Withings Health Solutions, a company offering health monitoring devices, has added Ilant Health to its Obesity Care Management Partner Ecosystem. It also released its best practices for obesity management programs.
Through the ecosystem, Withings embeds its health devices — like digital scales and blood pressure monitors — into digital health programs. This allows for improved data sharing and helps patients and medical teams better track weight and other metrics. It also helps demonstrate ROI to digital health companies’ payer partners.
Ilant Health, the newest addition to the ecosystem, is a virtual obesity management company that offers intensive behavioral therapy, pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery. It also provides virtual access to obesity medicine physicians, mental health practitioners, nutritionists and peer navigators. It serves both employers and health plans.
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Ilant Health joins several other companies in the ecosystem, including Form Health, Wondr Health, FyteHealth and Yazen Health.
“The partners we are working with, they believe the same thing as we do, which is that personalization leads to higher retention and, of course, better patient engagement and better patient health. … It’s not really only about [GLP-1s] actually, it’s about long term outcomes, and that’s the kind of partner we want to have in this field,” said Antoine Pivron, vice president of Withings Health Solutions, in an interview.
In addition to expanding its ecosystem, Withings released five best practices with its ecosystem partners that obesity management programs should include:
- Remote monitoring: It’s important to continuously monitor patients so that providers can make real-time adjustments to treatment.
- Patient engagement: Engage patients with devices and personalized messages so they can follow their care team’s advice and stay on track with their plan.
- Value-based care: Having continuous data on patient progress makes it easier for providers to measure outcomes and prove ROI in value-based models.
- Personalized care: Leveraging data like body composition, blood pressure, sleep and activity makes it easier to improve care and intervene earlier if needed.
- Clinical rigor: Programs shouldn’t just focus on body mass index. They should also look at factors like fat distribution, muscle mass and metabolic health.
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“I think we would love to see more solutions on the market looking at the long term outcomes. … In the obesity space, it’s not only about weight. … It’s more about mindset, building the right habits and strong ones that will maintain the progress over time,” Pivron said.
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