Health-mate is an integrated management platform consisting in a cloud-platform (four basic engines) and several end-user personal devices.

The cloud-platform include: a wellness assessment (providing an objective measurement of people’s overall wellness status); a barrier assessment (detecting obstacles preventing people from fully developing healthy lifestyles); a wellness program manager (providing actions and personalized wellness tracks to reach objectives); a profiling engine (for discovering new key knowledge about users); a data transformation engine (to get data from any device).

End-user personal devices consist of smartphone-based Body Area Networks (BAN), involving all their built-in sensors and features, together with any possible external sensor attached to them.

“HEALTH-mate is a comprehensive platform designed to manage personal health promotion, prevention and care plans”

TICs & Mobile Apps

• There are multiple apps available for smartphones under “health and fitness” or “medical” categories, but around half of them are miss-categorized or only loosely healthcare related.
• Among genuinely healthcare related apps more than two thirds are directly addressed to consumers with no mediation of healthcare providers.
• Most apps provide information to users regarding a particular topic, but less than a half of them also provide instructions and approximately only a fifth of information providing apps can track or capture user data [IMS Institute Report, 2013].
• Lifestyle and health-related apps will be used in a systematic basis and will eventually become an integrated healthcare component. Their functionality assessment will evolve from current user reviews to provider peer reviews, and eventually outcomes evidence assessments.

“In the last years it is agreed by the market, that the only long term sustainable model for health is based on a preventive and personalize planning and tracking”

• In 2013, over 2.7 billion people are using internet, which corresponds to 39% of the world’s population [International Telecommunication Union, ITU].
• There are now close to 100,000 mobile health apps in 62 app stores, with the top 10 apps generating over 4 million free downloads every day [Research2Guidance]
• Global market for wearable technologies will reach $5.8 billion in 2018, which represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.8 percent from 2012 to 2018 [Transparecy Market Research, 2013].
• Increased adoption of wearable tech: the market is expected to grow to 100 million units by the end of 2014.

• HEALTHmate has been designed to strongly benefit of the technologies available at CTB: Internet of Things, Cloud platform and Mobile apps and big data/analytics.
• Anschutz Wellness Center has large scientific supported large experience on preventing chronic diseases through lifestyle modification, providing an holistic concept and intervention programs that encompassed several dimensions of life including mind, body and purpose
• Diet and physical activity dimensions are based on CTB´s My Healthy Diet/Exercise Platform designed to help people to seamlessly adapt their diet/exercise-related daily choices to comply with a set of particular objectives.