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Health IT firms to gather consumer data from retail screening kiosks to improve health care

August 23, 2017

Interpreta, a population health enablement and analytics company that synchronizes health care data and enables population genomics, has teamed with higi, a population health enablement and IT company that operates a self-screening health station network on a project designed to integrate biometric data with clinical and genomic data.

The integration will enable patients and their physicians to increase engagement and share health care data on blood pressure, pulse, BMI, weight, body composition and self-screening questions gained at higi retail stations and prioritized within Interpreta in real time. This will enable physicians and insurers to leverage a patient's biometrics data, alongside clinical, claims and additional genomic information a person may obtain from genetic testing services.

Health care payers and providers will be able to jointly create a personalized care roadmap, inform care decisions and more effectively close gaps in care.

With the growth in wearable devices and health apps, consumers are seeking more options to take charge of their health. The higi network has served 43 million consumers at its nearly 11,000 stations at food, chain drug, mass merchant and club locations to capture biometrics during routine shopping activity.

Consumers can access the information at higi stations from its mobile and web app, giving them the option to share their data with their providers.