At LSX USA Congress 2025, Glooko CEO Mike Alvarez and Orthogonal CSO Randy Horton discussed the essential factors, including regulatory compliance, cross-functional collaboration, patient data protection, and strategic partnerships, needed to scale a digital health platform like Glooko across global markets.

Glooko, a leading provider of digital-health and remote-patient monitoring systems for diabetes, acquired Monarch Medical Technologies, adding an inpatient glucose-management system to its outpatient capabilities.

At the 2025 LSX World Congress USA in Boston, Glooko CEO Mike Alvarez discussed global expansion strategies, the real costs and risk, and importance of local partnerships for medtech companies, drawing on his experience.

The strategic acquisition of Monarch Medical Technologies allows Glooko to expand its connected care capabilities into inpatient glycemic management, complementing its existing strength in outpatient diabetes management.

Glooko has acquired Monarch Medical Technologies in a move that will expand the diabetes care company into inpatient glucose management.

Glooko announced its acquisition of Monarch Medical Technologies, marking the digital health company’s expansion into inpatient diabetes care.

Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and digital health solutions for diabetes, has acquired Monarch Medical Technologies, developer of the EndoTool Glucose Management System.

Glooko acquired Monarch Medical Technologies and its EndoTool software, extending the company’s diabetes management platform to hospitals for managing insulin doses within the hospital.

For meaningful progress in the next generation of diabetes technology, innovation must be guided by clinicians and people with diabetes, as highlighted by Glooko Chief Medical and Strategy Officer Mark Clements, M.D., Ph.D.

Glooko CEO Mike Alvarez believes that cybersecurity should be an integral part of the design process for digital health products, not an add-on. For Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and other digital health technologies, security is crucial for building user trust, ensuring patient safety, and meeting regulatory requirements.