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Tom is the head of a company conscious of looking after employee health. The assessment showed his workplace was full of aches, pains, and posture issues, so he hired a physical trainer to come in three times a week. However uptake for the classes was low, and those who did attend fell away quickly. Employee health remained poor.

Empeal’s nuanced data analysis saw that what was missing was personalization. Tom’s physical trainer wasn’t the answer, but tailored programs of simple exercise and physiotherapy were. Engagement went up, employees felt better. This insight allowed the Insurance Provider to operate more effectively and, when it was time to renew staff health insurance, to strategize cost-effective alterations to the company’s packages.

Jack has a chronic health condition. At a medical consultation, tests are done, he is prescribed medications, and given recommendations on nutrition and lifestyle. However, the clinical team have no idea how well Jack has managed his health until his repeat check up. As they discover, Jack was confused by the instructions, and he returns with his condition aggravated.

With Empeal, Jack has help in his pocket. He’s able to easily and in real-time track his health between consultations, and customised programmes guide him step-by-step through following his clinical advice. Before his next check up, Jack also simply downloads his data report to give the practitioner, so reliable information can help in choosing the patient’s next steps.

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Mary is an HR manager looking after health. She tried to run a simple step challenge, but it was difficult getting employees to take part, and those who did submitted their step count via a messy stream of texts and chats and emails. Mary’s department was overloaded just trying to collate the data, never mind analyse it to help company strategy.

Empeal significantly reduced Mary’s HR stress. It was downloadable, easy to use and increased engagement. It required no management, making health drives sustainable for the first time. It centralised information, and generated clear and regular reports which were key to implementing wellbeing solutions and improving company success.

Mary

Jane is frequently unwell. She needs medical treatment and frequent visit to clinics but thankfully that’s covered through insurance. However, this causes her to miss work and results in poor social inclusion, happiness and career growth.

She has seen a trend of absenteeism in her team as well. She thinks this could be avoided with proper intervention

Jane is a customer service team leader. She feels tired all the time, has hyperthyroid issues, is allergic to gluten and suffers shoulder pain due to a sedentary job and bad posture. Her wellbeing goals are to get healthier and reduce stress, but she doesn’t know where to start.

With Empeal, Jane had access to a cutting edge interactive assessment and trend analysis. This soon highlighted the root causes of her health complaints, which were tackled through custom gluten-free meal suggestions and exercise programmes including shoulder rehab, and guidance and monitoring features for improved sleep. Jane quickly goes from a tired employee to a healthy and happy one.

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Empeal is a preventative and self-managing technology designed to help keep people out of hospital. The app provides ways for patients to maintain their lifestyles and gives recommendations to keep healthy.The users can access multiple coaches through the app. It provides access to nurses, nutritionists, physios, whatever they need. The app uses measurable metrics to create individual wellbeing programmes and enable healthcare professionals to aid more patients.

Sohini De mentioned- " the product is built around enabling healthcare professionals to aid more patients while maintaining a personal touch. She said that the work done by the AI engine would allow a professional that might treat 10 patients a day now to treat 100. and from user side”.

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International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated annually all over the world on March 8th to acknowledge social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, and to call for gender equality. Interestingly, IWD has been observed since the early 1900s! This year’s IWD theme is ‘Embrace Equity’. While talking about IWD’s Embrace Equity, I would also like to include United Nation’s theme ‘DigiAll: technology and innovation for gender equality’.

. As words, they actually share the same root: 

Both are important in their own right.So, it is important to understand the difference between the two as well.

In today’s day and age of google, chatgpt and others, I do not have to give a whole definition of the two 

but all I would say to distinguish between the two

‘Equality is giving everyone a shoe while equity is giving everyone a shoe that fits!’

 For example: you imagine, you can give a sweet filled with peanut butter to every child in a particular class, which is fair and equal but if one child has a nut allergy, you are putting that child at a huge risk and actually doing harm.

 and all other aspects of life for everyone is not enough. We need to consider various 

diversities, marginalised communities, racial, gender differences, disabilities and many more social justice issues.

Hence raise the awareness around Embracing Equity.

