Google selects Full Health Medical for its acceleration programme!

Full Health Medical has fended off stiff competition from Europe's best startups to be selected for Google's "Adopt A Startup" initiative, which will be launching at their European HQ in Dublin later this month. As part of the 12-week programme Full Health will work with a team of Google Digital Consultants to boost their digital strategy.

Paul McCarthy, Full Health's CEO & Founder said:

“We are thrilled to be selected for this amazing Google initiative. It will enable us to develop and execute a world-beating digital marketing strategy"

Along with a select few leading high-potentials startups, Full Health will be competing to become the international winner - to be announced in December 2015. This will be invaluable for Full Health's plan to fundamentally change healthcare for communities, employers and employees using its digital health platform. The key value of Full Health is that it combines the convenience, accessibility and reduced delivery cost of online with the quality and trust of traditional medicine.

Previous winners of this competition include FoodCloud, the tremendously successful Irish company that redistributes food surpluses for people who need it, and Jobbio, the brand and talent recruiting platform.  

Full Health Medical's head office becomes Google's latest Tech Hub Partner

Dogpatch Labs  - home to Full Health's head office - has today been revealed as Google's latest Tech Hub Partner. Located in Dublin's docklands, Dogpatch is a space that houses some of Europe's most exciting young companies, and has fast become a key player in Dublin's burgeoning start-up scene. The partnership was announced at an event this morning attended by Google representatives and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation, Mr Richard Bruton. 

The deal puts new and exciting resources at the fingertips of companies who work out of Dogpatch, such as Full Health Medical. These include mentorship and workshops from Dublin Googlers, workspace at 20+ other Tech Hub Partners around the world (incl. San Francisco, Tel Aviv, London), Google product offers and more. 

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation Mr Richard Bruton this morning said:

"We have great entrepreneurs in Ireland - 2/3 of all new jobs in the Irish economy are created by start-ups and this project will provide more support for entrepreneurs at Dogpatch".

Full Health Medical will hope to capitalise on this fantastic opportunity, as we continue to expand into new geographic markets and further develop our already strong digital health platform. Our CEO and founder Paul McCarthy said:

"Being part of this community will give us access to the heart of the tech ecosystems in a number of key cities"

Our New Recruit: Chief Medical Officer

Dr Jack Halligan, Chief Medical Officer

After a thrilling year studying a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at INSEAD business school in France, I’m delighted to join Full Health Medical as Chief Medical Officer. As a medical doctor with business education, I look forward to being part of this fast-growing company that has been leading the way in digital preventative health in the UK & Ireland. I’m a sincere believer that many of the modern challenges in healthcare must be tackled using innovative IT solutions, and that’s exactly what Full Health have been doing since they entered the market in 2012. 

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Full Health’s award-winning software has been central to the company's success, and I think this is the key reason it is now used extensively by multinational corporations, government organizations, pharmacy chains, private clinics and other healthcare service providers. Our people-friendly medical reports are designed to engage employees in long-term behavioral change, resulting in a happier and more motivated workforce. For employers, this translates into significantly increased employee productivity and reduced absenteeism rates. Increasingly, large employers are seen as a crucial player in tackling big public health issues such as obesity, diabetes, mental health problems and heart disease. Year on year, we are thankfully seeing companies continue to make substantial investment toward the health and well-being of their workforce, and hope to see this trend persist into the future.

This October, with information from the 20,000+ employee medical reports that we have processed, we will be presenting in front of the delegation at the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) in Doha, Qatar. Applying these and other insights, we can easily demonstrate to our customers how workplace wellness programs deliver a real and measurable return for companies - up to €6 for every €1 invested, according to recent research*.

In the coming months, I look forward to building out robust workplace wellness programs to add to Full Health's already strong employee screening service. By giving employees the education and guidance tools to take control of their own health we will continue to empower them to live longer, healthier and more productive lives.

Dr. Jack Halligan

MB, BCh, BAO, LRCP&SI, MBA (Insead)

Chief Medical Officer | Full Health Medical

Tel:         +353851818275

Email:     jack@fullhealthmedical.com

Website: www.fullhealthmedical.com

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 *World Economic Forum's Workplace Wellness Alliance

National Workplace Wellbeing Day - Key Points

Key Points from National Workplace Wellbeing Day

By Paul Mc Carthy - CEO, Full Health Medical

Organised by the Nutrition and Health Foundation (NHF), the first National Workplace Wellbeing Day took place on Friday 27th of March.

Overall the event was a huge success with a fantastic attendance from private and public organisations. It was great to hear the diversity of initiatives and approaches being taken to improve the health of the workforce. So what were the take home messages?

