Introducing RecycleHealth.com

With the abundance of wearable activity trackers currently available, it has never been easier to track steps and other health indicators. Currently 21% of US online adults use wearable activity trackers (Forrester Research). The pace of innovation in devices and the relative affluence of many purchasers lead to frequent upgrades to new devices, and to abandonment. One study found that 1/3 of devices are no longer used after 6 months (Endeavour Partners). Given current sales, there are conservatively millions of devices sitting in drawers. With the cost of these devices out of the reach of many, RecycleHealth.com was founded to give a second life to unused wearable activity trackers.
RecycleHealth’s goals are 1) to make it easy for people to donate their unused devices, which are of limited resale value and hard to recycle; and 2) to provide refurbished devices to the people least likely to afford or know about them yet who may benefit most by using them to increase their fitness.
Currently, RecycleHealth is working with a weight loss challenge at Montachusett Branch YMCA in Fitchburg, MA and the Whole Heart Club, a walking club formed by African-American women in Mattapan, MA. We have plans to work with a group of Chinese seniors and other populations who are more ethnically diverse, older, or in poorer health than the typical wearable purchaser. In our studies, we give participants clean, refurbished wearable activity trackers to keep, train them in their use, a...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Innovation Source Type: blogs