This concept actually is not very new. In medieval England justice system, while resolving disputes, they used a phrase, which we are aware of even today: ‘case by case basis’.

Now, if we need to understand each and every person or group’s personalised needs, to give everyone access to right level of health, education, workplace and all, first, we need the information from each of these individuals or groups that 

what are their need and what is blocking them from fulfilling those

. At Empeal, a digital health solution for chronic disease prevention and management, our moto is ‘measure it to manage it’. Unless we have the right information on the problem, we cannot take right action or give the right solution. So, be it at policy level or at organisation level who are producing products and services, they first need to 

understand the ‘root cause’ information from all the DIVERSE sources.

Technology can be a great enabler in this space. Technology has the ability to gather enormous amount of data from varied sources, analyse them quickly to develop solutions and use innovation to scale those solutions, so that it reaches the right people at the right time.

 And here we can join the dots with United Nations Sustainable development Goals, or SDGs, which is not only promoting these but also asking us to measure the impact of the solutions that are implemented. And this can be achieved through the use of technology and innovation. But to do this, technology need to be brought from ‘lab to market’ in a safe way with significant importance given to 

So usability, user journey of each innovative solutions, should include both the tech savvy population as well as the ones those are not, while taking steps towards increasing digital literacy. Ethical overlay is also important, especially when we see cybercrime and cyberbullies on the rise, which put vulnerable population even more under threat.

It is important to consider avoiding bias, otherwise we will be back to square one. For example, we were using workplace HR policies for women for generations, which were made predominantly by men. No wonder we had so many challenges at workplaces because it simply lacked a 

If we are not careful, technology that can scale positive actions, can also scale biases, and ethical issues. The solution to that is ensure the information that we are gathering to make our decisions to support equity, come from 

diverse sources and perspectives, so that is no one is marginalised and technology is used ‘for good’.

That is why organisations promote diversity and inclusion, to hear perspective of each section of the society. That’s why AI uses millions of data to train their models. Similarly, technologies are developed by humans. It is important to include diverse teams while developing these solutions while encouraging women to pursue more STEM studies, research and supports for entrepreneurship.

. This needs lot of information input and quick analytical ability, where 

 ensuring the technology and innovation is 

IWD and Equity

IWD (International Women's Day) has been observed since the early 1900s! This year’s IWD theme is ‘Embrace Equity’. Sohini talks about IWD’s Embrace Equity, theme which include United Nation’s theme ‘DigiAll: technology and innovation for gender equality’

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This year the focus for World Diabetes Day is education and that is why we invited certified health coach Erin Dolan to join us to talk about diabetes. Erin is based in West Clare, is a mother of two, world traveller and a person with type1 diabetes. Erin offers advice and support to people with diabetes on mental health, nutrition, and lifestyle and this interview with Erin is no different.

Throughout this blog Erin shares with us her experiences with type 1 diabetes and how she remains confident in herself and how she manages the disease. We also discuss current issues in Ireland when it comes to diabetes along with life-changing technology that has helped so many people including Erin to live a fulfilled life.

When it comes to chronic illnesses, myths and stereotypes can be very harmful. Providing individuals with the correct information and education is imperative for a person in order to successfully manage diabetes. We raised this issue to Erin who helped us to debunk some of these issues,

“So yes there are many different myths. So, first of all there are not just two different types of diabetes but there is actually over eight and each type of diabetes is caused in different ways. Many people still believe that a large amount of sugar intake is a cause of diabetes, and this is just not true. I have type one diabetes which is an autoimmune disease, and I was diagnosed with this when I was ten. To treat my diabetes, I need to inject insulin daily, but this is not the case for all of the other types of diabetes. There are a wide range of treatments such as oral medications, lifestyle changes, and managing diet and nutrition. Often people clump diabetes all together and it is important to remember that people who have diabetes can live normal lives and can-do normal things”.

From our own work at Empeal we know that mental and physical health is extremely important when helping individuals with chronic conditions. Throughout the interview Erin also commented on this and gave very insightful advice,

“Diabetes is often known as an invisible disease as many people do not see the disease on the outside. However, inside there are definitely daily struggles when it comes to management. It is a 24/7 disease which you can’t take a break from. You have to be constantly in control of your glucose numbers and there are also so many factors that can raise or lower those glucose levels. There are three things I would recommend when it comes to mental wellbeing and balancing diabetes”. 

