Singapore bets on the Apple Watch to power nationwide health initiative | Malay Mail

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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — Singapore earned a spot on Apple's recent September keynote with an interesting collaboration. The country is soon launching the LumiHealth app that, paired with the Apple Watch, is aimed to encourage Singaporeans to embrace a healthier lifestyle. Why Apple? Singapore had,...

Thursday, 17 Sep 2020 02:39 PM MYTLumiHealth builds on Singapore's past success with digital health initiatives. — Picture courtesy of Apple

The app is just part of Singapore's Smart Nation initiative that aims to harness technology to further the nation's ambitions.LumiHealth offers a personalised programme tailored, via Apple's algorithms, based on user-provided data. The aim of the game is to help the explorer avatar find his way home, and along the way, users can earn themselves rewards worth up to S$380 over the two years that LumiHealth will run for.

As to where the data is stored, it will be in a “highly secure system” built to comply with Singapore's own security and data privacy laws.If there's one concern here it is how device dependent LumiHealth is. You need both the Apple Watch and LumiHealth app that both require an Apple iPhone. Still it can be argued that Android users still have access to the Live Healthy SG programme as well as other initiatives running under the HPB's Healthy 365 initiative.

 

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