Cornell Health Tech Hackathon March 2016 at Cornell Tech in NYC. https://healthhack2016.splashthat.com/ An app designed to improve overall wellness by helping users build positive lifestyle habits. Team Antoine Barthelet-Cornell University, PhD CompBio '19 Manisha Munasinghe-Cornell University, PhD CompBio '20 Nathan Oakes -Cornell University, PhD CompBio '20 Ying Qiao-Cornell University, PhD CompBio '20 Afrah Shafquat-Cornell University, PhD CompBio '20 Emily Sine-Ithaca High School '17

1. Habitat:
An app designed to improve
overall wellness by helping users
build positive lifestyle habits.

2. The Problem
Health care costs
Illness in the workforce
costs 576 B $ annually
Return rate: 5.60$ per 1 $ spent on prevention
75% spent on chronic Illnesses
(majorly preventable)
treats the problem before it becomes a porblem

3. "Health and
fitness app
usage has
grown at nearly
twice the rate
of app usage
overall through
the first half of
2014."
BI Intelligence
HABITAT
Why Current Fitness Apps Fail
Long-Term Goals
Tracking fitness goals can be
tedious and intrusive
Focus on one aspect of health

4. AUTOMATED RECORDING OF DATA
Tracks Fitness
Tracks Hydration
Tracks SleepTracks
Nutriion

5. UP-AND-COMING FOOD LOG
MetaMindAPI
Sphagetti

6. M
EVOLVES FROM YOUR HABITS

7. BUILD ECOSYSTEMS

8. Targeted Demographics
Young
Students
Young
Students
Personalized
Wellness
Programs
Children with
disease

9. Habitat is built upon the idea that each
individual has a unique health routine
that requires personalized attention in
order to build lifelong healthy habits.

10. Bibliography:
"Prevention for a Healthier America." Trust for America's Health. Trust for America's Health,
July 2008. Web. 06 Mar. 2016.
N.p.: Johnson & Johnson, 2008. PDF.
"Number of Diagnoses." CureSearch for Children's Cancer. N.p., 2013. Web. 06 Mar. 2016.