agency identifies a suitable legally marketed predicate device that provides a reasonable basis for review of substantial equivalence or determines that the device is not low to moderate risk or that general controls would be inadequate to control the risks
and adequate special controls cannot be developed. De Novo classification requests are subject to user fees, unless a specific exemption applies.
Premarket Approval. The PMA process is more demanding than the 510(k) and De Novo classification processes. For a PMA, the manufacturer must demonstrate through extensive data, including data from nonclinical studies and one or more clinical trials, that the device is safe and effective for its proposed indication. The PMA application must also contain a full description of the device and its components, a full description of the methods, facilities and controls used for manufacturing, and proposed labeling. Following receipt of a PMA submission, the FDA determines whether the application is sufficiently complete to permit a substantive review. If the FDA accepts the application for review, it has 180 days under the FDCA to complete its review and determine whether the proposed device can be approved for commercialization, although in practice, PMA reviews often take significantly longer, and it can take up to several years for the FDA to issue a final decision. Before approving a PMA, the FDA generally also performs an on-site inspection of manufacturing facilities for the product to ensure compliance with the QSR.
The FDA may refer any PMA submission, including applications for novel device candidates or device candidates that present difficult questions of safety or efficacy, to an advisory committee for review. Typically, an advisory committee is a panel of independent experts, including clinicians and other scientific experts, that reviews, evaluates and provides a recommendation as to whether the application should be approved and, if so, under what conditions. The FDA is not bound by the recommendation of an advisory committee, but it considers such recommendations when making final decisions on approval.
If the FDA’s evaluation of the PMA application and inspection of the manufacturing facility is favorable, the FDA may issue an approval order authorizing commercial marketing of the device, or an “approvable letter,” which usually contains a number of conditions that must be met in order to secure final approval of the PMA. When and if those conditions have been met to the satisfaction of the FDA, the agency will issue a PMA approval order, subject to the conditions of approval and the limitations established in the approval order. If the FDA’s evaluation of a PMA application or manufacturing facility is not favorable, the FDA will deny approval of the PMA or issue a “not approvable letter.” The FDA may also determine that additional studies are necessary, in which case the PMA approval may be delayed for several months or years while such additional studies are conducted, and data is submitted in an amendment to the PMA. The PMA process can be expensive, uncertain and lengthy, and each PMA submission is subject to a substantial user fee unless a specific exemption applies. PMA approval may also be granted with post-approval requirements such as the need for additional patient follow-up or requirements to conduct additional clinical trials.
After approval of a premarket application, a new PMA application or PMA supplement may be required in the event of a modification to the labeling, manufacturing process, specifications, materials or design of the device. PMA supplements often require submission of the same type of information as an initial PMA application, except that the supplements are limited to information needed to support any changes from the device covered by the approved PMA application and may or may not require as extensive clinical data or the convening of an advisory committee. The PMA pathway is much more costly, lengthy and uncertain.
Breakthrough Devices. The Breakthrough Devices Program is a voluntary program intended to expedite the review, development, assessment and review of certain medical devices that provide for more effective treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating human diseases or conditions for which no approved or cleared treatment exists or that offer significant advantages over existing approved or cleared alternatives. Submissions for devices designated as Breakthrough Devices will receive priority review, meaning that the review of the submission is placed at the top of the appropriate review queue and receives additional review resources, as needed and available. Although Breakthrough Device designation or access to any other expedited program may expedite the development or clearance/authorization/approval process, it does not change the standards for clearance/authorization/approval. Designation for any expedited review procedure does not ensure that we will ultimately obtain regulatory clearance or approval for such a product. Our acquisition of Twill added a PDT that received a Breakthrough Device Designation.
In general, software that is intended for a medical purpose, whether it is included with a hardware device or is standalone software, is considered a medical device and subject to the same regulatory pathways described above, as long as it meets the definition of a “device” in Section 201(h) of the FDCA. However, the 21st Century Cures Act, which became law in December 2016, expressly excluded from the FDCA’s device definition some software functions, such as
software to support healthcare facility administration, general wellness software, electronic health records and certain clinical decision support software. In September 2019, the FDA published a revised guidance, General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices, describing its approach to general wellness products, including software, which states that the agency does not intend to examine the compliance of low risk general wellness products, as long as they are intended to (i) maintain or encourage general health or healthy activity and do not make any claims relating to specific diseases or conditions, or (ii) encourage a healthy lifestyle to help reduce the risk or impact of or help the user live well with certain chronic diseases or conditions where there is an established connection between a healthy lifestyle and the disease or condition. In addition, the FDA has published the Policy for Device Software Functions and Mobile Medical Applications guidance, which describes the agency’s approach to regulating software device functions, and in particular, the types of software that are the focus regulatory enforcement, under enforcement discretion, or not considered medical devices. Our Smart Diabetes Management Solution software and wireless blood pressure monitor software are considered medical devices under the FDCA and such software products have received the required marketing authorizations and are listed with FDA. We believe that our other current software products either are not intended for a medical purpose or meet the applicable criteria to be considered low risk products the FDA may exercise enforcement discretion, choosing not to enforce certain regulatory requirements.
Unlike regulatory exemptions from the 510(k) pre-market notification process, which still require compliance with general controls like registration and quality management systems, enforcement discretion means the FDA does not intend to enforce these controls for qualifying low-risk devices.
The FDA issued a Final Rule on February 2, 2024, describing amendments to harmonize the QSR with the 2016 edition of the International Organization for Standardization publication Medical Devices: Quality management systems—Requirements for regulatory purposes (ISO 13485:2016), which became effective on February 2, 2026. The harmonization process is not expected to have a significant impact on the quality system compliance operations of device manufacturers because most requirements described in the QSR correspond to requirements set forth in ISO 13485:2016. However, device manufacturers will likely need to revise certain quality system procedures to ensure compliance with the harmonized regulations and any failure to make such revisions or adapt to the harmonized regulations, once they become effective, may result in observations of noncompliance during facility inspections by the FDA or comparable regulatory authorities.
