The Journal of mHealth Vol 1 Issue 2 (Apr 2014) | Page 10

INDUSTRY
NEWS
News and Information for
Digital Health Professionals

dacadoo Health Score
Application Now Available
for New Samsung Gear 2
‘dacadoo’ have announced that their innovative and award
winning Health Score Platform is now available for the
new Samsung Gear 2. Launched at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the next generation Samsung Gear 2
will come pre-installed with the dacadoo Health Score
application.
The dacadoo application is optimised for the Samsung
Gear 2 as a mini version of its comprehensive dacadoo
health and wellbeing platform. With the dacadoo app,
users will be able to see their personalised Health Score, an
overall measure of health and well-being, based on their
body metrics, lifestyle and activity.
Peter Ohnemus, President and CEO of dacadoo AG,
shared: “dacadoo is very proud to announce this major
partnership with Samsung Electronics, the leading worldwide producer of mobile wireless devices.
Bringing the dacadoo mini-application onto
the new Samsung Gear 2, we expect to
increase the visibility of the dacadoo Health
Score concept worldwide”.
The dacadoo Health Score web platform and
the dacadoo mobile applications enable people to track, document and benchmark their
health and wellbeing in real-time in an easy
and fun way. dacadoo gives users a personal
Health Score from 1 (low) to 1,000 (high),
which moves up or down depending on how
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ities (exercise, nutrition,
stress and sleep) change.
The Health Score is based
on “big data” with several
tens of millions of personyears of clinical data and
incorporates many of the
well-known cardio cerebrovascular risk studies
and quality of life assessment tools. dacadoo systematically applies techniques from the gaming industry, group
dynamics from social networks and provides relevant lifestyle feedback to users to engage and motivate them to use
the Health Score Platform regularly and thereby adopt a
healthier lifestyle.
More information can be found at: www.dacadoo.com 