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Improving Health through technology
1. 1
USING TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE HEALTH
April 21, 2015
Sean Landry, Head of Brand & Marketing MeYou Health
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanlandry
sean@meyouhealth.com
@slandry1234
2. 2 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
Intro and background
Behavior change & engagement
Product overview
Research
Technology
Challenges!
Some gratuitous animations
7. 7 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
PRIMARY GOAL 2009:
Delivery of a fully functioning
behavior change business platform
which engages consumers directly via
web and mobile applications.
8. 8 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
“Sean, we are in the
behavior change business”
- Chris Cartter
9. 9
HOW TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR?
According to BJ Fogg
BJ Fogg, PhD. Director, Persuasive Tech Lab Stanford University
Easy
HARD
10. 10
HOW TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR?
According to BJ Fogg
HIGH
MOTIVATION
LOW
TIME Harnessing “Motivation waves” work by BJ Fogg,
Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford
Motivated to make big changes
More convenient
11. 11 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
Solving the engagement problem
15. 15
A BALANCE OF INTERVENTIONS ARE NEEDED
Engagement is maximized by using both types of interventions.
Defined
Goal
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Fuzzy
Goal
Prescription
(orchestrated)
Exploration
(self directed)
16. 16 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
Which behaviors?
20. 20 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
Where do you start?
21. 21 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
Start listening…
22. 22
DEFINE THE PROBLEM SPACE
Ask about motivations and barriers
• 34 participants: 13 men, 21 women
• 24 to 70 years of age; emphasis on 31-50 years old
• mixture of family situations/living arrangements
• preliminary segmentation: Influencer, Someday, Start Stopper, Caretaker
• range of motivational levels
• 2 hours or more per week online
26. 26 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
Me Time
Impoverished Validation
Seeker
Aware and
Achieving
Enlightened and Discovering
Idle Excuse Maker Enabled
27. 27
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
For designing well-being products
Realisticabout what they ask an individual to do,
Convenientenough to factor into a time-impoverished life
Give immediate positive feedback
Genuinelybranded and positioned for each individual to
learn about and improve themselves
31. 31 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
DAILY CHALLENGE
32. 32 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
Think about the major areas of your life, such as parenting, work,
chores, and hobbies. Next, draw a circle and assign a slice
equivalent to the percentage of time you spend in each area. For
example, if you devote 50% of your time to work, the slice of pie
labeled "work" should take up half of your circle.
Challenge!
Evaluate your priorities by drawing a pie chart of your life.
42. 42 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
It’s all about devices…
We’re going to need one
43. 43 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
Show yourself a little love and get a much-needed stretch, to
boot! Grab your left shoulder blade with your right hand and your
right shoulder blade with your left, as if you were giving yourself a
hug. Hold this for a count of 10. If you want to deepen the stretch,
walk your fingers toward the middle of your back. Then gently pull
your shoulders forward until you feel a stretch in your upper back.
Challenge!
Hug yourself for a count of 10.
44. 44
HOW IT ALL WORKS
Complex systems at work
DEVICES SYNC POINT STORAGE PUBLIC API WALKADOO
API
53. 53
DAILY CARDS
Personalized goal algorithm
• Take most recent 9 days of step information
• Use the 60th percentile
• “Gamification factor”-20% to +5% step goal
63. 63
OPEN SOCIAL METHODOLOGY
Large, diverse social networks power engagement.
“Open social” allows for the formation of genuine, therapeutic networks comprised of participants who
can interact regardless of each individual’s health insurance coverage or payer. The network *is* the
intervention.
“Who influences your well-being?”
64. 64
“OPEN SOCIAL” AT WAL-MART
Falling prices and high engagement
Blue nodes are Walmart
associates
Red nodes are non-
Walmart associates (open
social participants)
The lines between them are
social interactions of
support and encouragement
65. 65 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
Take just a moment to step away from any work or home duties
today and send a text or email that just says hi to someone you
like. Tell the person you were thinking of him or her, and keep the
message short and upbeat.
