Telcare

Telcare was a digital-health company that built the first cellular-enabled blood glucose monitoring (BGM) system: a meter with an embedded cellular module that pushed readings to Telcare's Telserve/Telcloud back end, connected to EMR systems, and paired with companion smartphone apps for people managing diabetes and their caregivers. The brand was acquired into BioTelemetry and is now part of Philips (BioTel Care); the telcare.com domain redirects to Philips ambulatory monitoring, and device-data integration is offered through the third-party Validic health-data platform rather than a first-party public API. Surfaced as a Norwest Venture Partners portfolio lead; enrichment found no first-party developer portal, OpenAPI, or public API surface for the Telcare brand.

Telcare is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Digital Health, Medical Devices, Diabetes, and Remote Patient Monitoring.

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5.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyDigital HealthMedical DevicesDiabetesRemote Patient MonitoringBlood Glucose MonitoringHealthAcquired

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Composite quality — 5.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: telcare
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/telcare.png
name: Telcare
description: 'Telcare was a digital-health company that built the first cellular-enabled blood glucose monitoring (BGM) system:
  a meter with an embedded cellular module that pushed readings to Telcare''s Telserve/Telcloud back end, connected to EMR
  systems, and paired with companion smartphone apps for people managing diabetes and their caregivers. The brand was acquired
  into BioTelemetry and is now part of Philips (BioTel Care); the telcare.com domain redirects to Philips ambulatory monitoring,
  and device-data integration is offered through the third-party Validic health-data platform rather than a first-party public
  API. Surfaced as a Norwest Venture Partners portfolio lead; enrichment found no first-party developer portal, OpenAPI, or
  public API surface for the Telcare brand.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/telcare/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- norwest-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-status-note: telcare.com redirects (301) to www.gobio.com/health-management then to Philips ambulatory monitoring; product
  lives on as Philips BioTel Care. No first-party Telcare API surface found during enrichment (2026-07-21).
x-successor: philips-biotel-care
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Digital Health
- Medical Devices
- Diabetes
- Remote Patient Monitoring
- Blood Glucose Monitoring
- Health
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://telcare.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1