What:
Zurich Australia has launched a mobile health app that enables life insurance customers with diabetes to monitor their blood sugar levels and self-manage their diabetes.
Why:
Pops Diabetes Care is one of the ways Zurich collaborates with the start-up community under their LiveWell strategy, to source new ideas that help improve customer wellbeing. Pops can replace traditional testing kits currently in use by many Australians.
How:
- Pops is a first-of-its-kind integrated health management system consisting of a glucose meter that attaches to a smartphone.
- Paired with the Pops app and AI health coach, it wirelessly records blood sugar results.
- The real-time app also features an AI virtual coach, Mina, to:
- Identify trends, enabling the user to take a more active role in managing their condition.
- Keep track of HbA1c (blood sugar) goals.
- Set health targets and provide guidance and tips on how best to achieve them.
- Provide conversation and education on diabetes.
- To get started, recently underwritten Zurich and OnePath Life customers with diabetes loading on their life insurance policy can download the Pops app by searching “Pops Rebel” in their smartphone app store. A PIN will then be provided by Zurich Australia.
- The program was made available on a free-trial basis to first 100 Zurich customers, who will received the Pops glucose meter and welcome kit in the mail.