European and Non-European Regulation Generally
Sales of medical devices outside the United States are subject to foreign regulatory requirements that vary widely from country to country. These laws and regulations range from simple product registration requirements in some countries to complex clearance and production controls in others. As a result, the processes and time periods required to obtain foreign marketing clearance may be longer or shorter than those necessary to obtain FDA clearance.
For example, the European Union (“EU”) has adopted specific directives and subsequently regulations regulating the design, manufacture, clinical investigations, labeling, conformity assessment, post-market surveillance and vigilance reporting for medical devices. The EU rules described below are generally applicable in the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Other countries, such as Switzerland, have entered into Mutual Recognition Agreements and allow the marketing of medical devices that meet EU requirements.
The EU presently requires that all medical products be certified to meet the EU’s safety and performance requirements for such products and bear a CE mark, an international symbol of adherence to quality assurance standards and demonstrated clinical effectiveness. Prior to May 26, 2021, all medical devices placed on the EU market had to meet the relevant essential requirements laid down in Council Directive 93/42/EEC, or the Medical Device Directive (“MDD”), and if applicable, the Council Directive 90/385/EEC, or the Active Implantable Medical Device Directive (“AIMDD”), or for in vitro diagnostic devices, Council Directive 98/79/EC, or the In Vitro Diagnostic Directive (“IVDD”). Active Implantable Medical Device (“AIMD”) are defined as medical devices that rely on a source of electrical energy or any source of power other than that generated by the body, which are totally or partially introduced, either surgically or medically, into the human body and intended to remain after the procedure.
On May 26, 2021, the Medical Devices Regulation, EU 2017/745, (“MDR”) became effective, repealing and replacing the MDD and the AIMDD. The MDR is directly applicable in all EU member states. The MDR changed several
aspects of the regulatory framework for medical device marketing in Europe in order to increase regulatory oversight of all medical devices marketed in the EU (which, in turn, increased the costs, time and requirements to place innovative or high-risk medical devices on the European market). The MDR among other things (i) strengthens the rules on placing devices on the market and reinforces post-market surveillance; (ii) establishes explicit provisions on a manufacturer’s responsibilities for the follow-up of the quality, performance and safety; (iii) improves the traceability of medical devices through a unique identification number; and (iv) sets up a central database to provide patients, healthcare professionals and the public with comprehensive information on products available in the EU.
An overarching requirement under the MDR is that any device must be designed and manufactured in such a way that it will not compromise the clinical condition or safety of patients, or the safety and health of users and others. In addition, the device must meet the performance specifications intended by the manufacturer and be designed, manufactured and packaged in a suitable manner. To that effect, the European Commission has adopted various standards applicable to medical devices. These include standards governing common requirements, such as sterilization and safety of medical electrical equipment and product standards for certain types of medical devices. There are also harmonized standards relating to design and manufacture. While not mandatory, compliance with harmonized standards is a way for manufacturers to demonstrate that products comply with relevant EU legislation.
To demonstrate compliance with the General Safety and Performance Requirements (“GSPRs”) set forth in the MDR, medical device manufacturers must undergo a conformity assessment procedure, which varies according to the type of medical device and its classification. Conformity assessment procedures require an assessment of the technical documentation, including the device description, the design stages, the manufacturing process, available clinical evidence, literature data for the product, and post-market experience in respect of similar products already marketed. Except for low-risk medical devices (Class I non-sterile, non-measuring devices), where the manufacturer can self-declare the conformity of its products with the GSPRs (except for any parts which relate to sterility or metrology), a conformity assessment procedure requires the intervention of a Notified Body. Notified Bodies are independent organizations designated by EU member states to assess the conformity of devices before being placed on the market. A Notified Body typically audits and examines a product’s technical dossiers and the manufacturer’s quality management system (which must, in particular, comply with ISO 13485). If satisfied that the AIMD or other medical device conforms to the relevant GSPRs, the Notified Body issues a certificate of conformity, which the manufacturer uses as a basis for its own declaration of conformity. The manufacturer may then apply the CE-Mark to the device, allowing the device to be legally marketed throughout the EU.
Notified Body certificates of conformity are valid for a fixed duration (which shall not exceed five years). Throughout the term of the certificate, the manufacturer will be subject to periodic surveillance audits to verify continued compliance with the applicable requirements. In particular, there will be a new audit by the Notified Body before it renews the relevant certificate(s).
Devices lawfully placed on the market pursuant to the MDD and the AIMDD prior to May 26, 2021 could initially continue to be made available on the market or put into service until May 26, 2025. Nevertheless, the European Parliament recently adopted legislation to extend this transitional period to give manufacturers more time to switch from the previously applicable provisions to the new certification requirements for medical devices as laid down by the MDR. For high risk, class III and class IIb implantable devices the transitional period is extended until December 31, 2027. For medium and low risk, class IIb devices and class IIa, Im, Is and Ir devices the transition period is extended until December 31, 2028.
In May 2022, the IVDD was replaced by the In Vitro Diagnostic Device Regulation, EU 2017/746, (“IVDR”) and given a 5-year transition period until its full implementation on May 26, 2022. Unlike the IVDD, the IVDR has binding legal force throughout every EU member state. The major goal of the IVDR was to standardize diagnostic procedures within the EU, increase reliability of diagnostic analysis and enhance patient safety. Under the IVDR, IVDs are subject to additional legal regulatory requirements. Among other things, the IVDR introduces a new risk-based classification system and requirements for conformity assessments. Under the IVDR and subsequent amendments, IVDs already certified by a Notified Body under the IVDD may remain on the market until May 26, 2025, and IVDs certified without the involvement of a Notified Body may be placed on, or remain in, the market for up to three additional years (until May 26, 2028) depending on the classification of the IVD. The manufacturers of such devices remaining on the market must comply with specific requirements in the IVDR, but ultimately, such products, as with all new IVDs, will have to undergo the IVDR’s
conformity assessment procedures. In addition, the IVDR imposes additional requirements relating to post-market surveillance and submission of post-market performance follow-up reports.
