The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has announced the addition of enterprise-connected fitness and health platform FitRankings to its Lifestyle Medicine Corporate Roundtable. FitRankings gives organizations the ability to leverage the world of connected health devices by providing turnkey technology, tools, and support to create authentic digital fitness experiences and build scalable communities around health and fitness data.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has announced the addition of enterprise-connected health and fitness platform FitRankings to its Lifestyle Medicine Corporate Roundtable, a group of thought leaders and industry professionals who explore effective clinical innovations, activate marketing strategies, accelerate reimbursement and policy adoption, and pursue research and demonstrations of lifestyle medicine in practice. ACLM launched its Corporate Roundtable in 2016 and it now includes nearly 50 active member organizations in the lifestyle medicine ecosystem.
Lifestyle medicine is a medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat chronic conditions including, but not limited to, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. Lifestyle medicine certified clinicians are trained to apply evidence-based, whole-person, prescriptive lifestyle change to treat and, when used intensively, often reverse such conditions. Applying the six pillars of lifestyle medicine—a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connections—also provides effective prevention for these conditions.
Some 92 percent of U.S. adults have a health app or wearable, but less than .01 percent of active lifestyle companies and organizations have the ability to connect to health apps or wearables. FitRankings Enterprise solution provides turnkey technology, tools and support that allow companies to connect universally to wearables and create authentic communities to drive positive health outcomes.
FitRankings' solution can be implemented in minutes, with no engineering team or technical expertise needed. FitRankings serves many industries, including corporate wellness, active lifestyle brands, national governing bodies for sport and government entities.
"FitRankings' mission is closely aligned with that of the ACLM," said FitRankings Founder and CEO Patrick Hitchins. "FitRankings empowers active-lifestyle organizations with a turnkey platform, connected to wearables, that creates authentic digital communities around fitness and health. FitRankings hopes that our partnership with ACLM will allow more organizations to leverage the latest technology in their pursuit of healthier communities."
"Physical activity is a key pillar of lifestyle medicine, and empowering tracking through a scalable solution such as FitRankings provides critical data for decision-making and optimal outcomes," said ACLM President Cate Collings, MD, FACC, MS, DipABLM. "We welcome FitRankings to our Corporate Roundtable."
ABOUT FITRANKINGS— Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, TX, FitRankings is the most advanced connected health and fitness platform for the enterprise. FitRankings gives organizations the ability to leverage the world of connected health devices by providing turnkey technology, tools, and support to create authentic digital fitness experiences and build scalable communities around health and fitness data. Learn more about FitRankings at fitrankings.com.
ABOUT ACLM--The American College of Lifestyle Medicine is the nation's only medical professional society advancing lifestyle medicine as the foundation for a redesigned, value-based and equitable healthcare delivery system, leading to whole person health. ACLM educates, equips, empowers and supports its members through quality, evidence-based education, certification and research to identify and eradicate the root cause of chronic disease, with a clinical outcome goal of health restoration as opposed to disease management.
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