Dacadoo

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dacadoo ag
Dacadoo logo.png
Type Private company
Founded Zurich, Switzerland
Area served Worldwide
Slogan(s) What's your Health Score?
Website www.dacadoo.com
Alexa rank 1,019,923 (June 2015)[1]
Type of site Health promotion, mhealth, Social Networking
Registration Required
Available in 9 languages including: American English, German, Portuguese, French, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Czech
Launched December 2011
Current status Active

dacadoo (formerly QUENTIQ AG) is a Zurich based company that combines mobile technologies, social networking, gamification and big data analytics with the aim of helping users improve their health and well-being.

History and background

dacadoo is based in Zurich, Switzerland and was founded as QUENTIQ AG in 2010 (and renamed to dacadoo ag in January 2012) with offices in Zurich, Switzerland and San Francisco, USA. The company is privately funded. The dacadoo platform went live in December 2011 with its online health and well-being platform, and its related application to track activity for iOS devices, followed by similar applications for Android devices in May 2012 and BlackBerry devices in June 2012.

The company presupposes its health platform execution on the premise that sedentary lifestyles have increased the proportion of people who are overweight, have diabetes or suffer heart failure in our society thus pressuring further the already stressed healthcare budgets of most developed countries. One such study quoted is the clinical data published in the Lancet[2] which demonstrates that insufficient activity has nearly the same effect on life expectancy as smoking. With these type of studies as their reference dacadoo has been, according to their website and press releases, developing a so-called lifestyle navigation platform that calculates a person's Health Score. The score, a number from 1 to 1000, represents a persons health status from poor to excellent and aims to represent a directional relative indicator of a user's current health and well-being status in real-time.

According to their statement, many of the company's initiatives aim to focus on active prevention and healthier lifestyle to tackle the problems before they become chronic – in this instance referencing a report on global life sciences published by Ernst & Young in 2012 [3] which recognizes that changing behavioral patterns represented the single biggest opportunity to improve an individuals health outcome.

The company's business model is based on the premise that the combination of smartphone technology, social networking, motivation techniques from the gaming industry, and big data analytics, have the power to facilitate lifestyle behavior change in individuals. As a result the company trademarked the dacadoo Health Score Platform based on these principles. The company has since launch issued a disclaimer that the so-called dacadoo Health Score [4] is not a diagnostic tool but a lifestyle product and therefore does not substitute the diagnosis of a medical professional. When tracked over time, the health score will possibly offer a directional relative indicator of how a person's health and well-being is improving or deteriorating.

Nuffield Health, a UK-based non-profit healthcare and fitness operator, introduced its Nuffield Health Score product developed by dacadoo in early 2013.,[5] and AOK Nordost, a German health insurance company, offers the dacadoo solution in north eastern Germany since 2013.

According to the company's website, the dacadoo health score is based on three pillars:

  • Your Body (who you are): the platform captures hard data such as age, gender, weight, height, body dimensions, blood values and blood pressure
  • Your Emotions (how you feel): the platform uses a quality of life questionnaire to obtain the necessary information for this pillar
  • Your Activities (what you do): the platform captures data from physical activity, nutrition, stress, sleep and daily steps

Platform and functionality

The online health & well-being platform can be accessed by web browser on the computer or by a mobile wireless device such as a smartphone or tablet.

The platform uses principles from the gaming industry (so-called “gamification”) and offers additionally a social network enabling users to connect with and 'follow' their friends. The Newsfeed is the centerpiece of the dacadoo social network and a collection of all activities of the user and his/her friends such as fitness activities, challenge participation, earned achievements and rewards, providing the user and his/her friends authorized sharing of this information in their privacy settings. To recognize the active engagement and the progress of dacadoo users, the platform rewards the users with achievements in specific activities to provide a kind of “pat on the back” feedback.

The platform that dacadoo is built on is device and application agnostic and supports third party devices from companies such as Fitbit, Jawbone (company), BodyMedia, Garmin and Polar, as well as mobile applications and devices from others suppliers.

The dacadoo Tracker is a free application for smartphones to enable the users to track their indoor and outdoor fitness activities. It is available for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry and allows GPS tracking of many activities producing maps with the tracks of you and your friends that can be analyzed in detail. Additionally, photographs can be attached to each activity over the smartphone.