In September 2013, we obtained ISO 13485 certification for our quality management system and CE Mark certification to market Dario, and in May 2015 Dario was cleared to fulfill the criteria according to EN ISO 15197:2013. The granting of the CE Mark allows Dario to be marketed and sold in 32 countries across Europe as well as in certain other countries worldwide. On November 21, 2014, MDSS, our European Authorized Representative, completed the registration of the Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System with the German Authority as required by Article 10 of Directive 98/79/EC on in vitro diagnostic medical devices. We commenced an initial soft launch of the product in Europe in 2014, created initial demand for the product and established brand awareness and marketing techniques to reach our target market with a goal to continue expansion to new markets and territories.
We achieved regulatory clearance to market Dario in other countries that do not rely on the CE Mark. To date, the non-CE Mark jurisdictions which we have begun to market Dario include the United States, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia.
To the extent that we seek to market our product in other non-CE Mark countries in the future, we will be required to comply with the applicable regulatory requirements in each such country. Such regulatory requirements vary by country, and complying with such regulations may require substantial time and effort. As a result, no assurance can be given that we will be able to satisfy the regulatory requirements to sell our products in any such country. If we fail to comply with applicable foreign regulatory requirements, we may be subject to, among other things, fines, suspension of clinical trials, suspension or withdrawal of regulatory approvals, product recalls, seizure of products, operating restrictions, and criminal prosecution.
Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are almost always required to support PMA applications and are sometimes required to support 510(k) and De Novo classification submissions. All clinical investigations of devices to determine safety and effectiveness must be conducted in accordance with the FDA’s good clinical practice (“GCP”), regulations, including the investigational device exemption (“IDE”) regulations that govern investigational device labeling, prohibit promotion of investigational devices, and specify recordkeeping, reporting and monitoring responsibilities of trial sponsors and investigators. If the device presents a “significant risk,” as defined by the FDA, the agency requires the device sponsor to submit an IDE application to the FDA, which must become effective prior to commencing human clinical studies. A significant risk device is one that presents a potential for serious risk to the health, safety or welfare of a patient and either is implanted, used in supporting or sustaining human life, substantially important in diagnosing, curing, mitigating or treating disease or otherwise preventing impairment of human health, or otherwise presents a potential for serious risk to a patient. An IDE application must be supported by appropriate data, such as animal and laboratory test results, showing that the device has a safety profile appropriate for human testing and that the trial protocol is scientifically sound. The IDE will automatically become effective 30 days after receipt by the FDA, unless the FDA expressly approves or denies the application in writing or notifies the sponsor that the investigation is on hold and may not begin until the sponsor provides supplemental information about the investigation that satisfies the agency’s concerns. If the FDA determines that there are deficiencies or other concerns with an IDE that require modification of the trial, the FDA may permit a clinical trial to proceed under a conditional approval or the sponsor and the FDA must resolve any outstanding concerns before the clinical trial can begin. In addition, the trial must be approved by, and conducted under the oversight of, an institutional review board (“IRB”), for each clinical site. If the device presents a non-significant risk to the patient according to criteria established by FDA as part of the IDE regulations, a sponsor may begin the clinical trial after obtaining approval for the trial by one or more IRBs without separate authorization from the FDA, but must still comply with abbreviated IDE requirements, such as monitoring the investigation, ensuring that the investigators obtain informed consent, and labeling and record-keeping requirements.
As part of its clinical trial oversight responsibilities, an IRB must review and approve, among other things, the trial protocol and informed consent information to be provided to clinical trial subjects. An IRB must operate in compliance with FDA regulations. Information about certain clinical studies, including details of the protocol and eventually trial results, also must be submitted within specific timeframes to the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”), for public dissemination on the ClinicalTrials.gov data registry. Information related to the product, patient population, phase of
investigation, trial sites and investigators and other aspects of the clinical trial is made public as part of the registration of the clinical trial. Sponsors are also obligated to disclose the results of their clinical studies after completion. Disclosure of the results of these studies can be delayed in some cases for up to two years after the date of completion of the trial. Failure to timely register a covered clinical study or to submit study results as provided for in the law can give rise to civil monetary penalties and also prevent the non-compliant party from receiving future grant funds from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Final Rule and NIH’s corresponding policy on ClinicalTrials.gov registration and reporting requirements became effective in 2017, and the government has brought enforcement actions against non-compliant clinical trial sponsors.
Progress reports detailing the results of the clinical studies must be submitted at least annually to the FDA and more frequently if unanticipated serious adverse events, occur. The FDA or the sponsor may suspend or terminate a clinical trial at any time on various grounds, including a finding that the research subjects or patients are being exposed to an unacceptable health risk. Similarly, an IRB can suspend or terminate approval of a clinical trial at its institution if the clinical trial is not being conducted in accordance with the clinical protocol, GCP, or other IRB requirements or if the investigational product has been associated with unexpected serious harm to patients.
In the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2023, Congress amended the FDCA to require the sponsor of any pivotal clinical trial that will be used to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of a medical device marketing authorization submission to develop a diversity action plan for such trial, and if submission of an IDE application is required, to submit such diversity action plan to the FDA. The action plan must include the sponsor’s diversity goals for enrollment, as well as a rationale for the goals and a description of how the sponsor will meet them. The FDA may grant a waiver for some or all of the requirements for a diversity action plan. It is unknown at this time how the diversity action plan may affect device pivotal clinical trial planning and timing or what specific information FDA will expect in such plans, but if FDA objects to a sponsor’s diversity action plan and requires the sponsor to amend the plan or take other actions, it may delay trial initiation.
