Health service company Cigna has teamed-up with Samsung to deliver Coach by Cigna as a part of S Health on the Korean company’s Galaxy S5 flagship smartphone. The new digital health guidance system is designed to help the Galaxy S5 users make better health a habit.
Integrated within the S Health app, Coach by Cigna is designed to help the Galaxy S5 users make better health a habit.S Health already offers easy-to-use features in a mobile dashboard to aid making health improvement an engaging part of everyday life. Cigna builds on top of that to provide the content, experience and engines for “valuable health insights” for Coach by Cigna.
“By integrating Cigna’s health expertise and knowledge with Samsung’s leading edge technology, we expect to help our customers improve their health throughout their everyday lives,” said Hankil Yoon, Senior Vice President of Global Product Planning Group, IT & Mobile Division at Samsung. “The approach of Coach by Cigna resonates with today’s modern exercise practices and behaviors, because it is targeted toward establishing healthy habits that enable successful management of exercise, weight, sleep, stress, and nutrition.”
Coach by Cigna starts with answering a few lifestyle questions to create a user’s lifestyle improvement plan involving exercise, nutrition, sleep, stress and weight. With this data, the software allows users to personalize their health goals and tackle related missions that can be measured and scored using S Health App’s native fitness tracking data.