# Telcare

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/telcare/  
**Website:** https://telcare.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 2.2 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 2.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Digital Health, Medical Devices, Diabetes, Remote Patient Monitoring, Blood Glucose Monitoring, Health, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/telcare/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.