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AI health coach Noom joins Solera Health’s network of digital health partners

Noom's virtual health coach is intended to help users make smarter and healthier choices across areas from weight management, diabetes prevention and avoiding hypertension.

Helping hand to new member or hire join up with large social groSolera Health, a health IT company that works with employers and health plans to provide members access to digital health tools vetted by the business, added Noom to its network, according to a company statement. Noom’s virtual health coach is intended to help users make smarter and healthier choices across areas from weight management, diabetes prevention and avoiding hypertension.

As part of the collaboration, Noom and Solera will create a multi-pronged program to prevent and manage Type 2 diabetes in a combination of community-based, in-person interventions and virtual programs offered through mobile devices. It will seek to widen the number of people taking part in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Diabetes Prevention Program.

The long-term goal is behavior change, an area that seems to attract a ceaseless march of digital health entrepreneurs willing to bet that their approach will crack the conundrum of how to do it in a way that impacts the most people in a meaningful way. They all want to prevent the development of chronic conditions that come with costly complications.

Its weight management app helps users manage weight loss by listing meals they’ve had, daily tasks such as a workout schedule, and supplementing nudges for these tasks with content from publications to match up with the user’s preferences. It rates the quality of the user’s food choices and suggests meals to prepare.

Solera’s other partnerships include Retrofit, Weight Watchers as part of a pre-diabetes program, HealthSlate to connect at-risk patients with mobile diabetes prevention, and Blue Mesa, another digital program for diabetes prevention.

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