Canadian Wellness Institute Publishes Landmark Study: Scientific Health Management Reduces Mortality Risk by 60%

On October 13, the Canadian Wellness Institute (hereinafter referred to as “CWI”), a global leader in chronic disease intervention and health management, published a research report titled “Health Improvement Outcomes Among CWI Members” in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, an internationally authoritative medical journal. The findings have drawn significant attention from the industry both domestically and abroad.

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This 10-year retrospective study was jointly conducted by researchers from the Chronic Disease Innovation Centre (CDIC) at Seven Oaks General Hospital and the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Health Sciences. Leveraging the MCHP database, the study examined the health status and mortality rates of 19,300 members of Canadian Health Management Centers between 2005 and 2015, comparing them with a control group of nearly 516,000 residents in Winnipeg.

Research findings indicate that members receiving health management services at CWI experienced a 60% reduction in mortality risk and a 13% reduction in hospitalization risk compared to individuals not enrolled in health management programs at any medical fitness institution. Furthermore, members visiting CWI more than three times per week saw a 39% reduction in hospitalization risk. Conclusions drawn from long-term comparative analyses of health data demonstrate that regular health management can extend life expectancy and reduce the frequency of medical visits.

The Canadian Health Management Center, where the subjects of this study were recruited, is the first and largest service provider in North America dedicated to personalized health management and chronic disease intervention through lifestyle medicine. Established in 1996, the center has leveraged its professional health management team and advanced medical exercise facilities over the past two decades to deliver personalized chronic disease prevention and health management services to more than 7 million individuals worldwide. Its innovative health management philosophy and effective chronic disease interventions have earned global acclaim.

CWI is not only conducting continuous research in the field of health management in Canada. In 2018, CWI entered China and jointly established the Miao Health · Canadian Health Management Center with Miao Health, a domestic digital health platform. Leveraging China’s cutting-edge technologies in the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and artificial intelligence (AI), the center promotes integrated innovation in digital health and offline health management within China.

CWI’s Chinese partner, Miao Health, is a domestic health technology company based on big data of health behaviors and artificial intelligence. By building a digital precision health management platform that integrates healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and insurance, it provides personalized health management services for users.

The platform’s health risk management H Platform leverages a leading NLP-powered health knowledge graph to intelligently structure and clarify collected user health data, evaluate user profiles, and pioneer China’s first Health Index (H-value). The Intelligent Health Intervention M Platform customizes personalized health plans targeting modifiable risk factors, encouraging users to accumulate a Healthy Behavior Index (M-value), standardize healthy lifestyles, and enable real-time, dynamic monitoring of adherence to health management. The H and M platforms operate in real-time synergy through assessment-intervention linkage, dynamically managing health risks.

Miao Health · Canada Health Management Center integrates Miao Health’s online digital technological and service capabilities with the Canada Health Management Center’s globally renowned offline clinical expertise accumulated over more than two decades, creating a multifunctional platform that combines fitness and exercise, chronic disease rehabilitation, health management, and new retail health services.

To date, Miao Health’s Canada Health Management Center has partnered with government agencies, insurance providers, hospitals, enterprises, and real estate developers, successfully launching and operating multiple offline centers in cities including Beijing, Xingtai, Rizhao, Shiyan, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Suzhou, and Ningbo. These centers provide local residents with comprehensive, full-scenario health management services that integrate “online and offline” channels as well as “human expertise and AI.” Services range from on-site risk screening, health assessments, and health record creation, to the issuance of lifestyle prescriptions, implementation of on-site interventions, and chronic disease management. This is followed by professional outcome evaluations and prescription adjustments. After leaving the facility, clients continue to receive online health data monitoring, behavioral tracking, and remote health guidance.

In March this year, the Miao Health Canada Health Management Center was established in Xingtai and officially commenced operations. In its research on health management populations, the center has specifically targeted individuals with hypertension, diabetes, and overweight conditions for enrollment, providing these chronic disease patients with traceable health improvement plans.

In the future, CWI will expand beyond individual health management services to adopt a family-centric approach, strengthening integration with commercial health insurance. This initiative aims to benefit more residents through improved health management while reducing medical expenditures, thereby assisting governments and communities in enhancing regional populations’ resilience against health risks and establishing a model for regional healthcare cost containment.