LifeWallet, in partnership with West Kendall Baptist Hospital and Healthy West Kendall, have been selected as winners of General Electric’s (GE) HealthyCities Leadership Academy’s Open Innovation Challenge. The collaborative trio are one of only nine winners selected throughout the country – and the only Florida effort to be recognized – who will receive an initial award of $25,000 to implement a program that aims to develop population health improvements by identifying patients at risk of developing diabetes.
LifeWallet aims to inspire healthy activity through mobile engagement apps and, as such, has developed new digital solutions designed to help healthcare providers to identify patients who are at risk for developing chronic illnesses, such as diabetes.
Encounter, LifeWallet’s Health Risk Assessment platform is being used as part of the West Kendall Baptist Hospital Healthy Hub, a free one-stop screening and referral-to-care kiosk. Encounter uses the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 assessment to generate a health score using vitals that include: blood pressure, blood glucose, weight, height, body mass index, age, eating habits, activity levels and family history to identify risk factors for (Type II) diabetes. This first Hub will be located at Baptist of West Kendall Hospital, encouraging patients and visitors to assess their risk of contracting diabetes. With this information consumers have the opportunity to take charge of their health and possibly prevent the development of diabetes.
