Startups
2013
HEALTHAPP SLWE IMPROVE TREATMENT ENGAGEMENT
Developing Therapeutical Apps
Developing Therapeutical Apps
Address
BV-1274 Km 1, 08225 Terrassa, Spain
CERCA ownership
Barcelona, Spain
1987
Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a l'Enginyeria (CIMNE)
CERCA Center Contact
JJ
Jordi Jiménez del Hierro
Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a l'Enginyeria (CIMNE)Status & Deeptech areas
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Company Description
Health innovation and digitalization to connect patients and healthcare professionals
HealthApp was founded to improve medical assistance and patient recovery process. By developing gamified apps, HealthApp engages patients into the therapy and connects with healthcare professionals. HealthApp provides real time data and analysis to adjust treatment, actions and decisions for a better care.
HealthApp is a company founded by people, lead by people which develops solutions for people. We care about our user’s needs. That is why we work to develop empathic solutions for our users.
HealthApp was founded to improve medical assistance and patient recovery process. By developing gamified apps, HealthApp engages patients into the therapy and connects with healthcare professionals. HealthApp provides real time data and analysis to adjust treatment, actions and decisions for a better care.
HealthApp is a company founded by people, lead by people which develops solutions for people. We care about our user’s needs. That is why we work to develop empathic solutions for our users.
Product description
TCApp - The App for the treatment of eating disorders
KickO is based on the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which represents the gold standard for the treatment of obesity and overweight, focusing on dysfunctional behaviors, cognitive processes, unrealistic weight goals and body image perceptions. But it has been demonstrated that it has a low success rate. It is based on daily logs and the current existing tools used for therapists to collect data are written records and workbooks, but these tools have demonstrated to be poorly effective as they are a source of discomfort requiring a paper record, so patients end up not doing them or registering poor information. In this context, the clinical practice and research have demonstrated the important lacks of this traditional treatment, related with accessibility, cost, engagement and long term efficiency. So, there is a need of finding new effective long term approaches, that can be economically viable and that can reach a wide scope of population. Regarding this, new technologies can become a promising method and become an alternative to traditional treatments in order to reduce economic costs, reduce visit’s time and increase engagement; enhancing weight reduction, promoting healthy habits and weight loss attitudes. So, the mHealth approach has the potential to make contributions not only in adult obesity but also in pediatric obesity, thereby creating new treatment delivery methods that could increase participation, compliance and engagement. The poor effectivity is due to that CBT does not drives to direct behavioral change.
KickO is based on the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which represents the gold standard for the treatment of obesity and overweight, focusing on dysfunctional behaviors, cognitive processes, unrealistic weight goals and body image perceptions. But it has been demonstrated that it has a low success rate. It is based on daily logs and the current existing tools used for therapists to collect data are written records and workbooks, but these tools have demonstrated to be poorly effective as they are a source of discomfort requiring a paper record, so patients end up not doing them or registering poor information. In this context, the clinical practice and research have demonstrated the important lacks of this traditional treatment, related with accessibility, cost, engagement and long term efficiency. So, there is a need of finding new effective long term approaches, that can be economically viable and that can reach a wide scope of population. Regarding this, new technologies can become a promising method and become an alternative to traditional treatments in order to reduce economic costs, reduce visit’s time and increase engagement; enhancing weight reduction, promoting healthy habits and weight loss attitudes. So, the mHealth approach has the potential to make contributions not only in adult obesity but also in pediatric obesity, thereby creating new treatment delivery methods that could increase participation, compliance and engagement. The poor effectivity is due to that CBT does not drives to direct behavioral change.
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