Over the last year, diabetes technology saw significant changes, including the acceleration of patch pumps, ever-smaller continuous glucose monitors (CGM), implanted CGMs and increased interest in devices that measure additional chemicals in blood without needles.

The rapid adoption of the Omnipod 5 answered a question automated insulin delivery system manufacturers posed for years: with clear health benefits and payer coverage, why has pump adoption been so slow? Insulet Corp.’s Omnipod 5’s rapid rise to dominance demonstrated unequivocally that people with diabetes want a stick-and-forget device. The American Diabetes Association’s 85th Scientific Sessions in Chicago on June 20-23 made just as clear that pump makers received the message with several companies outlining plans to introduce a patch system in the next two years.

With the American Diabetes Association annual meeting a week away, four major diabetes tech companies queued up new partnerships for their devices.

Medtronic plc revealed plans to spin off its underperforming diabetes unit as a separate public company during its fourth quarter 2025 earnings call May 21. The company expects to complete the separation within 18 months.

Med-tech companies secured $8.27 billion in the first quarter of 2025, marking the highest quarter since 2022.

In the wake of the pandemic, many leading med-tech companies took steps to on-shore and near-shore manufacturing, a move that could protect significant numbers of players from the worst of the effects of the tariffs announced by the Trump administration last week.

For people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and the companies developing technologies to help them, the International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes delivered an abundance of good news. On the type 1 diabetes front, Insulet Corp.’s RADIANT study demonstrated massive improvement in time in range as well as lower glycemic levels for patients switching from multiple injections to the Omnipod 5 automated insulin delivery system.

Tandem Diabetes Care Inc.’s Control-IQ+ automated insulin delivery system improved multiple measures of glycemic control in individuals with type 2 diabetes who use insulin, a study presented March 19 at the 18th International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes and published in The New England Journal of Medicine demonstrated.

Tandem Diabetes Care Inc. reported that its next-generation automated insulin delivery algorithm, Control-IQ+ technology (Control-IQ+), is cleared by the U.S. FDA for use by people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) ages 18 and older.

A spate of year-end collaborations highlights growing enthusiasm for expanding use of automated insulin delivery devices or pumps in management of type 1 diabetes only to include many patients with type 2 diabetes. Beneficiaries include pump makers Tandem Diabetes Care Inc., Insulet Corp. and Medtronic plc as well as the leaders in the continuous glucose monitoring market, Abbott Laboratories and Dexcom Inc.