Sidekick Health is a new lifestyle-modification app that engages and motivates patients to participate actively in their own treatment by making healthy lifestyle changes.
The app, designed by Icelandic and Swedish specialists in lifestyle disease, was recently chosen for a partnership by Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA. The hospital is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
Tryggvi Þorgeirsson, a doctor and one of the company’s founders, says lifestyle diseases are a serious and costly situation for public health that needs to be addressed and prevented, rather than trying to manage these issues after they occur.
“We felt there was a need for new methods to prevent evidence-based lifestyle diseases, to nip the problem in the butt before it happens,” Tryggvi told Fréttablaðið newspaper.
The app‘s aim is to offer an effective and entertaining solution for evidence-based lifestyle change necessary to prevent lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. Such diseases are currently the major cause of death among adults in Europe and the number is expected to increase further in the next years.
The company works closely with professionals at Karolinska Institutet, the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University hospital, the Swedish National Diabetes Register, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, and the University of Iceland.
Sidekick Health is a new lifestyle-modification app that engages and motivates patients to participate actively in their own treatment by making healthy lifestyle changes.
The app, designed by Icelandic and Swedish specialists in lifestyle disease, was recently chosen for a partnership by Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA. The hospital is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
Tryggvi Þorgeirsson, a doctor and one of the company’s founders, says lifestyle diseases are a serious and costly situation for public health that needs to be addressed and prevented, rather than trying to manage these issues after they occur.
“We felt there was a need for new methods to prevent evidence-based lifestyle diseases, to nip the problem in the butt before it happens,” Tryggvi told Fréttablaðið newspaper.
The app‘s aim is to offer an effective and entertaining solution for evidence-based lifestyle change necessary to prevent lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. Such diseases are currently the major cause of death among adults in Europe and the number is expected to increase further in the next years.
The company works closely with professionals at Karolinska Institutet, the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University hospital, the Swedish National Diabetes Register, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, and the University of Iceland.