Mobile health interventions for behavioral change require large-scale studies to ensure their clinical benefits. We conducted a randomized controlled trial of patients with hypertension to assess the myBPmyLife application in promoting physical activity and…
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U.K.-based Vitality, which offers tools to promote positive behavioral change in patients, announced its acquisition of U.S.-based coaching platform WellSpark. WellSpark was formed out of EmblemHealth, one of the largest nonprofit health insurers in America,…
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What You Should Know:
– Noom, a digital healthcare company, is shaking up the weight loss industry with the launch of Noom GLP-1Rx, an innovative program offers affordable, accessible, and sustainable weight loss by combining…
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The OpenAI Startup Fund and Arianna Huffington’s behavioral change technology platform Thrive Global announced the pair is launching a new company, Thrive AI Health, to expand access to personalized behavioral change health coaching using…
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This series of articles has covered the ways that digital technologies contribute to weight loss. To round out the series, this final article covers general topics applying to the field.
Maintaining Success
Both surgery…
This article is part of a series on today’s philosophies regarding weight change and how digital interventions can help. In this article, we’ll look at the contribution of tracking. The article looks at standards,…
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Internet-based tracking and coaching are being employed wherever health becomes a matter of lifestyle. Technologies can reach into every detail of a patient’s life: how to eat when they visit a buffet, where’s a…
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The first article in this series laid out what we know about body weight and obesity today. The rest of the Lean Digital series will look at some contributions that digital technologies are making…
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Is anyone not obsessed with weight? The health care field certainly is. Researchers have found ties between high body weight and an oversized list of unhealthy conditions. Payers have invested enormous amounts of money…
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