What is Luca MedTech working towards?

In Norway, over 33,300 people live with type 1 diabetes. Of these, 3,300 are children.

But diabetes doesn't stop with the patient. Around every child are parents who wake up at night to check blood sugar, grandparents learning to handle an insulin pump, nursery staff who need to know what to do when an alarm goes off, teachers and after-school workers who are part of the care network whether they chose to be or not. Add friends, siblings, and extended family, and we're quickly talking about 100,000 people who in one way or another have an active relationship with a single child's diabetes.

If we include the remaining 27,000 people with type 1 diabetes and the 250,000 living with type 2 — along with the networks around them — we're approaching one in ten Norwegians who are affected by diabetes in their daily lives.

That makes diabetes far more than a disease. It is a national infrastructure challenge.

And here is the paradox: diabetes is the chronic condition with the highest rate of advanced technology use and the greatest data production per patient in Norway. Every five minutes, around the clock, the sensor on the arm of thousands of Norwegian diabetes patients records a blood sugar reading. The insulin pump logs every single dose. All of this exists digitally.

But it doesn't flow automatically to the medical record. It doesn't reach the clinician. It isn't there where it's needed, when it's needed. And there is no Norwegian tool that follows the patient all the way — from newly diagnosed to a good and long life with diabetes.

That is exactly what we at Luca MedTech are working to change.

How did it come about?

In November 2025, Steffen Fonvig's three-year-old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

Already during the first weeks of hospitalisation, Steffen — with a background as a technology developer — had built a web-based application the family could use at home, at nursery, and by everyone else who was part of his son's care network. A tailored food and ingredient database, a recipe function, and calculators adapted for insulin dosing. Tools for a situation where you need all the help you can get.

In March 2026, Luca MedTech AS was founded.

It started by chance — a father thrown into a world he didn't choose. But it continues with the strongest motivation there is: no one deserves diabetes, and the tools, data flow, and support available for people with chronic illness in Norway today are not good enough. Not for patients. Not for families. Not for the clinicians trying to help them. We'll keep going until we get there.

We work for everyone living with diabetes

Luca MedTech is built to solve the technical gaps we find in the world of diabetes in Norway — for patients, families, nurseries, schools, and clinicians. Right now we are working on two things: completing the tool that was missing when our son was diagnosed, and building the infrastructure that ensures data from patients' devices actually ends up where clinicians need it — in the medical record. It's not all we want to do. But it's where we start.

DiaLuca — three modules, one application

DiaLuca will be available as an app on Android and iPhone, as well as a web-based solution — so it works regardless of which device the nursery, school, or clinician uses.

The application is built around three modules that together cover the full everyday reality of diabetes.

The Family module is the starting point — and it is always free.

Everything a family with diabetes needs is gathered in one solution: a tailored food and ingredient database with carbohydrate values, a recipe function with automatic carbohydrate calculation, and calculators adapted for insulin dosing. Also included is inventory and medication management driven by an automated calendar that continuously tracks usage — and alerts when it's time to reorder. The calendar can be overridden manually and self-corrects based on actual use.

The Nursery/School module gives nurseries, after-school programmes, and schools a simple and safe tool for managing children with diabetes in daily life.

Staff get access to the child's relevant information, action plans for different situations, and direct communication with parents — without sensitive health information being spread uncontrolled via SMS and email. The goal is that a nursery worker should never stand alone and uncertain when an alarm goes off.

The Clinic module connects patient data to the treating team.

Clinicians get a structured overview of the patient's data from admission, a powerful support tool, and resources covering the full hospitalisation journey — so they can quickly and easily hand off the most up-to-date information to patients without having to manage it themselves. This creates confidence for diabetes teams across Norway, and for patients and families whose world has been turned upside down — as ours was on 6 November 2025.

DiaLuca is and will always be free for patients, families, and caregivers.

DiaBridge: Automatic data flow to the hospital record

DiaBridge — automatic data flow to the medical record. Patients with diabetes continuously generate data from CGM sensors and insulin pumps. This data is sent to various third-party systems depending on the manufacturer — but it never ends up in the medical record system used when the patient comes in for a consultation.

A typical diabetes consultation at a hospital looks like this: a nurse uploads data from the insulin pump, logs into an external system, reviews the data with the patient — and then manually types the most important values into the medical record. Not because anyone wants it this way, but because there is no automatic connection between the patient's technology and the Norwegian healthcare system.

DiaBridge changes the data flow. Instead of data being sent to external systems, it is delivered directly into the medical record where it is actually used.

Once we have solved that, the next step is to build systems that proactively identify patients with concerning readings — so the clinician can act before a crisis occurs, not after.

That is the foundation for better diabetes care across all of Norway.

DiaBridge is not just our observation. Professor Eirik Årsand at UiT — The Arctic University of Norway's leading research environment on digital diabetes — documented exactly this problem in a peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology in March 2025.

The study systematically mapped how CGM and pump data are unavailable for journal integration in Norway, and demonstrated a technical interoperability model to solve it. It is independent academic research confirming that the problem is real, documented — and solvable.

👉 Read the study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11954377/

Do you want to be part of it?

Luca MedTech is early in the journey — and we are looking for the right people to make it with.

• Are you a diabetes clinic or hospital that wants to pilot DiaBridge?

• Are you a family that wants to test DiaLuca?

• Are you a nursery or school that wants a better everyday tool?

• Are you an investor or partner who sees the same gap we see?

We build slowly and correctly — because it is patient data we are handling, and because the solutions we create will be used by families like ours.

Get in touch: kontakt@lucamedtech.no