For me, Aramark's Frank Gleeson's point was the most important: while all these fragmented activities are going on under the guise of wellness, there is no data available to measure and assess their impact. As Frank said "Evidence shows it's working, but harder data is needed."

I was delighted to hear this comment, as over the past three years working with the Full Health multidisciplinary medical team, we have painstakingly focused on the building blocks of running successful 3-5 year wellness programmes centred on preventative health and measuring the return. All too often, valuable data is lost or is not analysed with events that are apparently unconnected and often expensive. This is in an age when everything is connected!

Frank Gleeson, Aramark with boxer Katie Taylor

Professor Niall Moyna, DCU School of Health and Human Performance and NHF Chairman

• Need to redesign workplaces so that people move more

• Must make the workplace work for peoples health

Jim McGuinness, Celtic FC / Sports Psychologist

• Commit, focus, believe and achieve

• Negative thoughts lead to negative actions, positivity is key

Jerry Buttimer TD

• Spoke of the Government's commitment to health and wellbeing via the Healthy Ireland initiative

Kate O'Flaherty, Healthy Ireland Director of Health and Wellbeing

• Workplaces are ‘Best Buy’ for supporting and promoting health and wellbeing

• Need to embed the employee wellbeing thinking with future leaders - both locally and nationally

• Government committed to assist healthy workplaces, these include measures such as the bike to work scheme

• New culture and philosophy needed to make the healthier choice the easier choice for public

• Refocus on prevention and keeping people well

Professor Jeremy Bray, University of North Carolina

• A healthier worker is a safer worker

• Return on investment is 3:1 and, more importantly, no employer reported a loss

• Employers need to focus on cost effectiveness

Mary Rose Bourke, IBEC

• 11 million days lost through absenteeism every year at a cost of €1.5bn

• 80,000 hours of our lives is spent working so the workplace has a massive impact on our wellbeing

• Noted that McKinsey research shows cost of obesity far exceeds that of alcoholism and tobacco globally

Frank Gleeson, Aramark & Katie Taylor

• Introduced Aramark Ireland's Right Track Challenge campaign which is an initiative to promote healthy eating and work life balance

• Consistency in your diet & physical activity is key for everyone

• Need to collate the data to prove the benefits of wellness initiatives. As a company we see it, but need more analysis to prove

Alan Quinlan, Former Ireland / Munster Rugby Player

• Called for more wellness programmes, media attention & events like National Workplace Wellbeing Day

• Stop, assess and make it your strategy to get there

Neville Bourke, HR Director, Bank of Ireland (BOI)

• People need to see value before engaging. Create demand before supply from a financial perspective. BOI now have 11,000 people across 500 sites engaged in their "Be at your Best Programme"

• Banks "Be at your Best Programme" started with no budget. It's ultimately about customers by helping BOI staff to be at their best in terms of mind and professionalism

• "Aspire, Inspire, Perspire" is the mantra and programme is centered on body, mind and career

• Described the "Be at your Best Programme" as bottom up through staff and un-bank like

• Wellbeing programmes can help change organisational behaviour & culture

Miriam Doolan, HR, Teleflex

• Provided an overview of Teleflex's two week programme encompassing health checks and various activities that employees can choose from

Sinead Doherty, Fenero

• As a very small business explained how they prioritise wellness with various supports

• Small changes can be significant & low cost

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Health checks with prizes for health improvement

• 5K Runs

In summary, initiating a culture of wellness has a guaranteed payback for employers. The Q&A session included comments such as more supports for employers to introduce initiatives and more events like National Wellbeing day....more work for organiser in chief Dr. Muireann Cullen!

To support the continuation of the discussion from National Workplace Wellbeing Day, Full Health are providing free expert advice on how to design and maximise the return from a wellness programme.

Email wellness@fullhealthmedical.com for more information and to express your interest in attending.

National Workplace Wellbeing Day

A Success Already!

Today is National Workplace Wellbeing Day

By Dr Ann Shortt - Medical Director, Full Health Medical

At Full Health Medical we just want to say a huge congratulations to the organisers of the inaugural National Workplace Wellbeing seminar taking place in Croke Park. It's already oversubscribed and shaping up to be a fantastic event.

Ireland's first National Workplace Wellbeing Day is an initiative of the Food and Drink Industry Ireland, part of Ibec, and is being organised by the Nutrition and Health Foundation.

Why not drop an email to our CEO, Paul Mc Carthy to learn how Full Health can help your organisation? Even better, if you are attending he can meet you in person!

So why is the workplace a great place to champion wellness?

Approximately one third of adult life is spent at work. Employment is a key social determinant of health, and the workplace is recognised as a key avenue for health promotion.

This has led to a shift in attitudes around workplace wellness, with employers expanding the concept of employee health beyond conditions acquired in the workplace to any condition which could potentially impact on employee performance.

