# Health Coaching * **Definition:** A process that involves guiding individuals to achieve their health and wellness goals through personalized support, strategies, and accountability, often enhanced by technology. * **Taxonomy:** Healthcare Topics / Health Coaching ## News * Selected news on the topic of **Health Coaching**, for healthcare technology leaders * 2.9K news items are in the system for this topic * Posts have been filtered for tech and healthcare-related keywords | Date | Title | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | 5/13/2025 | [**Complement 1 Secures $16M for Clinically Validated Cancer Lifestyle Modification Platform**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/05/13/complement-1-secures-16m-for-clinically-validated-cancer-lifestyle-modification-platform/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 4/23/2025 | [**New startup Superpower scores $30M to offer personalized health testing**](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/new-startup-superpower-scores-30m-launch-personalized-health-testing) | [[FierceHealthcare]] | | 4/21/2025 | [**AI-Powered Medical Tools Gain Momentum Across Healthcare Sector**](https://thehealthcaretechnologyreport.com/ai-powered-medical-tools-gain-momentum-across-healthcare-sector/) | [[Healthcare Technology Report]] | | 4/10/2025 | [**AristaMD Launches SpecialtyCare360 to Revolutionize Specialty Care**](https://www.prweb.com/releases/aristamd-launches-specialtycare360-to-revolutionize-specialty-care-302424226.html) | [[PRWeb]] | | 4/4/2025 | [**How Wearable Tech Is Reshaping Preventative Health - News-Medical**](https://www.news-medical.net/health/How-Wearable-Tech-Is-Reshaping-Preventative-Health.aspx) | [[News Medical Net]] | | 4/3/2025 | [**Lark Joins CVS Caremark PBM for GLP-1 Obesity Management**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/04/03/lark-joins-cvs-caremark-pbm-for-glp-1-obesity-management/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 3/5/2025 | [**Headspace inks partnership with US Navy as it explores conversational AI for mental health support**](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/digital-health/headspace-inks-partnership-us-navy-and-explores-conversational-ai-mental-health) | [[FierceHealthcare]] | | 2/18/2025 | [**Quokka Care Secures Strategic Growth Investment to Innovate Remote Patient Monitoring**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quokka-care-secures-strategic-growth-investment-to-innovate-remote-patient-monitoring-302378426.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 2/18/2025 | [**Artificial Intelligence - Healthcare IT News**](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/taxonomy/term/7341/m89gsv6dzcjz.jsp%C0%A7%C0%A2%27%22%5C%27%5C%22/page/226?type=video) | [[Healthcare IT News]] | | 1/30/2025 | [**Strengthening the Health of Our Patients and Workforce with Technology**](https://www.healthtechmagazines.com/strengthening-the-health-of-our-patients-and-workforce-with-technology/) | [[Health Tech Magazines]] | | 12/18/2024 | [**Healthcare AI News 12/18/24**](https://histalk2.com/2024/12/18/healthcare-ai-news-12-18-24/) | [[HISTalk]] | | 12/4/2024 | [**New Study Shows Active Participation in iHealth's Unified Care Program Results in ... - PR Newswire**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-study-shows-active-participation-in-ihealths-unified-care-program-results-in-significant-health-improvement-for-patients-with-stage-2-hypertension-302322024.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 12/3/2024 | [**Quest Diagnostics Launches Health Coaching on questhealth.com to Help Individuals Take Control of Their Health**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quest-diagnostics-launches-health-coaching-on-questhealthcom-to-help-individuals-take-control-of-their-health-302320194.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 12/2/2024 | [**Future Market Trends for Electronic Health Records (EHR) System: Forecasting Size, Share ...**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/future-market-trends-electronic-health-records-ehr-system-forecasting-r1hde) | [[Linkedin]] | | 11/28/2024 | [**Empowering Patients Through Integrative Health Coaching**](https://healthcareguys.com/2024/11/28/empowering-patients-through-integrative-health-coaching/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=empowering-patients-through-integrative-health-coaching) | [[The Healthcare Guys]] | | 8/30/2024 | [**BEN signs two contracts to develop AI healthcare assistants - Yahoo Finance**](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ben-signs-two-contracts-develop-111528062.html) | [[Yahoo Finance]] | | 8/29/2024 | [**BEN Contracts with INTERVENT® and Members Only Health® to Elevate Professional ...