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dacadoo (formerly QUENTIQ AG) is a Zurich based company that combines mobile technologies, social networking, gamification and big data analytics with the aim of helping users improve their health and well-being. ==History and background== dacadoo is based in Zurich, Switzerland and was founded as QUENTIQ AG in 2010 (and renamed to dacadoo ag in January 2012) with offices in Zurich, Switzerland and San Francisco, USA. The company is privately funded. The dacadoo platform went live in December 2011 with its online health and well-being platform, and its related application to track activity for iOS devices, followed by similar applications for Android devices in May 2012 and BlackBerry devices in June 2012. The company presupposes its health platform execution on the premise that sedentary lifestyles have increased the proportion of people who are overweight, have diabetes or suffer heart failure in our society thus pressuring further the already stressed healthcare budgets of most developed countries. One such study quoted is the clinical data published in the Lancet〔Lancet 2012; 380: 219–29 "Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy” I-Min Lee, Eric J Shiroma, Felipe Lobelo, Pekka Puska, Steven N Blair, Peter T Katzmarzyk, for the Lancet Physical Activity Series Working Group *〕 which demonstrates that insufficient activity has nearly the same effect on life expectancy as smoking. With these type of studies as their reference dacadoo has been, according to their website and press releases, developing a so-called lifestyle navigation platform that calculates a person's Health Score. The score, a number from 1 to 1000, represents a persons health status from poor to excellent and aims to represent a directional relative indicator of a user's current health and well-being status in real-time. According to their statement, many of the company's initiatives aim to focus on active prevention and healthier lifestyle to tackle the problems before they become chronic – in this instance referencing a report on global life sciences published by Ernst & Young in 2012 〔Global Life Sciences Report 2012 by Ernst & Young “Progressions – The Third Place: healthcare everywhere”〕 which recognizes that changing behavioral patterns represented the single biggest opportunity to improve an individuals health outcome. The company's business model is based on the premise that the combination of smartphone technology, social networking, motivation techniques from the gaming industry, and big data analytics, have the power to facilitate lifestyle behavior change in individuals. As a result the company trademarked the dacadoo Health Score Platform based on these principles. The company has since launch issued a disclaimer that the so-called dacadoo Health Score 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.telekom.com/medien/produkte-fuer-privatkunden/93278 )〕 is not a diagnostic tool but a lifestyle product and therefore does not substitute the diagnosis of a medical professional. When tracked over time, the health score will possibly offer a directional relative indicator of how a person's health and well-being is improving or deteriorating. Nuffield Health, a UK-based non-profit healthcare and fitness operator, introduced its Nuffield Health Score product developed by dacadoo in early 2013.,〔http://www.nuffieldhealth.com/about-us/news/nuffield-health-invest-69million-services-reveals-annual-report-2012〕 and AOK Nordost, a German health insurance company, offers the dacadoo solution in north eastern Germany since 2013. According to the company's website, the dacadoo health score is based on three pillars: * Your Body (who you are): the platform captures hard data such as age, gender, weight, height, body dimensions, blood values and blood pressure * Your Emotions (how you feel): the platform uses a quality of life questionnaire to obtain the necessary information for this pillar * Your Activities (what you do): the platform captures data from physical activity, nutrition, stress, sleep and daily steps 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dacadoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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