The Journal of mHealth Vol 1 Issue 2 (Apr 2014) | Page 40

Interview with Peter Ohnemus at dacadoo
Continued from page 37

innovation is an easy-to-use, wireless,
secure and fun way to manage personal
health and fitness from a lifestyle and
wellness perspective called the ‘dacadoo Health Score Platform’. The platform calculates an individual’s personal
dacadoo Health Score, a number from
1 (poor) to 1,000 (excellent), and this
becomes a directional relative indicator
of your current health and fitness sta-

tus in real time. By integrating gaming
and social networking principles, dacadoo motivates users to be active in an
easy way by automatically tracking and
comparing their personal health, fitness
and lifestyle. The platform is available
across a whole range of devices, allowing it to be fully integrated into an individual’s daily life.
Peter describes the foundation for the
Health Score, “For 500 years medicine
has been based on what we call Da
Vinci’s lifestyle model, which consists
of who you are, how you feel, and how
you live, and that is how we have created the Health Score”
This concept has been directly incorporated into the system so that an individual can input hard data such as age,
gender, weight, height, body dimensions, blood values and blood pressure.
They can then also record emot