Challenge!
Send a short, friendly email or text to get in touch with
someone you like.
76. 76 MeYou Health is a Healthways, Inc. company
Thank you
Sean Landry - Head of Brand & Marketing MeYou Health
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanlandry
sean@meyouhealth.com
@slandry1234
We’re hiring!
Editor's Notes
The agenda for this morning.
First Age Relevant Search Engine
Backup and Recovery Data Storage Systems
Even an Obituary Website
I wanted to try my hand at Healthcare
Joined in Fall of 2009
Employee #1
Disease management company founded in 1981
Focuses on analyzing claims data to determine who to target
Driven by cost savings
Hundreds of certified nurses who reach out to patients over the phone
We built a company in the South End. Proud to have received
Boston Globe’s Top Place to work in 2014.
[CLICK]
We even allow babies!
2009 A simple idea, not so simple to build..
I’m a technologist, a few data bases, some UIs and we’re done right?
Wrong.
Well, I need to get smart about this.
Dots = Do something once
Spans = Do something for a period of time
Path = Do something for ever
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Green = New (try Quinoa)
Blue = Do a familiar (flossing)
Purple = Increase behavior (eat better)
Grey = Decrease behavior intensity (drink less coffee)
Black = Stop a behavior (stop smoking)
Design systems that allow people to place bicycle at the top of the hill when they are at times of high motivation
[CLICK]
Think leaving the movie theater after a great sports movie
Let them ride the bike down the hill when they are in periods of low motivation
Changing behavior is only one part of the equation. If you can’t engage people you can’t have impact.
We need to design product that people will actually use.
This is a typical Health Portal.
Notice the massive drop off.
We need to do better
We need to design product that people will actually use.
The Health and Fitness engagement products traditionally have very low engagement.
By appealing to different types of users we maximize our ability to engage them
Some people prefer prescribed interaction. Step by step guide on how to get fit
Exploration: Give me a goal and let me explore my way there.
We know we’ll need engagement and we know we need to change behavior. Now which ones?
Target the ones that are behavioral choices that cost the American healthcare billions of dollars.
Improve Well-Being
Eat Better
Stop Smoking
Walk More
Great, we know what behaviors, know we’ll need high engagement. Now how are we going to get started?
Assemble a team of:
Designers,
Engineers,
Product Managers,
Data Architects,
and Scientists.
We’ve got the team, we, know the behaviors, we know we’ll need engagement know how do you get started?
Talk to people and ask them lots of questions.
34 participants
Ask them about their well-being: Emotional, Financial, Physical, Community and Purpose
Lots of time in dark rooms seeing how real people describe their well-being
Looks a lot like this
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And like this
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Ironically listening to people talk about their well-being isn’t great for your own.
[Click]
Notice the bag of Cheetos
What you’re left with is lots of qualitative data. Mountains of it. Papers, video and notes, lots of notes.
Take all that qualitative data and identify patters to describe your users.
Me Time – Mostly moms juggling work and family. Looking for something guilt free [CLICK]
Validation seeker – driven by numbers wants to compare themselves against others [CLICK]
Aware and Achieving – Already doing the things we’re targeting. Like being coaches to others [CLICK]
Enlightened and Discovering – Are interested in learning about themselves [CLICK]
Idle – Looking for social interactions in a group setting [CLICK]
Excuse maker – Values privacy, doesn’t like to share needs a very low bar [CLICK]
Enabled – Looking for fast results, likely to want a personal coach or sponsor to help keep them motivated
Realistic: This isn’t marathon training
Convenient: It needs to fit into their day. It can’t be a time suck
Immediate: Give them something they can do right now.
Genuine: Can’t be quirky or feel outside their comfort zone
Got all the behaviors, know we need engagement, know our personas now we need to get to work.
MeYou Health’s process for designing software.
I’ll review the process at the end if there’s time and interest.
Here is what we’ve built.
