Kurbo - a mobile health coaching program and weight loss app adapted from Stanford's Pediatric Obesity Center - has been tapped by the government of Singapore to provide mobile health coaching to thousands of at-risk, overweight Singapore schoolchildren free of charge. This the first major government contract for Palo Alto-based Kurbo, which is already available at no cost to the employees of many Fortune 100 companies in the U.S. The fast growing, venture-backed startup won the contract after
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Mercer, Kurbo Health Partner to Provide Mobile Health Coaching for Kids, Families
Mercer Health and Benefits LLC and Kurbo Health have formed an alliance provide employers with a proven mobile health coaching and weight loss program created specifically for kids, teens and families. The alliance will combine Mercer's health benefits consulting capabilities and market reach with Kurbo Health’s platform, which combines ease of a mobile app with the proven science of the Stanford’s Pediatric Weight Control Program to help shape healthy eating and physical activity among children
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Kurbo Health, Humana Partner to Offer Mobile Weight Loss Coaching for Kids as Employee Perk
California-based Kurbo Health and Humana Inc., have partnered to offer qualified employers with a Humana health plan will have the option to purchase a twelve-month subscription to Kurbo Health’s mobile health coaching and weight loss program as a wellness benefit for employees’ children starting this month. Previously, insurers provided access to weight loss programs to companies for adult employees, this is the first time a wellness program specifically designed to help an employee’s children
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