Can a single number paint an accurate picture of health? This company thinks it can

A fascinating feature in Fortune for our portfolio company, dacadoo, as they discuss the company’s ambitions for the digital health space, and pointedly, the CEO, Peter Ohnemus’s goal to break down human biology into an easy-to-understand “Wheel of Life.”

The groundbreaking “Wheel of Life” initiative incorporates everything from your daily physical activity to your sleeping habits. (It also ranks you anywhere from 1 to 1,000). This information can be pulled in via smart devices or collated from existing electronic health records, which becomes much more convenient for a company like Dacadoo, given its key relationships with insurers and health providers worldwide.

“We currently have 35 of the top 100 life and health insurance companies as clients, and they have under contract 200 million individual lives,” Ohnemus tells the publication. “And we are planning to get at least 10% to 20% of those lives covered.”

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Source: Fortune