Blood Pressure

In 2007, nearly 852,000 adults in the Republic of Ireland (25.1%) had high blood pressure. By 2020, this is expected to rise to over 1,192,000 (28.3%). This represents a 40% increase in the number of people affected - an additional 341,000 adults - in less than 15 years.

Incidence of Stroke

Similarly, by 2020 the number of adults in Ireland with clinically diagnosed stroke is expected to rise to almost 29,000 per year - this represents a 27% increase in 10 years!

Diabetes

In 2010, the rate of clinically diagnosed diabetes for all adults in Ireland was 3.2% (106,000 people). By 2020 the rate of clinically diagnosed diabetes among all adults is expected to rise to 3.8% (136,000 people). This will represent a 28% increase in 10 years.

Recognition of the growing problem of chronic diseases and of the fact that these diseases are caused by a build up of risk factors over many years, has led stakeholders to focus on the importance of prevention and to look at new ways of targeting those at risk.

Example of how the award winning Full Health platform empowers employees to wellbeing

About Full Health

Full Health Medical is a leading preventative health management company that focuses on the early detection of illness and disease in the workplace and community.

It's Full Health platform is a smart technology which revolutionises the health screening experience and produces personal and evidence based employee friendly reports at scale. 

Full Health provides employees with the same convenience they now take for granted as they shop, bank or book holidays online via any mobile or internet connected device.

The key outputs are quality medical advice and action plans for the individual, with population health reporting for the organisation or community.  All delivered via a lean and streamlined process.

All medical advice is provided by a multidisciplinary team of medical specialists and consultants. The specialist team includes experts in General Practice, Accident and Emergency, Occupational Health, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Rheumatology, Public Health and Epidemiology.

The result is employees are empowered to better health and organisations are provided with recommendations and an implementation plan on how they support employees be healthier, happier and more productive. This ensures they get a return on investment in the region of 4:1 to 6:1.

It is extensively used by:

• Employers and Multinationals in the UK and Ireland
• Government organisations
• Leading health screening providers in the UK and Ireland
• Occupational health providers in the UK and Ireland
• Private hospitals & clinics in UK and Ireland

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Full Health Medical selected for Global Challenge Cup Competition

We are delighted to announce that Full Health Medical has been selected to take part in a major competition aimed to identify the most promising start-ups in the health sector worldwide.

The Challenge Cup 2015 is run by  US based startup incubator 1776. It is a global competition that spans 16 cities in 11 countries to identify the most promising startups with the best ideas to solve the world's biggest challenges.

Full Health Medical, was one of a number of companies shortlisted from more than 5,000 applicants for the Challenge Cup 2015. We will be competing on February 27th in Dublin.

If successful in Dublin, Full Health Medical will have the chance of winning a place at the week long Challenge Festival in May in Washington D.C. in the US to compete for up to  $650,000 in prizes. This event will convene the top 64 startups from the 16 regional Challenge Cup competitions. It also provides the unique opportunity to connect with mentors, corporate partners, policymakers, and potential investors.

The Challenge Cup 2015 competition aims to identify startups that are compelling, world changing, highly scalable and that aim to make tangible differences in peoples’ lives.

Full Health Medical was founded by Paul McCarthy and his wife Dr Ann Shortt who works as a consultant in emergency medicine.

The company provides user-friendly health screening software that instantly combines medical test results and questionnaires to produce personalised health reports, accessible to the patient or employee on any internet-connected device. 

Participants in screening programmes powered by Full Health Medical are provided with personalised, accessible health reports created and approved by experienced medical specialists and consultants which highlight areas of concern and advise them on the next best course of action.

The platform contains all of the features necessary to enable health and wellbeing screening to be a faster, higher quality and drastically more cost effective service. Full Health provides employees and patients with the same convenience they now take for granted as they shop, bank or book holidays online.

 Dr Shortt, Co Founder of Full Health Medical said, “This is great recognition of the big problem we are trying to solve.  Although the level of preventative health testing has increased, the quality of interpretation of those results and advice has not. Our software has already interpreted 750,000 complex medical test results and made these patient friendly and accessible on any smart phone or Internet connected device”.

Mr Paul Mc Carthy CEO Full Health Medical said “The Challenge Cup comes at the perfect time with our launch in the UK next month at the NEC Birmingham Health and Wellbeing at Work 2015 exhibition. We have a strong established business here in the Irish market with our technology extensively used by health screening providers, large employers, multinationals, occupational health providers, private hospitals and Primary Care Centres.”

For more information please contact, Paul McCarthy (paul@fullhealthmedical.com)

Telephone (UK) +44 (0) 203 4681118
Ireland                +353 (1) 5549795

Website: www.fullhealthmedical.com

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