WHAT EXCITES US
Designing education that sticks, by engineering education directly into the product design for effortless implementation of key clinical recommendations. We want people with diabetes to think less about their diabetes, enabling them to do more. This has been fundamental to the development of our solution, SiteSmart™.
OUR FOCUS
SiteSmart™
Making the most out of insulin!
Insulin is an amazing drug. It’s a life-saving drug. The discovery of insulin by Banting and Best in 1921 has been a landmark in Canadian medical history. Since then, the field has observed a lot of innovation through the development of novel insulin and technologies to monitor diabetes management. But an important aspect of insulin administration has been forgotten over the last 100 years: the impact that repeated insulin injections (a growth hormone) at the same location has on insulin absorption, effectiveness and safety, leading to a complication also known as lipohypertrophy.
Lipohypertrophy is a common complication, occurring in as high as 65% of people using insulin. ‘Lipo’ is defined as an abnormal accumulation of fat underneath the surface of the skin. The primary cause of lipohypertrophy is a lack of proper injection site rotation, which results in erratic insulin absorption, and therefore unpredictable blood sugar levels. Ensuring constantly rotating insulin injection site seems like an easy thing to do, but easier said, not as easily implemented.

Clinical impact of lack of injection site rotation

Unpredictable blood glucose swings

10% Increase in insulin requirements
Worldwide Injection Technique Study, Mayo Clinic Proc. 2016;91(9):1224-1230

0.6% elevation in A1C
Worldwide Injection Technique Study, Mayo Clinic Proc. 2016;91(9):1224-1230
OUR SOLUTION
Montmed has developed SiteSmart™, the only insulin pen needle designed to bring clinical value by helping insulin users effortlessly adopt a healthy site rotation routine.
You must be asking… how does it work?
SiteSmart™ leverages the basic principle of association to create and favor effortless implementation of healthy insulin injection site rotations. First, create your injection site rotation plan according to your preference and your healthcare professional recommendations by simply associating a color to an injection site, using the association tool provided in the box, or by using the web app. Then, each time you pick a new pen needle, simply inject in the area corresponding to the color of the pen needle on your plan.
That’s it! No tracking, no logging, no need to remember where you gave your last injection. It’s that easy!

LEADERSHIP
Our team has years of professional (and personal) experience in diabetes and blood sugar management, delivery systems, and commercialization.


BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ADVISORY BOARD
Our company benefits from the expertise and experience of numerous advisors, including world-renowned professionals in diabetes education, injection techniques, respected researchers, pharma and medical devices executives.
LATEST NEWS
Montmed Inc. Announces Issuance of a second US Patent for Sitesmart Pen Needles
Montmed, Inc., a company dedicated to bridging the gap between science and behavior in diabetes care to deliver better outcomes while reducing the cognitive burden associated with living with diabetes, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office [...]
Montmed presents new data on the impact of the Sitesmart™ pen needle intervention on retail pharmacist practice at the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists Annual Conference
Results of a randomized controlled trial demonstrating the clinical value of utilizing retail pharmacists to improve injection site rotation with the novel SiteSmartTM pen needle system are presented in the poster session at the 2020 Association of Diabetes Care and [...]
Announces Issuance of US Patent for SiteSmart™ Pen Needles
Montmed Inc. Announces Issuance of US Patent for SiteSmart™ Pen Needles MONTREAL, January 10, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ - Montmed, Inc., a company dedicated to enabling people with diabetes to do more without adding to the burden of managing their [...]
A Helpful Reminder from These Colorful Insulin Pen Needles
A Helpful Reminder from These Colorful Insulin Pen Needles Last month we addressed the under-discussed issue of lipohypertrophy. Lori Berard, chair of the Canadian Forum for Injection Techniques, helped ASweetLife understand the nature and scope of the issue, which is almost [...]
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