GOQii, the world’s leading virtual fitness coaching platform, today announced the latest update to its ecosystem by integrating doctors and diagnostics. This enhanced offering comes with a bouquet of additional health features such as the Health Risk Assessment and Health locker along with the all new GOQii fitness band.
Earlier in 2014, GOQii disrupted the wearable space by integrating human coaches to its platform. The coaches worked with the user’s data to provide customized advice on a regular basis, keeping the user motivated and on track to success through goal reinforcement.
Keeping with its commitment to encourage users to make a sustainable shift towards a healthier lifestyle GOQii has brought on board doctors trained in dealing with general medical and lifestyle related issues. Emotional wellness, counselling and preventive health being the main focus of the doctors, they will collectively work with the coaches and diagnose user’s health and lifestyle problems. The doctors consultation will be available to the users through an app-based service over chat and voice call.
Speaking on this new development, Vishal Gondal, CEO and Founder, GOQii said “Technology is transforming healthcare at an incredible pace and resulting in dynamic outcomes for the industry. Today we’re announcing the integration of doctors and diagnostics on our platform with the intention to offer preventive healthcare solutions to our users. This truly revolutionary integration of coaches, diagnostics and medical practitioners will provide users an entire spectrum of real-time lifestyle and healthcare services on one single platform.”
Additionally, GOQii announced a tie-up with Max Healthcare as their hospital & medical partner and Thyrocare as their diagnostic partner. Through this partnership users needing specialist consultation can benefit by being referred to Max Hospital for further care. The platform also offers users the convenience to book a diagnostic appointment on the app with Thyrocare.
Post the diagnosis all the reports generated will be centralised on the GOQii platform within the Health Locker feature. The health locker acts as a repository for the user’s medical diagnostic history making it readily available to all- coaches, users, doctors on or off the platform, with the requisite consent of the user. The users will also be able to take a comprehensive Health Risk Assessment (HRA) giving them detailed insights into their overall health situation.
Mr Rohit Kapoor, Senior Director & Chief Growth Officer, Max Healthcare, said, “We at Max Healthcare are extremely proud to partner with GOQii and believe in its vision to build a healthier ecosystem. With the increasing prevalence of lifestyle diseases, an initiative which involves bringing the reputed doctors from Max Healthcare on board and combining it with GOQii’s existing proposition of fitness tracking, coaching and the science of behavioral change is fantastic. GOQii has already established a high quality, sustainable, holistic approach for their user’s wellbeing. Over time, Max Healthcare will collaborate closely with GOQii in the areas of preventive health programs, diagnostics and continued care”.
Dr A Velumani, founder and CEO, Thyrocare “Preventive healthcare is vital to reduce the financial burden incurred due to sick care on self, society and government. GOQii’s holistic approach and work towards increasing awareness and practice of preventive healthcare is the need of the hour in a country like India. We are thrilled to associate ourselves with GOQii to help revolutionize the health ecosystem by providing users information on their biochemistry – in full and in advance nationwide.”
It is also imperative to understand that this service is not a replacement for your regular doctor and does not apply for any emergency medical or chronic situations. These health services will be provided to all existing and new GOQii users. The services will be available at a subscription cost of Rs 1999 for 3 months, Rs 2999 for 6 months and 3999 for 12 months respectively.
(Hardware upgrade options will be available to the existing users)
About GOQii version 2:
GOQii’s unique ecosystem offers its users an array of health services of expert-led personalized coaching, Doctors, Health Locker, Health Risk Assessment (HRA), Karma platform and the all new GOQii fitness band to encourage users make a conscious shift to a healthier lifestyle.
Some of the Key upgrades of the new GOQii fitness band are:
- A new and improved hardware with a sleeker design with an enhanced OLED display for a richer consumer interface
- The new device also comes with an integrated charger, which can be plugged into any standard USB port, removing the discomfort to carry an extra charger for your device.
- Beside the ease of charging, the new GOQii band comes with a bigger battery to provide a minimum of 2-week battery life on a single charge.
- Auto sleep detection feature, consumers no longer need to manually toggle between sleep and active modes.
- Third Party App Integration, users will get Call, SMS, Email and WhatsApp notifications on their GOQii band along with the alarm and inactivity alerts.
- Aligning with its users active lifestyle and to change the way future payments are made GOQii has enabled touchless payment feature on its GOQii band in collaboration with their partner Axis Bank for their ‘Axis active’ programme.
Availability:
GOQii.com and on selected online retail partners
