Fitsurance, your way to a healthy, productive and cheerful workforce

This feasibility study investigates the development of the Fitsurance app, a mobile application (iOS and Android) that is part of the Fitsurance platform. The goal of Fitsurance is to improve health and wellbeing of employees. The app must improve health through automated health data analysis and personalised feedback. This project is in line with the objectives of the top sector 'High-tech Systems & Materials and ICT'. This study has a focus on the sub-theme “ICT for monitoring and control” as the app aims to monitor health and give the user control over one’s health. Another related sub-theme is “Big Data”. Based on Big Data, the content of the app and the personalised feedback messages can be tailored to the needs and requirements of the individual.....The technical feasibility question is whether it is possible to stimulate healthy behaviour through personalised feedback in an app and what is the necessary software to make this possible. This algorithm must learn from the data input and send the user updates, reminders and motivational messages (push-notifications). This feasibility study will investigate the possibilities of such an algorithm and the necessary minimum data-set to enable the desired functionalities in the app...Rising healthcare costs and absenteeism from work are a big and expensive problem. These increasing health care costs are partially consequences of physical inactivity, a sedentary lifestyle and poor dietary choices, resulting in an increased occurrence of non-communicable diseases. Combining physical activity and healthy dietary habits seem to be the key to accomplish a decrement in health care costs. Fitsurance therefore focuses on preventing diseases rather than curing diseases by introducing a new system in which leisure time physical activity is encouraged. Fitsurance sees it as their mission to support a healthy, productive and cheerful workforce.