**](https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ben-contracts-with-intervent-and-members-only-health-to-elevate-professional-development-and-healthcare-access-with-ai-1033734292) | [[Business Insider Markets]] | | 8/29/2024 | [**BEN Contracts with INTERVENT® and Members Only Health® to Elevate Professional Development and Healthcare Access with AI**](https://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2024/08/29/10065058.htm) | tmcnet.com | | 8/22/2024 | [**Health Coaching Apps Market Size, Share Analysis, Top Players, And Forecast To 2033**](https://www.whatech.com/og/markets-research/medical/870220-health-coaching-apps-market-size-share-analysis-top-players-and-forecast-to-2033.html) | whatech.com | | 8/5/2024 | [**Hoag Compass Pioneers the Next Generation of Proactive Care - PR Newswire**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hoag-compass-pioneers-the-next-generation-of-proactive-care-302214633.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 7/25/2024 | [**Primary Care Meets Artificial Intelligence - Medscape**](https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/primary-care-meets-artificial-intelligence-2024a1000dog) | [[Medscape]] | | 7/15/2024 | [**Europe Health Coaching Market Outlook 2024: A $7.68 Billion Industry by 2029 - Growing Focus on Corporate Wellness Programs, Shift to Virtual Health, Schools and Universities are Emerging Settings - ResearchAndMarkets.com**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240715351657/en/Europe-Health-Coaching-Market-Outlook-2024-A-7.68-Billion-Industry-by-2029---Growing-Focus-on-Corporate-Wellness-Programs-Shift-to-Virtual-Health-Schools-and-Universities-are-Emerging-Settings---ResearchAndMarkets.com/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-RLXHJgazfQJNuOVHefdHP-D8R-QU5o2AvY8bhI9uvWSD8DYIYv4TIC1g1u0AKcacnnViVjtb72bOP4-4nHK5ieT3WxPE8m_kWI77F87CseT) | [[Business Wire]] | | 7/8/2024 | [**OpenAI and Thrive Global Launch Thrive AI Health to Tackle Chronic Diseases with GenAI**](https://analyticsindiamag.com/openai-and-thrive-global-launch-thrive-ai-health-to-tackle-chronic-diseases-with-genai/) | analyticsindiamag.com | | 7/8/2024 | [**New Thrive AI Health Coach funded by the OpenAI Startup Fund**](https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/thrive-ai-health-coach/) | geeky-gadgets.com | | 10/14/2014 | [**Cigna launches gamified digital health coaching**](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/cigna-launches-gamified-digital-health-coaching) | [[FierceHealthcare]] | ## Topic Overview (Some LLM-derived content — please confirm with above primary sources) ### Key Players - **Health2Sync**: A digital health company that partnered with Singapore's Health Promotion Board to launch the DigiCoach program for managing pre-diabetes. - **Wellos**: A wellness app designed for personal coaching and nutrition lessons to enhance long-term health. - **Quest Diagnostics**: A healthcare company that launched a personalized health coaching service to help individuals achieve their health goals. - **AndHealth**: A healthcare provider focused on Whole-Person Specialty Care, partnering with community health services to improve access to specialty care. - **iHealth Labs, Inc.**: A company that presented a study demonstrating the effectiveness of a digital health program in managing hypertension through remote monitoring and lifestyle coaching. - **Thrive AI Health**: An initiative aimed at developing an AI-powered health coach to provide personalized health advice. - **Prescribe FIT**: A company offering remote patient monitoring and lifestyle health coaching solutions. - **DarioHealth Corp.