There is no assurance that a clinical study at any given site will progress as anticipated; the interim results of a study may not be satisfactory leading the sponsor or others to terminate the study, there may be an insufficient number of patients who qualify for the study or who agree to participate in the study or the investigator at the site may have priorities other than the study. Also, there can be no assurance that the clinical study will provide sufficient evidence to assure regulatory authorities that the product is safe, effective and performs as intended as a prerequisite for granting market clearance.
Post-Clearance Matters
Even if the FDA or other non-US regulatory authorities approve or clear a device, they may limit its intended uses in such a way that manufacturing and distributing the device may not be commercially feasible. After clearance or approval to market is given, the FDA and foreign regulatory agencies, upon the occurrence of certain events, are authorized under various circumstances to withdraw the clearance or approval or require changes to a device, its manufacturing process or its labeling or additional proof that regulatory requirements have been met.
A manufacturer of a device approved through the premarket approval application process is not permitted to make changes to the device which affects its safety or effectiveness without first submitting a supplement application to its premarket approval application and obtaining FDA clearance for that supplement. In some instances, the FDA may require a clinical trial to support a supplement application. A manufacturer of a device cleared through a 510(k) submission or a 510(k)+ “de-novo” submission must submit another premarket notification if it intends to make a change or modification in the device that could significantly affect the safety or effectiveness of the device, such as a significant change or modification in design, material, chemical composition, energy source or manufacturing process. Any change in the intended uses of a premarket approval application device or a 510(k) device requires an approval supplement or cleared premarket notification. Exported devices are subject to the regulatory requirements of each country to which the device is exported, as well as certain FDA export requirements.
Ongoing Regulation by FDA
Even after a device receives clearance or approval and is placed on the market, numerous regulatory requirements apply. These include:
● establishment registration and device listing;
● QSR requirements, which require manufacturers, including third-party manufacturers, to follow stringent design, testing, control, documentation, and other quality assurance procedures during all phases of the product life-cycle;
● labeling regulations and FDA prohibitions against the promotion of products for uncleared, unapproved or “off-label” uses, and other requirements related to promotional activities;
● medical device reporting regulations, which require that manufacturers report to the FDA if their device may have caused or contributed to a death or serious injury or malfunctioned in a way that would likely cause or contribute to a death or serious injury if the malfunction were to recur;
● corrections, removal and recall reporting regulations, which require that manufacturers report to the FDA field corrections and product recalls or removals if undertaken to reduce a risk to health posed by the device or to remedy a violation of the FDCA that may present a risk to health;
● the FDA’s recall authority, whereby the agency can order device manufacturers to recall from the market a product that is in violation of governing laws and regulations; and
● post-market surveillance regulations, which apply when necessary to protect the public health or to provide additional safety and effectiveness data for the device.
The medical device reporting requirements also extend to healthcare facilities that use medical devices in providing care to patients, or “device user facilities,” which include hospitals, ambulatory surgical facilities, nursing homes, outpatient diagnostic facilities, or outpatient treatment facilities, but not physician offices. A device user facility must report any device-related death to both the FDA and the device manufacturer, or any device-related serious injury to the manufacturer (or, if the manufacturer is unknown, to the FDA) within 10 days of the event. Device user facilities are not required to report device malfunctions that would likely cause or contribute to death or serious injury if the malfunction were to recur but may voluntarily report such malfunctions through MedWatch, the FDA’s Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program.
Failure to comply with applicable regulatory requirements can result in enforcement action by the FDA, which may include any of the following sanctions: warning letters, fines, injunctions, civil or criminal penalties, recall or seizure of our current or future products, operating restrictions, partial suspension or total shutdown of production, refusing our request for 510(k) clearance or PMA approval of new products, rescinding previously granted 510(k) clearances or withdrawing previously granted PMA approvals.
We may be subject to announced and unannounced inspections by the FDA, and these inspections may include the manufacturing facilities of our subcontractors. If, as a result of these inspections, the FDA determines that our or our subcontractor’s equipment, facilities, laboratories or processes do not comply with applicable FDA regulations and conditions of product clearance, the FDA may seek civil, criminal or administrative sanctions and/or remedies against us, including the suspension of our manufacturing and selling operations.
Ongoing Regulation by International Regulators
International sales of medical devices are subject to foreign government regulations, which may vary substantially from country to country.
In order to maintain the right to affix the CE Mark to sell medical devices in the European Union, periodic surveillance audits of the company premises and, if needed, at major subcontractors’ premises must be carried out by a
Notified Body. In addition, all manufacturers placing medical devices into the market in the EU must comply with the EU medical device vigilance system. Under this system, serious incidents must be reported to the relevant authorities of the EU member states, and manufacturers are required to take Field Safety Corrective Actions (“FSCAs”), to reduce a risk of death or serious deterioration in the state of health associated with the use of a medical device that is already placed on the market. A serious incident is defined as any malfunction or deterioration in the characteristics or performance of a device made available on the market, including use-error due to ergonomic features, as well as any inadequacy in the information supplied by the manufacturer and any undesirable side-effect that directly or indirectly led, might have led or might lead to death, temporary or permanent serious deterioration of health state, or a serious public health threat. An FSCA can include the withdrawal of the device from the market, or a recall thereof. FSCAs must be communicated by the manufacturer or its legal representative to the users of the device through Field Safety Notices.
The advertising and promotion of medical devices is subject to some general principles set forth by EU directives. Directive 2006/114/EC concerning misleading and comparative advertising and Directive 2005/29/EC on unfair commercial practices. While the aforementioned directives are not specific to the advertising of medical devices, the provisions of national law transposing them must also be complied with and contain general rules, for example requiring that advertisements are evidenced, balanced and not misleading. Specific requirements are defined at national level. EU member states laws related to the advertising and promotion of medical devices, which vary between jurisdictions, may limit or restrict the advertising and promotion of products to the general public and may impose limitations on promotional activities with healthcare professionals.
