#446 Incentivizing Healthy Habits with Alec Zopf, Co-Founder & CTO at Wellth
Today we’re talking with Alec Zopf, CTO of Wellthapp. And we discuss how Wellthapp builds applications for patients to create healthy habits. How the relationship between Welltheapp and healthcare providers helped the company reach new areas in the medical field, and how they found a way to financially incentivize people to take care of themselves.
All of this right here, right now, on the ModernCTO Podcast!
About Alec Zopf:
I love data and building the tools and teams to make it useful. I'm inspired by music, excellent interfaces, and technologies that can change the world for the better. My professional goal is to be an agent of that change in all of the ways my multi-faceted skills enable.
At Wellth, I'm focused on building a great team of people who care deeply about creating quality products that solve important problems in the healthcare industry. We use a patient-centric design process to identify and remove the blockers to good self-care, and our incredible empirical results speak for themselves. Please connect to learn more about our products and our team!
About Wellth:
Our healthcare system assumes we make decisions based on what is best for us. But it’s not that simple. Everyday stressors often cloud our judgement as to what’s best in the long run. For people with chronic conditions, this can make healthy habit formation difficult.
Wellth is a venture-backed digital health company that improves adherence in chronic disease populations. Using the science of behavioral economics—combined with an appreciation for human nature—we uncover and address the unique obstacles that prevent people with chronic conditions from improving patient outcomes. Our program goes beyond current efforts to boost adherence with technology, reminders, and coaching solutions using contingency management and loss aversion to create motivation, behavior change and improve population health at scale.
In addition to our RCT-proven outcomes, our easy-to-use mobile platform experience has been proven by health plans, providers, and other organizations to empower members with the incentives and support system they need to establish new healthy habits. Key outcomes for members include improved med and care plan adherence, reduction in readmissions, hospitalizations, and ED utilization, improved PDC, and more.