**: A provider of AI-driven health coaching and monitoring tools, enhancing its presence in the health plan market. - **Teladoc Health**: A telehealth provider that has launched a Cardiometabolic Health Program aimed at improving population health. - **INTERVENT International**: A partner of BEN that integrates AI assistants into health coaching programs to provide scalable and cost-effective support. - **Good Measures**: A food-as-medicine company acquired by NationsBenefits, specializing in personalized food prescriptions and coaching. - **HealthSnap**: A virtual care management platform that enhances remote patient monitoring and chronic care management. - **Hinge Health**: A digital health company specializing in digital physical therapy and health coaching, focusing on musculoskeletal therapy. - **Stanford Medicine**: Research partner collaborating with Thrive AI Health to develop AI health coaching tools. - **Philips**: A global health technology company launching programs for remote monitoring and personalized health coaching. - **Noom**: A digital health coaching platform that utilizes AI features for food logging and personal health assistance. - **DeCarlos Love**: Formerly of Google, he leads Thrive AI Health, aiming to provide data-driven coaching for improved health outcomes. ### Partnerships and Collaborations - **Quest Diagnostics**: Launch of a health coaching service that integrates lab results for tailored support. - **Thrive Global and Function Health**: Collaborating to launch a precision health coaching program that combines advanced lab testing with personalized coaching. - **Health2Sync and Abbott**: Partnership to launch the DigiCoach program for glucose monitoring and health coaching. - **DarioHealth and Blue Cross Blue Shield**: New agreement to provide AI-driven health coaching and monitoring tools to health plan members. - **Thrive AI Health and Stanford Medicine**: Partnership to develop an AI health coach leveraging scientific research. - **Vori Health and Trustmark**: Providing orthopedic virtual care, including health coaching and nutritional guidance. - **Thrive AI Health**: Collaborating with Stanford Medicine and the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine to integrate its AI health coach into diverse communities. - **Thrive AI Health and Stanford Medicine/Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute**: Research partnerships to implement AI health coaching in communities. - **AndHealth and Family Health Services**: Partnering to provide Whole-Person Specialty Care in rural communities, addressing specialty care access issues. - **Pip Care and UPMC Enterprises**: Collaboration to enhance surgical patient journeys through a health coaching app. - **Thrive AI Health with OpenAI and Thrive Global**: This partnership focuses on creating an AI health coach that provides personalized recommendations for managing chronic diseases. - **Blooming Health and Hudson Valley Care Coalition**: Collaboration to enhance engagement with Medicaid populations and improve health outcomes. - **Philips and Amerigroup, CareSource Georgia, Peach State Health Plan**: Partnering to provide remote monitoring and health coaching for high-risk pregnancies. - **OpenAI and Thrive Global**: Funding the development of Thrive AI Health, which aims to create a personalized AI health coaching app. - **Brand Engagement Network (BEN) with INTERVENT International and Members Only Health**: This collaboration aims to develop AI assistants that enhance health coaching services, providing 24/7 support and improving patient engagement. - **Maven Clinic and major corporations**: Partnerships to provide comprehensive fertility benefits and health coaching. - **U.S. Navy and Headspace**: Providing mental health coaching resources to active duty sailors and their families. - **Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin**: Partnered with SilverCloud to implement a digital cognitive behavioral therapy program for mental health management. - **Thrive AI Health and Alice L. Walton Foundation**: Working together to address health inequities through AI-driven behavior change solutions. ### Innovations, Trends, and Initiatives - **Quest Health Coaching Service**: Offers structured health coaching sessions to help individuals manage chronic conditions. - **Integrative Health Coaching**: Focuses on personalized care that combines conventional healthcare with behavioral science. - **Personalized health coaching**: The rise of personalized health coaching reflects a growing market driven by demand for alternatives to traditional healthcare, with a focus on chronic disease management. - **Health Coaching Programs**: Teladoc's Cardiometabolic Health Program focuses on promoting healthier behaviors related to diet and physical activity. - **Health Coaching Apps Market Growth**: Projected to grow to $6.25 billion by 2028, driven by AI integration and personalized coaching. - **AI Health Coach**: Utilizes generative AI to provide personalized