Vitalog, a global company working in the field of IT Life Style and Wellness, opens a new unit to focus on European Research activities and projects. This new unit will participate in and conduct joint Research activities within European programs related to Health Determinants, Lifestyle, Nutrition, eHealth, Networks, Education and eInclusion. Medical research shows that the most efficacious way to promote healthy lifestyle is structured behavioral program. Treatment is built on the principles of self-monitoring, cognitive restructuring, stress management, social support, physical activity and relapse prevention while being supported by a behavioral counselor. However, this intensity of care is usually localized near research-base universities and hospitals and is cost-prohibitive owing to the level of professional support required, which prevents it from being provided to the masses.
Now with Vitalog, real behavior modification programs for the masses have become a realistic possibility.
According to recent research, Internet and mobile phones hold promise as an avenue to disseminate state-of-the-art programs that promote healthy lifestyle strategies to larger populations. More than 300 million Europeans have Internet access and mobile phone penetration hits almost 100% in EU.
Behavior change is considered by many international and national health organizations (WHO, CDC) to be the most effective way to obtain sustainable, long lasting results for treating overweight and obesity and consequently avoid diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, cardiovascular diseases and in general to avoid chronic diseases and maintain good health.
Acting as a personal "health coach" Vitalog PSS objectives are to provide users with effective medical and non medical primary and secondary prevention programs in order to achieve "behavior change" and maintain "healthy lifestyle" for long term success.
Vitalog Pss HealthCoach (for the Consumer market) and Vitalog PSS HealthCoachPro (for the Medical market) have already implemented on IT systems many recommendations from WHO related to Healthy Life Style, Nutrition and Obesity.
Vitalog Pss is delivering tools and services (SaaS) for the Healthcare industry as well as for other industries (Food, Insurance, Telecom, Media, etc.) and service providers that allow for the first time widely accessible cost effective practice of structured behavior modification programs for primary and secondary prevention using Web and Mobile technologies
Vitalog Pss is a software platform (SaaS) composed of three application layers:
- A powerful back-end database management center to handle communities, users and personalization, healthy life style programs definition and management, personalized menu management and dashboards for reporting;
- A Portal to deliver the Users experience and enrollment for Web or Mobiles
- A communication layer to interact via Mobile technologies with Users and/or Medical or non medical Devices
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About Vitalog
Vitalog is a global company based in Brussels working in the field of IT Life Style and Wellness. We provide innovative state of the art Healthy Life Style prevention programs and solutions for level one and level two diseases. Vitalog's main product is Vitalog Pss, a Mobile and Internet suite delivered as SaaS (software as a Service) to Consumer markets with the module Vitalog Pss HealtCoach and to the Medical market with the module Vitalog Pss HealthCoachPro. Both programs use advanced technologies that provide a "personal health coach" in order to help consumers or patients achieve "sustainable behavior changes" that lead to healthier lifestyle. Behavior change is considered by health professionals as the most effective way to prevent chronic diseases and maintain good health.