Vida Health, a virtual cardiometabolic care provider, is partnering with wearable device company ŌURA to integrate ŌURA’s biometric data into Vida’s clinical programs, the companies announced on Tuesday.
Vida offers metabolic care that includes nutritional guidance, anti-obesity medication prescribing and lifestyle coaching. It works with major health plans and employers and patients gain access to a care team that includes physicians, nurse practitioners, registered dietitians, specialists, mental health therapists and certified coaches.
ŌURA, meanwhile, offers a wearable smart ring called the Oura Ring, as well as an accompanying app. The ring provides personalized insights and guidance on sleep, activity, readiness, stress, resilience, women’s health and heart health.
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Through the partnership, Vida members are eligible to receive the Oura Ring as part of their care experience, depending on the terms of their employer or health plan coverage. Vida Health’s care teams will then be able to see patient data on sleep, heart rate variability and resting heart rate. This will help them adjust care plans if needed, provide more personalized coaching on sleep and stress and identify early warning signals. For employers and health plans, this partnership also offers better employee outcomes and possible cost savings, the companies declared.
This partnership is helpful as cardiometabolic care is often built around “episodic snapshots” from office visits and lab results, according to Jason Macaleer, chief strategy officer at Vida Health.
“Our partnership with ŌURA is designed to close that gap by bringing continuous, real-world data into the care experience. … By integrating this data into Vida’s clinical and behavioral care model, we can give care teams a much clearer picture of how members are doing between visits, and use those insights to deliver more timely, personalized coaching and care,” Macaleer said in an email.
ŌURA echoed these comments.
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“ŌURA joined forces with Vida to deliver a new model of continuous, personalized metabolic care. We know that metabolic health is one of today’s most pressing health challenges and a key driver of conditions like obesity and type 2 diabetes, and you can’t solve those problems with a single lab value or prescription—they’re shaped by patterns in sleep, activity, stress, and daily routines over time,” said Ricky Bloomfield, MD, chief medical officer at ŌURA.
By working with ŌURA, Vida Health aims to not only provide more personalized care but also drive stronger engagement.
“When care reflects what is actually happening in a member’s daily life, whether that is sleep disruption, stress, or recovery, it becomes more relevant and actionable,” Macaleer said.
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