coaching in nutrition, sleep, and stress management based on user data. - **AI Health Coaching**: The emergence of AI-driven health coaching solutions, such as Thrive AI Health, which aims to provide personalized health insights based on user data. - **DigiCoach Program**: Utilizes Continuous Glucose Monitors and a mobile app for real-time health coaching. - **AI-driven health coaching**: The integration of AI technology into health coaching programs is expected to enhance scalability, effectiveness, and accessibility of health coaching services. - **Focus on Health Equity**: Thrive AI Health aims to democratize access to health coaching and improve outcomes for chronic disease management. - **Personalized Health Coaching**: ONVY's platform aims to deliver hyper-personalized health engagement through biometric and behavioral data. - **AI Integration**: Health coaching platforms are increasingly integrating AI to provide personalized health recommendations based on real-time data. - **Digital Health Programs**: The iHealth Unified Care program combines onsite and online healthcare delivery, remote monitoring, and lifestyle coaching to manage hypertension and diabetes. - **Integrated Care Approaches**: Studies show that integrated care, including remote monitoring and health coaching, leads to significant health improvements. - **Thrive AI Health App**: Aims to provide hyper-personalized health coaching through AI, focusing on key health behaviors. - **Welli AI Assistant**: A 24/7 wellness coach that provides instant guidance on health topics, complementing human coaching. ### Challenges and Concerns - **Cultural Competence in Health Coaching**: Need for culturally attuned coaching to improve engagement and outcomes for diverse populations. - **Quality of care**: The increasing reliance on health coaches due to shortages of traditional healthcare providers raises concerns about the quality and safety of the advice provided. - **Healthcare Access**: Challenges in addressing healthcare deserts and ensuring equitable access to health coaching and services. - **Regulation of health coaching**: The health coaching profession is poorly regulated, leading to risks of untrained individuals providing misleading health advice. - **Accessibility**: Challenges remain regarding the accessibility and consistent usage of health coaching technologies among certain demographics. - **Privacy Issues**: Raising questions about user privacy and potential intrusive monitoring in health coaching. - **Effectiveness of AI Health Coaching**: Concerns about the reliability and effectiveness of AI-driven health interventions. - **Data Privacy**: Concerns regarding the security and privacy of personal health data in AI-driven health coaching applications. - **AI Replacement of Human Workers**: Concerns about AI's potential to replace human health coaches and its effectiveness in improving patient wellness. - **Data privacy**: As AI systems become more prevalent in health coaching, there are significant concerns regarding the safeguarding of personal health data. - **Patient Adherence**: Despite high claims of providing education, less than half of diabetes patients receive formal coaching, impacting therapy adherence. - **Overwhelmed Healthcare Providers**: Many primary care physicians feel unable to provide adequate diabetes education and coaching due to increasing patient loads. - **Bias Mitigation**: The company pledges to use peer-reviewed data and user input to mitigate biases in AI health coaching. - **Access to Care**: High-risk pregnancies face challenges due to healthcare deserts, necessitating remote monitoring and coaching solutions. - **AI Integration Challenges**: Thrive AI Health acknowledges past failures in healthcare AI integration and emphasizes the importance of privacy, security, and equitable healthcare. - **Integration of Technology**: Healthcare organizations face challenges in optimizing technology utilization to enhance patient care amidst workforce shortages and burnout. - **Integration of AI in Healthcare**: Challenges faced by previous AI health initiatives, such as IBM's Watson Health, highlight the complexities of integrating AI into healthcare. - **Skepticism about Digital Health Solutions**: Past digital health interventions have often struggled to demonstrate significant impact. - **Ethical Use of AI**: The need for frameworks to ensure the safety and effectiveness of AI in healthcare. ## Related Topics [[Coaching]]