Digital Innovation of the year 2019
At the 2019 Health and Wellbeing Awards the Digital Innovation Award went to the Healthy Life Styles Team at ICE Creates for their Best You app. Best-You is all about inspiring people to create new habits and break old ones, building resilience and wellbeing by allowing users to self-care alongside involvement with the lifestyle service coaches.
The platform supports user tracking and goal setting around making specific lifestyle changes, like healthy weight or reducing alcohol, becoming smoke free or improving mental health over a measured period. Coventry as a city, measured and recorded a behaviour change on Best-You at over a tonne of weight lost in just one month alone.
Stuart Jackson, founder of ICE Creates, was thrilled to win the Digital Innovation Award and believes giving back to the community in a way that helps people build their resilience and become the best versions of themselves is of the highest importance.
“We believe Best-You is ahead of the curve in helping our population make change happen for themselves and are very excited about the impact so far. It can be used by individuals, groups and workplaces and unlike most other social media platforms there is no advertising on the app. For individuals this tool has improved overall health, mental wellbeing and quality of life. Hundreds of people have lost weight, quit smoking, got more active and cut down on their alcohol consumption by using this tool. In the long-term this means we can also help individuals to reduce the risk of diseases and conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and COPD.”
Have you developed a Digital Innovation this year? Are you using technology in a new way that is having a positive impact on the people you are supporting? Are you using technology to improves outcomes for individuals? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you could be in contention for this year’s Digital Innovation Award? Don’t miss out on your chance to win, come back here on 3rd February to nominate yourself.
