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Program Category: Innovator

Category: Innovator – programs that stand out for their novel approaches

Canary Health

In: Prevention

As a digital platform for healthy living, Canary Health provides online support and tracking tools to promote lifestyle change and chronic disease prevention. Employers and healthcare organizations partner with Canary primarily to enroll their at-risk employees in Canary’s online CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program. Canary focuses on holistic health and “Whole Person Healthcare,” providing programs that …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital


Cigna Sunday Streets

In: Prevention

The Cigna Sunday Streets initiative closes a major section of streets in Houston, Texas, on one Sunday per month, six Sundays per year – allowing residents to walk, bike, and jog along the roads. A variety of businesses on these routes provide entertainment and programs during the event. After the success of the City of …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: State/Municipal
Attributes: Community Outreach/Engagement, Free for Participants, Physical Activity Promotion, Population Health


Creating a Culture of Wellness - UCSF

In: Workplace Wellness

Organizations create cultures of wellness by combining health education with onsite efforts to promote healthy behaviors and an institutional emphasis on health as a central value. For employees in such organizations, health is part of the culture, and to be healthy is to be part of the community These organizations create environments that ease and …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Academic Institution
Attributes: Culture of Wellness, Environmental Change, Nutrition & Healthy Eating


Cummins LiveWell Center

In: Workplace Wellness

Cummins opened a holistic LiveWell Center in Columbus, Indiana.  Nearly 9,000 employees and their family members (a total of 17,000) live within a 20 mile radius of the Center. The clinic focuses on preventing healthcare problems through lifestyle services including stress management, exercise counseling, and nutrition classes, in addition to primary and urgent care. It …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Corporate Responsibility, Culture of Wellness


Digital Integration for Workplace Wellness - Castlight Health

In: Workplace Wellness

A growing number of companies are moving into corporate wellness technology development, creating platforms for other companies to implement workplace wellness programs. By leveraging mobile applications and fitness trackers, these platforms help employers and employees input, track, and analyze real-time data in areas such as fitness, health metrics, emotional wellness, and nutrition.

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Online/App-Based/Digital


Digital Integration for Workplace Wellness - Sonic Boom

In: Workplace Wellness

A growing number of companies are moving into corporate wellness technology development, creating platforms for other companies to implement workplace wellness programs. By leveraging mobile applications and fitness trackers, these platforms help employers and employees input, track, and analyze real-time data in areas such as fitness, health metrics, emotional wellness, and nutrition.

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Online/App-Based/Digital


Faithful Families Eating Smart and Moving More

In: Prevention

Faithful Families provides nutrition and healthy living education in faith communities, with a curriculum designed to tie together faith and health. The nine-part curriculum is taught by a trained nutritional facilitator and a lay leader from the faith community. The model has inspired similar faith-based prevention initiatives in at least seven other U.S. states.

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Non-profit/NGO
Attributes: Behavior Change, Faith-based, Health Education, Nutrition & Healthy Eating, Peer Support, Targeted Population


Figure 1

In: Healthcare Teams of the Future

Figure 1 is a free knowledge-sharing app that allows medical practitioners to post pictures of their patients and receive real-time advice on diagnosis/treatment options. Specialists can provide information about their unique fields, students can learn about rare cases, and all medical practitioners can be exposed to innovative methods of treatments through the online platform. Patients …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Free for Participants, Interprofessional/Interdisciplinary Teams, Medical Education, Online/App-Based/Digital, Quality Improvement


Healthimation's Why WAIT

In: Prevention

Born out of a collaboration between the Joslin Diabetes Center and Hollywood, Healthimation’s app version of a successful Diabetes Prevention Program – Why WAIT (Weight Achievement and Intensive Training) demonstrates the potential of gamification for healthy behavior change. The Why WAIT app uses Hollywood animation and an avatar named Lena to engage users in a …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital


Healthy Together Victoria

In: Prevention

Before facing funding cuts in 2015, the state-wide Healthy Together Victoria program in Victoria, Australia sponsored a number of initiatives, such as healthy lifestyle awareness campaigns and workplace wellness programs. The various interventions were specifically targeted at multi-level health determinants, including individual psychology, food systems, and societal influences on health and behavior. Though ultimately defunded …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: State/Municipal
Attributes: Population Health


Lark

In: Prevention

Lark is an app-based (iOS and Android) DPP entirely powered by artificial intelligence, meaning users can get real-time feedback without waiting for a coach. A simple red-yellow-green system makes food logging simple and convenient for users. Lark markets both to individual users in addition to employers, increasing its availability to the general public. Cost for …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital


McCormick Health and Wellness Center & Living Well With Diabetes

In: Workplace Wellness

McCormick & Company offers it employees care from an independent Health and Wellness Center close to their headquarters that employs a team of registered nurses, a physician, registered dietician, nurse practitioners, etc. In 2012, McCormick tested out its Living Healthy With Diabetes (LHWD) program in a small, preliminary group of 39 employees with type 2 …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Corporate Responsibility, Culture of Wellness


MSWEIGHT

In: Healthcare Teams of the Future

MSWEIGHT seeks to address the muffled discussion about obesity in US health education and healthcare. Through a 5-year intensive study (3,311 participants at 9 of the most selective US medical schools), the program is testing a new model for teaching weight management counseling, called MS Weight. The results of the study are determined through the …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Academic Institution
Attributes: Medical Education, Nutrition & Healthy Eating, Obesity


Noom

In: Prevention

Noom is a digital (app for iOS and Android) DPP program featuring personal guidance from live coaches. Users can choose plans focused on distinct goals, including weight loss, diabetes prevention, and – in the near future – hypertension. Noom claims an average weight loss of 18 pounds, with significant loss sustained at 4 years. The …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Online/App-Based/Digital


Skinny Gene Project

In: Prevention

Skinny Gene offers an online DPP, a brick-and-mortar DPP, and community events like cooking classes for participants in San Diego County. The variety of options, whether online, in-person, or community-based, allow participants to choose the program that best fits their needs. DPP programs have a partnership with SideKick health, which provides mobile support and easy …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Non-profit/NGO
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital


Smart Choice and Healthy Beverage Programs

In: Prevention

As joint programs, Smart Choice and Healthy Beverage aim to make healthier food and drink options available on the various medical campuses of the University of California, San Francisco. Smart Choice created a standardized system for communicating nutritional information, including printing nutrition facts on receipts and labeling healthy choices with a recognizable logo. The Smart …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Academic Institution
Attributes: Culture of Wellness, Environmental Change, Nutrition & Healthy Eating, Social Determinants of Health


Virta Clinic

In: Healthcare Teams of the Future

Virta is an “online specialty medical clinic” focused on improving and even reversing type 2 diabetes Patients receive an individual nutritional plan focused on establishing “nutritional ketosis” through very low-carb diets. Patients access their care team, including an overseeing physician and a dedicated one-on-one coach, through a digital platform that also allows for biometric monitoring …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Nutrition & Healthy Eating, Online/App-Based/Digital, Personalized Care/Precision Medicine


Yes Health

In: Prevention

Yes Health is an all-mobile DPP platform, through which users engage in lessons, log food and activity, and receive coaching through the Yes Health app. Each user receives a personal plan from his or her coach that includes suggested meals, fitness activities, and well-being exercises (e.g., meditation). Yes Health markets directly to the consumer, meaning …

Category: Innovator    Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital


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