For those who’ve ever needed a approach to hold your whole household’s well being data in a single place, there might now be an answer. Fitbit co-founders, James Park and Eric Friedman, have introduced a brand new wellness platform referred to as Luffu.
Luffu, which interprets to the Outdated English phrase for “love,” makes use of AI to create what it calls an “clever household care system.” The platform permits relations to share all their well being info by way of an app.
Luffu will enable households to maintain monitor of everybody’s physician’s appointments, check outcomes, vaccine data, medicines, signs, food plan and extra. It is unclear when Luffu might be formally out there, however you possibly can join the waitlist for now. Pricing or different particulars haven’t been introduced.
“We’re constructing Luffu as a premium service-first app expertise,” a spokesperson for Luffu informed CNET. “Particulars about pricing and subscription fashions might be shared nearer to beta and launch.”
“Luffu can be powered by AI, and it is constructed into your entire expertise to assist households seize and manage well being info with easy logging, study what’s regular over time, discover what modified and get proactive steerage on what to do earlier than it turns into a priority so your entire expertise is like having a guardian for your loved ones well being and security,” the Luffu spokesperson stated.
By studying your loved ones’s well being historical past, the platform can warn you to modifications that should be addressed, like missed medicines or irregular very important indicators. The app may also hook up with third-party apps and wearables, similar to Fitbit. The corporate spokesperson famous that Luffu will ultimately have its personal first-party {hardware} to attach with the service, however for now, the main target is on the app.
Luffu is supposed to lighten the psychological load of household care by organizing all of this well being knowledge in a single place. “I used to be caring for my dad and mom from throughout the nation, attempting to piece collectively my mother’s well being care throughout varied portals and suppliers, with a language barrier that made it arduous to get a whole, well timed context from her about physician visits, Luffu co-founder James Park stated.
It stays unknown which medical platforms Luffu will hook up with, however the firm spokesperson stated Luffu goals to connect with nearly any well being portal.
Privateness and safety issues are prime of thoughts, the Luffu spokesperson stated, because the platform will hook up with apps that comprise personal consumer info. Luffu will embody alerts together with an area to log well being and drugs info by way of voice, textual content, photographs and different well being portals and gadgets. Key medical info might be shared throughout the platform with spouses, caregivers and oldsters.
Correction, Feb. 5:Â This story initially contained incorrect details about Luffu’s homeowners and its launch date. Luffu was created by the co-founders of Fitbit and the platform was launched on Tuesday, Feb. 3.
