Revolutionising health monitoring with HealthLens
With preventative healthcare at the forefront of workplace wellbeing, HealthLens – powered by VivaScore® – offers employees a fast, non-invasive way to monitor key health indicators using just their smartphone camera. Powered by transdermal optical imaging, it scans facial blood flow to detect blood pressure, heart rate, cardiovascular disease risk, stroke risk and more.
By providing users with an indicative health score and monthly scans, HealthLens helps identify health risks early and enables employees to track changes over time.
Protecting hearing health with eargym
Hearing loss affects 1 in 6 working age adults, yet it is often overlooked in corporate wellbeing strategies. Left unaddressed, it can lead to social isolation, reduced productivity, stress and even dementia.
eargym offers employees comprehensive hearing assessments and training programmes, all available from home through their smartphone. eargym’s auditory training focuses on enhancing key hearing and cognitive skills to strengthen auditory processing. Research indicates that such training can improve understanding of speech in noisy environments by up to 25%.
Enhancements to Medicash Proactive
Through efficiencies, Medicash is enhancing its industry-leading Proactive health plan for new groups, without increasing premiums.
From 1 March 2025, the improved Proactive health plan will not only include two new digital benefits, but new corporate groups will also enjoy increased cover levels for optical, dental and complementary therapies benefits.
Sue Weir, Chief Executive of Medicash, commented: “From launching the first claims app in 2014, to introducing our skin cancer screening service nearly five years ago, we never stop looking for new ways to improve our plans. As part of this drive, we are delighted to introduce these innovative new benefits to our corporate policyholders.
“By integrating advanced digital tools like HealthLens and eargym into our corporate health plans, we are empowering employees to take more control over their health and wellbeing. These enhancements reflect our ongoing commitment to providing comprehensive, accessible and forward-thinking health solutions.”
Simon Spurr, Managing Director of Alula Health, the company behind VivaScore®, said: “By integrating VivaScore® into the Medicash app and plan offering, we’re providing policyholders with a hyper-personalised wellness experience that goes beyond covering healthcare costs. This partnership allows policyholders to better understand their unique health needs and take actionable steps toward improved well-being, driving better engagement and ultimately promoting long-term health and resilience. We are thrilled to partner with a respected leader like Medicash to create a meaningful impact on both employee and policyholder health.”
Amanda Philpott, CEO of eargym, added: “We are delighted to partner with Medicash. By integrating eargym into its digital healthcare platform, Medicash is setting a new standard for holistic hearing health coverage for adults of all ages.”
These new benefits will be available to all existing policyholders on a company funded Medicash health plan from March, simply by upgrading to the latest version of the My Medicash App via the App Store or Google Play.