Enhance Preventative Healthcare With Digital Solutions

Ella Steer
Nov 13
3 min read

Improvement of prevention tools in health care should always be the primary focus and first call when looking after patients' health. Catching or identifying risks and symptoms earlier reduces the chance of leading to more serious health conditions. There are 4 stages of prevention: primordial, primary, secondary and tertiary. Solutions like BVI technology are able to assist healthcare workers in identifying risk, early detection and prevention plans.

A hand stopping the domino falling knocking the rest of the dominos falling. A metaphor for prevention.

What is BVI and how is it preventative?

Body Volume Index (BVI) is the leading method for measuring obesity without the need for additional resources. BVI technology is a digital solution to measuring individuals that extracts body composition data from just 2 images. The measurements the system outputs are: total body fat, visceral fat, waist circumference, waist to hip ratio, hip circumference, waist to height ratio, BVI number and BVI risk indicator.

What the Body Volume Index does is evaluate fat distribution and body shape to provide a clearer assessment of metabolic risk than BMI. It categorises risk into four levels: Low, Low to Medium, Medium to High and High.

You can utilise BVI to prevent risk by using the visceral fat and total body fat measurements to see how much fat an individual has and where it is stored in the body. From this you can see patients' risk of obesity-related diseases. Knowing where the fat is stored is crucial to primary and secondary prevention as you can provide tailored guidance on next steps to continue preventing risk or give a tailored treatment plan after early detection.

Waist-to-height measurement is a simple yet effective tool of assessing overall health and body proportion. Waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio provide insight into abdominal fat and wait size which are both indicators of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Preventing and detecting diabetes is vital as management is the key to staying healthy and not leading to serious health problems.

Benefits of using solutions such as BVI?

Prevention tools like BVI allow health issues to not go unnoticed in the early and more treatable stages. Early intervention often means less treatment, fewer complications and better outcomes. This reduces healthcare costs as earlier interventions are usually less expensive than treating advanced diseases. Prevention of any kind can reduce the need for hospitalisation, surgeries and long-term care.

A BVI scan with all the measurements only costs you £1.50 and comes with a range of benefits for you and the patient. As BVI is a digital technology it reduces the time staff spend manually measuring people, results data is all electronic and can be implemented straight into your data base which streamlines your operations process and our technology provides detailed insights that can enhance personalisation of treatments plan which is usually well receptive from patients.

Healthcare worker looking at IPad for results from BVI-Pro scan to make informed decisions on a patient.

Final Thoughts

Healthcare systems must prioritise enhanced prevention strategies. Healthcare should see a shift from reacting to illnesses after diagnosis to stopping it in its tracks. By implementing modern tools like BVI clinicians can gain deeper insight into the where and how much of body fat, especially visceral fat, which make a meaningful difference in early stage risk identification. BVI has strong validation, from Mayo Clinic and the Lancet Report, outperforming traditional methods of measurement such as BMI.

Ultimately, integrating solutions such as BVI supports all flour prevention stages by enabling measurement, monitoring, personalisation and timely intervention. Early detection leads to better outcomes, lower cost and fewer advanced complications. In an era of digital health prevention tools like BVI aren’t optional extras anymore.

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