Many EU member states have adopted specific anti-gift statutes that further limit commercial practices for medical devices, in particular vis-à-vis healthcare professionals and organizations. Additionally, there has been a recent trend of increased regulation of payments and transfers of value provided to healthcare professionals or entities. In addition, many EU member states have adopted national “Sunshine Acts” which impose reporting and transparency requirements (often on an annual basis), similar to the requirements in the United States, on medical device manufacturers. Certain countries also mandate implementation of commercial compliance programs.
Failure to comply with applicable regulatory requirements can result in enforcement action by the applicable regulatory authorities, which may include any of the following sanctions: fines, injunctions, civil or criminal penalties, recall or seizure of our current or future products, operating restrictions, partial suspension or total shutdown of production, refusing our request for renewing marketing authorization of our products or for granting marketing authorization for new products.
Federal Trade Commission Regulatory Oversight
Our advertising for our products in the United States is subject to federal truth-in-advertising laws enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), as well as comparable state consumer protection laws. Under the Federal Trade Commission Act (“FTC Act”), the FTC is empowered, among other things, to (a) prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce; (b) seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers; and (c) gather and compile information and conduct investigations relating to the organization, business, practices, and management of entities engaged in commerce. The FTC has very broad enforcement authority, and failure to abide by the substantive requirements of the FTC Act and other consumer protection laws can result in administrative or judicial penalties, including civil penalties, injunctions affecting the manner in which we would be able to market services or products in the future, or criminal prosecution.
Federal Communications Commission Regulation
The Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System includes a wireless radio frequency transmitter and receiver and, therefore, is subject to equipment authorization requirements in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) requires advance clearance of all radio frequency devices before they can be imported into, sold or marketed in the United States. These clearances ensure that the proposed products comply with FCC radio frequency emission and power level standards and will not cause interference.
State Licensure Requirements
Several U.S. states require that Durable Medical Equipment (“DME”) providers be licensed in order to sell products to patients in that state. Certain of these states require that DME providers maintain an in-state location. Some states also require a device manufacturer or distributor to obtain a license in order to distribute prescription medical devices to customers in such states. If these rules are determined to be applicable to us and if we were found to be noncompliant, we could lose our licensure in that state, which could prohibit us from selling our current or future products to patients in that state.
Other U.S. Healthcare Laws and Regulations
We must comply with various U.S. federal and state laws, rules and regulations pertaining to healthcare fraud and abuse, including anti-kickback laws and physician self-referral laws, rules and regulations. Violations of the fraud and abuse laws are punishable by criminal and civil sanctions, including, in some instances, exclusion from participation in federal and state healthcare programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. These laws include the following:
● The federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) prohibits, among other things, persons from knowingly and willfully soliciting, offering, receiving or paying remuneration, directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind, to induce or reward either the referral of an individual for, or the purchase, order or recommendation of, any good or service, for which payment may be made, in whole or in part, under a federal health care program such as Medicare and Medicaid. A person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the AKS or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation. In addition, the government may assert that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of the AKS constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the federal False Claims Act (“FCA”) or federal civil money penalties statute;
● The federal civil and criminal false claims laws and civil monetary penalty laws, including the federal FCA, which prohibit, among other things, individuals or entities from knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, false or fraudulent claims for payment to, or approval by Medicare, Medicaid, or other federal healthcare programs, knowingly making, using or causing to be made or used a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim or an obligation to pay or transmit money to the federal government, or knowingly concealing or knowingly and improperly avoiding or decreasing or concealing an obligation to pay money to the federal government. Manufacturers can be held liable under the FCA even when they do not submit claims directly to government payers if they are deemed to “cause” the submission of false or fraudulent claims. The FCA also permits a private individual acting as a “whistleblower” to bring actions on behalf of the federal government alleging violations of the FCA and to share in any monetary recovery;
● The Civil Monetary Penalties Law, which prohibits, among other things, the offering or giving of remuneration, which includes, without limitation, any transfer of items or services for free or for less than fair market value (with limited exceptions), to a Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary that the person knows or should know is likely to influence the beneficiary’s selection of a particular supplier of items or services reimbursable by a federal or state governmental program;
● The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) imposes criminal and civil liability for executing a scheme to defraud any health care benefit program or making false statements relating to health care matters;
● HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act, and its implementing regulations, also imposes obligations, including mandatory contractual terms, with respect to safeguarding the privacy, security and transmission of individually identifiable health information;
● The federal transparency requirements under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act require manufacturers of FDA-approved drugs, devices, biologics and medical supplies covered by Medicare or Medicaid to report, on an annual basis, to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) information related to payments and other transfers of value to physicians, certain advanced non-physician healthcare practitioners, and teaching hospitals or to entities or individuals at the request of, or designated on behalf of, such physicians, non-physician
healthcare practitioners, and teaching hospitals as well as certain ownership and investment interests held by physicians and their immediate family members; and
● Analogous state and foreign laws and regulations, such as state anti-kickback and false claims laws, may apply to sales or marketing arrangements and claims involving healthcare items or services reimbursed by nongovernmental third-party payors, including private insurers.
Certain states also have adopted marketing and/or transparency laws relevant to device manufacturers, some of which are broader in scope in comparison to applicable federal laws. Some state laws require medical device companies to comply with the relevant industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines and the relevant compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government in addition to requiring device manufacturers to report information related to payments to physicians and other healthcare providers or marketing expenditures. In addition, state and foreign laws also govern the privacy and security of health information in some circumstances, many of which differ from each other in significant ways and often are not preempted by HIPAA, thus complicating compliance efforts.
Violation of any of the federal and state healthcare laws may result in penalties, including without limitation, civil, criminal and/or administrative penalties, damages, fines, disgorgement, exclusion from participation in government programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, injunctions, private “qui tam” actions brought by individual whistleblowers in the name of the government, or refusal to enter into government contracts, contractual damages, reputational harm, administrative burdens, diminished profits and future earnings, and the curtailment or restructuring of operations. Our actual or perceived failure to comply with healthcare and data privacy laws could result in liability or reputational harm and could harm our business. Ensuring compliance with such laws could also impair our efforts to maintain and expand our customer base and thereby decrease our future revenues.