DC: Engage with people’s well being everyday
Hello 200: Reduce a person’s diet by 200 calories each day
QuitNet: Get people to stop smoking
Walkadoo: Get people to walk more
I’ll introduce each product and do a deep dive on Walkadoo
Daily Challenge - Video
Before we move further, I want to give you a sense of what a challenge looks like and introduce a few challenges throughout this talk. Here’s the first one. Take a few minutes to complete.
Why it matters
Balance is critical for a healthy, happy life, but it can be hard to achieve. Seeing your life as pieces of a pie can help provide a reality check, and may motivate you to look more carefully at your priorities.Are there some pieces that are too small?
Are there ways to increase the size of those pieces, and cut down on others?
Here’s my chart. I think I need to increase my family time.
Maybe I’ll steal some time from sleep
Hello- Video
QuitNet - Video
Deep dive into Walkadoo
Walkadoo - Video
Why focus on walking?
It’s where the people are.
The vast majority of Americans are either Sedentary [CLICK]
[CLICK] or Low active
So how do you go about designing a program that gets people to walk more?
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You listen some more
Interviewed 27 participants
Motivations and Barriers
Where they get their Physical Activity
How do they think about it?
Create an application that helps people move through the behavior change model
Appeals to a large audience. Keeps people engaged.
We cam to the conclusion that we’re going to need a pedometer.
We learned it’s all about the devices [CLICK]
And we’re going to need one.
STOP FOR A CHALLENGE!
Why it matters
Stretching your upper back and shoulders builds better posture and relieves stress.
If you've been doing housework or gardening, hugging yourself will give your body some relief.
The same thing goes for people whose work is more physical, or those sitting at a computer for hours.
Ecosystem of wireless devices
Devices collect data on steps. Number of steps and intensity of activity (walking vs. running)
Transmit data to a gateway, usually over Bluetooth
Data is stored in the device maker’s database
We access the data through public APIs
We use the step data to power Walkadoo
Which device?
We play test a lot of devices. This is a small sample of the devices in the MeYou Health device graveyard. They Vary by:
Weight
Size
What they collect
User Experience
We wanted to achieve a few things
To get smart about how they worked and what makes them different
To understand the economics of the building a device
To prove we could build one for under $5
It has all the basic components of today’s wireless pedometers
Early ideas for how we might design a different device [CLICK]
Wrist band [CLICK]
KEY FOB [CLICK]
CREDIT CARD [CLICK]
But should we? We were built as a software company.
Focusing on hardware would distract us from our core mission
In the end we decided to take a BYOD (Bring your own device) or device agnostic approach to our fitness product.
Early wireframes of the first user experience. Code named Hot sauce.
We designed a fitness game where you are dealt a card each day with your step goal.
Complete the goal. Earn points
Interact with other members through leaderboards
After play testing our our MVP we learned a lot about how people actually walk
Even in an office with healthy young adults we found:
Lightly active – long commutes lots of sitting
Moderately active – mass transit, dog walking etc.
Highly active – runners/athletes
We used this data to understand how different types of users would interact in one system
Cleaned it up to prove the proof of concept.
Even with an MVP you need to get people excited with some eye candy
Put this website out on a URL to gauge interest
After months iterating on a new version of the product ready for consumers and partners
Walkadoo – Let’s walk more together
Here is what Walkadoo looks like today.
Using similar card metaphors with some modifications to the UI and the user experience
We added points to help normalize the experience for all types of users
Personalized goals for each member.
We learn your walking patterns
send you goals based on what we think you will walk and add in some game mechanics.
Limited: Earn points up to your goal
All or Nothing: Only earn points if you make your goal
Unlimited: Earn points all day
Points to teach user preferred interactions
Streaks to encourage adherence
Stamps to create a sense of mystery and intrigue
Levels to show progression within the system
Social drives engagement. Think about how you’re prompted to return to Facebook and Twitter.
Strong engagement from being prompted by a social interaction.
