Lifelight Partners with Sanitas for Swiss Expansion

Lifelight, a DigitalHealth.London Accelerator alumnus company, announces their partnership with Sanitas, one of Switzerland’s largest health insurers. The collaboration empowers users to obtain indicative blood pressure estimates through mobile devices.

Developed by xim Limited, Lifelight is a cutting-edge, novel contactless technology, that allows a mobile device to estimate blood pressure and pulse, by simply looking into the device’s built-in camera for 40 seconds. It empowers remote patient checking allowing scale, driving efficiencies and improved health outcomes.

With over 800,000 insured people and a premium income of more than three billion francs, Sanitas is one of the largest health insurers in Switzerland. By integrating with Sanitas’s Portal app, Lifelight can now bring the detection of blood pressure estimates to over half a million customers in Switzerland from the comfort of their homes or remotely – anytime, anywhere. Lifelight’s integration within the Sanitas Portal app’s chronic illness guide helps users focus on preventing, detecting, and managing cardiovascular disease (CVD) through early monitoring and pre-emptive intervention.

Available in German, French, Italian and English, the Sanitas Portal app gives users an easily accessible overview of their insurance and health-related benefits, including rewards for exercise, symptom checking and support for mental health. Customers can also receive valuable support from a virtual assistant and a personal advisory team.

Partnering with Lifelight to bring blood pressure estimates to our health insurance customers is an integral step in our preventative care vision.  We want to empower and encourage our customers to become experts of their own health.  Lifelight’s contactless technology can also be used at home to estimate blood pressure. It provides important information for the early detection of high blood pressure.

Evelyne Dürr
Digital service project manager at Sanitas

We’re motivated to work alongside a well-known established healthcare insurance brand, allowing us to scale Lifelight and support Sanitas’ ongoing preventative care programme.  We look forward to reaching more people in Europe through Santias’ Swiss customer base, building on our shared aims to empower everyone who wants to, take responsibility for their health that will improve an individual’s wellbeing, cut healthcare costs and ultimately reduce the risk of CVD.

Laurence Pearce
CEO and Founder of Lifelight

The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme is funded by the UK Government via the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). It is delivered by the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London in partnership with the Office of Life Sciences, CW+, Medicity, NHS England, the Mayor of London and the Levelling Up Fund.

For more information, please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-
shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus.