Singapore-based Active8me on Monday said it has partnered with Metro Pacific Health Tech Corporation in the Philippines to add its digital health programmes to the latter's mobile health app mWell.

WHAT THEY DO

Active8me offers a suite of preventive health solutions for insurers, health providers, employers and individuals to tackle obesity, stress, diabetes and hypertension.

Available on both iOS and Android devices, the app provides customisable daily workout videos and plans and weekly meal plans and recipes; motivation and mindset lessons; a health tracker; and unlimited live chat with health coaches.

Meanwhile, mWell offers individuals and partner healthcare providers a platform that enables 24/7 video consultations with doctors; allows the purchase of over-the-counter medicines and health and wellness products; and provides personalised fitness programmes and healthy food recipes, as well as a comprehensive pregnancy guide.

mWell also delivers support for COVID-19 patients through assessment, monitoring and test kit appointment. The app also runs on iOS and Android smartphones.

WHY IT MATTERS

According to a press release, the partnership will add Active8me's personalised daily fitness, nutrition and wellness programmes to the mWell platform.

"We're pleased to work with mWell to help provide a total preventative health solution, with the power to transform lives at scale," Active8me Founder Jeremy Rolleston said in a statement.

MARKET SNAPSHOT

mWell claims to be the first fully integrated, one-stop-shop mobile health and lifestyle app in the Philippines.

Other popular mobile health platforms in the country that offer a number of digital health services include AIDE, which connects over 4,000 providers to more than 320,000 patients, and the recently launched eConsult of Ananta Solution Corp. that hosts virtual consultations, not only with doctors but also with lawyers, fitness trainers, business developers, finance practitioners, feng shui masters, among others.

ON THE RECORD

"Mobile health solutions are crucial during this global pandemic when many people are working from home. The mWell-Active8me partnership will go a long way in ensuring Filipinos have greater access to personalised healthcare," Rolleston said.

"Even before the pandemic, Filipinos have needed better access to healthcare. Many challenges and limitations hinder medical care and treatment, more so in the [COVID-19] crisis," said Joey Lim, president and CEO of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, the parent firm of MPHTC.

"The fully-integrated experience empowers patients to be in full control of their health and wellbeing with just a few clicks on their phones, in the comforts of their own home," he added.