LifeQ and Medibio to Deliver Scalable Mental Wellness Diagnostic and Management Tools to Empower Personal Health
January 04 2017 - 1:31PM
Business Wire
The platform only requires inputs from
wrist-based wearables to arm people with information to
continuously monitor and manage their mental wellbeing
Medibio and LifeQ today announced at CES a partnership towards
delivering mental wellness diagnostic and management solutions to a
wide range of users through insurance and corporate programs.
Mental health and wellness is a significant issue globally. Left
untreated, chronic stress and depression can result in serious
health conditions including anxiety, insomnia, high blood pressure
and a weakened immune system, contributing to the development of
chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes,
depression, and anxiety disorders.
This partnership combines LifeQ’s systems biology modeling and
unique suite of information streams with Medibio's 15 years of
mental health research and objective test for mental wellness.
Together, Medibio and LifeQ will deliver a solution that enables
stakeholders, including payers, providers and wellness companies,
to benefit from a completely new range of products and
services.
Leveraging LifeQ’s groundbreaking systems biology based
approached, which enables the extraction of a range of accurate
measures and metrics from wrist based wearables, Medibio’s solution
will be extended through continuous measurement and made available
at scale.
Distribution of these outputs will be further enhanced and
enabled by LifeQ’s Information Platform that seamlessly connects an
ecosystem of domain experts, all of whom will now be able to access
and use these information outputs. LifeQ is dedicated to promoting
the proliferation of physiological data to eliminate boundaries and
enhance quality of life globally. From powering health information
platforms that bring prevention and efficient care to the world, to
technology inside the best wearable body monitoring devices, LifeQ
technology is empowering people to redefine the way they engage
with their unique human biology.
“Medibio skills are hugely complementary to LifeQ’s and it is
exactly the type of specialist company LifeQ set out to enable with
our ability to deliver highly accurate physiological information.
We believe this partnership will have the potential for a
groundbreaking shift in the current approach to diagnosis and
management of mental wellness – now one of the single biggest cost
factors in the global health burden,” said Riaan Conradie
President and Co-Founder LifeQ.
In commenting on the partnership, Sean Mathieson, the Chief
Operating Officer of Medibio said, “We are excited by the potential
of LifeQ’s innovative approach to digital health and wellness. We
can see business opportunities and synergies across a number of our
target market segments.”
About LifeQ
LifeQ is pioneering a new front in the effort to bring
meaningful digital health and wellness insights and platforms to
market. By leveraging in-house multidisciplinary skills and
partnering with other analytics providers, LifeQ is able to create
and bring together the vital science and technology platforms
needed to bridge the industry gap between scalable and cutting edge
data acquisition technologies and personalized health and
lifestyle-related information platforms. The resulting data and
platforms will be made easily scalable and accessible to global
insurance and corporate wellness providers, pharmaceutical
suppliers, genomics researchers and others via APIs into LifeQ’s
deidentification and switching protocol. Taken as a whole, the
LifeQ platform is creating exciting new opportunities for an
ever-expanding array of health and wellness opportunities, building
sustainable value for investors and partners, and enhancing the
lives of people everywhere.
Visit www.lifeq.com
About Medibio
Medibio (ASX: MEB), is a medical technology company that has
developed an objective test to assist in the diagnosis of
depression, chronic stress and other mental health disorders. Based
on research conducted over 15 years at the University of Western
Australia, the test utilizes patented (and patent pending)
circadian heart rate variability and cloud based proprietary
algorithms delivering a quantifiable measure to assist in clinical
diagnosis. Medibio’s depression diagnostic is being validated in
clinical studies undertaken by The University of Ottawa, among
others. The clinical trials will support Medibio’s application to
become the first FDA approved, objective, and evidence based
approach to the diagnosis of mental health disorders. Medibio’s
technology also provides an objective method for the assessment of
stress and mental wellbeing that can be translated to the workplace
stress/wellbeing market, wearable technology and App market.
Located in Melbourne (Vic) Medibio is listed on the Australian
Securities Exchange Ltd.
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