Bodyo: Deciphering Innovative Technologies to Inspire Better Health and Wellbeing

Bodyo is a 360° telehealth consumer engagement solution that makes health assessment easy and intuitive through smart self-screening stations, teleconsultation, and mobile applications, empowering users to monitor and control their health and wellbeing along their journey.

A Company Born out of Passion and Values

At Bodyo, the team cares about people and takes prevention and health seriously. The company's mission is to create, manufacture and commercialize a range of innovative telehealth devices. These devices favour access to healthcare for all and improve people's quality of life by preventing chronic diseases and rising health awareness with engaging prevention programs through self-monitoring and telemedicine stations. Bodyo also values,

• Out-of-the-box thinking to lead and redefine better systems.
• Design as a strategic asset, where making people feel safe and protected allows for large adoption and sustainable results.
• State-of-art innovative technology that is highly and fundamentally human.
• Adaptive and upgradable hardware to lower costs and favour environmental sustainability.
• Ethics that put data privacy and integrity first.

A One Man Empire

Patrice Coutard is the Founder and CEO of Bodyo. He worked with the UAE national football team for eighteen years and became the first in the region to apply heart rate monitors on players to observe their performance. Patrice also went on to implement player-specific programs to improve their stamina.

Patrice initially faced difficulty explaining the readings to the players, as the output was in an Excel format that the players did not engage with. Still, he carried on to build a user-friendly dashboard using simple charts and tables. Meanwhile, Patrice also realized that it could be applied to people outside of professional sports to achieve their personal fitness goals and monitor their health.

Shortly after Bodyo was born, the company released health analysis pods that read vital measurements and provided users with personalized nutrition and training plans.

Disruptive Technologies and Government Initiatives at the Core of Healthcare 

Today, machine learning is impacting innovation in healthcare by imaging applications where artificial intelligence is capable of detecting conditions with high speed and accuracy compared to the human eye.

The creation of major data hubs by government authorities, such as the Health Data Hub in France, will help take innovations one step further with AI algorithms that can detect early signs of chronic disease development. Even if it can't be prevented, technological improvements can at least delay their occurrence. At this stage, Bodyo will be changing its paradigm, switching from preventive medicine to predictive medicine.

An Out-of-the-box Perspective to Trigger Innovation

At Bodyo, the team believes that to remain at the forefront of health technology innovation, the company must focus on the user experience.

What makes Bodyo innovative and different is the company's way to think out-of-the-box to make healthcare systems more efficient and accessible. It's a way to consider design as a key asset in making people feel safe and protected to favour adoption and sustainable results, and its aim to continuously deliver outstanding, highly intuitive and fundamentally human technology.

Conquering the Challenge of Hiring Skilled People

Bodyo's major challenge as of today is to build a remarkable and multi-talented team of engineers, designers, developers, and marketers to take the company to the levels of success it deserves.

A Bouquet of Achievements and Awards

Since its launch, Bodyo has been performing well in the market. As a matter of recognizing the company's products and services, Bodyo was crowned with many awards over the past few years. Some of them are listed below,

• June 2021: Special Guest at Vivatechnology 2021 in Paris, France
• November 2020: Accelerated at the Village by CA in Sophia Antipolis, France
• January 2020:First startup from Middle Eastern countries to join the Microsoft Scaleup program
• May 2018: Winner of the FrenchTech Prize of the United Arab Emirates
• November 2018: Finalist of the Health Accenture Challenge Dubai
• Third place at the UAE Future Enterprise Awards 2018
• Nominated for the best product at the Arabian Business Startup Awards
• Finalist at the CCI Awards for French entrepreneurs abroad
• 2018: Dubai Future Accelerator and Dubai Health Authority, selected among 1,000 startups
• Winner of the TechTheFuture Challenge at Ecole des Minesd'Alès, France

Artificial Intelligence, the Gold Rush of the Future

Artificial intelligence in healthcare is the next Gold Rush. The latest Covid pandemic has demonstrated how vulnerable society is when such events occur.

Fortunately, Bodyo foresees a very positive impact of artificial intelligence on healthcare by increasing the capability of doctors to analyze patient data and make better and quicker decisions at a lower cost.

Also, Bodyo thanks all big data analytics, epidemiology scientists who can give more relevant information to governing bodies, allowing them to make adequate decisions and implement effective health policies.