Connected preventive health

What is connected health prevention?

Connected health prevention is the use of connected objects and an app to track, day after day, wellness indicators that used to be measured only in a doctor’s office, or not at all: resting heart rate and its variability, sleep duration and regularity, step count, body composition, posture. The point is not the single measurement, it is the trend: knowing whether you have been sleeping worse for three weeks, whether muscle mass is falling, whether recovery is getting worse.

Chutex defines itself as a digital longevity clinic: devices that measure, an app that connects, human services that support. The indicators it produces are wellness and prevention indicators. No Chutex device diagnoses, treats or cures; Elder is personal protective equipment, not a medical device. Diagnosis, treatment and medical follow-up remain the responsibility of health professionals.

This page gives the sourced reference benchmarks, explains what to measure and with what, how to read a trend, and which human support services exist in the app. The device pages detail what each one measures and does not measure.

Which signals to track at home, and with what?

Six areas cover the essentials of everyday prevention. For each one, the table shows the indicator tracked, the Chutex device that reports it in the app, and what the measurement does not tell you. The last column matters as much as the others: it keeps a sensor from being made to say what it does not know.

Which reference benchmarks to keep in mind?

An indicator is only meaningful when compared with a benchmark. The benchmarks below come from institutional sources, with their year and their scope; the WHO’s global figures are not French figures, and the Santé publique France figures concern France. Each row names its source.

According to the WHO, an adult should do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week; in 2022, 31% of adults worldwide, 1.8 billion people, did not reach this benchmark, five points higher than in 2010. According to Inserm, drawing on the Santé publique France barometer, adults in France slept an average of 6 hours 42 minutes per weeknight in 2017, below the 7 hours usually recommended, and 36% of people aged 18 to 75 slept less than 6 hours.

According to Santé publique France, 174,824 fall-related hospital admissions were counted among people aged 65 and over in France in 2024, up 20.5% from 2019, and 20,148 people aged 65 and over died in connection with a fall, up 18%. The hospital admission rate is 8.6 times higher among people aged 85 and over than among those aged 65 to 74. Worldwide, the WHO estimates that 684,000 people die from falls each year; falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury death.

Which human support services are in the app?

Measuring is not always enough; the app connects the indicators to human services. Chutex Care, a 4G connected telecare service available in France only, includes the Elio 4G band, Aria, alerts to guardians and, in France, the included medical teleconsultation and the home-care network. Chutex Sport puts your program in the hands of a state-certified sports coach, and Chutex Physio puts your exercise program in the hands of a dedicated physiotherapist; both are adjusted to the sleep, heart rate variability and training load measured by Elio, and both open soon in France. Chutex Memory, coming soon, keeps and structures your memories with Aria.

Each service has its own truth page, with its exact content, its availability by country and its price. Medical teleconsultation and the home-care network depend on the country; everything else is identical everywhere.

Which path for your situation?

The right starting point depends on the goal. An older person living alone, or their loved ones, will start with fall prevention and the alert chain: Elder, Care, the guardian space. An athlete will start with recovery and training load: Elio, Model I, then Sport. Someone who wants to lose weight for good will start with body composition and activity: Vita, Elio, then the nutrition support in Sport. Someone with back pain from office work will start with posture: Dorsi, then Physio.

Professionals, whether physiotherapists, osteopaths, coaches or home-care services, have a dedicated page and a partner program. In every case, the app is the common thread: it is free and works with or without a device.

In which countries and languages?

The devices, the app, Aria, alerts, guardians and prevention are identical in every country served by the website. Two features depend on the country because they are regulated or operated locally: medical teleconsultation and the home-care intervention network, currently available in France. The health benchmarks cited here keep their scope: France for Santé publique France, worldwide for the WHO.

The website exists in twelve languages, with the same pages everywhere; the app follows the language of the phone. Financial aid, reimbursements and medical frameworks specific to a country are flagged as such on the pages concerned.

When should you see a health professional?

Prevention indicators are useful well before a trend becomes a symptom, but they do not replace a consultation. A new symptom, chest pain, unusual shortness of breath, feeling unwell, a fall, unintended weight loss, sleep that stays poor or a trend that worries you are reasons to see a health professional. In France, the teleconsultation included in Care lets you talk to a doctor; everywhere, your regular doctor remains your point of contact for follow-up.

In a life-threatening emergency, call the emergency services before anything else: 911 in the United States, 999 or 112 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Neither Aria, nor the app, nor the devices call the emergency services on your behalf.