“To find time for yourself and to take time to quiet the fulltime job that comes with diabetes. I would recommend people to get involved in meditation or self-care as it is so important to allow the mind to rest. Allow yourself to be present and to give yourself a break. For me I love sea therapy I recently have been going into the sea every day for diabetes awareness month, and it really allows me to reset my mind. However, taking time for yourself can involve anything that makes you feel good”.

“To be able to talk and connect with others about your diabetes is huge. It is so easy to hide it away from people and sometimes when you do that you begin to lack confidence and it also opens up dialogue which puts others in a better position to support you”.

“Building confidence in yourself is an important step. Setting and working toward goals can massively help with this. For me I built my confidence by challenging myself by participating and training for a marathon. Going after your goals is great for boosting your confidence”.

Diabetes is a complicated disease with many different factors and outside elements that can contribute to a good or bad day. Finding the right balance is critical in effectively managing the disease. Erin commented that,

“There are so many different factors that effect balance. Factors such as stress, adrenaline or illness can make your glucose levels go high while alcohol, exercise, and heat can make your glucose levels go low. From my experience I would say that there is no one size fits all when it comes to balance”.

The importance of utilising available health data cannot be underestimated as the proven benefits are huge. Advancements in modern technology have allowed people to easily track their health data on a day-to-day basis across all chronic illnesses. This can help healthcare teams to identify areas of risk or improvement within current pathways. With this information, they can work to correct areas where patient care is lacking and increase the quality of the overall experience of patients. Erin’s point of view on this topic was alike,

“It is important to be able to decipher trends for yourself to then relate this back to your diabetes support team to come up with personalised plans for yourself. This could involve recording your blood glucose levels throughout the day, and also recording your food intake and any other events that may happen such as exercise or stress. This can be done by writing it down in a diary or using technology such as apps to record it. Being able to see the trends in a big picture can really give you greater transparency of what factors are contributing and how they are impacting on your diabetes. For example, it is important to manage your stress levels when you have diabetes as it is a contributor in raising your glucose levels”.

Throughout the years diabetes technology has 

made diabetes management safer and simpler

 Erin agreed with this statement and discussed how it has massively aided her life for the better.

“Technology has allowed me to be much more flexible especially in going after my goals.I have been able to take on more significant challenges that have tested my body. From running a marathon and racing in triathlons and cycling over the continental divide. The type of technology I use is a continuous glucose monitor and a flash insulin pump. These give me greater peace of mind as it gives you alerts before you go low or high in your glucose levels so you can easily adjust. It has massively boosted my confidence in managing diabetes and also allows for less injections”.

It can be argued that diabetes care and research in Ireland is not on par to other countries such as the UK. Although we have come a long way many individuals still struggle to find the right services and support they need. A lack of facilities and technology is still a significant issue in Ireland.

“Diabetes care in Ireland is so diverse from county to county and there is just no consistency in the care that you get. Getting access to diabetes technology across Ireland takes a log time. “In particularly the flash glucose monitoring is only available for people under 21 and otherwise if you are unable to get this technology you have to pay out of pocket. This is a pity as technology has the capabilities to improve the quality of life for people while reducing complications long term which can lead to less hospitalisations. Currently in Ireland there are long waiting times for certain diabetes care service and there is also a lack of mental health services and specialities which is quite frustrating for people. Having timely access to these services is important and could be so helpful and successful for many with diabetes. Alongside this there actually is no national diabetes registry in Ireland, so we have no idea how many people in Ireland have diabetes. If we did this we could better plan and allocate funds and services more accurately”.

world diabetes day

This year the focus for World Diabetes Day is education and that is why we invited certified health coach Erin Dolan to join us to talk about diabetes. Erin offers advice and support to people with diabetes on mental health, nutrition, and lifestyle and this interview with Erin is no different.

Erin Dolan - World Diabetes Day 2022

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