U.S. and European Data Security and Data Privacy Laws
HIPAA’s administrative simplification provisions established comprehensive U.S. federal standards for the privacy and security of health information. In 2009, Congress enacted Subtitle D of the HITECH provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which expanded and strengthened HIPAA, created new targets for enforcement, imposed new penalties for noncompliance and established new breach notification requirements. HIPAA applies to health plans, healthcare clearing houses, and healthcare providers that conduct certain healthcare transactions electronically, which are referred to collectively as Covered Entities, as well as individuals or entities that perform services for Covered Entities involving the use, or disclosure of, individually identifiable health information or protected health information (“PHI”) under HIPAA. Such service providers are called "Business Associates." Under HIPAA, as amended by the HITECH Act, HHS has issued regulations to protect the privacy and security of PHI used or disclosed by Covered Entities and Business Associates. HIPAA also regulates and standardizes the codes, formats and identifiers used in certain healthcare transactions and standardization of identifiers for health plans and providers, for example insurance billing. Any non-compliance with HIPAA and HITECH and related penalties, could adversely impact our business.
The HIPAA security standards require the adoption of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards and the adoption of written security policies and procedures to maintain the security of protected health information.
The HIPAA privacy regulations address the privacy of PHI by limiting the use and release of such information. They also set forth certain rights that an individual has with respect to his or her PHI maintained by a covered entity, including the right to access or amend certain records containing PHI, request an accounting of disclosures of PHI or to request restrictions on the use or disclosure of PHI. The HIPAA breach notification regulations impose certain reporting requirements on Covered Entities and their Business Associates in the event of a breach of PHI.
Significant civil and criminal fines and other penalties may be imposed for violating HIPAA directly, and in connection with acts or omissions of any agents, including a downstream Business associate, as determined according to the federal common law of agency. Civil penalties are adjusted for inflation on an annual basis and can exceed one million dollars per year for failure to comply with a HIPAA requirement. A single breach incident can violate multiple requirements. Additionally, a person who knowingly obtains or discloses PHI in violation of HIPAA may face criminal penalties (including fines and imprisonment), which increase if the wrongful conduct involves false pretenses or the intent
to sell, transfer or use PHI for commercial advantage, personal gain or malicious harm. Covered Entities are also subject to enforcement by state Attorneys General who were given authority to enforce HIPAA.
Additionally, while HIPAA does not create a private right of action allowing individuals to file suit against us in civil court for violations of HIPAA, its standards have been used as the basis for duty of care cases in state civil suits such as those for negligence or recklessness in the misuse or breach of PHI.
Even when HIPAA does not apply, according to the FTC, failing to take appropriate steps to keep consumers’ personal information secure constitutes unfair acts or practices in or affecting commerce in violation of Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act. The FTC expects a company’s data security measures to be reasonable and appropriate in light of the sensitivity and volume of consumer information it holds, the size and complexity of its business, and the cost of available tools to improve security and reduce vulnerabilities. Individually identifiable health information is considered sensitive data that merits stronger safeguards. The FTC and states' Attorneys General have also brought enforcement actions and prosecuted some data breach cases as unfair and/or deceptive acts or practices under the FTC Act and comparable state laws.
The HIPAA privacy and security regulations establish a uniform federal "floor" and do not preempt state laws that are more stringent or provide individuals with greater rights with respect to the privacy or security of, and access to, their records containing PHI. These laws overlap with HIPAA and may differ from each other in significant ways and may not have the same effect, thus complicating compliance efforts. Failure to comply with these laws, where applicable, can result in the imposition of significant civil and/or criminal penalties and private litigation. The State of California, for example, has implemented comprehensive laws and regulations. The California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (“CMIA”) imposes restrictive requirements regulating the use and disclosure of health information and other personally identifiable information. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) went into effect January 1, 2020. The CCPA, among other things, creates new data privacy obligations for covered companies and provides new privacy rights to California residents, including the right to opt out of certain disclosures of their information. It also creates individual privacy rights for California consumers and increases the privacy and security obligations of entities handling certain personal information. The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches which has led to an increase in data breach litigation. Although the law includes limited exceptions, including for PHI maintained by a covered entity or business associate under HIPAA and medical information maintained by healthcare providers under the CMIA, it may regulate or impact our processing of personal information depending on the context. Further, the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) went into effect January 1, 2023, amending the CCPA. The CPRA imposes additional data protection obligations on covered businesses, including additional consumer rights processes, limitations on data uses, new audit requirements for higher risk data, and opt outs for certain uses of sensitive data and expands the application of the CCPA to all human resources personal information of California-based employees. It also created a new regulatory entity, the California Privacy Protection Agency data protection agency, which is authorized to issue substantive regulations under the CPRA and is expected to result in increased privacy and information security enforcement. Other states have implemented similar laws protecting identifiable health and personal information, and most such laws differ from each other in significant ways and may not be preempted by HIPAA, thus complicating compliance efforts.
In dealing with health information for the development of our technology or for commercial purposes, we will be indirectly affected by HIPAA and state-imposed health information privacy and security laws because these laws regulate the ability of our customers and research collaborators to share health information with us. Additionally, we must identify and comply with all applicable state laws for the protection of personal information with respect to employee information or other personal information that we collect.
In the European Union, increasingly stringent data protection and privacy rules that have and will continue to have substantial impact on the use of personal and patient data across the healthcare industry became stronger in May 2018. The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) applies across the European Union and includes, among other things, a requirement for prompt notice of data breaches to data subjects and supervisory authorities in certain circumstances and significant fines for non-compliance. The GDPR fine framework can be up to 20 million euros, or up to 4% of our total global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher. The GDPR sets out a number of requirements that must be complied with when handling the personal data of such European Union-based data subjects including: providing expanded disclosures about how their personal data will be used; higher standards for organizations
to demonstrate that they have obtained valid consent or have another legal basis in place to justify their data processing activities; the obligation to appoint data protection officers in certain circumstances; new rights for individuals to be “forgotten” and rights to data portability, as well as enhanced current rights (e.g. access requests); the principal of accountability and demonstrating compliance through policies, procedures, training and audit; and the new mandatory data breach regime. In particular, medical or health data, genetic data and biometric data where the latter is used to uniquely identify an individual are all classified as “special category” data under the GDPR and are afforded greater protection and require additional compliance measures. Noncompliance could result in the imposition of fines, penalties, data lockup or orders to stop noncompliant activities.
