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The COVALENCE* Health Analytics Platform is a HIPAA-compliant solution that converts data streams into actionable insight to motivate healthier behaviors.
Despite all this interest, figures from a frequently cited Wall Street Journal article, “How Safeway Is Cutting Healthcare Costs,” reveal more could be done:
• 70 percent of all healthcare costs are driven by behavior • 74 percent of all costs are confined to four chronic conditions (cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity)
• 80 percent of cardiovascular disease and diabetes are preventable • 60 percent of cancers are preventable • More than 90 percent of obesity is preventable
Additional motivation comes from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This organization reports that the majority of chronic diseases respond well to behavioral changes. Type 2 dia- betes is a good example. This disease afflicts 10 percent of the U.S. population and is costly to manage, yet it responds well to changes in exercise and diet.
Motivation through Technology The popularity of wearable fitness bands and watches indicates a strong desire by people to improve their health. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), total shipment volume for the second quarter of 2015 came to 18.1 million units, up 223.2 percent from the 5.6 million units shipped in the 2014 second quarter.
Unfortunately, fitness wearables alone are marginally successful. The market research firm NPD Group reports that up to a third of the users discard them in a few weeks. On the positive side, more than half wear them past three months.
Incentivizing Healthy Behavior The COVALENCE* Health Analytics Platform provides the needed motivation to keep fitness wearables on people’s wrists. A complete patient and employee engagement and management program, the
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platform combines bio-sensing wearables with real-time predictive analytics technology.
Developed by Big Cloud Analytics (BCA), the solution capitalizes on an important truth: Piecemeal data provides little incentive for change. People need data converted into actionable insights they can easily apply to their lives.
The COVALENCE Health Analytics Platform collects and analyzes bio- metric, demographic, attitudinal, and exogenous data. It then presents the data in ways that inspire positive lifestyle changes (Figure 1). This results in reduced claims and fewer admissions and readmissions for serious ailments.
The proprietary COVALENCE modeling approach uses the world-re- nowned science of the company’s Google Research Award winner Dr. V. Kumar. BCA’s chief data scientist, Dr. Kumar is the most published data scientist in the field of engagement.
A HIPAA-compliant solution, the COVALENCE Health Analytics Platform gives care providers, insurers, and employers the ability to do the following:
• Collect and synthesize thousands of employee or patient data streams from smart watches and fitness bands
• Correlate biometrics with claims, weather, and social media data, as well as mood (self-reported)
• Obtain advanced population health-management analytics, scores, and coefficients
• Use automatic activity detection to group patients by activity level, resting heart rate, perspiration, temperature, blood glucose, sleep patterns, blood pressure, and other health parameters
• View dynamic overlays of self-reported information such as age, marital status, income, and tobacco and alcohol use
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