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Wellmo launches in the Dutch Market

EIT Digital coached startup Wellmo, will officially present itself to the Dutch Market on 17 November, during the ‘week of the work stress’. In line with its core business, the Wellmo launch will take place at the EIT Digital office at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. Wellmo is an all-in-one mobile platform for preventative digital health programmes. By using Wellmo, occupation health organisations, insurance companies and other service providers can develop tailor made programs that are effective, engaging and scalable.


Research

Employees will be more active, eat healthier and have less absence when they are more aware of their individual heatlh risks and get personalized support. According to Erasmus MC, companies providing e-health this way experience that six out of then employees will actively engage in health improvement and sick leave can be reduced by 20 percent.


Dutch National Week of Stress: TNO Stresscoach 2.0 in Wellmo

The launch of Wellmo is timed in the Dutch National Week of Stress. This is not a coincidence, since Stress is the number one health risk among employees. New is the cooperation between TNO and Wellmo to reduce stress. The development of Stresscoach 2.0 will make use of the Wellmo platform. Partners such as FitVitaalService can thus provide active programs to reduce stress to organizations.


Customers

Wellmo’s customer base stretches from Finland, Sweden, The Netherlands and South Africa. In the Netherlands, Arbo Unie is a launching customer. Their “Polshoogte” program make use Wellmo. It shows that the use of technology can lead to innovative programs around workability and vitality among the workforce. In other countries, also life- and health insurance companies use Wellmo in their propositions.

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Topics

  • Business enterprise

Categories

  • innovation
  • europe
  • entrepreneur
  • ict
  • business
  • start-ups
  • entrepreneurship
  • european eco-system

About EIT Digital

EIT Digital* is a leading European open innovation organisation. Our mission is to foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life in Europe. We bring together entrepreneurs from a partnership of over 130 top European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities and research institutes.

EIT Digital invests in strategic areas to accelerate the market uptake of research-based digital technologies and to bring entrepreneurial talent and leadership to Europe. Our innovation and education activities are organised in and around our co-location centres, where students, researchers, engineers, business developers and entrepreneurs come together to drive the digitalisation of society.

EIT Digital is a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Since 2010, EIT Digital is consistently mobilising talents, ideas, technologies, investments and business across Europe and beyond to stimulate disruptive digital innovation. The headquarter is in Brussels with co-location centres in Berlin, Eindhoven, Helsinki, London, Paris, Stockholm, Trento, as well as in Budapest, Madrid and a hub in Silicon Valley.

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