Walkie Talkies are a Daily prompt or conversation starters to encourage members to share
Posting milestones or achievements to other members steams to create interaction moments
Derbies provide members the ability to invite 5 other members and engage in a competitive week long walkathon.
You can compete at a step derby or a points derby.
Points derbies allow all levels to interact. It’s like handicapping in golf.
It allows everyone to participate on a level playing field.
Why is it important for everyone to play together?
[CLICK]
Creating systems that involve multiple users allows us to engage the network into the intervention.
Norming users by introducing them to other people doing model behaviors changes the behavior of the user.
Dr. Nicholas Cristakis and Dr. James Fowler proved that behavior is contagious both good and bad behaviors.
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What if we infected the network with healthy behaviors?
Remember these people.
Well, we asked them to draw diagrams of the people who effect their well-being.
We found some interesting things.
The drawings identified themselves in the middle of the drawing
The people in the outer circles are people who influence their well-being
Directional arrows show whether they influence the person in a single direction like a child or a pet
Bidirectional arrows show that they influence each other’s well-being like a spouse or friend.
I documented all the drawings and found
43 participants identified 217 people who have some influence in their well-being
Here’s where it gets interesting
Of the 217 people in the drawings only 21 were identified as coworkers
Why does that matter?
Most workplace wellness programs only allow employees to participate in the program.
They are missing 90% of the network who can have an influence.
The blue dots represent a sample of users in a healthcare plan
The red dots represent everyone else in the system.
The lines connecting them represent social interactions
If the network is the intervention, you need to use the whole network
Wal-Mart understands how this works
They have a clear understanding of how friends and family members influence the lives of their associates.
This is a sample network graph of Wal-Mart's population interacting on Daily Challenge.
To build behavior change through technology, you need to understand the DATA
LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME DATA
BUT BEFORE WE DO IT’S TIME FOR A CHALLENGE!
Why it matters
Social interactions play a big part in our emotional and physical health!
Studies show that people with a wide circle of friends live longer, healthier lives than people without friends.
And having a circle of friends who you interact with regularly helps stave off dementia.
Taking a minute out of your day to connect with someone you like will also provide a boost for the recipient of your message - a real win-win!
Let’s talk Data.
Here’s a snapshot of me as Walkadoo sees me.
We have lots of data on
Activity level
Social Interactions
Whether I’m achieving my goals
But that’s just the surface
A product that collects information on social interactions AND on activity collects a lot of data
Here’s just a few variable that are collected per user.
As of Thursday of last week there were over 720 million data points collected in Walkadoo
And that was just me.
How do you start to make sense of all that data?
You build tools.
This is an internal tool used to understand a user’s activity level over time.
This is my data for the last 30 days
The redline represents my total steps per day
The green line represents my goal for the day
The blue line represents what Walkadoo thought I would walk that day
On the bottom the red line represents walking steps
The green line represents running steps.
You can tell a week ago I started getting up in the morning and going for a short run
Ok so we’ve built a product that has
Designed for behavior change
Appeals to walkers
Open to everyone to participate
Uses game mechanics to keep people engaged
But does it ACTUALLY WORK?
To do that we’ll need to run a Randomize Control Trial to measure the effect.
Last fall we conducted a trial on a medium sized business involving 388 participants
We created two groups
Both groups were asked to wear their pedometer for a week for a baseline
One group participated in Walkadoo, the other put their pedometer away.
6 Weeks later the control group was asked to wear their pedometer again for another week.
We compared the two groups and found that using the pedometer + Walkadoo significantly improved the amount people walked
While the study is under embargo while it awaits publication, Wakadoo has proven increase the step count of users enough to have a significant impact on their health.
What is in store for the future?
Wearables and fitness devices are moving fast
iPhones 5S and higher have the M7 chip embedded in the hardware to collect activity
Wearables will expand to be multipurpose
Activity tracking will become passive
Wearable heart rate monitor by FitLinxx
Temporary tattoo offers needle-free method to monitor glucose levels
The bathroom that is the Dr.’s office