New Digital Solution Help Users Get Ahead COVID-19 Risk

Nauts and Vectors Company Inc., NAVCO, the official distributor of Garmin smart wearables in the Philippines, announces a partnership with WellteQ, a Singapore-headquartered digital wellbeing platform that enables access to the latest innovative healthcare.

Highlights

● Through Garmin’s official distributor in the Philippines, Nauts and Vectors Company Inc, (NAVCO), the partnership enables Garmin users a seamless integration into WellteQ’s wellbeing platform to consistently monitor and track health data for comprehensive wellbeing analysis.

● This partnership allows companies to equip their employees and their spouses with the necessary tools to keep tabs on their own health both at work and at home to create healthier and safer environments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

● Both NAVCO and WellteQ recognize that it is critical to proactively track health data as lead indicators of health and wellbeing status, and can be vital in the fight against COVID-19.

Integrated Solution Supports Employees Working From Home

The data a Garmin device collects and the mapping features it provides are invaluable in monitoring general health and wellbeing as well as being able to track changes in mental and physical wellbeing that might not be easily perceptible to a non-medical professional.

With Garmin’s new integrated FirstBeat technology, it’s been discovered that an increase of eight beats per minute (BPM) in resting heart rate equates to an increase of one-degree centigrade in temperature. Its suite of digital health assessment and wellbeing tools now extend past objective health risk assessment and preventative coaching into measurable action in a user’s health and wellbeing profile.

Combined Technologies Support Overall Resistance To Illness

While a user works towards their health and fitness goals, measurable evidence of their progress is tracked in the WellteQ platform for consistency, aiding sustained behavioral change. Starting with smaller goals and with the aid of intelli-nudges, a personalized in-app notification to help keep the user on track, momentum is built-up until the user feels more confident to tackle larger health objectives.

Strong general wellness has been proven as the greatest resistance against developing non-communicable diseases, improving mental health issues, and reducing the risk of contracting viruses.

How Businesses Can Use This New Solution

For employers, this collaboration offers an end-to-end solution for their workforce that spans prevention programs and wellness resistance improvement, to disease management and home-based health monitoring. The combined solution provides employees with the right tools to stay active, strengthen their immune system, and maintain their fitness level during periods of lockdown in the ongoing health crisis:

● More accurate employee profiling allowing employees to get ahead of the risk before the situation becomes more serious and costly.

● Safe and secure digital environment for employees ensures user anonymity as only aggregated information is reported back to the employer.

● A dedicated solution that improves the lives of the workforce irrespective of location.

Understanding the increased time spent at home during various stages of lockdown, the enterprise solution is extended to both employees and their spouses in the Philippines region to create a supportive environment that can be enjoyed in the family home.

Neil Anthony Tan, Managing Director of NAVCO (exclusive distributor of Garmin in the Philippines), said:

“We’re excited about NAVCO’s partnership with WellteQ, combining workplace physical data insights with Garmin’s wellbeing hardware, science, and technology that aims to provide a holistic wellbeing approach for employees and their workplaces.

In this collaboration with WellteQ, we’ll be able to provide better data-driven employee assistance programs that go beyond the workplace. It’s now possible to provide them with tools that are dedicated to understanding how they can make the employees’ lives better.

By using advanced, functionally-integrated technology, we create landmark products that set new standards for user-centric health and wellbeing experiences.

Scott Montgomery, CEO of WellteQ, said:

The current pandemic has fast-forwarded the use of the latest digital tools as the world comes to terms with extended periods of social distancing, various stages of lockdowns, and the new norm of working from home.

We’re thrilled to be deepening our relationship with Garmin as we now expand into the Philippines, a region that’s been on our radar for quite some time. By combining our client relationships and years of experience, we’re positive that we’ve developed a solution for the market, by the market.

Understanding the importance of family in the Philippines, we’ve extended our solution to include spouses, a unique offering that we envision will not only encourage employees engagement but will aid in the creation of health support networks outside of the workplace.