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LifeWell: Digital Lifestyle Medicine

Yale Innovation Summit
05/3106/01/2023

LifeWell: Digital Lifestyle Medicine

Poor lifestyle behaviors account for the greatest percentage of health risk, outcome, and cost. Lifestyle Medicine, a newer field of medicine, is preventive healthcare & self-management focused on helping individuals improve their lifestyle behaviors. It is in line with shifts in healthcare to provide more value-based, quality care that improves outcomes.  

We propose to develop LifeWell, the first digital platform for Lifestyle Medicine. Though wellness & wellbeing apps & biosensors exist, they address single behaviors and/or track some but not all behaviors with little integration and intervention support. Our solution is a smartphone application that allows users to monitor all their behaviors together and change them through evidence-based tools and coaching. This application interfaces with a robust data analysis platform to generate unique, integrated lifestyle behavior profiles and actionable insights to promote behavior change. We would offer LifeWell to other businesses such as higher education, healthcare systems, and payors. Licensing fees (e.g., a LifeWell alcohol reduction program for colleges) and CPT reimbursement codes (e.g., LifeWell for presurgery & chronic disease) would support revenue.