We could also be subject to evolving European Union laws on data export, for transfers of data outside the European Union to themselves, group companies or third parties. The GDPR only permits exports of data outside the European Union to jurisdictions that ensure an adequate level of data protection. The United States has not been deemed to offer an adequate level of protection, so in order for us to transfer personal data from the EU to the United States, we must identify a legal basis for data transfer (e.g., the European Union Commission approved Standard Contractual Clauses). On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union or the CJEU, issued a landmark opinion in the case Maximilian Schrems vs. Facebook (Case C-311/18), called Schrems II. This decision (a) called into question commonly relied upon data transfer mechanisms as between the European Union member states and the United States (such as the Standard Contractual Clauses) and (b) invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield on which many companies had relied as an acceptable mechanism for transferring such data from the EU to the United States. However, on July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for a new mechanism for transferring data from the EU to the United States – the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which provides EU individuals with several new rights, including the right to obtain access to their data, or obtain correction or deletion of incorrect or unlawfully handled data. The adequacy decision followed the signing of an executive order introducing new binding safeguards to address the points raised in the Schrems II decision by the CJEU. The European Commission will continually review developments in the United States along with its adequacy decision. Adequacy decisions can be adapted or even withdrawn in the event of developments affecting the level of protection in the applicable jurisdiction. Future actions of EU data protection authorities are difficult to predict. Some customers or other service providers may respond to these evolving laws and regulations by asking us to make certain privacy or data-related contractual commitments that we are unable or unwilling to make. This could lead to the loss of current or prospective customers or other business relationships.
Intellectual Property
Granted Patents
On May 8, 2011, certain of our founders filed a Patent Cooperation Treaty (“PCT”) Application No. PCT/IL2011/000369, titled “Fluids Testing Apparatus and Methods of Use.” This PCT claimed priority from two preceding U.S. provisional applications filed by our founders, with the earliest priority date being May 9, 2010. The PCT application was transferred to us by our founders on October 27, 2011.
This application covers the novel blood glucose measurement device, comprising the glucose meter; and an adaptor that connects the glucose meter to a smart-phone to receive power supply and data display, storage, and analysis. A PCT search report and written opinion on patentability that we received from World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) that included only two “Y” citations and one additional non-relevant reference. Corresponding national applications of our PCT were filed in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, Australia and Israel.
On May 1, 2014, we announced the receipt of a U.S. Notice of Allowance for a key patent relating to how the Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System draws power from and transmits data to a smartphone via the audio jack port. This patent was issued as U.S. Patent No. 8,797,180 in August 2014, and in August 2015, we received U.S. patent (No. 9,125,549) that broadened our registered patent No. 8,797,180 to include testing of other bodily fluids through an audio jack connection. We believe these early patents represent critical intellectual property recognition and a significant initial validation of our intellectual property efforts. An additional corresponding patent was granted in Israel in April 2016.
On November 11, 2017, U.S. patent No. 9,832,301 titled “Systems and methods for adjusting power levels on a monitoring device” was granted. This patent enhances the way the Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System communicates with users’ smartphone devices. This family includes a corresponding pending application in China.
Additionally, we recently received U.S. patent No. 10,445,072 that enables optical communication between the Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System and the end user’s smartphone devices.
Additional patent applications are in the process of being discussed and developed, and we believe that we have a rich potential pipeline of future technologies that we intend to develop.
In early 2022, we acquired Physimax and acquired the following patent – US 10,709,374 B2 titled “System and Method for Assessment of Musculoskeletal Profile of a Target Individual.”
This patent was also submitted as EP application #19767795.8 on the 05/03/2019 and is currently pending.
As a result of our acquisition of Twill, we have acquired the following patents:
On October 27, 2020, the United States Patent Office issued Patent No. US 10,813,584 B2 titled “ASSESSING ADHERENCE FIDELITY TO BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS USING INTERACTIVITY AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING”. The abstract contained in the patent award describes this patent as “A computer system apparatus and a method carried out by such apparatus for interacting with a user via a behavior intervention designed to cause an increase in emotional well-being of the user. The behavior intervention has a plurality of conditions to be satisfied. The process includes receiving input data from the user during the behavior intervention, performing, on at least a portion of the received input data having text, semantic analysis to identify terms that satisfy the plurality of conditions and assessing, based on an amount of completeness of satisfying the plurality of conditions, a level of adherence to the behavior intervention. When one or more of the plurality of conditions are determined not as satisfied, the process includes generating a prompt designed to elicit, from the user, a response specific to satisfying the missing conditions.”
On February 7, 2023, the United States Patent Office issued Patent No. US 11,575,737 B2 titled “DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE NETWORK SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE SERVICE AND SOCIAL COMMUNITY FOR ENGAGING, LEARNING, AND TRAINING SKILLS FOR MENTAL HEALTH”. The abstract contained in the patent award describes this patent as “A dynamic interactive network system provides an online service and social community for engaging, learning, and training skills for happiness. The system includes a processor and memory storing instructions
which when executed by the processor configure the processor to provide the online service. The instructions further configure the processor to provide tracks including activities, provide an initial happiness level and a track to a user based on a self-assessment completed by the user upon signing up, monitor progress of the user based on self-assessments periodically completed by the user, modify the track based on the self-assessments, suggest followers to the user from the users whose profiles match the profile of the user in terms of demographics, psychographics, and rating of the users on the online service, and generate a happiness graph for the user that correlates the activities and the followers with their impact on happiness level of the user.”
