Startup Keas, co-founded by former Google Health chief Adam Bosworth, is aiming to make healthy living fun.
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Startup Keas, co-founded by former Google Health chief Adam Bosworth, is aiming to make healthy living fun. Via rswanky No comment yet.
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La start-up Keas propose aux employeurs un moyen d'améliorer la santé, l'humeur et la productivité des travailleurs tout en réalisant des économies sur les dépenses de santé.
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April 23, 2013 4:47 PM
Double effet d un programme de #bienetre au travail : réduit les dépenses de santé et augmente le sentiment d appartenance
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Keas Turns Health and Wellness Programs into Fun and Games 7x7 It's no secret that the workplace is not always the healthiest environment for people. Via Stephen P. Yang, Ph.D.
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Editor's note: This guest post is written by Adam Bosworth, co-founder of Keas, a startup that turns staying healthy into a game. Previously, he spearheaded Google Health, was chief architect at BEA Systems, and one of the fathers of XML. Via Pekka Puhakka
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Health startup Keas offers employers a way to improve worker health, mood and productivity while saving on healthcare costs. In addition to improving diet and encouraging exercise, Keas encourages team building. Via A Grolleau-Fricard
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Your Internet-connected devices may be getting more cooperative, thanks to group of startups and established players who have come together to create a new nonprofit group called the Internet of Things Consortium.
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Keas, a startup which gamefies employee wellness and compliance, today announced the launch of a new platform that adds more social elements to the service, can be accessed on iOS, and opens up Keas to third party web developers. Keas also announced a new CEO: Josh Stevens, an alum of AOL and, most recently, YouSendIt.
The company has also opened its platform to allow outside developers build on top of it. It’s unclear just how open the platform will be for third parties to really get creative with the data because the company is mum for now, though it says it has some partner announcements to make.
Keas said it would be working with quantified self device makers, publishers, and wellness app makers. Stevens said the service could work with those QS devices – he didn’t name names, but the Nike FuelBand and FitBit fall in the category. He also said the platform would integrate with fitness centers and cafeterias, so when an employee makes a healthy food choice, for example, he can automatically earn points.
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A group of technology start-ups is taking its cue from social gaming, in hopes of relieving companies, doctors and patients of some of the pain involved in managing health care. The new businesses, staffed mainly by health-industry veterans, have adapted common social-gaming features to help companies motivate their employees to get fitter or to encourage doctors to keep in touch with their colleagues and patients online. One of the start-ups, Keas Inc., whose clients include Pfizer Inc. and Novartis Inc., offers a gaming platform that allows groups of employees to compete with one another at exercising, eating healthily and taking better care of themselves. San Francisco-based Keas originally aimed to offer consumers alerts, messaging and personalized information to help them lose weight and adopt healthier habits, but that plan didn't work out. "We tried to give people constant feedback about their health, but for a lot of people, more bad news and negative feedback just didn't work," said Adam Bosworth, the company's chief technology officer. "If you keep giving someone negative feedback, they will eventually change the channel to the game channel. One day we decided to become that game channel." Keas now sets up contests in which co-workers compete by walking to the office more often or eating more vegetables. It says it has 80,000 active users, more than $16 million in venture capital and a growing list of customers. Quest Diagnostics Inc. said more than 80% of its employees who participated in an employee-wellness pilot program with Keas reported improved health. Other start-ups are pushing doctors to step up their game with features found in social games like Zynga Inc.'s Farmville or on social-networking sites like Facebook or Foursquare. HealthTap Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., runs a website that doctors can use to build an online profile, gaining public exposure by answering health-related questions from consumers. The more questions a doctor answers, the more points the doctor wins and the more prominently he is featured on the site, potentially attracting more patients. Patients, meanwhile, can sign up as followers of a particular doctor or of other patients on the site and can indicate if they like or dislike various bits of content. HealthTap says more than 6,000 doctors, as well as institutions including Harvard Medical School and the Cleveland Clinic, are actively answering users' questions on its site. "We're not building a game here, just adding subtle game mechanics to make it more fun for doctors," said HealthTap Chief Executive Ron Gutman. Audax Health Inc., a Washington-based start-up with $16.5 million in funding, said it plans to offer a gaming platform designed to enable large insurers to offer incentives to their members—such as reduced premiums—in return for adopting healthier habits. Doximity Inc. and WellnessFX Inc., two start-ups that have gained some traction among health-care providers, are in the process of incorporating gaming features. Doximity, based in San Mateo, Calif., provides a secure messaging platform that doctors can use to answer treatment questions from colleagues, and to become acquainted with other doctors, to whom they can refer patients. Because of strict privacy laws, doctors often discuss cases by fax, since regular email isn't considered secure enough. Chief Executive Jeff Tangney said Doximity has grown more quickly over the past several months since it added some game-like features. By expanding their network of friends and followers on Doximity, a doctors can earn a "Top Doctor" badge on the website, a potential magnet for referrals. Doximity soon plans to let users "follow" one another, he said, as they can on other platforms. San Francisco-based WellnessFX, which analyzes blood and urine samples, also provides a secure online forum in which doctors can confer with their patients. WellnessFX is considering adding game features to the mix to keep doctors and patients engaged, according to Chief Executive Jim Kean. "We're working on badges and leaderboards," he said. Via Chatu Jayadewa
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i moderated a fantastic panel on health games today at the greater philadelphia business coalition on health. my panelists were keas, shapeup and towerswatson. Via Emmanuel Capitaine , dbtmobile
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Le service Vivecoach.com permet d'entretenir une saine compétition entre les employés d'une entreprise, en proposant des défis fitness et nutrition. La société californienne Vivecoach propose ce service, destiné aux entreprises et aux institutions publiques, dans plus de 20 pays. Via dbtmobile
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En proposant des défis fitness et nutrition, la société californienne Vivecoach favorise une saine compétition entre les employés d'une entreprise (...)
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Companies are using games and gadgets to get employees to kick bad habits, the biggest challenge to controlling health-care costs. Keas has about 30 clients, most with 1,000 to 10,000 workers, who pay $15 per employee per year. “At the end of the day, it’s the social support of the game that keeps people playing.” In early 2010, six months after the $99.95 Fitbit went on sale, semiconductor company Tokyo Electron bought one for each of the 1,100 employees at its U.S. subsidiary. Since then, Fitbit has supplied hundreds of employers, including 25 Fortune 500 companies Via Olivier Janin
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Adam Bosworth, co-founder of Keas Inc., talks about the company's employee wellness programs which use social games. Triple win : 1/efficient incentive for the employees and benefit of being healthier, 2/productivity for the company, 3/ less health cost for the company Keas raised US$ 6.5M beginning of 2012. Keas has about 30 clients, most with 1,000 to 10,000 workers, who pay $15 per employee per year. (Bloomberg Business Week, July 2012) Via Olivier Janin
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