PartnerRe has launched its wearables pilot with dacadoo.
In a statement, PartnerRe said that the pilot will enable it to gather real-time health and wellness data and first-hand experience to provide its life and health clients with actionable insights into leveraging wearables to more accurately underwrite risks and better engage with their customers.
As part of the pilot, PartnerRe has engaged PartnerRe employees across its Paris and Zurich locations, on a voluntary basis, to participate in a six month pilot designed to assess the efficacy of wearables and wellness platforms in changing people's behavior with regard to health. Employee participants will be able to actively manage their health via the dacadoo platform, which combines motivational techniques derived from behavioral science with gamification and social networking.
The data of participating employees will remain private and will not be disclosed to third parties.
Marc Archambault, the chief executive officer of life and health at PartnerRe, said, “We are excited about this pilot with dacadoo, which offers the dual benefit of promoting greater health and wellbeing within our organization while providing us with valuable learnings about wearables technology. Combining this with our advanced data analytics capability will enable us to share insights with our life and health clients, who are keen to use wearables data to design and customize products based on the risk exposures of their customers.”
Peter Ohnemus, the president and chief executive officer of dacadoo, added, “We're very proud that PartnerRe chose dacadoo's digital health engagement platform for its innovative pilot project with their own employees and look forward to a fruitful partnership.”
Learn more: www.partnerre.com; www.dacadoo.com.
Victoria Spears
Victoria Prussen Spears is senior vice president of Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a law firm marketing communications consulting company. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Spears was an attorney at a leading New York City law firm before joining Meyerowitz Communications. She may be contacted at [email protected].