On February 20, 2024, the United States Patent Office issued Patent No. US 11,909,811 B2 titled “DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE NETWORK SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE SERVICE AND SOCIAL COMMUNITY FOR ENGAGING, LEARNING, AND TRAINING SKILLS FOR MENTAL HEALTH”. This patent is a continuation of Patent No. 11,575,737 with additional claims.
On August 10, 2023, the United States Patent Office issued Patent No. US 11,727,217 B2 titled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC USER INTERACTION FOR IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH”. The abstract contained in the patent award describes this patent as “A computing system for interacting with a user comprises a processor and a memory storing executable software which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to commence an interactive session with a user, receive input data from the user during the interactive session, analyze the received input data and output a response to the user to continue the interactive session with the user. The processor, prior to outputting the response, identifies one or more topics from the received input data, ascertains a tone of the received input data, generates a mirroring prompt based on the ascertained tone of the received input data, and output to the user the generated mirroring prompt. The processor outputs the mirroring prompt to the user during the interactive session to cause an increase in a level of engagement of the user with the interactive session”.
On October 10, 2023, the United States Patent Office issued Patent No. US 11,779,270 B2 titled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING ARTIFICIALLY-INTELLIGENT CLASSIFIER”. The abstract contained in the patent award describes the patent as “A computing system/method for enabling a user to improve, via training, a system designed to increase the emotional and/or physical well-being of persons or designed for other purposes. The system/method includes retrieving a user response from a dialogue database, the user response having already labeled thereto an assigned class having a highest confidence score, the confidence score indicating degree of confidence that context of the retrieved user response is of the assigned class, displaying, the assigned class, along with other classes each having a respective lower confidence score, and receiving an indication of validity of the assigned class. The system/method further includes retrieving of a pair of sequential user response and follow-up prompt from the database, displaying user-selectable ratings, each rating designating a respectively different quality to the follow-up prompt, receiving selection of a rating and a related comment, and associating the selection and the comment to the follow-up prompt.
Design patents
To further protect our market distinction and branding for the Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System, three U.S. Design Applications have been filed and granted covering: D706935, the glucose meter; D7066934, the cartridge; and D706933, connection dongle.
As a result of our acquisition of Upright, we have acquired the following two design patents: D852656, the Upright wearable device, and D958784, the wearable posture detection device.
Trademarks
We have filed several families of trademark applications covering the “Dario” name (wordmark), the Dario name and logo, the Dario logo alone, the DARIO-LITE wordmark, the LABSTYLE INNOVATIONS wordmark, the DARIOHEALTH wordmark, and the DARIOHEALTH logo. In particular, DARIO (word mark, name and logo), is registered in the United States, China, the EU, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Brazil, and is also registered as a WO (WIPO registration). DARIOHEALTH, is registered in the United States, China, the EU, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Brazil, Israel, Japan, India, and is also registered as a WO. DARIO-LITE, is registered in the United States, Brazil, and
Chile. DARIO MOVE, DARIO ELEVATE, DARIO CONNECT, DARIO MIND, DARIO LC, DARIO EVOLVE, DARIO ONE, are registered in the United States. DARIO ENGAGE is registered in the EU.
As a result of our acquisition of Upright, we have acquired the following trademarks: UPRIGHT, UPRIGHT GO, are registered in the Unites States, China, England, and the EU. UPRIGHT GO 2 is registered in the Unites States.
As a result of our acquisition of Twill, we have acquired the following trademarks: HAPPIFY, is registered in the United States, China, England, the EU, India, and as a WO. TWILL, is registered in China, England, the EU, India, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan and as a WO. ASPIRO, is registered in China, England, the EU, India, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, and as a WO. THERAPEUTIC MEDIA and Circular Design (Talk Bubble Design), are registered in the United States.
Patent Applications
On June 17, 2021, PCT/IL2021/050739 was filed for the WO, titled POSTURE DETECTION DEVICE AND SYSTEM.
On December 8, 2021, patent application 2022/0181004 was filed in the United States Patent office. Titled “CUSTOMIZABLE THERAPY SYSTEM AND PROCESS”,
On October 12, 2022, patent application 2023/0111078 was filed in the United States Patent office. Titled “DISTRIBUTED NETWORK FOR MODIFIABLE INTERACTIVE SESSIONS AND ADHERENCE ENHANCEMENT THEREOF ”.
On October 12, 2022, patent application 2023/0112522 was filed in the United States Patent office. Titled “PHARMACEUTICAL ADMINISTRATION TRACKING AND TREATMENT COMPLIANCE SYSTEM”.
On October 12, 2022, patent application 20230112908 was filed in the United States Patent office. Titled “Modifiable pharmaceutical protocol for migraine treatment and assessment of drug efficacy thereof”.
On January 26, 2022, patent application 2022/0237709 was filed in the United States Patent office. Titled “SENSOR TRACKING BASED PATIENT SOCIAL CONTENT SYSTEM”.
On April 19, 2023, patent application 20230260423 was filed in the United States Patent office. Titled “Systems and methods for managing dynamic user interactions with online services for enhancing mental health of users”.
On August 15, 2023, patent application 20230385555 was filed in the United States Patent office. Titled “Systems and methods for dynamic user interaction for improving mental health”.
Other intangible assets
As the number of our users grows, an ever-growing amount of data is being collected from patients, including their blood sugar levels, meal compositions, routines, physical exercise (intensity and duration) as well as many other factors, and lately also blood pressure data, which are all useful for creating meaningful correlations between these factors and insulin use. We expect that this database will be highly valuable and may be capitalized in many ways. The accumulation of this type of know-how and related algorithms are protected as trade secrets using specialized confidentiality protocols.
Employees
As of March 11, 2026, we had 160 full-time employees and five part-time employees. We have employment agreements with our four executive officers. See “Management – Employment Agreements.”