Similar products

Similar products include

Awards and nominations

2016
Winner of the Global Wellness Analytics Visionary Innovation Leadership Award 2016 by Frost & Sullivan.[6] dacadoo was nominated as finalist[7] in the category “Best App” at the international Wearable Technology Show 2016 in London. Winner of the BIG Innovation Award 2016 by the Business Intelligence Group in the USA[8]

2015
dacadoo won silver at the EU SME eHealth Competition 2015[9] in the Champions category in Riga. in May 15 dacadoo was elected Top 50 startups at TiECon 2015[10] in the USA. Finalist at the Digital Health Award of the Digital Innovation in Healthcare Conference of Munich Network (Europe).[11]

2014
In 2014 dacadoo wins Bronze in the category “Innovation" at the Best of Swiss Web Awards 2014 in Zurich. [12] dacadoo is one of the winners of the Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award 2014 in Amsterdam.[13] In November 2014 dacadoo wins Bronze in category Lifestyle at the Best of Swiss App Award 2014. [14]

2013
In Lucerne, Switzerland the dacadoo platform won the Swiss ICT Award 2013 Public Award.[15] In Köln, Germany, dacadoo won the Health Media Award 2013.[16]

2012
The dacadoo tracker app was on the short list of the inaugural Swiss App Awards[17] 2012 in Zurich. Quentiq was nominated in the 2012 Best of Swiss Web Awards. The Quentiq platform won bronze,[18] in the category "Technology" at the "Best of Swiss Web Awards 2012" in Zurich, was selected as the winner by the judges. In Munich at the "Health Media Award 2012″ the Quentiq platform won the first place award in the category "International Communication" and also for the Special category: “International Cooperation”.

Media coverage

The company has received media coverage in print, online and TV mostly in the German speaking part of Europe (Switzerland, Germany and Austria). Swiss German print media includes Blick,[19] SonntagsBlick magazine,[20] SonntagsZeitung weekly newspaper,[21] and 20 Minuten,[22] und [23] BILANZ Magazine,[24] and NZZ am Sonntag.[25][26] Swiss French print media includes newspaper Le Temps.[27] Also covered by Swiss television's.[28] "cash TV" and "10vor10"[29] and "Einstein".[30] Also covered by the DRS 2[31] the second Swiss German radio station from Schweizer Radio DRS and the French radio in Switzerland RTS.[32]

In Germany, media coverage includes Die Welt,[33] Internet World Business.[34] and Süddeutsche Zeitung.,[35][36] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)[37] and German TV ZDFinfo,[38] and on German public TV Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen Das Erste,[39] Also specific start-up news websites such as startupticker.ch,[40] startwerk.ch,[41] ictk.ch,[42] newlyswissed,[43] gruenderszene.de,[44] and netzwoche.[45] dacadoo has been mentioned in a three-sided report in the taz Die Tageszeitung,[46]

English speaking media coverage include articles in the Journal of mHealth,[47] The Economist,[48] and the Wall Street Journal.[49] Also published in mHealthNews,[50] mHealthSpot,[51] SeekingAlpha,[52] theinquirer [53] and mobihealthnews.[54]

Danish newspapers have also written about the company due to founding entrepreneur Peter Ohnemus's Danish background. These include: Dagbladet Børsen[55] and Berlingske Tidende.[56]

Portuguese "Brazilian" speaking media coverage includes articles in Saber Viver,[57] Brazil’s EXAME magazine,[58] and Impressão Digital.[59]

Criticism

To date, there isn’t yet any prospective clinical outcome study on behavioral change that shows objectively, that the dacadoo health score platform is effective as behavioral change and well-being platform.

References

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  2. ↑ Lancet 2012; 380: 219–29 "Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy” I-Min Lee, Eric J Shiroma, Felipe Lobelo, Pekka Puska, Steven N Blair, Peter T Katzmarzyk, for the Lancet Physical Activity Series Working Group*
  3. ↑ Global Life Sciences Report 2012 by Ernst & Young “Progressions – The Third Place: healthcare everywhere”
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