Accenture Helps Dai-ichi Life Expand Its Digital Health Promotion Services
October 04 2017 - 9:35PM
Business Wire
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has helped Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company,
Limited (“Dai-ichi Life”) enhance its Kenko Dai-ichi (Health First)
app, which promotes healthy lifestyle choices and enables users to
monitor their well-being.
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The enhancements include the addition of several new features.
For example, the app’s standard menu now includes Dai-ichi Life’s
“health age” check-up services, which analyze photos of medical
exam results and give instant health age assessments. New health
improvement courses have been added to the app’s newly launched
premium menu and the functionality of the app’s cutting-edge FaceAI
feature – which enables users to simulate what they might look like
in the future based on a photo taken with their smart phone’s
camera – has been improved.
Kenko Dai-ichi, which was first launched in March, is free to
use even for those who do not have an insurance policy with
Dai-ichi Life. However, the updated app adds more personalized
functions on its premium menu for Dai-ichi Life’s policyholders and
their families. New features include:
Standard menu
- Users can input a photo of the results
of a physical exam, and the app will automatically determine a
person’s “health age” and “health type”.
- Enhanced FaceAI capabilities can factor
in behaviors such as smoking and drinking habits.
Premium menu
- Adds six new health improvement
courses, such as “Improving Hyperglycemia Levels” and “Improving
Blood Lipid Levels” mobile classes. Users can select any of the
improvement courses themselves, and the app also recommends courses
based on the results of the health age checkup.
- Diversifies and increases the lottery
drawings for coupons that can be used at convenience stores around
the country to promote healthier living.
- Expands the offering of new and popular
articles, featured monthly from the healthcare magazines produced
by NHK Publishing Inc. and Karadaniiikoto Co. Ltd.
- Includes recipes provided by Tanita
Corporation and FiNC Inc.
- Enables users to see their caloric
intake simply by photographing their meal with a smart phone
camera.
- Adds the Okusuri Techo (medical record)
Plus app that enables drug-taking management provided by Nihon
Chouzai Co., Ltd., such as sending alerts to remind people to take
medicine or attend a doctor’s appointment.
Accenture provided integral support throughout all phases of the
app’s enhancement. Dai-ichi Life leveraged Accenture’s global
expertise of healthcare apps, its research capabilities and
knowledge of the Japanese market to choose the services to offer.
As part of its project management, Accenture selected the 24
companies involved in delivering the app and coordinated the
implementation. Accenture also designed the app’s core functions
that manage the content, putting a priority on excellent usability
and user interface design.
“Western countries have taken the lead in InsTech,” said
Dai-ichi Life senior executive Yasumasa Iwai. “We were able to
quickly launch this groundbreaking app because of Accenture’s
digital and insurance expertise, end-to-end services and global
network. We plan to continue to be a leader in innovation to the
entire life insurance industry, as we actively adopt ideas and
technologies from other areas, promoting the realization of a
robust ecosystem shared with other kinds of businesses.”
Takero Hayashi, managing director of Accenture’s financial
services group in Japan, said: “Today’s customers expect insurance
companies to be more than just providers of insurance; they expect
them to also be a conduit for services and advice from industry
partners — and they expect that service to be convenient and
intuitive. This is what we helped Dai-ichi Life provide with the
new app, which is an agile, digital-driven, analytics-led tool that
makes it easier for people to live a healthier lifestyle.”
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Accenture Disclaimer:
Accenture is in no way promoting or intending to market a
medical product for consumer use or comment on the effectiveness or
safety of any medical platform for purposes of any diagnosis or
treatment. Accenture expects Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company and
other companies involved to use its own operations to ensure
compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
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